I want to be civil as well, but objectivity must rule over first. The fact is you are not as conservative as most of us here - it is given that scepticism to the validity of global warming is not welcome even among conservatives in Britain. It is also given that in modern Britain the twin religion of environmentalism and transnationalism reign supreme. You can't dispute that this is accepted in Middle Britain. And you can't dispute reading today's Daily Telegraph is like reading the Times in 1954, and reading the Times today is like reading copies of Daily Mirror in 1962. Your country isn't even as conservative as it used to be - something that will make Margaret Thatcher feel alien in her homeland.
Pointing out the bad in Britain does not mean Pom-bashing. I will leave that to Aussies to do so. (wink)
"Pointing out the bad in Britain does not mean Pom-bashing. I will leave that to Aussies to do so. (wink)"
You rang?
Ha! the Poms came here by the hundreds of thousands and in no time at all, blended into the population. Now they are so embarrassed about Britain, you can't find a Pom anywhere; they must have all gone underground!
FYI: At 8%, the UK has the lowest domestic recycling rates in Europe. It is also, incidentally, drastically lower than the USA (33%) and Australia (20%), while New Zealand, as you may well know, was the world's first country to pursue a Zero-Waste Policy. Now that's not a boast, far from it, it's shameful, but I'd be interested to know how you square that up with this "given" idea of environmentalism as some sort of supreme religion in Middle Britain. I can and will dispute you on this one because you are quite spectacularly wide of the mark. The UK may well talk the talk, but in practice, we trail woefully behind most of the rest of the developed world.
Apathy is the British disease. Not Socialism, not anti-Semitism nor anti-Americanism, not Transnationalism, not Environmentalism, not Multi-Culturalism, not Secularism, but sheer bloody apathy.