Bluest wrote:

I'm beginning to think that starting this thread was not the wisest thing.

Muddybigdog wrote:

And Charlottesville was? Fake news?

proloForêt wrote:

simon67 wrote:

Still they are cheese eating surrender monkeys

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate". The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability.

I could just call you and idiot but there is not reason too because your post illustrates this fact.

I take your style to answer, only to illustrate your idoicy though:

Odd you'd mention military capability while your navy is borrowing the crappy beds on our aircraft carriers at the moment and that our carriers have runways long enough for our jets, the jets that places like India (the ones that own the "British" icon Land Rover, oh well at least India used to be British) keep buying over the UK ones.

Not sure what the point of the British to sacrifice so much in the world war you are nostalgic about when all you do now is retreat and surrender things like all your companies to the same states that own your national debt. I guess state ownership is not so evil in the UK as long as it is another state that owns them. Funny how the Arabic and Asian countries have worked out not only how to own everything British but to actually use the British tax payers money to do it by charging the UK interest on the national debt it owes. I think it is safe to assume when you are at a stage where you spend more on interest payments to forigne owned debt than you do on education or healthcare then you certainly have surrendered.

Still, at least you have all that cultural "enrichment" your politicians speak all the time about. You know, because the culture was so bland before it needed all the others to come and fill the jobs at the companies now owned by their original countries....

But now you have fighted against that by leaving the EU to change your immigration despite most of it coming from outside the EU. Clever.

I love my Defender you know, I would love for it to be British but it is American and the parts I put on now Indian. This seems to have happened by retreat. You decide, at least you still have Caterham to call British...oh, no you don't....sorry gone to another ex colony (without a fight).

proloForêt, you have hit the nail on the head about the uk there. We have practically have nothing British now at all sadly, and i think a lot of older people on here will agree with me on this one, but it was all down to one woman, called thatcher. She destroyed all industrial we had!
sunderland was once the town/city that was famous for building ships, and we had a few mines too. I only vaguely remember the ship yards and that was only due to me only been about 3 years old at the time. If you came into sunderland back in the 80s early 90s you would have seen the full works. Now there isn't a trace at all of any ship building factories etc at all. Everything was practically pulled down or just left to rot.
The uk is practically dived sadly, North is poorer than the south, but that's due to lack of investment up here for some reason.
sad thing really about us is that we just don't have a backbone strong enough to say no to the government on a hell of a lot of things, but that's due to the working men and women holding very little water now due unions been practically stripped of their powers now. So politicians can just do what they want to suit them, what ever uk based company was sold off, no doubt the government got a few quid out of the sale, somewhere down the line!
What the country really needs is a massive clear out of all governments and something new place, budget's always seems to be cut on everything, but where is this money going that they are "saving?" in politicians pockets! its all corrupt really.
not about the working class families, its all about money! I think with the brexit thing stirred the pot as i think most of us just want our own industrial etc back, and dictate on how we should run the country. If there was ever another world war, I bet you, the uk would be ! Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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mk1collector wrote:

I think the unions did their fair share in screwing the uk's industry's

I could'nt agree more. The likes of Scargill, and now McLuskey, like to dupe the comrades whilst lining their own pockets. Arthur's retired a wealthy man with a property portfolio providing him with a significant income. Len's on his way to do the same with his interest free, flat-buying loan ( if he cares about the comrades money, why did't he let Unite buy the flat and let him have it rent free? ). Very sneaky people, duping the workers out of their dosh whilst pretending to fight their corner.

As far as the OP's question, I'm in Italy, I've asked a few locals and turisti and I think we Brits are flattering ourselves thinking that everyone gives a toss about our Brexit.

Seen a few Defenders defending, but things move on.


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