by Poshgill » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:31 pm
I know what you meant about Left wingers Rob and knew that we were precluded from your statement, but it is very easy to generalise and tar everyone with the same brush. In fact the 'the council house spongers who are not paying anything towards the country but drop sproggs faster that a bad juggler drops balls and they get all the health stuff for free but no we are LABOUR we have to love those little darlings.' rant is not true either. As Rimshot pointed out, these people generally do not vote and if they do vote, in my experience, they are of the EDL or BNP type. Its also not true that Labour voters support these people. The whole concept of socialism is you should only get out of society what you put in (From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs). We do need a benefit system in this country but most right-thinking people would argue for some sort of means-testing.
Yes, it is true Rob, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations did attract a lot of visitors to this country this year. There is no country on earth that can do pagentry like the British. I went to see the changoing of the guard in Cape Town once. It was not a patch on how we do ours though. However, it was a special year. We had more visitors for the Olympics than we did the Jubilee. Would the visitors still come if we didn't have royalty? Probably. Do we get visitors to this country just because we have roya;ty? Possibly not.