I can't believe there hasn't been one of these.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... broad.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... enter.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... grate.html

And of course the numerous stories where weather is the number 1 most important thing in the world. Which has obvious implications.

Of course all these Brits "fleeing" Britain for a "new life in the sun" have got it right. This is a sinking ship. And don't forget, if you leave Britain you're an 'expat', not an immigrant.

WE'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO FEEL PROUD TO BE BRITISH ANY MORE!

Oh, yeah where was I? I moved to Spain and it's great - the people aren't rude and I'm so glad to be away from rubbish depressing weather.

WHY IS PATRIOTISM ILLEGAL? I WANT TO FLY THE FLAG!

I think it's the weather thing that is the best. In the sense that they can hide behind the "I love Britain, it's just this darn New Labour thing making me leave" but the weather exposes them as being fundamentally against Britain - this has never been a really warm, sunny country.

Oscar Wilde famously said that patriotism was the virtue of the vicious but these lot can't even cobble together that single virtue.

So screw you when you report on muslims failing the cricket test. You fail the want-to-live-in-this-hemisphere test.

Odd too for them to choose Spain of all places. We have the Euro (boo!), a Socialist government (boo!) and, I think, one of the highest proportions of non-EU residents ("real" immigrants for these "ex-pats" as opposed to those nice white Germans and Dutch).

I love it when they call themselves "ex-patriots". Twats.

And it's fucking freezing, but only because I live in the wet patch.

From the delightful Peter Hitchen's latest article:

"I’m pretty sure that we’re finished as a country and a society anyway, and would advise anyone who can do so to think seriously about getting out while it’s still possible."

Coming over here and they've no respect for our way of life! How do I know? Well, they're coming over here!

And thanks to that awful, awful EU the number of people who can get out = everybody. I guess what he means is "if it's not too inconvenient" which kind of puts a damper on the whole apocalypse soon vibe he's going for.

What utter conceit, portrayed as concern. EURGH.

From that first link, another fantastic snapshot from the Mail readership image files, this time the expats are in Canada:



"Don't worry darling, with these yankee-knowhow cowboy hats we'll fit right in. Look, see, Brandon and Fraiser are having the time of their lives."

It's the great irony. They leave Britain to become what they hate about it.

That's your real redneck chic, right there.

"Come on, Brandon, come on, Fraiser - time to put on yer sheets an' mosey down to yer weekly Racial Awareness meetin'."

Is it me or do the parents look spookily similar? Perhaps they fled Britain because of the ban on brother/sister marriages.

As for 'expats' in Europe - I find it hilarious that the ones who are the biggest EU-bashers live in countries where the EU has somewhat more sway than in Britain. If you want to moan about the euro and lionise the pound (for example) then why not sod off back home to Blighty where we don't have it?

[quote="Fflaps"]Is it me or do the parents look spookily similar? Perhaps they fled Britain because of the ban on brother/sister marriages. quote]

That would explain the cowboy costumes.

"We don't get many motorists round these parts..."

"Britons who HATE Britain: The Muslim extremists hell-bent on segregation rather than integration"

Wait, the Britons who hate Britain aren't Daily Mail readers & columnists?

Even the commenters attempt to stay on message just for one article:

"New Labour has, over the last ten years, systematically and surreptitiously changed Britain forever. This is no longer the country that we grew up"

Restrained. You almost can't tell they hate Britain.

But on the other stories we revert back to normal, as seen in the coverage of some people putting stickers up in Woolas' office:

"What in God's name is this country coming to, every day it gets worse as yobs decide what we shall do with our lives. How many more can we accommodate and offer a work-free existence, and how much longer before this country goes belly up and totally bankrupt. We live quite high up in our area so we should be among the last citizens to wave goodbye to Britain as it sinks into oblivion"

???

It's not actually, literally, going to sink. Except for with climate change, and oh wait, that's all a NuLab con to tax us all!!!1!

They love Britain as it was in the 50s, when you could say nigger, beat up a darkie and chain your woman to the kitchen. Britain was great.

But now it's all caring and (tries to be) fair. And that's bad because my hard earned tax is going to people fleeing poverty for a better life. Fuck them! Send them back the bastards. I don't want to help people less fortunate than me just because they happen to be born into a bad situation. I don't want to live in a country where we try to educate unruly teenagers so they can one day become productive, I just want them thrown in jail for 50 years. Little fuckers.

Ahem, anyway, Mail readers do hate Britain, but they once loved it and that gives them the right to hate what Labour is doing, or something like that.

Besides, since when did contradiction stop a mail reader.

I'm pretty sure that Britain in the 50s also had "miserable weather", "gloomy skies" etc.

I think the dream is for the English 'race' to have been relocated to Australia after WW2 with a skeleton staff remaining to keep England open as a museum so they can enjoy modernity in Oz whilst popping back for a castle & scones holiday now and again.

I can vaguely remember the end of the fifties and the beginnings of the sixties which was still really the fifties in spirit. All I can say is that there was no need for colour photos because you couldn't tell the difference between them and the black and white ones. Unless there was a pillar box not covered in soot in one of the photos. Everything was uniformly shoddy, drab and dreary, there were still bomb-sites and a rationing mentality. The food was awful. We never ate out.

You younguns can't imagine the effect of Carnaby Street, Habitat, Elizabeth David, Katherine Whitehorn, Clive James, Frost and co, Observer and Sunday Times colour supplements, BBC2 and so on on mainstream Britain. Things got immeasurably less dull from about 1966 onwards and haven't stopped getting better since then. Apart from minor hiccups.

God, if before that was Britain's golden age, its Dream Time, then I'd like to know who for??