As visitor to South Africa over the past decade, I have seen our future.
Part of society is recognisably similar to ours, while the majority is not.
The overall group in power see life as almost worthless, theft as a right and literally would walk over the dead to grab more cash.
For the UK, I ask a question: How many newly arrived people prove they can drive?
I have notice increasing disregard for basic road rules from Eastern European as well as A.N.Other destinations, with increasing danger for all road users - pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles. Clearly these are rules as used in the driver's original country, which makes using them here dangerous. We all trust other road users to know what should happen (ahem, some cyclists do not agree....).
Yet, as a marker of decline, the offices that should care - don't.
It's also a slow drip issue or the pot being warmed slowly. In some parts, life is quite civilized, generally the places where the people who make the rules live.
I think London is already at the end of the '2nd world' stage and with one leg already in the 3rd world. What is worse is that the sinking standards you mention, and the sadly now reasonable fear of either being knifed or having one's collar felt 'because: hate!' is spreading everywhere, not least to a segment of the 'bio-Brits', i.e. white population. The youths of that demographic are behaving just like those 'from other nationalities' (not French, German or Italian), with the same lack of fear of consequences.
As for flatulence: according to my late husband, lighting a few matches made the stink go away - but nowadays, we don't have matches, do we ...
However, the worst farts are the silent killers produced by our dogs. Trust me - I know whereof I speak!
I think we have enough examples amongst our towns and cities of representatives from third world countries to safely say we are mostly already there. Not just the UK but the whole of western Europe. If you come from a place where life is cheap due to poverty, poor health, corrupt government, Bill Gates, then you really don't care a hoot about anyone or anything. Why would you value someone else's life when it interferes with your own existence? One of my son-in-laws is Greek and the other is a white Zimbabwean. Apparently, Zimmy is not so different from Greece in the way that the infrastructure is crumbling and mostly everyone is corrupt, whether they want to be or not. Greek farmers use Bangladeshi immigrants and treat them appallingly - if they die they are simply buried without comment. Zimmys plug into overhead electricity cables and, should you get electrocuted and die whilst doing it, they leave your dead body hanging from the wires indefinitely. The English/British don't recognise this sort of thing as something that could happen here, even though Chinese cockle pickers have been dying on beaches for years. We all know the solution don't we but it makes us racist xenophobes to mention it out loud. Apparently, at the rate we're going, white British will be a minority by 2060. I will be dead by then but it depresses me no end to think about it.
I accept that the country I grew up is gone. I'm not sure when it died, some time in the early 2000s perhaps in the era of peak Blair, but things were set in motion a long time ago.
Where I live, most do not speak English as their first language. I'm actually OK with that, as many immigrants are better than the leftist middle class who waved all the destruction through.
It is better to let go now and look toward the future which is now up for grabs.
After a few centuries we learnt to play by certain rules and called it culture, loosely based on respect and care for others and modicum of fear of authority. Then some politicians imported another culture, many of whom don’t respect our rules or values. The two cultures are like oil and water. Only question is which one will float to the top?
As visitor to South Africa over the past decade, I have seen our future.
Part of society is recognisably similar to ours, while the majority is not.
The overall group in power see life as almost worthless, theft as a right and literally would walk over the dead to grab more cash.
For the UK, I ask a question: How many newly arrived people prove they can drive?
I have notice increasing disregard for basic road rules from Eastern European as well as A.N.Other destinations, with increasing danger for all road users - pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles. Clearly these are rules as used in the driver's original country, which makes using them here dangerous. We all trust other road users to know what should happen (ahem, some cyclists do not agree....).
Yet, as a marker of decline, the offices that should care - don't.
Just keep sinking deeper into oblivion.
Frederick,
I need to check your thinking ! You are clearly one of those far right thugs comrade Starmer is always warning us about.
I sentence you to 5 years in my comrade Angela Rayner's corrective School of Islamophobia with no parole, that should sort you out !
The direction of travel is the issue. If you head from a first world country to a second world country, what happens if you don't stop.
The destruction is something anyone born in the UK before 1990 would find shocking. Atomisation of every single part of life.
And yet.
We know the UK is a pressure cooker, and life outside is not as oppressive.
So, we need to get rid of the libtard thugs. From office. From power. From control.
It's also a slow drip issue or the pot being warmed slowly. In some parts, life is quite civilized, generally the places where the people who make the rules live.
Very true. The area formerly known as the Cots-i-woldies, is now 'Kensington-on-Mud'. Quite marked. Two tier.
I think London is already at the end of the '2nd world' stage and with one leg already in the 3rd world. What is worse is that the sinking standards you mention, and the sadly now reasonable fear of either being knifed or having one's collar felt 'because: hate!' is spreading everywhere, not least to a segment of the 'bio-Brits', i.e. white population. The youths of that demographic are behaving just like those 'from other nationalities' (not French, German or Italian), with the same lack of fear of consequences.
As for flatulence: according to my late husband, lighting a few matches made the stink go away - but nowadays, we don't have matches, do we ...
However, the worst farts are the silent killers produced by our dogs. Trust me - I know whereof I speak!
Ah, the old blame it on Rex routine! 😄🤢
At school they were known as SBVs - Silent But Violent.
I think we have enough examples amongst our towns and cities of representatives from third world countries to safely say we are mostly already there. Not just the UK but the whole of western Europe. If you come from a place where life is cheap due to poverty, poor health, corrupt government, Bill Gates, then you really don't care a hoot about anyone or anything. Why would you value someone else's life when it interferes with your own existence? One of my son-in-laws is Greek and the other is a white Zimbabwean. Apparently, Zimmy is not so different from Greece in the way that the infrastructure is crumbling and mostly everyone is corrupt, whether they want to be or not. Greek farmers use Bangladeshi immigrants and treat them appallingly - if they die they are simply buried without comment. Zimmys plug into overhead electricity cables and, should you get electrocuted and die whilst doing it, they leave your dead body hanging from the wires indefinitely. The English/British don't recognise this sort of thing as something that could happen here, even though Chinese cockle pickers have been dying on beaches for years. We all know the solution don't we but it makes us racist xenophobes to mention it out loud. Apparently, at the rate we're going, white British will be a minority by 2060. I will be dead by then but it depresses me no end to think about it.
I accept that the country I grew up is gone. I'm not sure when it died, some time in the early 2000s perhaps in the era of peak Blair, but things were set in motion a long time ago.
Where I live, most do not speak English as their first language. I'm actually OK with that, as many immigrants are better than the leftist middle class who waved all the destruction through.
It is better to let go now and look toward the future which is now up for grabs.
When our common culture dies, that's it. Worse when successive governments help to kill it.
After a few centuries we learnt to play by certain rules and called it culture, loosely based on respect and care for others and modicum of fear of authority. Then some politicians imported another culture, many of whom don’t respect our rules or values. The two cultures are like oil and water. Only question is which one will float to the top?
I think this post fits in well with your argument to bring back shame. I wonder how much shame has been trumped by the needs of DEI.
From first to second? I'd say from first to second-point-five.
Second-world countries are safer, and have 88-95 average IQs.
Broken window... from little to big.
Was the offender decompressing or bereft of deodorant? Or perish the thought, both!