Britain is a tuliphole, shock horror.

[Flashman]

So is Britain a worse place than it was 12 years ago?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...o-live-in.html

1990 10th best in the world
2009 21st best in the world

And when you think what's just around the corner - 3 million unemployed, Road pricing, 60% increases in energy costs, tax rises, etc etc you may well look back at 2009 as being a pretty good year......

[Bagpuss]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...o-live-in.html

1990 10th best in the world
2009 21st best in the world

And when you think what's just around the corner - 3 million unemployed, Road pricing, 60% increases in energy costs, tax rises, etc etc you may well look back at 2009 as being a pretty good year......

But also 20 back in 1985, sounds like a load of bollocks to me

[Shimano105]

How does the saying go?

If you hate it so much why don't you just f_uck off?

[Numpty]

Yes, but apart from the appallingly long hours, crap weather, low life expectancy and ridiculous prices, massive taxation, depressing anti-social behaviour, out of control violent crime, piss poor public services, gridlocked transport system and falling education standards,

and bent politicians, intra-kingdom hatred, north-south divide, an ale industry taken over by overseas rice-based lager, nowhere to park, can't leave your car on the drive and not be taxed for it, backdated HMRC rulings, non-existent service, no heavy industry, almost no light industry, ever increasing retirement age, ex-pats that demand (and get) benefits, an NHS that kills people with dirtiness to save a few quid, crowded prisons, a mental health policy of homelessness or prison, a government that gives money to overseas car companies as a green gesture, town centre shopping centres all boarded up and out-of-town megastores, growing unemployment, corrupt councillors, an insane set of planning rules, one-sided extradition treaties that frees drug smugglers from prison in South East Asia yet will send a hacker off to serve an American life sentence, more security cameras spying on us per head than anywhere else on earth, a policy of charging people to use public loos yet also criminalises pissing up a dark alley at night, Police that will beat workers in the City but turns a blind eye to yoofs, a Police force that cannot be arsed to investigate most crimes but will close a motorway for six hours in the hope of getting six points onto someone's licence, a Police force that will allow suicide jumpers or house siege loonies to hold motorways / railways / communities to ransom rather than dealing with them yet have no compunction about executing innocent people then lying about it, no coherent policy on tobacco / alcohol / 'casual' drugs so nobody really knows what is 'right' or 'wrong', the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, no coherent immigration policy, the second largest collection of taxation legislation of any country in the world, a non-elected Prime Minister, a government that can find money for hosting the Olympics but not flak jackets for the squaddies, a two-party system that guarantees that nothing will ever change.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

....the second largest collection of taxation legislation of any country in the world

What gits are beating us at that?

[TimberWolf]

Who on this board hasn't got rich under Labour?

Me. Very much poorer.

[Spacecadet]

I say it`s T - E - S - C O, T - E - S C O (a modern version of the old D- I - S - C O song

Wasn't that a Shooting Stars joke, came right after
Q:What does TESCO stand for?
A: Quality products and value for money

[Scary]

British people have the worst quality of life in Europe, according to a report which highlights the long hours, bad weather, low life expectancy and high price of many consumer goods.

BS, these people have obviously not been to Belarus, Ukraine or Albania. A British lifestyle is on a completely different level. You people don't understand how well-off you are because you've never ventured outside your little cocoons.

ETA: "The report by price comparison website uSwitch analyses 10 European countries against 17 different benchmarks" - so they only looked at the 10 richest countries and concluded that Britain was not bottom of the top 10, but the worst in Europe...

[Lockhouse]

Britain is a wonderful country if you are rich enough to insulate yourself from the exponentially growing scum, otherwise it is a tulip hole.

WHS

[sasguru]

Me. Very much poorer.

That says more about you than anything else