So, EU voting day has arrived and I popped in early to put a cross in the 'Remain' box. Either result will produce an avalanche of 'expert comment' by anyone who happens to be passing the TV/Radio studios, most of it will be total rubbish, but I'm more intrigued by how/if the Tory party will regroup as it tries to live with the outcome. I'm fairly sure that Boris's tactic are partly driven by his personal political ambitions, although he comes across as quite an enthusistic 'outer' with a passionate line of arguements, with the obligatory extreme views dressed up as caring for the UK's future.
Although I'm a remainer, I will not lose too much sleep if the outers get their way. At least we'll have something to talk about for the next 5 years or so as we gradually extricate ourselves from the clutches of Brussels before realising we should have voted to stay in.
I know there a lot of people in India - around one and a quarter billion according to latest figures, and according to official figures 2500 of these were killed by lightning strikes in 2014. A storm earlier this week claimed 57 lives by lightning strikes, most of these being farm workers. The farmers are now calling for the government to do something to prevent this but I think that the government will find this quite difficult given their record on other crisis such as trying to alleviate poverty, but they do give £4,000 to every victim's family so that's alright then.
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