The state of the UK today

[david51058]

A country without any standards of what we once described as decency.

We have become a selfish,greedy,visionless, small minded, unpleasant, lawless, godless and anti social, sexually promiscuous and booze ridden, illiterate litle nation, ruled from Brussels, without backbone, moral integrity and any sense of respect; drowning in a sea of mass immigration we have lost all sense of national identity and pride.

I see the recent expenses scandal to be symptomatic of the corruption and scandal that I believe is endemic in our national and local political public life

We like to pose and posture on the world stage but in reality we are a third world non entity and like the king that had no clothes on, we don't know it.

The sum total of our aspirations can be summed up in our obsession with the superficial and trivial like football, footballers, the X Factor and which minor celebrity is bonking who.

Not written by me but summed up quite nicely and I agree with all the sentiments 100%.

[tiggerblue10]

Ooook.............

[JDOvengloves]

I haven't read The Daily Mail for ages

[jomifl]

Someone has been reading my mind...

[anneasquith]

who wrote it and when ?

[ummmm]

Maybe you should read some history books to remind you how rosey things used to be.

[NazNomad]

... there's the Plague, you forgot that.

[DTCwordfan]

Did you know it was Florence Cameron's christening yesteday.

I headed over there with my digicam to write an article for OK! magazine......This after all is major news.

[boxtops]

I do take exception to the penultimate paragraph as a catch-all - I am not remotely interested in any of those things - but the rest of it is a good summary of the decline in moral standards as a society. I don't think I'm personally all of those things in para 2 but if that's how the world sees us, that's not good. Where's this quotation from, david?

[Coobeastie]

"Illiterate litle" should that not be little?

I wonder when was this glorious utopia that we have fallen so far from.

[rojash]

"Not written by me "
Perhaps it would have been courteous to credit whoever it was written by - it's always interesting to know who people are receiving their opinions from.

[DTCwordfan]

Well, I wouldn't credit the Mail as writing.......in the true sense of the word.

[jomifl]

Are you all deliberately missing the point of this thread?
Coolbeastie.. The sixties was a lot better in many ways than the current decade (so far) There was far less state control, UKIP,BNP etc. didnt exist, there weren't any ghettos in the UK

[Sqad]

<<< unpleasant, lawless, godless and anti social, sexually promiscuous and booze ridden,<<<<

unpleasant? in what way?
lawless?.....to a degree....I would agree.
godless?.......not important to me as I am an Atheist.
sexually promiscuous?..........yes, I would agree.
booze ridden....no doubt, the worst in Europe.

<<<<<drowning in a sea of mass immigration we have lost all sense of national identity and pride. <<<<
As a generalisation, I would agree

<<<<<I see the recent expenses scandal to be symptomatic of the corruption and scandal that I believe is endemic in our national and local political public life <<<

Yes, generally speaking, I would agree.


<<<The sum total of our aspirations can be summed up in our obsession with the superficial and trivial like football, footballers, the X Factor and which minor celebrity is bonking who. <<<<

LOL...I am afraid that you may well be correct.

BUT...you have missed one thing out......it is FILTHY.

Just my opinion.

[DTCwordfan]

jomifl - not quite true - the BNP existed in their previous incarnation, the National Front, and wore their colours more on their shirts (no pun intended) and there was also the extreme left in the Communist Party of Great Britain.....Gorbals Mick and all his gang.

[ixion]

OP here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...lection_y.html?page=5

[Chaffinch]

Errrrrrrrr and the question is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sqad]

Chaffinch.......good afternoon.

[Chaffinch]

Hi Sqad, how are you?

[DTCwordfan]

Sqad - simple, lets all move out except the criminals.....(leave the country as the Johnny English crook envisaged it as a prison camp). Also undertake a long term contract to become a spoil/waste tip for the EU - National Debt could be solved with the stroke of the pen.

I am appalled at the condition of our roads and lanes - sample = Cornwall, Cumbria, Oxon, Suffolk, Cambbridgeshire, Surrey and Hampshire - and they are all bad. There is no way American small communities and villages would allow their country lanes to get in this state.