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Can The UK Recover?
Please define what a recovery would look like to you in your comments.
This poll is closed.
- No - 55 votes
- 68%
- Yes - 26 votes
- 32%
Stats until: 17:09 Tue 03rd Dec 2024 (Refreshed every 5 minutes)
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It's interesting that the majority of posters are saying there's nothing wrong with immigration/we couldn't survive without it.
And yet the vast majority (80% at the moment) say we can't recover in the anonymous poll.
Could it be that people are afraid to express their true feelings for fear of being attacked by the more vociferous minority?
And yet the vast majority (80% at the moment) say we can't recover in the anonymous poll.
Could it be that people are afraid to express their true feelings for fear of being attacked by the more vociferous minority?
-Talbot-
I explained what (I would like to see) the UK recover from in the thread that prompted this poll.
Ed linked it in the 9.34 post, but here it is again.
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I explained what (I would like to see) the UK recover from in the thread that prompted this poll.
Ed linked it in the 9.34 post, but here it is again.
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'To me, England is the country, and the country is England. And when I ask myself what I mean by England when I am abroad, England comes to me through my various senses — through the ear, through the eye and through certain imperishable scents … The sounds of England, the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy, the corncrake on a dewy morning, the sound of the scythe against the whetstone, and the sight of a plough team coming over the brow of a hill, the sight that has been seen in England since England was a land … the one eternal sight of England.'
Stanley Baldwin, 1923 [i
'Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school. '
[i] John Major 1992) ]
What were they on?
Stanley Baldwin, 1923 [i
'Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school. '
[i] John Major 1992) ]
What were they on?
My take on it, Bigbad, which may or may not coincide with Talbot's, is:
Some of us didn't ask for or want mass-immigration and believe the country is damaged beyond recovery. Hence a NO vote.
Others, presumably, asked for and wanted mass-immigration and think, with a bit of luck, the country can recover from it. Hence a YES vote.
Doesn't make much sense, does it.
Some of us didn't ask for or want mass-immigration and believe the country is damaged beyond recovery. Hence a NO vote.
Others, presumably, asked for and wanted mass-immigration and think, with a bit of luck, the country can recover from it. Hence a YES vote.
Doesn't make much sense, does it.
Later, even John major himself admitted he was laying it on a bit thick. He was trying to show how signing Mastricht wouldn't alter Britain - hmmmm!
Earlier than both of them was Rupert Brooke's The Soldier, less corny and better I think.
IF I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Earlier than both of them was Rupert Brooke's The Soldier, less corny and better I think.
IF I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
tamborine
/// We might recover from:
1. Heathrow expansion
2. HS2 driven thru settlements
3. Brown & greenbelt development ///
I think you have got that all wrong tamborine, we will never recover from a Heathrow expansion, unless you put it all back to how it was, you could also say the same over
HS2 driven through settlements, and greenbelt development, the only one we could recover from and that would also be an advantage "Brown site development".
