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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
here in uk i have never voted for the winning party. i voted for the green party.
other brits here who will know the outcome of our present coalition govt, i personallly think the two men cameron/conservative/ and clegg liberal--are like school boys out to play with their toys.
we have our hooligans who i would wish to avoid at all costs.
sometimes they give a really bad image of brits---so people dislike the brits but majority of people are law abiding but with our latest changes i believe there will be many protests against the massive cuts in our country.
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I'll pre-empt this by saying this isn't aimed at you in specific, but this current British mentality in general . . . at the risk of off-topic'ing into a political rant, that is.
Anyway this current criticism against our government really annoys me. Everyone I know denies voting for conservative/liberal, but the fact is that
someone voted for them else we would still have the old government. I think these people who protest against the cuts are
very short-sighted and a product of this 'now, now, now' mentality that Western society has, where we have to have what we want when we want it. If we don't make cuts then how will we get back the money that the
previous government lost us? If we don't have cuts how will we get out of bankrupcy and avoid situations like in Ireland or Greece? I just wish there was a protest against these protesters, that I would gladly join!
I do agree with you about the hooligan/chav aspect though, and the bad image of Brits due to that . . . then again I think they're just a product of society too, and so it's probably safe to make a generalisation about Brits based on their behaviour, because - frankly - when you walk out and about they
are the majority, whether we like it or not.