"Is that the Britain that you constantly disparage and denigrate?"
As far as I am concerned, Britain is its people not the institutions that have ground it into the shit in pursuit of yet more wealth.
It is the people you have described as too lazy to work, preferring to cadge off the state rather than abandon their families, get on their bikes and pedal down to London to join the dole queues in the hope of picking something up there and live god knows where.
The Britain I "disparage and denigrate" are those who hate the British people and persistently support the establishment that has fucked the country up.
You have made it quite clear who your "Britain" is - (Date: 17 Jun 16 - 06:58 AM) you told us that the family comes second to the state, that to support the family is to betray the country - I've told you what that is - you seem to have accepted that as a badge of honour
The Britain that I respect and support is the one I grew up and worked in all my life, - the people forced to live on the shitty housing estates and work on the docks, who got up off their arses day after day, all their lives to do a day's work and who put up with Tory twats telling them they were all lazy, greedy, know-nothings and do-nothings.
My Britain is not the bankers (excuse the mis-spelling) and the entrepreneurs who are now crashing the country into recession after recession and the politicians who have created a situation where that will continue until they are stopped
Your "successful" is a Britain without rights run for the benefit of those who already have enough for ten lifetimes.
Not mine.
Your purported love of Britain is based on a hatred of and contempt for the vast majority of its population – the actual wealth producers – your Britain is the real spongers and the institutions – the Generals and the royal hangers-on, the flags and the ciphers - not its people
How can you love and respect a country amd despise its people?
What a ****** pair of blimpish Tory stereotypes!!!
Jim Carroll