When did Britain become such a dismal, crap, depressing place to live and why has it become so?

Question

I used to be proud to be British but its all due to its great history and heritage and the great people in its past, now being British makes me feel despondent. I hate this country and feel like an alien to its values.
Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

Answer 1

Oh God, here comes the BNP.... no, I'm not accusing you of being one of them, johnno, but just to warn you: every idiot on the board here will immediately start whining about the influx of foreigners, etc, and your q will soon be full of the usual pointless, pathetic answers full of bile and spite for anything ''non-British''.

I'm British born and bred. Personally, I still think we - ie the UK as a whole - are 50 years behind the rest of Europe. I noticed as mucht when I lived on the Continent and in the States (a year in the Netherlands, 3 in the USA). We seem to be under the sad delusion that we are still running some sort of grand Empire and are superior to everyone else. Time we got over it.

Thumb me down all you like folks, but I bet you can't prove me wrong. (It would be nice if someone did though!)

Answer 2

There are a few things about Britain which I think is really out of order. The biggest problem is the broadening of the difference between the haves and the have nots.This is irrespective of the wages divide between men and women. This should not be the case in a country as wealthy as Britain. But this does boil down to the fact that wealth still lies in the South of England and we still have ruling families, corporate managers and overpaid industrialists. Furthermore the language of qualification, class or birthright deliberately keeps people from entering the social ladder to better themselves.This is truly surprising when one considers that Britain has had a civil war and that all efforts have been made to give the franchise to women and all over the age of 18 and not 21 in the last century.

Notice this has nothing whatsoever to do with immigration, in actual fact Britains heritage has been given a face lift by the number of foreign influences on her green and pleasant land. Language, education, origin of your own personal heritage has been enrichened.

So getting back to some new dismal facts, the lifelong mortgage now exists so that if you are lucky enough to get on the property ladder you'll be paying for it forever. Debt is a problem today because we see the JONES living it up we think we should all be living it up, hence we have debts when we spend more than we earn.

This is also the attraction for many caught in the poverty trap, who fail to understand that work is the operative means to having a standard of living. No work no pride. No pride no hope and no future. Instead the numbers of people almost living in ghettos or what we Brits call social housing and impoverished council estates is rising. It is a direct result of this that we have high crime figires, but we have lost our way here to. What can you do about it? Imprison people issue asbos or send the problem elsewhere.. because of there poverty or because of there crimes or the other range of social problems that come with it. Youth do we carry on labelling them before they have had a chance in life.?

When 100.000 people audition for a reality show this tells you something is seriously wrong in society, and they are just taking a gamble. Life is a lottery for some a desperate one. But those cathedrals of commercialism are ready and waiting with bait to trap those who have not.

I don't in reality think the British heritage ever held any true values because if this were so, our Colonial and Imperial past would be thought of in much kinder terms. Instead our ancestors were thought of as robbers of land wealth and resources, robbers of cultural heritage, and the enslavers of races. Some of the probems of the present are a direct result of the past. Down to history and a debt that has never been repaid.

Answer 3

Well you can always leave and go and live in another country!

The problems facing this country are not being helped by a succession of totally inept governments!

We have lost ship building,the steel industry, is non existent, our motor industry is finished, we have no heavy engineering, industry any more, and the governments sit back and let it all happen!
Will we become a nation of importers?
Soon we will manufacture nothing!

Call centres, are all over the third world, phone with a problem, and you are talking to some one in India, or Jo'burg!

We need some party to listen to the people of this country,
To put "family values", respect for other people, and to instill a sense of pride into this country!

Our politicians, are a nothing but a bunch of gangsters, out for their own good.

Can Cherie Blair, who is really so short of money(She's only a High Court Judge for goodness sake!), please refund the ridiculous amount of money she took from the Labour Party, to pay for her hairdresser, whist in the good old USofA, incidentally it was money wasted as her hair always looks a right mess!

And if any one tells you they are in politics for the good of the people, that's just plain crap!

It was "Great" and with the right leadership it could be Great again!

Answer 4

Life has always seem grim and grey under a Labour Government. Believe me, I've lived through quite a few of them. We are always broke, always fed up and always bossed around. However, it's even worse than ever now, particularly for the English, who seem to have become 4th class citizens in their own country. Under Blair the courts are a sick joke, the police have become an arm of New Labour and are a laughing stock, people are scared to go into hospital because of MRSA and shortage of nurses and doctors. I could go on. No wonder so many people are utterly fed up! I just hope that everyone will vote accordingly at the next election.

Answer 5

If you´re feeling fed up in your environment, it could be a spur to move on somewhere else and check out something new. Travel abroad, try to live and work there, enjoy some new experiences - if you´re unhappy in your country, you´ll have nothing to lose and there won´t be any homesickness. Added to that, you can still return to your past admiration of Britain´s history and heritage later, just from a different angle.

Answer 6

I utterly and completely agree with you ! My sentiments exactly!
Blair has ruined our country by being too welcoming to foreigners in order to supposedly boost our economy;and he has expected us to be oh so tolerant. The majority of people who have come to this country have abused our hospitality. This has resulted in us losing out on a hell of a lot. They do not conform to our way of life. This political correctness is a crock of sh*t! We have no rights in our own country, and we have lost our identity! Diversity does not work. Blair has bred hate mongers. And made the british hate mongers respond to the unfair way in which we have ended up being the second class citizens.
Everyone else but the british are allowed to preach and practise their religion without hinderance. We have lost our british identity it is so wrong! Many of us do not want to be categorised as racist, however, is it any wonder that we have grown resentful over the years?
Check out the following:
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
And the most British thing of all? - Suspicion of anything foreign.
Enoch Powell was right!!!!
The person who gave their imput a few answers previous, namely Wildamber is talking utter complete bolox!!!!!!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Many people in the US romanticize Britain, with all that punk music and dripping rain and those accents--swoon! The most low-down British accent still seems posh to people in the States. We've been Anglophiles since we were a colony (though we didn't love y'all enough to stay subjects...oh, well.)

Maybe you need to travel, go to, like, the slummy parts of Paris or something and realize you've got it pretty good. Or come over here to the US--we have some places that will make you run screaming back to Mama Britain.

Perspective. You need perspective.

Answer 9

Nationalism is dying out throughout the western world. Europe and America will be one country within a hundred years.

Answer 10

It started with the Empire, the Spice Girls arrival put the final nail in the coffin lid.