Do You Also Agree That Britain Has Gone To The Dogs?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3537856/Ray-Winstone-threatens-to-leave-gone-to-dogs-Britain.html

This was under discussion on LBC radio's phone in early this morning, and everyone who telephoned or text the radio station, said that they would if they could afford it.

If that is a fair section of the population, it is most frightening, and surprise, surprise most if not all blamed the immigration policies of the last Labour Government, and that the possibility of Labour getting into power at the next election is far too frightening to contemplate.

[sp1814]

Hang on - AOG...are you saying that you heard a radio discussion today based on a Ray Winstone interview from four and a half years ago?

Have you got a radio which can dial into the past?

Or are you Dr Who?

Re: my comment on the NHS being 100% free. Yes, I take your point about it not being free to all, but aren't prescriptions free to those who are on benefits?

[sp1814]

AOG

Let's put it this way - I have private medical insurance, so technically I shouldn't care...but I like the fact that I live in a country that does have an NHS.

[Anngel]

Maybe he should go to France where the tax rate is 35%.

[emmie]

honeydip, this is coming from someone who isn't even living here, who got out because of family, or was that another josh..
NHS is bleeding money, it doesn't also care, not something one would have said 30 years ago, but we have a lot more people now, and many who have not in any shape of form contributed to it...
you really should take a good look at the NHS and not with rose tinted spectacles...

[emmie]

why should people be asked, told if they don't like it move elsewhere,
aren't you allowed to discuss, even criticise the current situation here without the ton of bricks coming down on your head.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Oh yes they are.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9737393/Census-2011-fewer-than-half-of-people-living-in-London-are-white.html

/// In London, 44.9% of people are white, with large populations of people who identify themselves as African, Indian and Caribbean. ///

As well as Luton, Leicester and Slough.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9792392/White-Britons-a-minority-in-Leicester-Luton-and-Slough.html

[emmie]

just like the UK, there are variable rates of tax, whether the 75 percent that has been mooted for those earning over certain amount gets off the ground, not sure, but take your pick..

http://france.angloinfo.com/money/income-tax/taxable-income/

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracun

/// Personally I whince a little when (for instance) I hear Americans refer to 'England' when they mean the UK as a whole. I don't really see how that diminishes England as an entity, or robs it of its history. ///

Perhaps that's because their first language is English, would you have it known as the United kingdom language, and they spoke UK?

[emmie]

gromit
perhaps that should have been whites are in the minority in certain boroughs, also if you don't live here and walk around the capital, get to know it, how would you have a clue of what's it's like

[emmie]

many Americans can't find their way out of the home state let alone know that we are the UK, Great Britain. Those who visit regularly, like business folk would know i'm pretty sure, but most do not, they think of England, not UK. Sure it's no difference for some folk in UK, who couldn't pinpoint on a map where their city, town is...

[emmie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Re: my comment on the NHS being 100% free. Yes, I take your point about it not being free to all, but aren't prescriptions free to those who are on benefits? ///

Are you breaking the rules by having more than one username?

Because my not free to all comment, was aimed at honeydip who stated the following.

/// 100% free health care system. ///

Regarding your rather childish comments regarding having a radio which can dial into the past or me being Dr Who.

I have already explained to you about the Radio phone-in, in so much that it started by discussing Ray Winstone and his comments about leaving the country because of high taxes (please see em10's link) and it was opened up by the way I explained, hence my google to find his earlier comments.

Please try and pay attention or leave that Caribbean rum alone.

[Mick-Talbot]

If anyone is actually interested in what he does have to say.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/listen-again/episode/109584

[Mick-Talbot]

9:00----9:30

[Kromovaracun]

"Perhaps that's because their first language is English, would you have it known as the United kingdom language, and they spoke UK?"

No. English is what the language is called.

What I mean is American friends of mine using the word 'England' when the mean the UK or the British isles. Obviously I don't object to when they are actually just referring to England (e.g. "I visited England last week"; "There's a town in England I really like...")

[Kromovaracun]

ooh! Ooh! That's actually another thing I really like about Britain that I forgot about - Dr Who.

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracun

/// ooh! Ooh! That's actually another thing I really like about Britain that I forgot about - Dr Who. ///

There's no accounting for taste. :0)

[emmie]

MT, i also posted a link, what i do think is that Ray Winstone has appeared on their show any number of times, and that is the latest...

[eastern]

Just spent a few months in the U.S. and they are welcome to it, mind you I was in the deep South "where things is done a little different round here" I once remember someone telling me that the Americans you meet abroad have a different mind set to the ones you tend to meet in the U.S. itself and I think they have a point. Mind you from what I heard from white Americans Barrack is about as popular as a F'art in a Space Suit so I think we all have problems.

[ichkeria]

I find it hard to sympathise with Ray Winstone partly because of that appalling online betting ad and partly because I really get irritated by people like him constantly saying they'd like to leave and getting lots of publicity because they are famous. And yet somehow he's always still around for the next soundbite. In all honesty I've more respect for the poor Polish (or indeed British) worker who decides to find a better life elsewhere without making a fuss. Whether they actually find that life of course is another matter.