Being a working-class British subject, it's with interest I read your comments and different views from your respective countries.
The Royal Family may be lost to the new generation but growing up with a mother who adored her and a father who served her in service - I have continuing respect for them.
Her devotion to duty was something we could all look at and say, "do you do your bit for society?"
Britain is becoming full of work-shy fat bastards, who depend on hand-outs and would rather sit on their arses doing fuck all!
If our country had half the work ethic the Queen did, we wouldn't be the shithole everyone wants to live in...
All I'm saying on the matter... hopefully we'll return to singing each other's praises on what fantastic models we make.
Chuffy
As you are a British subject, you opinion weighs in a lot. Much respect. The Japanese used to say the same about Americans, when the leaders of our automobile manufacturers fell out of touch, and built horrible cars. Then the Japanese came to America, built factories, and found that American workers weren't the problem, it was the management. The Honda Accord and Civic as exported to Japan, as is the Gold Wing motorcycle, and many other vehicles from Japanese companies. Now BMW, Mercedes Benz, Kia, Hyndai, all the manufacturers build cars in America. The British have invented the "ARM Chip", the chip that powers every cell phone in the world.
Britain has the same problem as America, too many wealthy fat bastards that squeeze their wealth out of the sweat of the brow of the working man. A small single digit percentage that owns most of the profits of the land, and the land too. Billionaires and Millionaires that do not pay a penny in tax.
I do not buy the the British people are fat lazy slobs. Your "drinking the Kool-Aid", as we say in America. Your class structure is what keeps people in perpetual welfare, or poorer incomes. The middle class disappears, as fewer people gain more power and money, same crap that's happening in America. Only difference is once inn a while we get wise and vote the bastards out. The gap between the wealthy and poor still gets biger. These people can't make anything, they push pencils, and controls the books. They give themselves raises and power. The kill production. A wealthy man fears a strong middle class.
I know to many brilliant British people that would take the best jobs they could get. My faith is in the British people, not the monarchy and other elitist people who are allowed to own 400,000 acre estates. They should be taxed on them till they become public domain, and you guys can stretch your elbows. When I was in England I noticed that you could never really be alone, unless you went for a hike in the Moors, and it's impossible to live up there. The British people make England great, not old blood lineages. The queen fixed trucks during WWII. Great, it's awesome. In the modern era, things have changed for the U.K. big time. I think the U.K. will get through with flying colors. Quitting the E.U. was the smartest thing you guys could have done. You have a strong free trade with the U.S., and that will get even stronger, as out cultures and peoples share so much in common.
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