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I dont like talking politics of any description, in my opinion ,once a government gets into power, everything changes, their promises go out the window and their excuses are never ending as to why they cant do as they promised. Dont get me wrong, I sympathise with anyone who have fears over their livelihood when in business and something happens that changes their prospects, but at the moment everything is up in the air, and this tidal wave of fear and negativity is expected. Now I,m not one of these people who say we should of stayed in or come out, either way, but I felt that after everything that Great Britain had achieved post war and , forget about this immigration issue, because I think that had clouded too many peoples views, We as a nation let ourselves down by allowing other governments and EU policies to dictate to its EU members what we can and cant do ,and holding us to a sort of ransom. Great Britain was involved in freeing these so called occupied countries, and ending the tyranny of one aggressor, then all of a sudden they become the voice of the English peoples, and in particular the one country we helped to defeat, and why,,, because we ploughed billions of pounds into these countries to help them get started again, and after all that we become political puppets, our own economy suffers, our trade agreements are policed by other nations, our food industry suffers, our fishing fleets become stagnant and we,re told you can only fish in certain areas, even though we,re an Island nation and have always relied on our fishing industry to feed our own and other nations peoples. The pound dropped quite badly which was to be expected if we came out because it panicked bankers and the monetary market, but that happened before and has always levelled out after a few weeks, its knee jerk reactions at the moment. I think everyone should just take a step back , wait for a couple of weeks and see where this goes and what happens next. As for Cameron opting to go, to me thats like desertion in the face of adversity, and a baby throwing its rattle out of the buggy. I dont like him,never have, i dont think he was a strong leader and let everyone ride rough shod over him and us. These politicians seem to forget THEY work for us not the other way round, and tevsooner they realise that the better

Its been a while, since I last posted about the funny times in the Police, so heres one that I hope you will find as funny as I did. One evening My mate and I got called to a very nice house opposite a park. The report was a ferocious animal in the house. At this time I was just coming out of my probation period and the copper I was with was my tutor so he did a lot of the talking. A woman met us outside the front door and she was in a bit of a state, saying that there was some sort of wild animal in one of her food cupboards. Now to give you some idea of the layout of the ground floor, as you walked into the front hallway there was a long corridor that led to the kitchen, the door to the kitchen was one of those folding plastic types with a small magnetic lock, The kitchen itself was pretty large with a full set of about 7-8 cupboards which all led into the next one. This "wild" animal was supposed to be in one of these . The woman warned us that whatever it was was very vicious. and she said that it had gone for her face when she opened a cupboard door.My mate asked her if she had a large cardboard box, she went away and came back with one. Now I thought this was to put this "thing" in when we captured it. but my mate pulled out a pen knife and made two eye holes in the box and placed it on his head!!!, well the woman and I were a bit confused but he said it would stop him being injured, which in a way made some sense. So he had me guide him into kitchen, and we were both wearing gloves and had our truncheons out, I was standing firmly behind him all the way. He opened a few cupboards but nothing was there, then on opening another one there was a crash of tins and bottles and this "Thing" came flying out. Well that was it, I was off, I ran out of the kitchen but in a panic I closed the folding door behind me, I grabbed the woman who was now screaming and pushed her into the living room doorway. There was this almighty crashing about coming from the kitchen and shouting from my mate, then all of a sudden the plastic door burst open, flew off its runners and he came out shouting and bashing into the walls, He was screaming "Its up my leg, its after my todger" well the front door had been left open and he came running along the hallway still shouting "Its after my todger ,its got my todger "The only problem was, that now the box on his head had turned so there were no eyeholes to be seen he flew blind through the front door, fell down the front steps and ended up on his back on the ground, and to me looked as if he was out cold. I carefully walked towards him with my stick at the ready, I watched as something was crawling down his leg from the inside towards his boot, I raised my stick and saw a young boy standing in the next garden watching , This "thing" kept coming and then a nose and a head peaked out , I was just about to hit it when this boy shouted "Dont thats my ferret, I lost him", this little bugger came over ,grabbed the ferret and walked away. All the time my mate was still motionless on the floor. I leaned over and started to turn the box around until the eyeholes were at the front. I looked through them and my mate was looking straight at me. I did,nt say anything, I was too busy trying not to laugh. eventually I said "you ok" he said, "Next time , you,re going in first, now get me back to the nick, because I,ve just pissed myself" At that i fell on the floor in a fit of laughter and the woman nearly joined me. When we got back and he,d checked his bits out there were scratches all around his old man and up his leg, He had to go have a Tetanus shot, and I had to take him and told the nurses what happened, they were all in fits of laughter, but the funniest bit was the report had to go up to Division and everyone who saw him up there , including the Chief Superintendent, laughed and had to walk away. The report also went to HQ and some "joker" had typed "Police Officers manhood assaulted by ferocious Ferret" He never lived it down.

I do wish you all the best of luck. Honestly, as a Canadian, I really don't have a clue what this vote will mean to the U.K. For that matter, I don't know what it will mean for the rest of the E.U. either. It looked to me as if the Pound took a bit of down turn, But I am sure it is only a knee jerk reaction. Again, to everyone in the U.K. best of luck in the future, I do hope everything works out in your favour.

Well said Davejb! Couldn't really put it better.knee-jerk reactions will always follow a momentous period such as this.I'm sure everything will settle down as the weeks go by.there are something like 198 countries on this earth.how many are in the EU? And how many get by well enough without the EU? being ruled by unelected foreign mandarins has never sat well with me.now we're in charge of ourselves again.all we need to do now is make our own politicians accountable to us, the people who voted them in, and expect them to serve US for a change.surely this will give them all the gigantic kick up the arse they need and deserve. only time will tell.....

The people have spoken, so our government and the EU must listen now. D

Let me go pick the wife up and I ,ll tell you what happened to a few of us at Folkstone, be back shortly

Well as said before ,I dont like talking politics, but perhaps now this will show these politicians that the British public have a voice, and will use it, despite their reluctance to serve the very people who elected them and ignore peoples wishes

You've put it perfectly Dave, all we did for the EU to do what they want, but yes, politics does make me sleepy sometimes ?

Come on Fred, post away, we,ll show you ours if you show us yours

I think I have,yes,and I'm eager to hear about your stories because I believe in "certain things"!

Just like my Sister in Laws hubby, after the Falklands, he returned with loads of different pieces of equipment ,clothing etc and when he became a QM at Chelsea Barracks for the SAS stores, even more accumulated in his loft. A couple of years ago his wife told him to clear some stuff out, so he had a look, and found nearly three hundred MRE,s up there along with a few Para Denisons, one of which I have now, loads of 58 webbing , 95 kit , camo jackets, two dress uniforms, cleaning kits for the SLR, a few bayonets, a couple are Argentinian bayonets, and three pairs of Danner boots, none of which fit me ,damn it. Most of it he sold at a local military market, as My missus told her sister she,d better not dare let any of it come my way, which was a great disappointment as my loft could do with a new look!!!!!!!!!!!

I just had to, sorry ya'll.

About the only thing I listen to anymore is my wife.... But tell her that. She thinks I never hear a word she says.

It is hollowed ground to me. I am still in the process of doing another complete inventory of my collection, but is seems to never end. I have found things I didn't even know I have.

Im shitting bricks... Another recession and its all over for me as a small business.

I'm fully expecting our economy to nose dive. And probably no more cheap militaria from Europe for a good while. Upside is now when we cock up we can't blame Europe anymore.

Yes, at Folkstone when in the ACF as an Adult SGT., and on Salisbury Plain when I was a cadet Cpl

Ya'll best take note right now... If you be peeping in my windows, You are going to see me slow dancing naked with my Bren.

What stall number will you be on @Waffenamt? As I'm going on the Friday and the Saturday.

Personally, I enjoy listening to the Rolling Stones from time to time after school...