Quite an unfair summation really but I guess you have your reasons.
The tabloids here are awful but I hardly think Bild is much better. I hate the anti European views of many of my fellow countrymen but to say the press is fixated on calling everyone a Nazi is grossly unfair. Euroscepticism is not necessarily a bad thing but I agree that there is too much of a Little Englander attitude here. Also, check record books about that match in 1966.
Suggesting 99% of people in the UK are too ignorant to know about M25 is quite a slight and the main reason why we are past our heyday is the crippling effect the Second World War had, which practically bankrupted the country. I think our heyday ended in 1945 although achievements such as the NHS do post-date this.
I agree on your points about banks and perhaps bad food, but the UK probably has the greatest diversity of cuisines from around the world due to its multiculturalism. The perception of anything outside the M25 not existing is a London attitude but sadly one which is quite prevailent in the pernicious press of which you have spoken.
I think the BBC is universally fantastic and produces the finest programming in the world. It's the one thing that makes me proud to be British.
Thanks for sharing your views - I have expanded my previous posts because I wrote them on my phone and couldn't edit them. I also wanted to put forth my arguments in a more eloquent way than how I initially wrote them.
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Re: The public perception of Britain...
Date: 2011-07-13 07:49 pm (UTC)The tabloids here are awful but I hardly think Bild is much better. I hate the anti European views of many of my fellow countrymen but to say the press is fixated on calling everyone a Nazi is grossly unfair. Euroscepticism is not necessarily a bad thing but I agree that there is too much of a Little Englander attitude here. Also, check record books about that match in 1966.
Suggesting 99% of people in the UK are too ignorant to know about M25 is quite a slight and the main reason why we are past our heyday is the crippling effect the Second World War had, which practically bankrupted the country. I think our heyday ended in 1945 although achievements such as the NHS do post-date this.
I agree on your points about banks and perhaps bad food, but the UK probably has the greatest diversity of cuisines from around the world due to its multiculturalism. The perception of anything outside the M25 not existing is a London attitude but sadly one which is quite prevailent in the pernicious press of which you have spoken.
I think the BBC is universally fantastic and produces the finest programming in the world. It's the one thing that makes me proud to be British.
Thanks for sharing your views - I have expanded my previous posts because I wrote them on my phone and couldn't edit them. I also wanted to put forth my arguments in a more eloquent way than how I initially wrote them.