Posted on 03/20/2012 3:52:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
There’s a reason why Britain was called ‘Perfidious Albion’ from days of old. That phrase is easily applied between the British government and its subjects.
“Perfidious Albion is a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations and diplomacy to refer to acts of duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states) by monarchs or governments of Britain (or England) in their pursuit of self-interest and the requirements of realpolitik.
Perfidious signifies one who does not keep his faith or word (from the Latin word “perfidia”), while Albion is the ancient Greek name for Great Britain.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion
NHScare for Americans!
Scotland runs its own NHS. The Scots Gnats are responsible for this one, not HM Government. BTW, what is with your obsessive anglophobia?
The reason for my anglophobia? I don’t have an irrational fear of the UK. I just now understand that the UK is the cesspool of Leftism/Liberalism that has been a plague on the West for a number of decades.
I used to have a very positive view of the UK, but as I have learned more and more about where the West and America gets all of these crazy Leftist ideas and scams that are driving them into the abyss of destruction, that view has changed to a very negative one.
Remember the Iceland banking scandal and meltdown of their economy? It originated out of London. Those pickpockets in “Oliver Twist” are now the bankers in the UK!
Who has the largest GDP to debt ratio in the world? The UK. Why? To support their welfare state that was set up after WWII. You can’t even have a decent military anymore because the welfare state gets priority! LOL! And look how America followed in the UK’s footsteps with the creation of our own welfare state that now takes up at least 60 percent of our budget. And that percentage keeps going up!
Cash for clunkers program? It started in the UK first and we followed right along! It does go by a different name in the UK.
Do you remember a few years ago during the Bush administration when the UK government and press decided not to call Muslim terrorists, “Muslim terrorists”? About six months after that the Bush administration adopted the small rule as well as our press! Reality check: Muslims by definition are terrorists because the Koran specifically commands Muslims to inflict terror into the hearts of the infidels.
If the UK disappeared tomorrow it would actually be a good thing!
Now where did the Scotts get the idea to have their own NHS? Could it be...the UK????
As a patient one would be much better off in a third-world country hospital. No kidding. Nurse at your side most all the time.
I'm an old, white guy. Send him on over.
And the biggest reason why I can’t stand the UK?
Obama.
Why?
Because, whether he was born in a British colony (like Kenya as his paternal grandmother and others claim) or abroad in places like Hawaii, his Obama’s father, a British citizen, passed on his citizenship to his son, Barack. Once his Indonesian citizenship ended he never naturalized anywhere else and has never formally renounced his British citizenship so by default his citizenship went back to British.
Even if he followed the USA’s immigration laws and became a citizen he still legally would not be able to be POTUS.
Now the UK’s village idiot is illegally running the USA and he is turning out to be the worst President in the history of it. He is an absolute incompetent and arrogant fool! You could have at least sent somebody with some brains! You can take back your village idiot because he has done enough damage already!
The cowards won’t come to kill you. They’ll enslave you to a Federal controlled machine that will not help you when you are sick because you are economically benefitual to the economy. You won’t be strong enough to do anything about it. If you are fortunate, you will be personally rich enough to help yourself without insurance. Many will be killed.
The Scottish govt let him go.
The Scottish people did not, and did not support the decision.
Pan Am 103, genius.
TWA 800 was the one you lot may have shot down yourself. Oh, the irony.
5 million.
Crap. We have our problems, but the UK is a fine country to live in.
And the NHS, whilst flawed and in need of reform, is not the third rate hellhole Americans believe it is. By and large
As a Scot, I can tell you, that despite undoubted problems, the Scottish NHS works. I have been a patient, son of two parents whose lives have been saved by the first class care they received in it, and also have been an NHS worker.
This report is depressing, but the NHS is not a third world healthcare system. If most Americans used it, I think they would be surprised to find it isnt nearly as bad as they think. And it would be free for them.
addendum:
My last post should have read: ‘By and large, it is a good system that works.’.
No you wouldnt, please read my reply to clintonfatigued, where I give an honest assessment of Scotland’s NHS and the general UK NHS.
It’s interesting to hear about it from someone who lives there.
Yeah, but every post he writes about the UK is “Everything’s A-OK”.
“The Scottish govt let him go.
The Scottish people did not, and did not support the decision.”
My minister told me that the people were very upset....including his family. He is from Glasgow.
Nope.
I just point out that we arent the dhimmi hellhole you think we are.
Free?? Are you telling us that out of the goodness and magnaminity of their hearts, the Scottish government provides and pays for health care for all citizens and visitors to its nation?
Don't you contribute in any way to your health care system? Or do you....
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