Should urban Britain have also been shown?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/3yub4j2

These new passports will be issued in October, they will represent an idealised picture of pastoral Britain, complete with the images of sundials, narrow boats and windmills.to represent rural scenes from across the UK, images of urban Britain are nowhere to be seen.

[Xaviour]

how many people in britain have seen a sundial a narro w boat or a windmill? rural scenes from history perhaps but when did you last see a windmill in britain? i think i saw one when i went to blackpool as a boy and that was 20 years ago

[ummmm]

Where do you live AOG?

[jake-the-peg]

We could have had the Gherkin, or the London Eye, perhaps the Angel of the North.

Does sound as if Britain is being represented by Cotswold villages, red telephone boxes and other assorted stereotypes again

[daftgrandad]

Hi doc,how are you mate.
That looks a really nice place to visit.
PS Glad all the other bo!!ox,seems to have finished.What a waste of time.
Take care XXXXX

[Xaviour]

here we will put cat among pigeons.
whats truly british?
brass bands. did you know that 20 years ago there were over 20 thousand of them and now theres only 500. so when people talk about british traditions arent they just waffling nostalgia? ask them to keep a brass band going or join in and they will say no chance but they waffle on about great british traditions what a lot of rubbish typical british bull and i dont mean john bull

[Xaviour]

man in a pith helmet standing beside an elephant with a black foreign johnny polishing his boots? or man in flat cap with a whipet and a foot long black pudding in 1 hand and a yard of ale in tuther . those are the images i imagine aog has in his head

[Bobbisox]

bit racist toward the northerners there Xaviour
assuming AOG is a Northerner?

[Xaviour]

who mentioned northerners i certainky didnt please dont assume. do northerners have elephants and a foreign johnny to polish there boots?

[anotheoldgit]

Once again a perfectly innocent question, with no comment from me except to call or not for a level playing field.

Yet once again, the snide remarks remain, from the carrion crows of AnswerBank.

[ummmm]

This is at the end of my street...

http://www.google.com...QwBA&biw=1280&bih=675

I live in the town...

[Xaviour]

no crow i made a valid point about a great british tradition thats almost died out. noone seems bothere d either here or in the general population its a sad enditement of britain or more england today

[anotheoldgit]

Xaviour

No but they do have, the other examples, you set out below.

/// man in flat cap with a whipet and a foot long black pudding in 1 hand and a yard of ale in tuther ///

[anotheoldgit]

/// how many people in britain have seen a sundial a narro w boat or a windmill? ///

You must ask your Mum or Dad to take you out more Xaviour, or if they are busy, ask your Nan & Granddad.

[Xaviour]

so you see men in flat caps with whippets as being an insult and snide? how dare you take such a pompous stance its people like you that look down on the working man who built britain and took solice in his ale and whipet when he wasnt grafting for the country. you do appear to be a total snob

[Xaviour]

aog name 3 places in your town where anyone could go today and see a narroew boat or a sundial. feel free to invent the locations if your struggleing

[Bobbisox]

your reference to flat caps and whippetts sort of gave it away Xaviour , don't see many of them in the HC