Good things about the Uk ...

[PM-Junkie]

Good things about the UK....

...we are brilliant at inventing really good sports and then giving the to the rest of the world so we can get dicked every time we play them.

[ace00]

Marmite.

WHS

[expat]

Being able to walk down the street without being required to prove your identity.

Being able to go about your business without being under surveillance all the time.

The fact that the police can't randomly stop you and search you for no reason.

That you are free to take photographs innocently anywhere you go.

That your home is your castle.

That your correspondence including email is private.

[Codejock]

Being able to walk down the street without being required to prove your identity.

Being able to go about your business without being under surveillance all the time.

The fact that the police can't randomly stop you and search you for no reason.

That you are free to take photographs innocently anywhere you go.

That your home is your castle.

That your correspondence including email is private.

Irony

[Drewster]

Irony

No sh*t sherlock. give the man a biscuit!

[Codejock]

No sh*t sherlock. give the man a biscuit!

Sarcasm.

Oh, and road-rage (for the tw*ts that truly deserve it).

[sasguru]

Because we are a better country at educating our people?

Now I know you are joking. Perhaps for anyone over 40 that is true. This is the age group that are leaving. New and recent graduates (apart from the top 10 universities) cannot compete with the rest of the world.

[oracleslave]

Now I know you are joking. Perhaps for anyone over 40 that is true. This is the age group that are leaving. New and recent graduates (apart from the top 10 universities) cannot compete with the rest of the world.

Cannot compete in that we are not churning out the sheer numbers of quality graduates or cannot compete in terms of cost i.e. what our graduates are prepared to work for is comparatively higher?

[expat]

Now I know you are joking. Perhaps for anyone over 40 that is true. This is the age group that are leaving. New and recent graduates (apart from the top 10 universities) cannot compete with the rest of the world.

This is where Dodgy is uncharacteristically putting his head in the sand. His well-earned acerbic cynicism about the significance or otherwise of some of us here, is blinding him to the unfortunate and important fact that Britain's emigration is a brain drain. OK it's painful to speak of the worth of different people, but apart from stealing health workers and now programmers from India, and the famous Polish plumbers, the flow of the educated and the workers is one-way the wrong way. Unless we no longer need them, which I doubt.

[sasguru]

Cannot compete in that we are not churning out the sheer numbers of quality graduates or cannot compete in terms of cost i.e. what our graduates are prepared to work for is comparatively higher?

The quality of our graduates in Maths and Science is lower than the rest of the world. I can see this with our newer grads (who are recruited mainly from redbricks with minimum 2:1). We also have the odd young Indian, German, French etc who seem better trained.

Just a personal, anecdotal observation.