Describing the opening ceremonies as a flop is understating it by a mile. It was like a segment of English History For Dummies except they left out the part about WWII and replaced it with a bunch of hospital beds. That's when I turned the television off.
The English people, with the Scots and the Irish, are great.,Correction, they were great. Since the 90s, no. Thatcher was the last gasp of greatness.
I lived in England for years in the early 2000s -- the youngsters there are horrible, their education is a joke and their culture is destroyed (by the English themselves note).