#24

I caught part of 'Any Answers?' on Radio 4 and as usual there was something on it to boil my blood. Any Answers is phone-in programme where callers put their views on the subjects discussed on a programme called 'Any Questions?' on an earlier day. (Any Questions? is like the BBC1 telly programme 'Question Time'). At least on Any Questions? it is politicians who are discussing stuff and because you're used to their general blah blah pattern of speech when they talk crap, you can just let it wash over you and you don't get bothered by it too much. I'm sure you've all heard low-brow phone-in programmes on local radio where you get a relentless precession of idiots phoning-in who are all infuriating... however, Any Answers? is more of a roller-coaster listen because some (not many though) callers are extremely well informed and have very well considered views, but you still do get the real idiots, just like you do on the local radio phone-ins, so your spirits are lifted then your blood is boiled alternately in the same programme interspersed with eye brow converging nose wrinklingly perplexing moments where you are forced to just flop back in your chair, look into space, and say: 'eh?'

.... anyway what made me livid this week was people phoning-in, from both England and Scotland, each saying their country would do much better financially, commercially, etc, if it left the UK, and hence that it should. I really cannot think how the people of the UK came to totally loose the plot like this. What the feck has money got to do with nationality??? Is that all people think of these days: money. Doesn't anyone have a heart any more? Nationality should be about people, geography, landscape, history, language... the food you eat, the air you breath, and the love of the very ground you walk on. Money?... money?... Would you marry for money, or divorce for the lack of it? You're in need of a heart and a soul if you would. I have every respect for people who want to see their country independent because they feel it in their heart.... although personally, I feel Britain in mine.

I can understand people being upset about money, but that should be a reason to campaign to make things fairer and get things sorted-out properly, but not a reason to abandon ship.