Thank you very much for your replies which I found instructive if not fascinating. Also with many e mails from my contacts in the UK, the general consensus of opinions run the gamut of extreme right wing to a cautious optimism of the left.
Bob Arvell may have hit the nail on the head by hinting that the votes ran along age boundaries.
As you may have heard the USA is in the 4 yearly throes of self-flagellation called the Presidential elections. We have two viable candidates that seem to be poles apart. One candidate called Trump who says everybody is his friend, yet wants to build a wall separating the USA from Mexico (and have the Mexicans pay for it huh?)a similar wall to what the Israelis have to keep out the Palestinians .
On the opposite side we have Hilary Clinton that has taken a leaf out of Margaret Thatcher's play book. Hilary claims to be the champion of the working classes and the great unwashed whilst taking lots, and lots and lots of money from the Wall Street poobahs.
Stir into the mess a shooting of many white police officers in Dallas Texas as pay back for previous probable injustices and killings of black people (all caught on video-cams) and we have a recipe for an interesting couple of years where the English speaking nations are concerned.
By the way, I crossed paths with a hunter in the wilds of Montana. He had a FN 7.62mm SLR of the 1960's vintage, standard 20 round magazine,yet told me that he also had an extended magazine to carry an extra 30 rounds. He told me that it was the best rifle he had ever used to kill moose and deer!
Contrary to general belief in Europe, the right to bear arms in the USA does not apply to all of the States. each one has it's own laws, so you can go to Texas and see every Tom, Dick and Harry toting firearms, to Connecticut that would jail you for a year for even drawing a picture of a weapon! (I exaggerate but you get my picture).
With the departure of England from the EU, would our passports be changed again? What would happen with those from Scotland and Northern Ireland that voted to stay? Would they secede from the United Kingdom ? What a bloody mess all around!
Oh well, time for a Bass, ( I did find a place that sold Tiger beer, but stopped stocking it due to the lack of interest in it.
Gentlemen, Thank you all,
Be well, be healthy for the remainding days
Cheers Phred
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