Introduction
This collection is a collection of seventy stories, each 280 words. They were inspired by the first picture seen on my Twitter feed on a given day.
44. Vote Leave
What is this, BJ, a red tie? And for once hair relatively flat, neat almost. Did you forget to muzz it? You look serious for once. Why is that? Will you get your facts right this time? Will you stop joking about not understanding?
"Never have so many ....?" Ah. You're trying to be clever. Unfortunately the article is paywalled so we can't read the rest of it. You're saying though that these people made a huge decision that's going to make a huge difference? It was actually a minority of the even people eligible to vote let alone of all the people who pay taxes here.
And the lies. Oh the lies. The £350,000,000 a week bus lie. So the farmers now can produce whatever they feel like producing but who will they sell it to? And what will they do if they can't sell these new products? Who will make up for their lost subsidy? Ah, I know. The tax-payer ... except aren't you cutting taxes for those most able to pay them?
What will we do without that lovely EU money that helped us build our roads and improve our public transport? That helped our arts organisations? Because pay those people and you help the world go around. What compensation are a few scrawny food-mile rich Japanese chickens?
You're supposed to be an intelligent guy. More intelligent than that expat who voted Leave and now regrets it because, hey-ho, over eight years on he's realised that his freedom of movement has been curtailed and in particular his little dog will lose his pet passport. So come on. Be honest for once.
It just won't work. Please, BJ.
About the author
Gill James is published by The Red Telephone, Butterfly and Chapeltown. She edits CafeLit and writes for the online community news magazine: Talking About My Generation. She teaches Creative Writing and has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.
http://www.gilljameswriter.com
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