Mail vs Britain

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Fozzy wrote:

Silly me. I should of course also have included the abolition of wheelie bins, daily rubbish collections at no charge,

Personally I think that I should be able to just throw rubbish directly onto the street, where it would be collected by one of the rubbish patrols that would be passing my house at five minute intervals. This scheme would provide gainful employment for an oik who would no doubt otherwise be living in a squat that used to be a £350,000 middle class home, filing benefit claims on a stolen laptop whilst honking on a crackpipe and drinking from a can of Super Tennants. This scheme would also save me the unnecessary expense and trouble of buying and using bins and bin bags, which is something that I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO when I pay council tax. The rubbish patrols could be funded by sacking all the hippy leftist council workers who do unnecessary jobs in the field of social care, and by disbanding the BBC and the Met Office. The maths would definitely add up, so I don't need to check them.

mr_wonderful · **Joined:** Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:56 pm **Posts:** 515

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1257165/Britain-voted-worst-place-world-bring-children-Australia-best.html

A classic Mail article served with some typically inane comments.

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makes you wonder why migrants are queueing up too get in.... oh no silly me , they get houses and benefits

- kittie, london, 11/3/2010 18:52

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Oh well........so long as "cultural integration" is fine......that's all sorted then ...........isnt it ?

- Charles, London, 11/3/2010 18:19

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Strange, not long since it was seen as the best, something must of happened...

- Andy, Stoke, 11/3/2010 17:41

Thankfully there are some more interesting replies

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Ex pats = losers.

They've probably spent their entire life running away from even the slightest difficulty. As soon as the going gets tough in their adopted homeland, they'll run away again.

And when they are not running, they are whining

We're better off without them.

- Middle Aged Brummie, Brum, 12/3/2010 10:40

croissantfever · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:07 pm

mr_wonderful wrote:

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Ex pats = losers.

They've probably spent their entire life running away from even the slightest difficulty. As soon as the going gets tough in their adopted homeland, they'll run away again.

And when they are not running, they are whining

We're better off without them.

- Middle Aged Brummie, Brum, 12/3/2010 10:40

I have to say, as someone with ex-pat status myself, I have to disagree with Middle Aged Brummie. Some of us were just offered jobs in a foreign country and took them.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:01 pm

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As my friend in Toronto says " you can always tell when the Brit immigrants have arrived at the airport, the whine continues long after the engines have stopped"

Anne, West Midlands 20.57

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:42 am

croissantfever wrote:

mr_wonderful wrote:

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Ex pats = losers.

They've probably spent their entire life running away from even the slightest difficulty. As soon as the going gets tough in their adopted homeland, they'll run away again.

And when they are not running, they are whining

We're better off without them.

- Middle Aged Brummie, Brum, 12/3/2010 10:40

I have to say, as someone with ex-pat status myself, I have to disagree with Middle Aged Brummie. Some of us were just offered jobs in a foreign country and took them.

ditto

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:04 am

Bloody ex-pats, going over there, taking their jobs, posting on their English forums... :lol:

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3299

Voted? By who? Ah, expats in 6 countries.

GG.

incognito · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:03 pm

Fflaps wrote:

On that story about the UK (not England, Albert Hall of Hove) being 21st bestest place to live:

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Speaking as an American, I can confidently say that we have had enough of "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". I invite and welcome the idea of all Eurotrash, Religion of Peace followers, et al, to direct their migration to Norway (snort, where it's like $8 a beer) and China (snort, where you can "freely" practice your freedom of speech and religion) to trash up the place as much as you've trashed up the US cities. Have at it mates.
- USA #1, Virginia, US of A, 6/10/2009 12:27
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'My ancestors got in ok, now let's pull up the drawbridge'. What an absolute sneering c*nt.

I remember a scene in a film set in the 60's during a race riot where a load of white Americans were standing around with placards about keeping foreigners out, keeping the USA racially pure etc. Clearly their knowledge of history is a little shaky!

InkyGB · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:47 pm **Posts:** 264

Fozzy wrote:

Fflaps:

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But of course the Mail will only be happy when it's number one, or will it? (there wouldn't be anything to moan about then, presumably)

Come on, the only circumstances in which the Mail would be happy with the UK being number one would be if Maggie was still in charge, provided of course that she had stopped immigration and brought back corporal and capital punishment. Mind you, in those circumstances the comments facility would be largely redundant as the Mailites would have nothing to whinge about.

It was the government of Maggie Thatcher that abolished corporal punishment (albeit via a free vote on the issue). I love winding Mailzis up with that one

horacegoesskiing · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:51 pm

Britain is 'one of most undemocratic countries in Europe'

This is a classic Mail story- another chance to have a pop at Britain and also a chance for its readers to link it to EU membership- with a comment from our favourite councillor from Tamworth too.

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A salutory reminder that even supposing if by some miracle we ever manage to get out of the EU, this country still has a diseased democracy (the one that pushed us into the EU in the first place) that is going to have to be tackled. And anybody who thinks that can be done with the paramaters of the three parties that grab all the power in this country really don't understand where or how the problems all began. No good having an English Parliament, or any other fiddling with the democratic system, if the same parties hold all the power.

- Cllr Chris Cooke, Tamworth, UK, 2/2/2011 15:47

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Of course we don't live in a democracy! We just spent the last 13 years under a Labour dictatorship!

- Neil, Edinburgh, 2/2/2011 15:39

So how do you explain the fact that they left government when they didn't win the last election? Twit.

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Britain is now RULED by the UNDEMOCRATIC EU. I could not agree more with this headline.

- Dougie, Doncaster Republic of South Yorkshire, 2/2/2011 14:39

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That's why we want to quit the E.U., so that we can restore the sovereignty of the British Parliament to safeguard our democracy.

- David James, Everdon, United Kingdom, 2/2/2011 14:26

Obviously these people haven't realised that the top three countries in the survey- Denmark, Finland and Belgium- are all in the EU as well, which kind of suggests that EU membership is not the cause of our problems here. Although critical thinking isn't really displayed by these sort of people. Only one person has got it:

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And the EU, is even MORE undemocratic, treating it's citizens, with contempt & like IDIOTS, which we are NOT as the only IDIOTS are the EU, as they do not make any SENSE,, which we all HATE & NEED OUT NOW. - Mr Very Very Angry, Sutton in Ashfield, an AWFUL place to live, dreaming of moving to CANADA., 02/2/2011 14:30 Are you a propagandist trying to deflect attention away from the failings of British MPs and government? I ask because the 3 most democratic countries all seem to be in the EU.

- Al Smith, Cardiff, UK, 2/2/2011 15:39

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3938

Would that be the Belgium that hasn't had a government for the past 81/2 months?

Abernathy · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:52 am

horacegoesskiing wrote:

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Britain is now RULED by the UNDEMOCRATIC EU. I could not agree more with this headline.

- Dougie, Doncaster Republic of South Yorkshire, 2/2/2011 14:39

Hmmm. Apart, that is from the Democratic People's Republic of South Yorkshire, one presumes. Keep taking the tablets, Dougie.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:06 am

Why is Mr Very Very Angry dreaming of moving to Canada? He does realise it's full of political correctness, rights for indigenous people and French, doesn't he?

Jake meanwhile needs to take a chill pill

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!!!!!!!!!!!!Britain may have the Mother of Parliaments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! full of deceitful, pig-headed Members of Parliaments !!!!!!!!!!!
- JAKE, LUTON, 2/2/2011 14:24
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...and 413 people thought this was good enough to click the green arrow.

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

Fflaps wrote:

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!!!!!!!!!!!!Britain may have the Mother of Parliaments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! full of deceitful, pig-headed Members of Parliaments !!!!!!!!!!!
- JAKE, LUTON, 2/2/2011 14:24
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...and 413 people thought this was good enough to click the green arrow.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you reckon he talks like that? Someone asks him a question and he trembles with rage for 10 seconds before standing up, barking out an answer and sitting back down for a few more seconds of twitchery.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:47 pm

Parliaments? Oh noes!!!

Actually I think I may have seen someone like Jake on a bus once...

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