Love the UK?

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Spawnee

I know the questions you refer to, and I have answered similarly to what you have posted here. I too love the UK and wouldn't want to leave. We are the fourth richest nation in the world, we lead a very comfortable lifestyle. Yes, some laws are rubbish, but find me a country where you agree with every law, and I would say you are a liar. We have the same social problems than every other Western modern country, but they are made to look out of control by tabloid reporting.
1000 children die every year in the UK due to road traffic accidents, yet it hardly gets a mention in the news. That is tragic! But what is more tragic is when the media whip up a storm over the odd killing here or there of a teenager, or a murder committed by an immigrant. Don't get me wrong they are tragic too, but I would like to see more balanced media reporting - the newspapers and TV news stations should take on a moral obligation to make the UK be presented for what it truly is - a Great place to be!

needmorecubes

I think, it Was a good country, if it was that great, how come emmigration has risen to 200,000 plus a year?...Crime and lack of punishments have certainly got me thinking....

big dave

yeah britain is a great country im proudto be british

rowdy

You say "Why don't you go somewhere else?" That's OK if you're a brain surgeon or something, but for ordinary mortals it's not that easy.

Good for you. If only everyone felt that way then the U.K. wouldn`t be what it has become today.

Gusdiamond

You will have noticed record emmigration figures being announced yesterday. So it seems a record number of people are doing something about it.

e'd up!

The uk must be great half the sodding world wants to be here. And dont tell me the reason is the welfare state, free NHS and easy housing.

Actually...

imicola

Me too, I love the UK. We are so lucky that we have so much - people who complain about life here dont know they are born!

And it REALLY annoys me when people slag of british food, or say there is no 'British food' which is totally wrong. They have clearly not been out to investigate the great food producers, and restaurants the UK has to offer.

english guy 1985

it's annoy me when moaning right-wingers hijack the questions and talk about 'lack of punishment' for crimes.

if anything what this country needs is *more liberal* laws -asbos/curfews are a breach of human rights,there is no need for soft drugs to remain illegal, ID cards and detention without trial are a breach of civil liberties.

moaning, pessimistic idiots should leave the country and live in an actual right-wing dictatorship and see how much they really bloody like it, it makes me proud to be one of the so-called 'loony left' they so despise.

C C

I have to travel regularly to various countries in the middle and Far East and am ALWAYS happy to get back to the unpredictable weather, negativity towards almost everything, warm beer, excellent community spirit (apart from at least one of your respondents), the continuing story of Tim Henman, the soso fortunes of the nation's sporting representatives and the Gordon and Dave interractions...not to mention the Paxo Show on BBC2.
It's wonderful!!!!
Sun is the sky o y o y would you wnna be anywhere else - Good old Lily Allen!!!!
xx

alice d

I love the uk. And im definatly pround to be english! it just sometimes if you see how many families of complete english decendent live here, you would feel annoyed. Im not a racist person but there are so many different races living in england nowadays it is not what it used to be like.

Just as the person above said, whenever i come home of my holiday, instead of being sad, im actually looking forward to it. I love a good english cup of tea, the warm beer, the weather, the royal family, sitting down at christmas watching the queens speach, a nice fry up, sunday roasts, bangers and mash, watching england play in the world cup. I wouldnt ever want to change my heritage!

Zed

Sometimes it is the British doing the slagging.

We're sick of our country being taken over by aliens & them trashing our culture and traditions.

I am ENGLISH and proud, but I still think the country has gone to pot. It's a sh*t hole nowadays.

If I could afford to, I would be off. I'd go live in Cyprus and take on all their traditions and embrace their culture. I would never go to another country and slag it.

Sam J

So am I, I have always been proud to be British; however mass immigration and even people from the Indian sub continent claiming to be "British and proud of it" is causing a general lack of patriotism in indigenous British.

Our old home land has recently changed like never before in history ( other immigrants were successful invaders and in small numbers compared with today's millions)Many people do not yet realise that we cannot support over 60,600,000 people see below.

There is a depression over the UK and I feel mass immigration is the reason

Truth

whats to love or be proud of? this country really does s"ck.

Your summers are worse then most countries Winters. Your food is crap, rubbish services (transport, medical etc etc) all stuck in the 3rd world.

Hoodies everywhere. Council estates all over the show. Nothing for kids to do at all.

Rip off prices for just about everything.

You spend most your life in queues.

No wonder everyone is up and leaving this dump.

Angel

I am proud to be English

kaye j

i too love the uk theres nowt wrong with it apart from all the gun tooting crims arund at the mo sorry about the spelling but im very tired and poorly

Julie

My parents moved to Australia from England when I was 3 years old. I have since been back 3 times and would give my left arm to live there permanently. I just LOVE the place. I feel like I am "home" when I am there!

PS: I still have a British passport only and won't give it up until I absolutely HAVE to ;)

millydee

I am proud to be british ,there are some aspects I do not like at present ,such as the high volume of immigration and violence on our streets, but I wonder if there is a connection here.BUT HEY I AM PROUD TO BE BORN N BRED HERE.

mark o

Me too!, I'm proud to British and I'm proud we live in a Constitutional Monarchy, I know what you mean about people whingeing, get's on my nerves, for 18 years people were whingeing about living under a Tory regime, then hey presto, they get what they want in the form of a Labour government, and they're still whingeing!!

There just ain't no pleasin' some Folk

OMG

Me to. I just wish we didn't pay so much tax.

Mark V

I think that people native to a country see the most wrong with it...which is not always necessarily true either. That said..I lived in the UK (Scotland) for a number of years and I quite enjoyed it, not the sunniest of countries up north, but still all in all I liked the country as well as the people I met...

pat g

I proud to be british to

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