Yes, it's perfectly dreadful, isn't it? There was a time when those loutish types would have been impressed into the army and the Royal Navy and sent abroad to kill Frenchmen, Spaniards, and anyone else offering an impediment to the natural spread of British civilization across the globe. Now, alas, things are not quite like that!    Still, I think it unnecessarily negative of you, ard mhacha, to dwell obsessively on only the negatives that our great country has to offer. What have we done to you? Are you one of those fanatical anti-British people that commit violent acts and spread trouble wherever they go? If you are, let me advise you that you will not profit from it. We British may lose a battle here and there, but we always win the last battle.

TTFN!

* Veronica