A lot of very good points made in this
opinion piece.
How Britain Became the Dumbest Society in the World
Britain is Becoming the World’s Newest Failed State
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Opinion (utter nonsense and tripe) dismantled.
I don't know where you're getting your "insider knowledge" of Britain but, with all due respect, many of the ideals that you seem to be pointing at in British society are in fact many of the reasons that Britons are taxed into utter extortion and therefore what is making our people unhappy. The EU - what you amusingly call "the world's most successful political union" - is both falling apart at the seams, is filled with unelected bureaucracy with which no country would optionally plague themselves (we didn't even have a say on what we could manufacture our pillows out of, and we even had a years-long dispute with the EU over whether we were still allowed to sell pints of milk - amazingly, we won). The NHS is a faulty and grossly inefficient behemoth of a tax-guzzler, with many of its costs going towards administrative costs rather than actual medicine, and the budgets for which inexplicably increase year on year. The BBC, another tax-guzzler, is neutral among all this. Yet, with all this considered, the average Briton will pay approximately one third of their income to taxes whilst also suffering salaries of approximately half of our American cousins.
Now, I do not know how you can jump from vague commentary about British society and straight into the monarchy. I will ignore that illogical jump, but let's be realistic: Britain has overcome many, many more racial and other discriminatory milestones not only than America, but for most of the modern world. We are held to extraordinarily high standards of equality and, again, thanks to our overarching tax system and insane amounts of government surveillance, racism is quite literally criminal. There is no freedom of speech for us in the same way as it is in America. Yes, people have been imprisoned for racist tweets.
I really want to write more about this and address your every point, but I also just really want you to know that all of the four points you (very uniquely) portrayed as "amazing" are not amazing at all and, in fact, the remainder of your article is genuinely propagandist tripe. I'm sure that you will be able to assure people in an echo chamber that they are right, but that's all. You have a clear demographic and, hats off to you, 1,100 of them have already sucked this nonsense up.
"Amazingly", the government responded with "more austerity" in 2007. I am not sure if you are quite aware of this, but the financial crisis affected governments too. Governments also hold their own portfolio of investments, they issue treasury bonds to the general public and to investors to encourage investment into the government. The UK Government, like most governments in the world, have debts to pay too. The only issue is simply how public all of our services are, and how reliant these services are on the government. You omitted the fact that taxes increased for us all, VAT increased even more, and in fact we are still taxed 20% on most items except most common groceries, baby clothes, cakes, and a few other obscure things.
"Amazingly", the left wing supported Brexit. I suppose that has shaken your notions that the "ultra-right bigots" were the only ones who opposed the European Union, as if being able to save half an hour on travelling into France is actually worth the unexplained billions of British money that we contribute to unknown causes within the EU, and for which we have no say. It's almost as if the EU is a completely unelected, undemocratic body of people you nor I have ever heard of, making decisions that nobody cares about, in a room far, far away from the real world.
And, no, it is not "amazing" that the British believed "the Big Lies of the Right". What is amazing is that you can associate an entire region of error to a political alignment, which says more about you than it does about the British public.
And, finally, no, we are not "amazed" at your bizarre claim that the government is "cooking the books" because "trade has become too costly". It hasn't. In fact, I would rather pay taxes towards paying the EU's begrudging levies, set only because they lost the second-strongest economic power in the EU out of twenty-seven, while the disintegrating EU suffers growing discontent from nations such as Italy and even Germany. I guarantee that, in our lifetimes, we will see the collapse of the European Union. Perhaps it will be replaced with something better, but the EU is not this social democratic paradise that you seem to think it is. The EU is, I think, much smaller than you're making it out to be, since it only comprises France, Germany, and other states which simply drag the EU down and take more than they give from it. While we're at it, you seem to think that our stockpiles "will run out" since the EU is "not trading with us", which is a fable. I can still go to my local Sainsbury's and buy a bottle of French wine. When's the last time you went to a British shop? Were the shelves as empty as you seem to be suggesting?
I think you're really out of your depth with this article, and your empty, emotional commentaries on what is happening in my country are completely unfounded and fuelled by left-wing fodder, and I imagine will be consumed by the same people who taught you how to write juvenile articles like this. There is clearly no economic nor political understanding here about the UK, Europe, and the complex interrelations forged by the EU which have been brewing for around seventy years.
Stop reading about why people irrationally love the EU, stop reading about why people irrationally hate the EU, and start reading rational reasons behind both. That's your ticket to success here.
And let's be honest, Brexit itself was the ultimate act of pettiness and immaturity so the English need to just get a mirror...
