Blind Budget Day
Wolfie — March 12, 2008, 6:58 pm
From the BBC Have your say section :
Whatever happens, it won’t benefit me.
I drive a car to get to work every day to do a job I hate, so I can pay tax so other people don’t have to..
I’d leave if I had my own country to go back to.
Working Class tax payer, Bracknell
Filed under: politics
There’s something desperately wrong with a country which forces it’s citizens to become expats.
Good find Wolfie. I shall nick it.
Why doesn’t he just stop working?
Speaking as someone who is currently honing his plans to become an ex-patriot, with absolutely zero intention of returning to the UK, however things work out, I can understand where matey is coming from 100%
But what concerns me most about people expressing these kind of views is that so many of them have been fooled into blaming other equally impotent groups of people for their woes.
The entirely predictable, and inevitable, economic poo storm so many of us have been expecting seems to be almost upon us. The new game in town will be to ensure that someone else other than the perps will shoulder the blame
Indeed. There is clearly a burning need for society to have some scapegoats so we should have a poll each year to decide which group we can blame for everything. I suggest cat owners, I hate cat owners.
Stef,
This is not the first time in commentary to something I’ve posted that you have intimated that some sort of immigrant slaughter is imminent, which in the light of what seems to be some mild-mannered grumbling seems quite excessive. You surprise me, that you would be so quick to repeat political propaganda. The people of this Island have a long history of restraint and I just don’t really see that happening, at least no further than the odd isolated incident.
I was recently wandering around St. Paul’s and noted the words at the foot of Nelson’s tomb :
“May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory: and may no misconduct, in any one, tarnish it: and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet.
For myself individually, I commit my life to Him who made me and may His blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my country faithfully.
To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend.
Amen. Amen. Amen.”
I think you may have the wrong country in mind Stef.
Wolfie I suspect that the main problem is that the writer lives in Bracknell. Berkshire is a deeply beautiful and rural county: except that it has the M4, M3 and towns like Reading, Maidenhead and Bracknell splattered through it. Living in Bracknell with its profusion of dual carriageways and roundabouts would be enough to cheese me off. Just trying to get around Berkshire is a nightmare: I live (for part of the week) 6 and a half miles from work and it can take me over an hour to get home.