Are you in anyway upset that the UK is bottom of the league table for places to live?

Question

Recent polls have found the UK to not offer anything positive to our children and people alike - what is this saying to the rest of the world. We have been open about it and I find it all very embarrassing. Plus I have not seen Mr Blair speak out about these figures. We have a few programmes on TV discussing these issues but where is the action to a quick improvement coming from.

Answer 1

Not at all girl.

I love England. It is a fantastic country to live in and I am very grateful that I live here.

Answer 2

I am now 66 YO and was born in the UK but have spent the majority of the last 30-odd years elsewhere ( HK, Saudi etc)

I went back to UK for a couple of years recently. I shall be glad to leave. I come from Yorkshire, and places like York, the Wolds, the Moors, even the market towns remain untouched, but the fabric is breaking down. The immigration problem in parts of Yorkshire got out of hand very rapidly when the EU expanded, and was obvious everywhere, with running knife battles taking place nightly around the area where I lived..

Then you have the driving. My God, those radar traps. I went thro Huddersfield and over the Pennines. I swear that the stretch westward out of Hudders had them every hundred yards. Driving pleasure has gone.

And then the cost of living. The Yanks spend one dollar or less where we spend a pound. I shall be gald to go gack to the Philippines which is now my permanent home.

Answer 3

I don't actually live in the UK but I'm moving there this summer from Spain. Personally, I can't wait. This may sound strange but I'm a teenager and I go to school in a town where the only way to fit in and have a social life is by smoking pot, drinking and being a b***h. I don't like it at all, and I'm hoping to start fresh (not that I do those things, but I want to get away from that place). I think that information is very unfair, because it really does depend on lots of different factors. I think there are some things which the UK is good for and doesn't get credit for, though at the same time it has it's flaws (but doesn't everywhere?). I think the main problem (and you'll probably think I sound snobbish) is that the lower classes in Britain are very bad (as in teenage pregnancies, unemployed single parents, etc.) and perhaps not as bad as in other countries, but I also think that the middle classes in the UK produce some good people with values. I hope you don't get the wrong impression, because I don't look down my nose at people at all, and I know I'm generalizing(there are lots of middle class unemployed single parents, teenage mums, etc, and lots of "lower class" people who are very intelligent and have been let down by their backgrounds), but I'm sticking up for the UK in my own strange little way.

Answer 4

that's a judgement which you're making on your individual. Im no longer even going to subject evaluating it to different countries via fact i think of that the united kingdom has adequate reward via itself to have the skill to call it a sturdy place to stay. The NHS is one such occasion (look the the uproar the medical well-being coverage bill reason interior the states) it is not any longer the final equipment interior the international via any potential yet i'm specific in case you have been in touch in a motor vehicle crash you would be very grateful to be tended to for loose. All i will declare to you is do no longer provide up in this united states of america yet! (assuming you reside right here)

Answer 5

Well, a government that is largely responsible for destroying the country, isn't going to be the one to look to for an improvement. We have had for a long time a left wing government, left wing indoctrinating TV media, left wing educators, and a whole legion of others with a similar mindset. Don't look to the TV media for any help, because they are part of the problem.

Answer 6

Oh, shoot.... The US was just a step up from you guys . No one is even talking about it here .... we have so many other shortcomings, this one came as no surprise. We have all sorts of warts... the richest country on the planet and we cannot take care of our children. Any time there are cuts to be made , it will be in education or child welfare in the US. Almost every child in the US is on free or reduced lunch in our schools, so I guess our government thinks that is enough. Shame on my country... and I know you are feeling the same.

Answer 7

I am not surprised. To be honest I think the UK are the bottom of pretty much everything at the moment. No wonder so many Brits are wanting to leave this country.

Answer 8

The rot started under Thatcher and Labour has not done enough to fix the problems. I think it is a disgrace. However, I get more annoyed with my fellow voters who continually vote in these same wankers time and time again.

Answer 9

One report, which you don't seem to have read, because your interpretation is wrong, and which is some years out of date. Now Tony Blair has been PM for longer things are much better.

Answer 10

It all boils down to the tax structure and benefit payments system. The state decided in knew best in all thing's threw commonsense, and years of family stability out of the window. We now have a society based on me!!!! not on the greater good of all.Selfishness rule's balls to everyone else

Answer 11

No, I am not upset because I am not surprised and I only wish I had emigrated years ago. This is not a good country to be a child or a pensioner in.