You must realize that for a person of Mr. Lee’s years, in his condition of health, the possibility of acquiring a potentially fatal deep-vein thrombosis through a very long flight to NZ is quite real. He is wise not to want to risk his life. For elderly people, it’s also scary to leave their usual health-care facilities and providers (and I’m sure he has the best in Britain, not National Health guys). My own dear MIL hates to leave Florida to visit us here for just that reason and always wants us to go visit her instead, because she has to see her doctor so frequently.
So tell us, do you usually insult everybody who chooses not to visit your beautiful country? That would mean that you’d have to hate nearly six billion people.
> You must realize that for a person of Mr. Lee’s years, in his condition of health, the possibility of acquiring a potentially fatal deep-vein thrombosis through a very long flight to NZ is quite real.
Sure it is — NZ is about as far away from the UK as you can get.
> So tell us, do you usually insult everybody who chooses not to visit your beautiful country?
See #13, which explains the rationale of my viewpoint thoroughly. I don’t think it is an insulting viewpoint at all.
> That would mean that you’d have to hate nearly six billion people.
I don’t hate Mr Lee. However I do wish that our erstwhile guest hadn’t burst into print over his not being “interested” in returning. Even if he didn’t intend to return, there was no need for him to announce that.
That’s just plain bad manners.