malcom wrote:Guest wrote:malcom wrote:Cannydc wrote:"In centuries past people saved a portion of the harvest for when winter came. No minimum wage or handouts then."
Yeah, we still save half of our harvest to eat in winter, and to provide next years seed.
Oh wait, we don't have a farm. Or a garden, come to that. Or anywhere to store dozens of sacks of grain.
And it's also worth mentioning that in the 1950s, when many pensioners were born, there were regularly 100,000+ excess winter deaths, cold being a major cause. Strange, as by your logic in those days an extra jumper would have been the answer.
The country is going through a difficult time as it regains its independence from the EU, everyone must play their part in its recovery. We won WW2 by sacrifice and resolve but lost the peace when we grew soft. Good will come of this, you'll see.
We have always been independent of the EU. We are a sovereign state.
Over half of UK laws were made in Europe.
Do you lie automatically, or just not bother to check the nonsense you pour out on here ?
The real figure is around 16%.
And your 60% figure was disproved beyond doubt, as "If this sort of work were submitted for academic peer review, it would be rejected at the first hurdle as manifestly unscientific."
http://theconversation.com/fact-check-a ... e-eu-58516