Why I hate this country!!!

[Park Life 71]

The problem is as Ewerk partly eluded to earlier is that business has bascially fucked over the whole of Europe and America for cheap labour in the east and this process started in the 8ß's and has been ongoing ever since. Various Govt have been complicit in this and carried on misleading us because they have been too cowardly or self-interested to intervene.

Both business and Govt is at fault. It is almost like they are one and the same things now anyway (certainly in America) and increasingly so in Euro.

 

I sometimes wonder how many of these 'stories' are just planted in the press as distractions to keep people angry at the wrong enemy.

[Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1]

The problem is ALL THESE BLOODY IMIGRANNNTTSSSSSS GRRRRRRRRR

[Meenzer 15561]

The problem is ALL THESE BLOODY IMIGRANNNTTSSSSSS GRRRRRRRRR

 

And ALL THEIR BLOODY POMIGRANNNNITTSSSSSS GRRRRRRRRR

 

[Brock Manson 0]

The problem is ALL THESE BLOODY IMIGRANNNTTSSSSSS GRRRRRRRRR

[Meenzer 15561]

The problem is ALL THESE BLOODY IMIGRANNNTTSSSSSS GRRRRRRRRR

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/economic-crisis-the-pain-in-spain

 

(It had to be the Guardian, obviously.)

[Meenzer 15561]

Also worth a deeks, given the context:

 

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/gavin-kelly/2011/12/income-households-employment

[ewerk 30677]

Britons 'less willing to pay for taxes to help others'

 

 

Britons are less willing than ever to pay higher taxes to support the National Health Service, schools or the environment, a new survey suggests.

 

 

 

The National Centre for Social Research's 28th annual British Social Attitudes report also found increasing numbers blaming poverty on "laziness".

 

The BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton said it was a move towards "more emphasis on individual responsibility".

He said Britons were becoming increasingly "judgmental".

 

 

Mr Easton told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The proportion who think we should pay (more) taxes to improve health and education and social benefits is only 30% in England, 40% in Scotland. A decade ago it was 60% in both nations."

 

 

 

The survey suggested 54% believed social security benefits were too high and discouraged people from finding jobs, up from 35% in 1983 when the study was first carried out.

 

The report echoes last year's British Social Attitudes Report which the Guardian suggested showed Britons 'more Thatcherite than in the 1980s'.

 

 

 

Of the 3,297 people questioned this year, 63% believed parents who "don't want to work" were to blame for children living in poverty.

 

Penny Young, chief executive of the National Centre for Social Research, said: "In a time of economic austerity and social unrest, the big question coming out of this year's report is whether we really are in it together, or just in it for ourselves?

 

 

 

'Self-reliance'

 

"An emerging sense of self-reliance may take the government some way toward its vision of a more responsible society, but an emphasis on individualism, not Big Society collectivism, may present as much of a challenge as it does an opportunity."

 

Although 75% of those questioned felt the gap between rich and poor was too large, only 35% believed the government should do more to redistribute income.

 

 

 

There were also contradictions in the survey. While most people agreed there was a nationwide housing shortage, 45% opposed building new houses in their areas - a figure that rose to 58% in outer London.

 

Mark Easton said: "Britain has long been the most judgmental of the needy in Europe.

 

 

 

"One would expect that when the economy goes down people become a little less judgmental of those in need but this year's report finds 26% of people feel poverty is the result of 'laziness' or 'lack of willpower'. In the mid-1990s that figure was down to 15%."

 

He said there had also been a significant change when it came to the environment.

 

 

 

"The proportion of people willing to pay higher prices for green policies, for the sake of the environment, that has fallen from 43% a decade to 26%," said our correspondent.

 

Mr Easton said many people were "pulling in their horns" in the midst of the recession.

 

 

 

The survey, which was conducted with a series of interviews with a random sample of adults in different parts of the UK, found the TV debates and social networking during last year's general election failed to make much difference to the public.

 

Only 26% of people who said they had little interest in politics watched the debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, compared with 74% of those who were keen on politics.

 

 

 

The survey found only 47% of the 18 to 34-year-olds interviewed voted last year, almost unchanged to the proportion who voted in 2005 or 2001 and far lower than the 73% turnout in 1997.

 

[ewerk 30677]

Only 26% of people who said they had little interest in politics watched the debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, compared with 74% of those who were keen on politics.

 

Eye opening stuff.

[JawD 99]

Siobhan spent £2,000 at Christmas — £500 on each of her two sons, £400 on herself

:lol:

 

Genius

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

Could be worse, could live in the states! Threaten to hit a policemen with a pipe, get shot 11 times

 

[Guest alex]

Outdoing 50Cent there. Deserved to be shot for the whigga garb anyway.

Like fuck would I be stood there filming that btw.

[trophyshy 7083]

The guy was obviously an idiot/on meth but ten shots in the chest is quite literally overkill. They could have put a couple in his legs. He was only swinging a blunt instrument. Judge Dread lives.

[toonotl 2988]

I'm pretty sure its against protocol to fire on someone unless you are shooting to kill. I think the idea is that a policemen should only discharge his weapon when he feels his life or the life of someone else is in immediate danger. Otherwise fuckwit coppers would be shooting people in the legs all over the place. Or just firing the thing into the air like it was a crowd control devise.

[DEADMAN 0]

na they use guns not like we do were its tazers

[Happy Face 29]

The bloke had already been tazered chaps, but wasn't going down.

 

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/police-shoot-and-kill-man-with-crowbar-outside-carls-jr-on-video/

 

Have to say it's best to live in a country where this sort of thing is frowned upon....as it is in the US.

 

There isn't a country you could go to where police don't shoot people up, the really fucked up places are those where it gets no response.