well Peter, you're kind of leaning against an open door with your argument, I'm in total agreement - and we both know it's a lot worse than you're writing here. I could fill a hundred threads with what I think has gone wrong and where I think we are now, I also have strong opinions about how I think it needs to be addressed. There's nothing wrong with socialists per se, problem is we're being governed by Marxist Scotsmen who must think it's poetic justice getting one over the auld enemy (Alex Salmond is apparently a personal friend of Gordon Brown).. I have a theory that back in their university days, Blair, Brown, Salmond and all the others formulated a plan to give Scotland it's freedom and sink England.. and they've done a pretty good job of it... and we're still here taking it.
As to the feckless English, more fool them (us) I say, our freedoms have been stripped away in the name of anti-terrorist laws, just you try protesting or organising anything anti-government and see how long you have your freedom for. The TV (especially government funded BBC) and the newspaper media are generally on the side of Brown and his cronies, they know he's unpopular at the moment, just wait until the next election comes around - it'll be full of how he has miraculously turned things around and how "things can only get better", that idiot Cameron won't know what's hit him.... anyway...
My move out of the country in the future has always been my plan, my wife is from Asturias in Northern Spain and we spend a lot of time there with friends and family - hence the little house (and my avatar)... it's quiet, mountainous, beautiful and by the coast... also very Celtic (!).... the Spanish know how to treat the lazy and useless.. there's no benefits... out of work - tough, try harder, teenage daughter pregnant, tough, look after her..etc. etc. .. hence, they still have very strong family bonds and a good work ethic, and consequently, life over there seems much more balanced to me... also... in Asturias, no foreign tourists apart from the walkers, hikers and adventurous types...no English lager louts there mate.
things will never be the same here again, as you already know - it's too late.... btw, I am from London, although I've lived in Hertfordshire most of my life (another county ruined by Prescotts over zealous planning "visions" for the south-east)... and in London, the English are actually a minority group.
But lets not put our non-british friends off.... ermm.... it's still a nice place to visit.... just don't stay too long... well.... unless you want a free house for you and all your family, and free money to live on, free health care and stuff like that, then you can stay as long as you like.
For the rest of us, we'll just keep paying 90% of our wages out in taxes and fines and give you all a big old British welcome. :) (and subsidise Scottish and Welsh taxes, NHS, Government, police etc... so they'll keep voting Labour)
..now Peter - see what you made me do....
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