Posted on 04/13/2008 9:31:59 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
All Britain needs to regain its greatness is tar, feathers, pitchforks, torches, shotguns, ropes, lamp-posts, and the will to use them.
Contracepting and aborting their society to extinction.
Actually, it’s more about free market economics. These local amenities are in declining demand by the local population who are travelling further afield to get them on large retail estates and so on.
In actual fact what we are witnessing is the americanisation of rural life, but don’t let that stop everyone here making their clueless and predictable comments on the islamification and socialism in the UK as they are responsible for all that is wrong with Britain, who would be better if only they became more like the land of God’s chosen people, the United States....
I predict they will let more proponents of the Cult of Death in, to restore community life. Or should I say community death?
Sour grapes?
This is a country where fewer than a quarter of all households posess more than one car and more than a quarter have none. Driving is prohibitively expensive in England, it’s not uncommon to not even have a licence.
No, not sour grapes, I don’t want my country to turn into a clone of the US thanks. I still like the idea of being able to walk to the shops and get places without having to use a car, which wasn’t possible where I lived in the states.
However, I am fed up of clueless imbeciles here who have not the faintest idea what life is really like in Britain offering their stupid and worthless opinions on how and why Britain going to hell in a handcart.
Islam and socialism isn’t causing post offices and corner shops to close, it is simple free market economics. People do not use these amenities, prefering the lower prices in out-of-town supermarkets instead, as is the case throughout much of the US outside the major cities. Islam and ‘socialism’ don’t come into it....
Happening here too.
It is called “Demographic Winter.”
The fact remains. UK central government believes it is necessary to regulate the number of snacks a mother can put in her kid's lunchbox.
yitbos
LOL! Indeed. Both sides of the pond have their own style of nanny nuttiness.
Nuttiness. I like that word.
Now, I know that the U.S. school lunch program might regulate that catsup is a vegetable. But I appreciate that the Brits write their regulations for 6th graders to understand.
They say that pre-packaged cheese spread and crackers is a snack akin to twinkies. There is a limit on the number of such snacks a kid can bring to school that is not a "lunch", which is regulated also.
One of the finest sources of "absolute sociology student government" is here:
yitbos
Well, I’ve no idea where you live in England, but I’m old enough to remember that everything necessary to life was within walking distance in the small town outside Columbus, Ohio where I grew up.
So, FWIW, I’m sympathetic to your plight. I’ve never been more than 100 miles out of the US, and have always wanted to visit England. The village life has always been a draw for me. Mrs. Mugwump commented on it when she went to Bournemouth 15 years ago with her sister to retrieve her widowed aunt who was losing her health and had to return here.
My sympathies, one again.
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