What's So Bad About Saying We Are The Best ?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55175162

( if there's already been a thread on this, I haven't seen it)

We are the best, we've always been the best and we will continue to be the best

Rule Britannia

[ToraToraTora]

"Britain is so great that two of her Nations (maybe three) want independence. " - err no that's the last thing they want.

[jim360]

Just as a matter of pedantry, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (as well as http and html). The Internet already existed, eg an early version was the ARPANET from the US. None of which devalues his achievement, but we may as well get the achievement itself correct.

I'm still not sure how people are measuring "best", though. There are certainly several metrics by which we aren't the "best" -- for example, Scandinavian countries usually come top in measures such as HDI, GDP/head, equality, Citzens' contentment etc -- although in most that I'm aware of the UK does pretty well compared to most countries.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah foo!
say it and it is true

( impt lesson from the Trump era)

[jim360]

As to the BA, reforming legal aid to essentially deny some people it requires making a judgement as to the merits, or otherwise, of their legal case. It stands to reason that the best place to make that judgement is in a court. However unpleasant it may be, it's better to ensure that legal aid is available to everyone rather than make restrictions on who gets it. People shouldn't be hampered by lack of money from offering the best legal defence, and people should be entitled to have that defence.

Likewise the welfare system. It's better by far that we've moved beyond the view of "undeserving poor", and focused on need rather than casting moral judgement. Of course we need to ensure that, as far as possible, nobody is defrauding the system (or that those who do are caught and punished), but I'm prouder to live in a country that is too generous than I would be to live in one that isn't generous enough.

[gulliver1]

I will never forget waiting in A/E in a Foreign Country about 15 people sat there mainly locals . In walks this Brit with her husband , sits down
then after a couple of mins was called to the reception desk. She says to her husband ,they are going to see to us first because we are British. How we all smirked when she was only being registered and had to wait in line. ha ha.

[Bobbisox1]

So are you saying you aren't British then Gulliver?

Tick-tock- tick- tock

[Sunk]

We can say it, but don’t be surprised if every other country disagrees.
The basis of Gavin Williams comment was that we are the ‘first’ to approve a vaccine.
Except both China and Russia have approved and are using a covid vaccine. Does that make them the best?

[Bobbisox1]

Sunk, I'd trust neither of them

[Sunk]

bobbisox1

You don’t have to trust them.
The Oxford vaccine is 25% less effective than the other two. I know which I would prefer.

[emmie]

the Pfizer vaccine is the one being rolled out, some will trust it some not. personally i hope that everyone gets vaccinated and that we can put this wretched virus where it belongs, it may linger around but will be manageable.

[10ClarionSt]

Bobbisox @ 16.44:
/I don't thing we whinge Sqad and you know I've never lived anywhere else, how are we whingers?/

As well as the above, people in this country are just a load of gullible, lilly-livered yellow bellies who believe everything they are told. Other than that, all's well!

[MartinMillar]

How are we the best?
Sorry if this has been asked and explained in the previous 131 answers I haven’t read?

[royfromaus]

gulliver1
I will never forget waiting in A/E in a Foreign Country about 15 people sat there mainly locals . In walks this Brit with her husband , sits down
then after a couple of mins was called to the reception desk. She says to her husband ,they are going to see to us first because we are British. How we all smirked when she was only being registered and had to wait in line. ha ha.


https://cdn.boldomatic.com/content/post/NM1pdA/In-the-history-of-things-that-never-happened-nothi?size=800

[Spicerack]

We're better than Belgium for a start.

[ummmm]

I just want to know what Bobbi's obsession is with where Gulliver lives.

Who cares? It's getting boring and what the heck does tick tock mean?

[Theland]

I'm not telling you where I live!
By a river. That's it! That's all.
OK OK, its ...........

[Barmaid]

Great that a whole load of answers saying we are the best also moan.

Having pride in your country and declaring it as the best are two quite different things. Yes for a little island we are pretty good at some things. But I also believe there is room for improvement in many areas. You get to be the best by constantly learning and evolving. But over the last 15 years or so I am not sure that we have done that.

You can still have pride in your country AND acknowledge where it has not succeeded. That doesn't make you anti British. It acknowledges the reality.

[gulliver1]

Ummm 00,28, She probably wants to sit outside my Villa in disguise, so that she can stalk me.

[Bobbisox1]

Haha don't flatter yourself Gulliver :0)

[gulliver1]

Not sure what "Tick-tock-tick-tock" actually means,
Ummmm. maybe how many seconds before the next,
G/G . Who knows?.