I left the UK 12 years ago and haven’t looked back. This rings so true…

Flushed with shame at Britain | Alice Miles – Times Online

In my experience whenever you point things like this out in the UK you get one of two responses…

– “Well, it would be worse in X country”

– “Well there is no other way of doing it”

The first response shows the slide towards the “you’re either with us or against us” nationalism of Fox News and the second shows a complete lack of fight or belief that they can or should push for change.

I have an old friend who often says”why don’t they just make it work?” about trains, the NHS and other problems. The toilets could be fixed if someone cared.

On a related point; I saw this yesterday…

“The unhappiest emigrants were in France, and the United States, with nearly 19 per cent and 14 per cent respectively disappointed with their new life.”

This is the unhappiest? I bet that more than 19% of people were unhappy with a move within the UK.