Reply to: Phillip having a rant on the Telegraph site

[Euro-commuter]

I can't resist quoting all of a post in the Telegraph that agrees with the politics but expresses a wider view with some grace:

I visit your beautiful country in 1993,2000,2002 and probably I will return this Summer.
When I am in a foreign country I like to watch people's expression;well,every time it seemed to me that most of your fellow-countrymen were happy or,at least,satisfied with their lives,surely more than my Italian compatriots.
That said,according to things I read,hear and notice,the main problems modern UK is facing are
.Too much PC
.Lack of traditional values for most of younger generation
.Lack of discipline in several schools
.Ill-treated and overstrained Armed Forces(in spite of that among the best in the world)
.Obsessive government gun-control towards law abiding people
.Dismantlement or sale of important manufacturing industries
.Misunderstood multiculturalism
Note that more or less most of European nations have similar problems,a further reason for suspecting EU.
Howewer Britain has a rich economy,British workers have good purchasing power,your birth rate is quite high(an undoubted sign of optimism),you can breathe great cultural liveliness,not only in London.
Oh,and England is at the moment rugby world champion.
I would have liked Mr. Davies as future PM after so many years of New Labour government because Mr.Cameron looks like Mr.Blair copy and I'm not even sure he will win next election.
A last comment:don't be ashamed to be British,few days ago,by chance,in the factory where I work as labourer,me and three my Italian and Rumanian colleagues were wearing an Union Jack t-shirt;a world with Britain is a better place.
Posted by Piero on April 16, 2007 4:23 PM

[andy]

Yeah if its outside IR35 then
show us your norks

[Churchill]

Since when have you had a heart?

You've got a point there.

Talking about points, Show us your Norks, Denny!!!!

[threaded]

I came back for one reason and one reason only - to annoy the hell out of you and mount a more orchestrated campaign to piss you off aplenty.

After careful consideration I concluded that to stay away was to play into your hands, giving you the satisfaction of thinking you'd succeeded in pushing me off the forum.

No chance.

That's the spirit love!

Now, can we have some pictures?

[DodgyAgent]

Well, the country as a whole has turned into a shower of tulips. We rant and we rave while all the time our freedoms and more importantly our incomes are whittled away. So feck it, they can have my freedom, they can have my money, but they're not going to steal my heart and sap my energy!

Oooops, looks like they already have done.

God I'm tired! Is this what happens after one reaches 40?

Since when have you had a heart?

[John Galt]

Well, the country as a whole has turned into a shower of tulips. We rant and we rave while all the time our freedoms and more importantly our incomes are whittled away. So feck it, they can have my freedom, they can have my money, but they're not going to steal my heart and sap my energy!

Oooops, looks like they already have done.

God I'm tired! Is this what happens after one reaches 40?

Nothing to do with your age old mate - I think most people feel the same on and off. There are some days when I think screw it - I do most things I want, have a good life etc etc and others when I resent every single solitary penny that Bliar takes and then hate him and his crones for the crap that they waste it on. I just hope against hope that one day we'll all stop talking about it and do something - but then again I am as guilty as the next person Never give up though Churchill - you know what they say Nil Carborundum

[Churchill]

You'll often notice socialist types dressed in purple too! Just you look and see.

I thought that was royalty!

[Churchill]

Why the sudden outburst of apathy Churchill?

Well, the country as a whole has turned into a shower of tulips. We rant and we rave while all the time our freedoms and more importantly our incomes are whittled away. So feck it, they can have my freedom, they can have my money, but they're not going to steal my heart and sap my energy!

Oooops, looks like they already have done.

God I'm tired! Is this what happens after one reaches 40?

[John Galt]

You'll often notice socialist types dressed in purple too! Just you look and see.

Oh dear. Can we have some dried frog pills for Threaded please - he's off again

[threaded]

Quite so Threaded. Nice to see you back to normal after the purple incident.

You'll often notice socialist types dressed in purple too! Just you look and see.

[John Galt]

Actually, I think she is calling for your rights to distribute your own property as you wish to be removed. Socialism is the removal of political, economic, and human rights after all.

Quite so Threaded. Nice to see you back to normal after the purple incident.

[threaded]

So the rewards for hard work and success should be limited to one generation? What then - all the money is given to the state and distributed 'fairly'???

Actually, I think she is calling for your rights to distribute your own property as you wish to be removed. Socialism is the removal of political, economic, and human rights after all.

[John Galt]

I hardly think that someone who has inherited a country pile has 'worked hard for their money.'

So the rewards for hard work and success should be limited to one generation? What then - all the money is given to the state and distributed 'fairly'???

[threaded]

I hardly think that someone who has inherited a country pile has 'worked hard for their money.'

OMG we've all inherited a country pile now...

[John Galt]

Does it really matter?

What're you gonna do? Start a revolution?

Why the sudden outburst of apathy Churchill?