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I am afraid as usual many on this board take the opportunity to bash us Brits stating things they have heard from others as facts which if they actually lived in Britain would find what they state is as alien to the majority of British people's attitude and experience.

Yes we do have some radicals but we also have many places where there are just decent ordinary indigenous British people.

May I also suggest that this article may well have more behind than meets the eye. At present there a big dispute between the government and police-force over pay may I suggest that the comment made by the police may well have been sour grapes and they knew who they were talking to and just wanted to cause a stir and expose a penny pinching government who want justification to a ridiculous extent by the police in how they spend their budget.

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I am afraid as usual many on this board take the opportunity to bash us Brits

Sadly true, and an unfortunate sign of ignorance.  It's one thing to bash Socialism and the cancers that it produces but it's another thing entirely to bash the people who are being unfairly subjected to it and whose lives are being harmed by it..

Yes we do have some radicals

So do we, unfortunately

the comment made by the police may well have been sour grapes and they knew who they were talking to and just wanted to cause a stir and expose a penny pinching government who want justification to a ridiculous extent by the police in how they spend their budget.

An interesting and highly probable theory.