"England is founded on class-division, oppression, subjugation and exploitation; our culture is built on the tortured backs of the rural & urban working-class and this continues to be the case today. The other day in Liverpool we took shelter from the downpour in St Georges Hall, this noble edifice of a particularly English take on Classicism wherein the sumptuous banqueting hall is built over the prison cells below; a testimony to the pre-requisites of mass squalor, poverty, crime and human depravity which is truly England's Glory."


Absolute poppycock!

Show me a country where the strong don't 'rule' the weak! Geez! It is that attitude that has caused so much damage to this country, and to our young people!

"This is the country I was born into and I am under no illusions about our Heritage, nor of the evil represented by the pictures on The Chocolate Box, much less the tooth-rotting folksie twee faux-pourri Country House / Cathedral horrors it contains by way of marketing a myth however so comforting that myth might be. "

You mean that even our chocolate boxes are Evil????? Oh come ON! Whether you like it or not, not every thatched cottage carried inside it members from Oppressors R Us! Some people were just very happy living their lives, hard though they may have been....but were they harder than ours? Physically yes, of course....but they had a simplicity that brought something special, which we have oh so lost these days...

"Personally, I've always preferred Jonathan Meades to Alan Titchmarch anyway."

Personally, I've always thought that Jonathan Meades is an up his own building, sneery type of architect, whereas Alan is a down to muddyearth Yorkshireman with a whacking good sense of humour, a deep love of the land, and of his grandfather who taught him about the land..

The Miners Strike caused much bitterness and hatred....understandably, but that hatred has been kept alive for decades, and it has scarred not only this land, but all those who still have hate in their hearts. The miners lives were changed for ever...Mine was changed by The Royal Mail....

Get over it....

It doesn't make England a bad place...