[MadIvan]

I hope you are correct, Ivan.

It'll come right. Every time Britain has been written off we've always come back.

Napoleon dismissed England as a "nation of shopkeepers". Hitler dissed us and bombed London, thinking our will was broken that easily. People were snickering at Britain as being the "Sick Man of Europe" in the 1970's with the unions leaving the dead unburied.

But guess what, Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, Hitler had his head handed back to him during the Battle of Britain and El Alamein, and we elected Margaret Thatcher. Hand wringing and writing obituaries is all well and good for a nation with a history of less resilence. It doesn't work in this case.

Regards, Ivan

[Billthedrill]

Gracious, such gloom and doom! The place has really gone downhill since you let all those Angles and Saxons and Jutes in the door.

England isn't dying. Only the football teams I root for.

[Deport Billary]

Can you give us a rough estimate of the demographics across the pond? Are "whites" the minority or is this article stretching it?

[Hal.009]

"Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, Hitler had his head handed back to him during the Battle of Britain..."

In all fairness, Old King George and his lobsters had their collective a$$ handed to them in war of 1776 and even you have to admit that the Brits got a wee bit of help from the same Yanks in taking on Hitler in WWII.

I hope you are right in your judgement of the Brittish character.

Sadly, my guess is when (not if) the time comes to show some fight, the new government sponsered mentality of the sensitive, kinder, and gentler "unarmed and no excuse of self defense" Brittish Subjects will discover that once a wolf has his fangs and claws removed, he ceases to be a wolf...... except in his mind.