Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Britain's decay now obvious

... But my goodness the decay is obvious even to those who still live here, which is why for the first time in recorded history more people are leaving the country than coming to it. [snip]

The reasons have little to do with economics. Working families are wealthier, more financially secure and have better material prospects than ever before. ... Yet polls reveal they are less happy and content than were their parents or grandparents... [snip]

... crime has made not only the major cities, but also many of the small towns and backwaters ... It is estimated by moderate experts that 60% of teenagers carry knives and the number of stabbings, often fatal, reflect those figures. And then there's the [police!] no-go areas... [snip]

Taxes are high, soccer is a narcotic, violence is fun, drinking is liberating, national identity is vulgar strutting, religion is for the Yanks, reading books is for losers and reality television and cell phone monologues matter more than mom and dad and self-respect - to say nothing of basic manners... [snip]

One of the consequences of this is that the Muslim population has increasingly rejected British culture, isolating themselves from English secular decay [leading to the police no-go areas] [snip]

It's a lovely place to visit but, unless you are extraordinarily wealthy, a difficult place in which to live. How I wish this wasn't so.
Where did Britain go?

[policy has consequences. bad policies, {such as a welfare state providing wide swaths of the populace idle time and no focus, the promotion of 'multiculturalism' over national societal standards, and recognizing any portion of Sharia law as a parallel to the Rule of Law (sad irony, that last)}, have bad consequences.
We will go this way if the many forces seeking it here aren't thwarted by citizen action.]


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