Why do we always run to copy the US?

[Pufflette]

Okay I have been accused of being something like a whinging old man on answer bank and that's probably right at times. Anyhoo, it got my blood boiling when I saw snippets of the Labour Conference yesterday for when Mrs. Brown comes on first to introduce her husband it was a replica of what Lady Laura Bush did a while back. Why are so saturated with American culture in the UK and bent on copying them? There are so many other nations on Earth, some of whom who do some things a lot better than us and some things not so well. Argh!!!!!

[Haggisdj]

Someone a lot older than I am, there are a few left, once said that television spoiled politics. During the radio era audiences could only hear the politicians speak and so actually listened to their speeches rather debated the colour of their suits, etc.

Just because an MP, sportsman, etc. doesn't have 'the gift of the gab' doesn't mean that they are any less effective at what they do.

[ludwig]

Pretty much whatever happens in America, if you wait long enough it eventually happens here.

[R1Geezer]

Death to the infidel eh Steve.5? You sure you're not a teensy weensy bit Muslim? You seemed to enjoy that a little too much. Allah be praised!

[ludwig]

...Rock'n'roll, Hip hop culture, McDonalds, gun crime, trick or treat and the commercialisation of halloween, pizza delivery, cocaine, compensation culture, psychobabble,
everything available twenty four seven, the phrase twenty four seven, big shopping malls, decent coffee, treating smokers like lepers, an unwritten law that the leader of the country cannot be bald.. it all comes here eventually.
Recently arrived .. A choice between two right wing parties at the election.
Coming soon..walkthrough metal detectors and security guards in schools.
Eagerly awaited..friendly service in shops and restaurants.