Life in England
Bookworm on Apr 21 2008 at 11:35 am | Filed under: Britain, England, Welfare
England is becoming an increasingly alien place in terms of modern values. Two articles from today’s Daily Mail (a useful repository for stories the other papers are embarrassed to print):
1. A man was charged as a criminal for over filling his garbage can.
2. Families that refuse even to look for work, finding welfare preferable. Incidentally, I believe this story absolutely. When I lived in England in the early 1980s, I had a friend who spent a miserable summer cleaning up after the elephants at the local zoo. His sister spent the entire summer watching soaps on the “telly” and collecting her welfare check. At the end of the summer, she had almost twice as much money as he did. He was no fool, and vowed never to work again unless he could get a high paying job with his eventual engineering degree.
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As I said once: having lived there in the 1970s, at this point I wouldn’t visit England if it was across the street.
Hello Bookworm,
It’s so sad that a country that produced such giants as Winston Churchill could dissolve into a mess of putty. A sizable portion of their populace actually believe that Winston Churchill is more like Christopher Robin than the towering figure of World War II. When polled, they think he was a myth; never happened…
You can always get 20% of a population to think anything.