- Because you are (far) less likely to be shot whilst simply going about your daily life in the UK
And far more likely to be stabbed.
Shootings in the USA occur in well known areas that are avoided by people with good sense.
Stabbings in the UK can occur anywhere.
Except murders by stabbing the US are far higher than in the UK per head of the population. Or at least have been. I can find anymore up to date figures.
Shootings in the USA occur in well known areas that are avoided by people with good sense.
Stabbings in the UK can occur anywhere.
Except murders by stabbing the US are far higher than in the UK per head of the population. Or at least have been. I can find anymore up to date figures.
But lockdowns also less brutal in USA — especially in states with lots of law abiding gun owners. Not so in Britain and democrat cities where people are arrested or shunned for saying the wrong words while violent criminals run around with relative impunity.
What does UK have in common with failing US cities and states? Cultural degradation and socialist governments led by trainees of the World Economic Forum.
And they say it is for our safety... but I can tell you that Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Britain were all safer, cleaner, and more prosperous 10, 15, 20 years ago. The decline is precipitous.
- Borrowing eye-watering amounts of money during a recession
- Not matching the interest rate increases of the states, leading to a weakened pound
- Lack of innovation and well-paid jobs resulting in little investment from the high-bracket businesses/individuals which the tories are so keen to protect from tax cuts
- Terrible wages in general for high-skilled jobs. Why work in the UK when you can work the same jobs in the states for triple the salary, better benefits and a stronger currency?
- The queen died
- Their football team is sh*t
I have no answer to the first 3.
But after that:
- Because you are (far) less likely to be shot whilst simply going about your daily life in the UK
You are right about being shot - you are more likely to be stabbed with knives.
The UK is fantastic for about 5m people. Decent for about another 10m. And then pretty bleak for about the other 45m.
Truss will change that to 3m, 5, and 57m.
It's of course ridiculous that a new PM can come in and do all this without a mandate. None of this is in their manifesto. But we have a pretty insane and archaic system, so there you go. And then when people come in and suggest changing it, they get eaten alive by the right wing press.
Identity crisis time for the UK. It will hit them between the eyes in December when the Queen is not there to give her annual Christmas message. Scotland will secede and Northern Ireland will join the Republic - both within the next 10 years.
Great spectacle of drill and ceremony from all those military units for the Queen's funeral. Watching from the US, I finally felt that I got some value for the tax money I have paying to subsidize the armed forces of NATO freeloader countries.
Identity crisis time for the UK. It will hit them between the eyes in December when the Queen is not there to give her annual Christmas message. Scotland will secede and Northern Ireland will join the Republic - both within the next 10 years.
Great spectacle of drill and ceremony from all those military units for the Queen's funeral. Watching from the US, I finally felt that I got some value for the tax money I have paying to subsidize the armed forces of NATO freeloader countries.
Shouldn't you be preparing for the coming civil wars in your country, rather than gloating about the problems of others?
Identity crisis time for the UK. It will hit them between the eyes in December when the Queen is not there to give her annual Christmas message. Scotland will secede and Northern Ireland will join the Republic - both within the next 10 years.
Scottish independence seems unlikely - it would be likely Brexit on steroids. As much as Scots dislike the English, I don't think they will choose to plunge themselves into crisis.
Northern Ireland joining the Republic seems much more plausible.
Neither the Prime Minister nor the Cabinet were elected. Truss was chosen by the party’s dues-paying members, consisting of around 160,000 members or 0.3% of the population. She then chose her Cabinet.
Neither the Prime Minister nor the Cabinet were elected. Truss was chosen by the party’s dues-paying members, consisting of around 160,000 members or 0.3% of the population. She then chose her Cabinet.
- Borrowing eye-watering amounts of money during a recession
- Not matching the interest rate increases of the states, leading to a weakened pound
- Lack of innovation and well-paid jobs resulting in little investment from the high-bracket businesses/individuals which the tories are so keen to protect from tax cuts
- Terrible wages in general for high-skilled jobs. Why work in the UK when you can work the same jobs in the states for triple the salary, better benefits and a stronger currency?
- The queen died
- Their football team is sh*t
I'm surprised Brexit isn't getting more mention. Have so many people already forgotten just how bad that was for Britain? They really shot themselves in both feet when Boris the Clown delivered a Brexit that no one promised and no one voted for.
They talked for a year how they were negotiating for the fishermen (1% of the economy), and the fisherman were screwed overnight when on January 1st, they learned they couldn't bring their dirty third-country fish into Europe for sale without treating them first -- no one negotiating the trade and cooperation agreement realized the treatment plants used by UK fishermen were in Europe, and that treatment would be required before they could import the dirty shellfish and mollusks that inhabit the UK waters.
The xenophobia baked into Brexit means no migrant workers to pick the crops, or drive them to market, meaning farmers left half their crops to rot in the field, and the next year planted half the crops, increasing their dependency on Europe, a continent which Brexit makes harder to trade with.
The trade and cooperation agreement did not include the more lucrative services sectors, and financial centers started shifting significant services to European banks.
Did the NHS ever get the money written on the bus?
The biggest benefactor of Brexit, besides Europe, is Northern Ireland, who gets to trade freely with both Europe, and Great Britain. And after running on and winning a campaign founded in an oven-ready deal carving out a Northern Ireland solution, much of the Brexit discussion shifted to taking that solution away and have Northern Ireland to suffer the way the rest of the UK is.
I won't be surprised when Northern Ireland reunifies with the Republic, and Scotland breaks away and rejoins Europe. One day Britain will change their mind and rejoin Europe too, (assuming nationalism forces don't break it up from within), but this is a few decades away, as Britain needs time to come around to the same decision they made back in the '70s. And then they will not have the same great deal they gave away, with all the "except Britain" clauses they were able to negotiate as a pillar of Europe.
I'm surprised Brexit isn't getting more mention. Have so many people already forgotten just how bad that was for Britain? They really shot themselves in both feet when Boris the Clown delivered a Brexit that no one promised and no one voted for.
They talked for a year how they were negotiating for the fishermen (1% of the economy), and the fisherman were screwed overnight when on January 1st, they learned they couldn't bring their dirty third-country fish into Europe for sale without treating them first -- no one negotiating the trade and cooperation agreement realized the treatment plants used by UK fishermen were in Europe, and that treatment would be required before they could import the dirty shellfish and mollusks that inhabit the UK waters.
The xenophobia baked into Brexit means no migrant workers to pick the crops, or drive them to market, meaning farmers left half their crops to rot in the field, and the next year planted half the crops, increasing their dependency on Europe, a continent which Brexit makes harder to trade with.
The trade and cooperation agreement did not include the more lucrative services sectors, and financial centers started shifting significant services to European banks.
Did the NHS ever get the money written on the bus?
The biggest benefactor of Brexit, besides Europe, is Northern Ireland, who gets to trade freely with both Europe, and Great Britain. And after running on and winning a campaign founded in an oven-ready deal carving out a Northern Ireland solution, much of the Brexit discussion shifted to taking that solution away and have Northern Ireland to suffer the way the rest of the UK is.
I won't be surprised when Northern Ireland reunifies with the Republic, and Scotland breaks away and rejoins Europe. One day Britain will change their mind and rejoin Europe too, (assuming nationalism forces don't break it up from within), but this is a few decades away, as Britain needs time to come around to the same decision they made back in the '70s. And then they will not have the same great deal they gave away, with all the "except Britain" clauses they were able to negotiate as a pillar of Europe.
What are you talking about? It was the largest popular vote in British history. Stick to defending dopers.
I'm surprised Brexit isn't getting more mention. Have so many people already forgotten just how bad that was for Britain? They really shot themselves in both feet when Boris the Clown delivered a Brexit that no one promised and no one voted for.
What are you talking about? It was the largest popular vote in British history. Stick to defending dopers.
Sure there was a popular vote, but the question is what were they voting for in 2016, versus what did they get in 2021? What I'm talking about is the transformation from the kind of Brexit that was promised in 2016 before the vote, to the oven-ready deal that was finally delivered in 2021, as Brexit turned into Regrexit and Bregret.
In 2016, Brexit was all unicorns and rainbows and marshmallows, but by 2021, the reality was donkeys and rainclouds, and the marshmallows are imported from Europe at a higher price past the sell-by date, if you can find them at all in your local supermarket, as British marshmallow producers go out of business.
In 2016, everyone knew what remaining in the EU looked like but leaving meant 100 things to 100 people, with a spectrum of options ranging from the softest Brexit with no downsides, to the hardest clean-break Brexit, with all the rules that come from becoming a third-party country that still wants high bandwidth access to all things Europe.
The main broken promises were retaining access to the single market while minimizing bureaucracy and paperwork, and having less rules to follow, and keeping within the customs unions, and maintaining freedom of movement for the Brits in Europe (a huge shock for Brits with second homes in France and Spain).
Here is a small sample of what I am talking about:
Leaving aside the £350m for the NHS, Brexit has promised quick and easy trade deals with the EU and the rest of the world, an end to ECJ jurisdiction and free movement, and British control of North Sea fishing. None of this h...
Johnson’s government has been consistently incompetent in its implementation of Brexit. The realities of being outside of the EU Single Market and Customs Union are beginning to break through Johns…
The UK has been in terminal decline for years. Couldn't happen to a more deserving country.
Aren't you from the UK? Someone said you were a ginger-haired person who was from England, who pretends to be Kenyan because you were privileged enough to be born overseas and move back - rich family working in high up places. Is this true or not? I don't want to know what county or town you're from or any other personal details, but when you're across the board purporting to be a Kenyan athlete and have spent most of your life elsewhere - IF that's true it's pretty disingenuous. If it's not true then someone is slandering you.
The UK is fantastic for about 5m people. Decent for about another 10m. And then pretty bleak for about the other 45m.
Truss will change that to 3m, 5, and 57m.
It's of course ridiculous that a new PM can come in and do all this without a mandate. None of this is in their manifesto. But we have a pretty insane and archaic system, so there you go. And then when people come in and suggest changing it, they get eaten alive by the right wing press.
Agree it's not fair.
One point I want to make though, just a general point. The UK is big (well, relatively speaking). Encompassing the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, N.I. I feel people often forget certain areas. When I was 18 I moved away from where I grew up. I purposely didn't choose London and the south of England because I knew how expensive it was, and in some ways... I don't know. I felt something coming... I can't really explain it. I moved to an area that is cheap and I am glad I did now. You can still buy cards here for 25p, if someone wants to park it's 20p, pizza places sell a slice of veggie pizza for £1.29. Whereas I visit London and see three packs of little sellotapes for £6, a meal for £15, I don't know. It's crazy. I know wages are very different but London is truly extortionate. I do understand why people live there, it's great, the lifestyle and so on. But I feel other parts of the UK are forgotten. There are some great areas that are virtually unheard of. Safe, clean, nice, some are diverse, some are not so - but I suppose London is like that too in parts.
What I'm saying is that people can make a nice life for themselves maybe more easily in the more forgotten about areas that you don't hear about. People slate the area I'm from. They call it vile. I remember sitting on a train and someone saying "this is a disgusting area of the country" in a real southern accent as we passed through a city near here. But they don't look. They don't open their eyes. If you look for positives you can find them. If you look for negatives you'll find them too. I'm not saying it's perfect but I'm saying that big parts of the UK are overlooked as dumps and they are not, they are actually lovely places. That doesn't make a headline though.
