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Aug 11, 2014 05:37:38   #
Leicaflex Loc: Cymru
 
Subject: The United Kingdom




It's sad but true, it is difficult not to agree with the 72-year-old man who wrote this letter,


To David Cameron (Prime Minister) & Ed Milliband (Leader of the Opposition) ......

You BOTH Worry me! (In fact, both of your Political parties worry the hell out of me!!!)

Over the last three years, I find myself becoming more and more fearful of the pair of you, and between you,
you are turning this country into a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel a part of!

I watch you in parliament, and no, not just the two of you, but also every politician that I see, stand up in parliament sneering at each other,
and acting like children!!! (..and if you were my children, I would be ashamed of you all ... What an example to set!)

Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the needs of this country at the forefront,
NEITHER of you are doing that, you seem more interested in "one-up-man ship ", in scoring off each other,
& denigrating each other, to the detriment of this country & its people !!! It seems to be all about YOU as individuals,
and not about what you can DO for this country!

It is fast becoming a place that I do not recognize, as the place I always thought, was the best place in the world to be!!! But no longer!!!
You are not listening to the people of this country!!!

I am watching the deterioration of living standards in this country, (and according to you, on a world stage we are doing better than most countries ... REALLY ???) .....
And yet the gap is widening between the "haves" and the "have-nots". I see our homeless on the streets, our hospitals under-funded and understaffed,
our health system is an absolute mess and a disgrace ... And yet I see multimillion of pounds being sent offshore, in aid to other countries, before attending to this country's needs!

I see the "selling off of water rights to foreign interests, WHY...?

Especially when you go to great lengths to tell us that water is a finite resource, & supposedly,
we must ALL be careful with how we use it, so that we ensure we have it for the future?

A Carbon Tax, (which you KNOW is just another tax) which will make NO appreciable difference,
to carbon emissions, AT ALL! A tax, which in spite of all your arguments FOR it, you are doing alone,
when other major countries will NOT & DO NOT embrace it, or believe in it !

All that it will do for this country is put working families and small businesses behind the eight ball .....what planet are you on,
if you think that the tax we must pay will make even a scrap of difference to the effect of the carbon tax on people?

Anyone can see the holes in that argument!!! Do you really think we are that dumb???

Let's talk about Multiculturalism .....

People have come here from other countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive (I am 72 years old!)

Pre & Post war immigrants came for a better life, and settled in and became wonderful contributors to this country, ....
all have contributed to the rich diversity of this country, and some descendants have even fought FOR this country,
and they have become U.K.citizens and were glad to be ...and they had NO handouts from our Government either, ....
they worked hard for everything! I have never before had a problem with all, or any, race of immigrants coming here However, I DO NOW!!!

Please tell me why we have areas in towns and on large estates all over the country,
where police do NOT, & will NOT go, for fear of their life?

Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools for fear of "OFFENDING" someone?

(The latest little gem is that they are not having or being funded, for chaplains any more, but Councillors! )

Please tell me why religious Christmas observances are no longer allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone?

Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in some stores might OFFEND someone?

Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in some swimming centres for fear of "OFFENDING" someone?

Please tell me why we have some RADICAL clerics demanding Sharia Law in this country when if we were in THEIR country, this would NEVER be allowed?

Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND someone?

Please tell me why we are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?

Please tell me WHY Britons cannot legally wear a bike helmet covering their head in a bank and yet it is OK to wear a Burqa which covers the whole of the face?

And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here can wreck our detention centres and STILL be accepted here?

What does that say about just who and what are this government's priorities?

The British people that I speak to have genuine concerns about becoming a second-class minority in our own country,
and the reasons for it are some of the above. Are you so blind that you cannot see this? And no, I am NOT racist!!!

If I did not like Catholics or Protestants would I be considered racist? Of course not!

Why is it that if we object to what is happening in our country we are immediately labelled RACIST, in an attempt to shut us up?
We are fighting Radical Muslims in Afghanistan & Iraq , are we not?

I hear you say, yes but the Muslims we have here are "Not like that". Well how would we know?
Do we hear ANY of them coming out & speaking AGAINST radicals? I haven't, have you?
Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in Britain !

Are not the experiences of France and the Netherlands examples of that?
Why do you think it would be any different here?
We even have a British born "radical," whose message is that Britain WILL become a Muslim country,
under Sharia Law, & that we had "better get used to it ".

Will both of you grow some "balls", and start sticking up for this country and its people?

We are the people who put you where you are and PAY you to look after our interests!
And you are NOT doing that by any stretch of the imagination!!!

I would appreciate an answer from both of you, if only to convince me that once again I am not talking to a brick wall!
In case it has escaped both of you I would like to remind you that,
in the UK Government is FOR THE PEOPLE .... OF THE PEOPLE ... & BY THE PEOPLE ....

Never forget that - because you sure have up till now!

Let us get this out to all - please keep forwarding and if you have people in the press or if you know Politicians
let them know we are dis-satisfied with their behaviour!
Signed.
The gentleman never received a reply from either of them - are we surprised

PLEASE SEND THIS GREAT LETTER TO AS MANY PEOPLE IN THE UK AS YOU CAN -


AND IF YOU HAVE CONTACTS OVERSEAS DO THE SAME.

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Aug 11, 2014 05:50:06   #
riada22 Loc: Edinburgh - Scotland
 
Very good, I shall pass it on.

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Aug 11, 2014 06:16:16   #
davemar Loc: SW France
 
I now live in France,the easy way out if you like,at a party last night there were Swiss,Dutch, a New zealander and some French.
All were of the same opinion Britain is being sold off and no one gives a monkeys toss.
20 years ago i was working in Tower Hamlets London,entered a house of an old pensioner lady,great old girl ,we got talking and she said,mark my words in 20 years time TB will be rife in Britain,how right she was,
Then they wonder why the NHS is going down the Pan!

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Aug 11, 2014 06:46:55   #
alf85 Loc: Northumberland, UK.
 
Thank you, I have put it on Facebook.

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Aug 11, 2014 07:55:07   #
John Dubya
 
The same message can be applied and distributed among all those Americans who granted Obama the power to destroy their country... along with its reputation. Perhaps it applies even more so.

I'll certain pass it along. But you know, the British spirit died a long time ago - circa 1918-45 I'd guess - but with the US, their own self-destruction remains a carefully crafted job in hand.

Back to the UK however:

Front page, Business Section, Sunday Times 10.08.2014:

'Queen's Estate Trumps Foreign Bids In Mayfair'

It seems that a British buyer, for once, manages to hold on to a piece of what we once thought to be our London. Much of it today however, far too much of it to be safe, now belongs to Far Eastern Tycoons, Russian Oligarchs and the Qatari Royals. So says the Times.

On the industrial front, the Germans have, during the past decade or so, bought up much of the lucrative UK water and energy supplies. The Chinese recently went one better by effectively buying up the rights to build much needed nuclear-fuelled power plants. The Japanese along with the Germans have been allowed to slowly destroy car manufacturing in the UK in order that they might better profit from beginning production of their own vehicles here themselves. Of course the people that allowed the steamroller to pass describe these products to be 'British' products. But if anyone out there feels that this reflects reality, then they'd best ask the German and Japanese owners of these factories what their opinions are.

But why do they all buy into the country if not invited to do so you might ask?

Well, first things first. The ordinary sort of British chap was never, ever, given the opportunity to voice an opinion about allowing the dismantling of British owned factories let alone objecting to it. In addition, when the British tried doing some of these things themselves in foreign lands they were eventually met with total hatred from many a genuine People's Government. Take the Suez Canal for instance; after being built by foreigners it was taken over by local nationalists. We, along with the French, were dispossessed courtesy of the American government.

Which leads directly to the absolute main reason why we've been consumed by strangers. It's precisely because their position and right to hold on to that which they've gained when buying into the country, will be supported by the British Establishment even if it meant the locking up every English man, woman and child who objected to it. Even the vile flags of ISIS now fly over London. The police were too cowed to remove one of them, so a lone but very brave took it upon herself to do the job for them.

That's the way shameless, misguided left-wingers prefer to do things. What future horrors they've sown, your grandchildren will surely be obliged to reap.

It's how the Obamas and Cameron of this world manage to sleep at night though that defies all comprehension.

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Aug 12, 2014 14:45:35   #
Colin Holmes Loc: Luton England
 
1st class letter, unfortunately our dearly beloved leader will never get to see it, will be lost by office staff along with all other letters opposing his views.
Needs to be picked up by the news media and highlighted on the main pages of newspapers and TV.

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Aug 12, 2014 21:51:33   #
yorkslass Loc: Virginia
 
It breaks my heart to see what is happening to my homeland. I was born and raised in Yorkshire but now live in the United States. Until Obama was "elected" over here I didn't understand how the British people could be so ignorant of what was taking place around them. I have a sister in Glostershire and a friend in Dewsbury, W Yorkshire who both told me that muslims were not a problem when I asked if they were concerned. I couldn't believe they could be so uninformed. Now I see that so many of the Americans are very much like the Brits in that they cannot see or accept that we are looking at major problems with this invasion of muslims. We also of course have an invasion of Latinos which is bringing it's own set of problems but, for now, they are not here to eventually kill us all. I have forwarded this letter on too.

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Aug 12, 2014 22:22:09   #
Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world
 
Sorry, I could care less about the UK.
Just bow and say your majesty and count me out.
With respect to you though.





Leicaflex wrote:
Subject: The United Kingdom




It's sad but true, it is difficult not to agree with the 72-year-old man who wrote this letter,


To David Cameron (Prime Minister) & Ed Milliband (Leader of the Opposition) ......

You BOTH Worry me! (In fact, both of your Political parties worry the hell out of me!!!)

Over the last three years, I find myself becoming more and more fearful of the pair of you, and between you,
you are turning this country into a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel a part of!

I watch you in parliament, and no, not just the two of you, but also every politician that I see, stand up in parliament sneering at each other,
and acting like children!!! (..and if you were my children, I would be ashamed of you all ... What an example to set!)

Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the needs of this country at the forefront,
NEITHER of you are doing that, you seem more interested in "one-up-man ship ", in scoring off each other,
& denigrating each other, to the detriment of this country & its people !!! It seems to be all about YOU as individuals,
and not about what you can DO for this country!

It is fast becoming a place that I do not recognize, as the place I always thought, was the best place in the world to be!!! But no longer!!!
You are not listening to the people of this country!!!

I am watching the deterioration of living standards in this country, (and according to you, on a world stage we are doing better than most countries ... REALLY ???) .....
And yet the gap is widening between the "haves" and the "have-nots". I see our homeless on the streets, our hospitals under-funded and understaffed,
our health system is an absolute mess and a disgrace ... And yet I see multimillion of pounds being sent offshore, in aid to other countries, before attending to this country's needs!

I see the "selling off of water rights to foreign interests, WHY...?

Especially when you go to great lengths to tell us that water is a finite resource, & supposedly,
we must ALL be careful with how we use it, so that we ensure we have it for the future?

A Carbon Tax, (which you KNOW is just another tax) which will make NO appreciable difference,
to carbon emissions, AT ALL! A tax, which in spite of all your arguments FOR it, you are doing alone,
when other major countries will NOT & DO NOT embrace it, or believe in it !

All that it will do for this country is put working families and small businesses behind the eight ball .....what planet are you on,
if you think that the tax we must pay will make even a scrap of difference to the effect of the carbon tax on people?

Anyone can see the holes in that argument!!! Do you really think we are that dumb???

Let's talk about Multiculturalism .....

People have come here from other countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive (I am 72 years old!)

Pre & Post war immigrants came for a better life, and settled in and became wonderful contributors to this country, ....
all have contributed to the rich diversity of this country, and some descendants have even fought FOR this country,
and they have become U.K.citizens and were glad to be ...and they had NO handouts from our Government either, ....
they worked hard for everything! I have never before had a problem with all, or any, race of immigrants coming here However, I DO NOW!!!

Please tell me why we have areas in towns and on large estates all over the country,
where police do NOT, & will NOT go, for fear of their life?

Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools for fear of "OFFENDING" someone?

(The latest little gem is that they are not having or being funded, for chaplains any more, but Councillors! )

Please tell me why religious Christmas observances are no longer allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone?

Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in some stores might OFFEND someone?

Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in some swimming centres for fear of "OFFENDING" someone?

Please tell me why we have some RADICAL clerics demanding Sharia Law in this country when if we were in THEIR country, this would NEVER be allowed?

Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND someone?

Please tell me why we are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?

Please tell me WHY Britons cannot legally wear a bike helmet covering their head in a bank and yet it is OK to wear a Burqa which covers the whole of the face?

And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here can wreck our detention centres and STILL be accepted here?

What does that say about just who and what are this government's priorities?

The British people that I speak to have genuine concerns about becoming a second-class minority in our own country,
and the reasons for it are some of the above. Are you so blind that you cannot see this? And no, I am NOT racist!!!

If I did not like Catholics or Protestants would I be considered racist? Of course not!

Why is it that if we object to what is happening in our country we are immediately labelled RACIST, in an attempt to shut us up?
We are fighting Radical Muslims in Afghanistan & Iraq , are we not?

I hear you say, yes but the Muslims we have here are "Not like that". Well how would we know?
Do we hear ANY of them coming out & speaking AGAINST radicals? I haven't, have you?
Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in Britain !

Are not the experiences of France and the Netherlands examples of that?
Why do you think it would be any different here?
We even have a British born "radical," whose message is that Britain WILL become a Muslim country,
under Sharia Law, & that we had "better get used to it ".

Will both of you grow some "balls", and start sticking up for this country and its people?

We are the people who put you where you are and PAY you to look after our interests!
And you are NOT doing that by any stretch of the imagination!!!

I would appreciate an answer from both of you, if only to convince me that once again I am not talking to a brick wall!
In case it has escaped both of you I would like to remind you that,
in the UK Government is FOR THE PEOPLE .... OF THE PEOPLE ... & BY THE PEOPLE ....

Never forget that - because you sure have up till now!

Let us get this out to all - please keep forwarding and if you have people in the press or if you know Politicians
let them know we are dis-satisfied with their behaviour!
Signed.
The gentleman never received a reply from either of them - are we surprised

PLEASE SEND THIS GREAT LETTER TO AS MANY PEOPLE IN THE UK AS YOU CAN -


AND IF YOU HAVE CONTACTS OVERSEAS DO THE SAME.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:11:01   #
yorkslass Loc: Virginia
 
Tens of thousands of people march in support of #Gaza in central London http://bbc.in/1lKdWGU pic.twitter.com/6b4bkNCRZL via @BBCNews





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Aug 13, 2014 02:55:09   #
Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world
 
yorkslass wrote:
Tens of thousands of people march in support of #Gaza in central London http://bbc.in/1lKdWGU pic.twitter.com/6b4bkNCRZL via @BBCNews


They should all go to Gaza and strangle anyone connected to Hamas and hang anyone that fires rockets at Israel and skin the bastards alive that put children in harms way.

Now would that not be a very sensible thing to do, instead of mindless 'protesting'. :mrgreen:

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Aug 13, 2014 04:09:03   #
John Dubya
 
Yorkslass, I'm not certain if posting pictures used by the BBC in their ongoing war against Israel demonstrates your support for Hamas or not. However, I do know for certain that if you think this kind of demonstration is proof that the majority of the UK population supports Hamas you are completely wrong.

The BBC follows its own political pathway. It's not suppose to have one of course, but anyone who believes that does not regularly watch the BBC. Even their own recently retired Director General shamelessly admitted that they do. If he doesn't know the full truth, then who do you think does?

Almost every time the BBC report on the troubles in Gaza and every time their robotic reporters read from the screens in front of them, they tell the world of nothing but the terrible bombings runs being carried out by big bad Israel upon a weak neighbour.

To someone who infrequently watches the BBC News, it sounds just like it's the wicked Israelis who attack first without hardly a hint of provocation. Sometimes, but certainly not always, toward the end of each report the newsreaders will quickly mention the Hamas rockets that have been regularly fired into into Israel. By that time though, those who might be watching, can hardly be blamed for believing that this is a perfectly understandable reaction from militants after they've been bombed out of house and home.

Those photographs are very emotive for sure, At first sight they do seem to show a great swell of honest opinion. However, my guess is, that if you went in among the demonstrators and asked how often it is they take to the streets, you'd find that most of them demonstrate very often. They enjoy a day out with their mates. All costs very little, with a fair chance you might be seen on television and you get to walk in places not usually available for casual strolling and, of course, mouth off loudly about all those things you can't be bothered to write about.

Tens of thousands from a country containing 65 million souls, count for very little in any event. More people regularly attend football matches. If the BBC had decided to use a photograph of the tail end of the crowd and then run the headline, " Pro Hamas Demo Fails", it would have likewise influenced the minds of all those who'd prefer to believe it had failed. Sadly the truth can be very illusive.

Near to the end of my earlier comment, I missed the word 'nun' from my report concerning the brave person who'd done the job of the police. Sorry for that.

Jackinthebox:

I have two homes in the States and so I do care about what happens over in your neck of the woods. What I want to remind you of is that the Frankfurt School of thought grew to maturity in New York. From there it spread like a cancer throughout the States before then re-infesting most of Europe. On the face of it, Marxism sounds all very wonderful but the world is not quite ready yet for such outright, self-defeating stupidity. China has learned a lesson or two. It is now run by older, wiser more focussed people. They know the value of waiting and watching and waiting... and waiting.

In one way or another they do already own the States... you do know that I suppose? The US will have to go to war to stop the inevitable. Can you already feel the talons closing? Look at the labels stitched to 70% of the clothing being sold in Walmarts and then you might.

Free world trade my arse. Everything comes at a price including freedom. Which came to us only after great human sacrifice but was lost in the time it took to eat a bag of peanuts... or vote for one.

Sending this more to remind than inform. All respect to you too my friends.

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Aug 13, 2014 04:53:48   #
Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world
 
John Dubya wrote:

Jackinthebox:

I have two homes in the States and so I do care about what happens over in your neck of the woods..

==================
So you care .......And...Sorry, I could care less about the UK.
Just bow and say your majesty and count me out.
With respect to you though.

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Aug 13, 2014 06:01:58   #
John Dubya
 
I'm not a Royalist so there'll be no more bowing from me than there is when you address Obama by saying... Mr President.

I would guess that you actually mean that you 'couldn't' care less. Should you truly mean that which you write however, then there's quite some way for you to go before hitting the bottom.

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Aug 13, 2014 09:15:47   #
Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world
 
John Dubya wrote:
I'm not a Royalist so there'll be no more bowing from me than there is when you address Obama by saying... Mr President.

I would guess that you actually mean that you 'couldn't' care less. Should you truly mean that which you write however, then there's quite some way for you to go before hitting the bottom.


whatever Babba.

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Aug 13, 2014 09:57:15   #
yorkslass Loc: Virginia
 
[quote=John Dubya]Yorkslass, I'm not certain if posting pictures used by the BBC in their ongoing war against Israel demonstrates your support for Hamas or not. However, I do know for certain that if you think this kind of demonstration is proof that the majority of the UK population supports Hamas you are completely wrong"

John, if you had read my previous comment you might understand why these photos were posted. It reinforces my fear that the UK is fast becoming a place I do not recognize from my youth. I don't watch BBC much but am aware of their politics and much like the media here in the USA they only show you what they want you to see, but add this to the reports of Sharia Courts, no go areas, grooming of young English girls and the growing number of elected officials of Muslim background it all adds up to a very troubling future.

Absolutely no support on my part for Hamas... I'd be happy to see them wiped out and Isreal living in peace.

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