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Originally posted by Retseh
Originally posted by Fang
So tell me Retseh where did you hear that?
Why from your very own statistics dear boy.
www.telegraph.co.uk...
They will cite the coarsening of British society, the rudeness and the aggression on our unsafe streets, the dead hand of welfarism, hospitals that make you sick, not better - the list is long.
One thing will be mentioned more than any other: that unchecked immigration over the past decade is creating a country many Britons no longer feel comfortable in.
I'd be interested to hear what humiliation, slight or injustice you have suffered at our hands that leads you to make these posts.
You know this is quite interesting, this site must contain literally thousands of anti-american posts by UK residents, and yet you find a lone poster (me) who takes a pop at the UK, and you cry foul.
I could list the injustices of this one-directional relationship. The way that americans are portrayed as fat, stupid, and loud by the British media, compared to the way that the typical american regards the British as nothing more vile than polite tea drinkers. Or the fact that the BBC has admitted they "previously" had an open anti-american bias in their reporting, or how about the attempts of the British anti-gun Snowdrop group to meddle in American home-affairs by pressing for gun bans here after running out of guns to ban in the UK.
I could go on, but you get the point, a country that holds us in such collective low esteem but whose residents are ever eager to flee here for the lower taxes and higher standard of living galls me somewhat. Come over by all means, but leave your prejudices and warped British political mentality at the doorstep, thank you ever so glad, because we don't need "fixing" as you have so successfully done to your own nation.
According to you, the UK is always teetering on the brink of economic collapse, about to explode in an inferno of civil unrest or become a Muslim state.
Well prediction #1 appears to have arrived, what a sage I am - number #2 and #3 are closely linked, and in my opinion both are very much in your very near future, some of us still remember Brixton, not just the US Watts riots.
I see from other US posters on this site that for many, work ( hard or otherwise) is in short supply for many over there. I get the impression though that you are the sort of guy who would helpfully shout 'Adapt or die' at them.
I don't have to shout anything at them, the vast majority of americans understand that they can't go running to the government for money when things go south, but that is changing, regrettably we are becoming more like you.
The UK workforce works longer hours and have fewer holidays than any of the other leading economies in Europe.
So you're the World's tallest pygmies, congratulations. Let me know how you stack up against us or the Japanese.
Motability is a car leasing scheme for the disabled.
Rheumatoid Arthritis isn't "disabled", it's a fact of life if you live in such a cold, damp climate and are over the age of 65. Your system allows thousands of spongers to milk off the hard working.
Are you telling me that pregnant teens are thrown onto the streets in the US?
Well they certainly don't get an apartment and a weekly child welfare allowance, only in hardship cases. Is it any wonder that your bejewelled isle has the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe?
We do pay for our Health care, through taxation.
Yes, and if you have a job you also pay for the healthcare of the great unwashed too, I prefer to pay only for my own, and I don't have to face a waiting list for non-essential surgery or squeeze into an over-crowded doctor's waiting room filled with immigrants and babies who have nothing more serious than colic.
But yes you do have your guns.
Yes we do, annoying isn't it, and especially ironic when you consider that the reason we have them is because we required them to evict an oppressive anti-gun regime - why yes, it was the British.
[edit on 24-6-2009 by Retseh]
Originally posted by CRB86
Please don't get your ideas about Britain from that obscene cariacature of a newspaper the Daily Torygraph.
Thanks.
Originally posted by wonderworld
reply to post by Fang
Hi,
I dont mean to but in. I have never been to the UK but heard it's a nice place to travel. I'll wait until the US economy picks up first.
Originally posted by Fang
Originally posted by wonderworld
reply to post by Fang
Hi,
I dont mean to but in. I have never been to the UK but heard it's a nice place to travel. I'll wait until the US economy picks up first.
Wonderworld, I hope you do. When you come don't just do the cities. You won't find many countries that have such a geographic diversity in so small a land mass.
Originally posted by CRB86
If you like history, go to York. Most of it is about 1000 years old. One of the few historic places left that hasn't been dismantled/bombed
Originally posted by CRB86
Please don't get your ideas about Britain from that obscene cariacature of a newspaper the Daily Torygraph.
Thanks.