British Culture

[Browney]

is winding me up a bit, we have a lot of extreme right-wing people in this country, who are pro-privatizations and say alot of things that are just damn right crazy.

I think the NEWS is a very important thing in the UK but it is done wrong.

Example. ITV News, it was just after the Tsunami thousands and thousands of people died, and ITV decided to do a special report from Bostcastle. What hapened there? At worst a few people lost their shops and houses, injuries: one broken thumb. The choice was between two floods, one horific, and one not-great, and they chose the mediocre of the two. Then they cut to people who had opinions on the matter [paraphrased] "I think its outrageous that we are sending all this money abroad it should be kept in this country to help those from Boscaslte" I was like soz, those people in the tsnumai were poor, have no assets and alot died, children were orphaned. This is one mistake I think has been made by people of the UK.

Unfortunately, People in this country seem to care more about material things like shops than foreigners lifes. Infact, we seem to just tut and say "Ooh, that's horrible" and pop off to work. Which is how it should be. It's not gonna stop us eating or sleeping I'm afraid.

Another example is the Over-hype and coverage of the whole "Find Madeline" fiasco. It's been going on for weeks now, and its one child. The people who tie yellow ribbons to fences arent getting anywhere, alot of the stuff is pointless and not at all practical. Ofcourse its devistating, but there are wars going on, there is famine across many regions of the world, there are natural disasters that affect BILLIONS and we give a hell of a lot of money in aid of finding one girl, who is probably dead, to be blunt. This coverage is all because the parents can afford it, and its a form of elitism, where only the richest survive, and only the richest can afford to find missing daughters.

It amazes me the coverage Maddie gets. It really does. At this very second I can't think why she gets all the coverage. Parents who can afford it? Press wanting a big campaign? Her parents are together and Maddie got snatched in a posh resort? Her family is white? It really amazes me.

Which brings me onto my next point which is privatisation. I disagree totally with privatisation as it is just the cause of a bigger divide between the rich and the poor. An example is the continuation of people wanting to privatise the NHS, but this would mean on the richest could survive, and only the richest could afford appointments, check-ups, and other vital things such as dental care. Don't get me wrong, Im not patriotic, I disagree with patriotisism because it leads to racism and countries believing that another is superior or inferior to another, BUT I honestly thing that the NHS is what makes Britain "Great Britain".

Comments?

Well, I'm not even sure what Privitisation means so I'll leave that to you guys.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Over the Maddy issue.

If your sister went missing wouldn't you want all this coverage as it increases the chances of finding her?, you would want it all.

Also Maragret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister we ever had, David Cameron is just Blair but younger.

[Browney]

Over the Maddy issue.

If your sister went missing wouldn't you want all this coverage as it increases the chances of finding her?, you would want it all.

In the other thread I mentioned that all this press attention might scare the kidnapper into doing something drastic.

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Also Maragret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister we ever had, David Cameron is just Blair but younger.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah Thatcher was ok, if you were ******* upper class.

[-:Undertaker:-]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah Thatcher was ok, if you were ******* upper class.

err no.

She defeated the unions and they used to control the government.

[GommeInc]

The Maddie campaign is bizarre. I doubt it would increase the chances of finding her more than it would a few less advertisements. I think it is because the papers/media have nothign better to report. Nothing major is happening at the moment for what I can think of at least. Don't get me wrong, but she is probably dead, and I find it slightly amusing how the parents sodded off to see the Pope leaving the two remaining children with other people, their relatives. Have they not learnt that it is their responsibility to look after their children more now? I am sure they can take them to see the Pope, or maybe they want to leave the blame to other people if the remaining children get stolen "/

[Jamie!]

err no.

She defeated the unions and they used to control the government.

didn't she **** up all the industries etc n all, n make thousands unemployed?

[sim]

British culture doesn't exist anymore, we have political correctness. Soon the monarchy, the NHS, left side driving, the pound, national holidays and beliefs will all be gone and we will just be mini-America.

Ha I lol'd at that because THERE IS BRITISH CULTURE and the British culture is the Political Correctness that has been made up.
To put it simply Political Correctness doesn't exist. To put it in VERY basic terms (meaning I know its not just black and white) its a bunch of racist people who feel they have the right to be racist, so then they make up stories and complain about how "were not allowed to say racist things" etc. its just esculated from nothing. Who in politics has ever said you can't sing Baa baa black sheep? no one! so political correctness is merely a myth.

Well, I'm not even sure what Privitisation means so I'll leave that to you guys.

Theres two sectors, the public sector and the private sector. The NHS is in the public centre because it is Nationalised, or 'run by the government' meaning everyone has access to it, whereas if it didn't exist and the NHS was privatised then we would have to pay companies for Health Care, which not everyone can afford.

Over the Maddy issue.

If your sister went missing wouldn't you want all this coverage as it increases the chances of finding her?, you would want it all.

Also Maragret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister we ever had, David Cameron is just Blair but younger.

Yes but I think its the Medias fault for letting it happen, theres over news, theres a still a war going on. And as for Maggie. ha.

didn't she **** up all the industries etc n all, n make thousands unemployed?

Agreed under Thatcher we had Highest UnEmployment rates, extremely high inflation and no milk for kids in schools. (she aboloshed it) just a few examples of why Blair, beats Thatcher by miles.

[-:Undertaker:-]

didn't she **** up all the industries etc n all, n make thousands unemployed?

Ok, let me explain why Britains industrial industy died.

Nations like America stopped buying from us because our prices were too high compared to nations like China and India.

You can say "Why didn't she lower the prices?", well that would mean to make a profit we'd have to pay the miners £50 a year because China and India pay their miners etc around that a year.

The industry was dieing, people can't see this because they are blinded by the "OMG THACTHER WAS CRAP AND EVIL" - Which is a load of rubbish.

If you were the USA, would you rather buy 50 blocks of coal for £10 off Britain or would you rather buy 50 blocks of coal from China for £2?

Ha I lol'd at that because THERE IS BRITISH CULTURE and the British culture is the Political Correctness that has been made up.
To put it simply Political Correctness doesn't exist. To put it in VERY basic terms (meaning I know its not just black and white) its a bunch of racist people who feel they have the right to be racist, so then they make up stories and complain about how "were not allowed to say racist things" etc. its just esculated from nothing. Who in politics has ever said you can't sing Baa baa black sheep? no one! so political correctness is merely a myth.




Theres two sectors, the public sector and the private sector. The NHS is in the public centre because it is Nationalised, or 'run by the government' meaning everyone has access to it, whereas if it didn't exist and the NHS was privatised then we would have to pay companies for Health Care, which not everyone can afford.



Yes but I think its the Medias fault for letting it happen, theres over news, theres a still a war going on. And as for Maggie. ha.



Agreed under Thatcher we had Highest UnEmployment rates, extremely high inflation and no milk for kids in schools. (she aboloshed it) just a few examples of why Blair, beats Thatcher by miles.

We had High Unemplyment rate due to the collapse of the Industrial Industry.

Also Thatcher took away kiddies milk, Blair killed thousands in Iraq - Who is worse?

[Bef]

Over the Maddy issue.

If your sister went missing wouldn't you want all this coverage as it increases the chances of finding her?, you would want it all.

Also Maragret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister we ever had, David Cameron is just Blair but younger.

Thatcher was evil. End of