Is The Uk The Most Wonderful Country On Earth?

[ToraToraTora]

Just been watching UK border force and the sheer variance of ruses and tricks used by so many to come here are a real eye opener. So wonderful must it be that so many want to come and stay. Why do mankind seek to build utopia when it already exists right here?

[Marshwarble]

Utopia means no place.

[Spungle]

Ever heard the story of Dick Whittington....? They said the streets of London were paved with gold... !

[KARL]

there are some seriously misguided people in this world - some even think the USA is a sort of paradise.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps they could all swap with the resident Anti British that hate it here.

[Peter Pedant]

// Utopia means no place.//
er it doesnt actually - it means well place

the opposite is dystopia ( 1984 and all that )

no place would be ou-topia or possibly mee-topia

[Jackdaw33]

eu is an ancient Greek prefix signifying good.

[CrapAtCryptics]

More than likely the lax benefit system and, because of police policing, lots of chances for nefarious activities.

[Old_Geezer]

We're on the short list.
But we're doing our best to get off it.

[retrocop]

I use to think so but there are many who infiltrate our shores who are trying to change it to the same Arschloch der Welt that they left. :-(

[bainbrig]

I love Britain, so don’t include me (“the resident Anti British that hate it here)”.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Don't need to talk about Utopia. Simple metrics based on objective data will do: which countries are the most popular destinations for would-be migrants (either legal or illegal)?

You might then, if you are sufficently curious, want to analyse the common characteristics of the destinations of choice and the countries of origin olf the migrants. You might wonder especially, perhaps, why twenty-five per cent of the top twenty most popular destinations are anglophone.

[vetuste_ennemi]

More's Utopia is etymologically derived from ou(not) + topos (place) not eu(adverbally "good").

[THECORBYLOON]

PP
"Utopia or utopia noun (Utopias or utopias) any imaginary place, state or society of idealized perfection. 
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: Latin, meaning 'no-place', from Greek ou not + topos a place; the title of a book by Sir Thomas Moore (1477-1535), describing the narrator's search for the perfect form of government."

[sandyRoe]

A legacy of empire?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Utopia and dystopia as antonyms is based on their popular use, not the eu v dus (also an adverb) contrast. PP would be right if he were talking about eupepsia[i and [i]dyspepsia].

[vetuste_ennemi]

Good heavens, Corbyloon and I agree about something (except the spelling of the martyred Chancellor).

PS: who was it who corrected my spelling of Burke's forename?

[vetuste_ennemi]

(Cue the story of Odysseus and the Polyphemus).

[THECORBYLOON]

That was taken from Chambers on-line dictionary so the spelling mistake is theirs (unless it's to catch plagiarists)

[Theland]

A great country being eroded by alien cultures.

[vetuste_ennemi]

My hardback Chamber's (13th edition) spells his name correctly, Corby.