Gid Moaning!
Right:

I'm with No31. It's very simple to insist that Britain is 'Broken', or that it's going to the dogs, or to cry that it's populated by cider drinking hoodies who smack each other up with heroin while they stab each other in the guts.

However, I live in the Capital city. Even better, I live in the East End, where you'd expect trouble to be rife.

I find (and I have lived in the North, in the Countryside, and in other countries), that people will always be people. For the most part, they are accomodating, friendly and proud people. And, as with many things, it is the tiny minority of people (and the analogy can be applied elsewhere) who give the majority a bad name.

So that's what puts me in a bad mood. If people (the media, the people that swallow the headlines) keep crying out about how awful Britain is, then it might just turn that way. Perhaps if we all tried being a bit more positive, then we could attempt to have a positive impact on the bad stuff that does happen in our society. If we constantly paint all young people as being blood-crazy hooligans, it's not going to get us anywhere (I use this as just one example).

Britain is great. You British should be proud of it!

/ends rant.

We all well today?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 9:53, Reply)