Quote of the day

[Serial_Apologist]

That may well be true, but sadly the actions of a few can taint opinion of the whole: think of the behaviour of drunken louts on stag parties in Prague, which reflects badly on all those back home.
The current behaviour of the UK Government (which many foreigners will think of as English) has certainly done us no favours, both here and abroad, and it is not surprising to me that the whole English race is now roundly condemned as untrustworthy and delusional at best.

Most disappointing for me has been the arrogant pig-headedness and sense of entitlement that has come to characterise, in particular, many of those caught disseminating their words of wisdom, always repeated parrot-like from the gutter press, Farage & Co. It seems to me mostly those on the right who support Brexit who are too rigid in their dogmatic thinking to entertain any posssibility at all that they might have been wrong. It is almost as if many such people have been keeping their reactionary opinions closeted since the days when they formed the stuff of innumerable family arguments, decades ago, and they now feel permitted to give full vent to them. They were just waiting for the trigger the referendum has provided. It is as if the past that was once, thankfully in so many ways, a foreign country, has truly come back to haunt us.

[DracoM]

Most disappointing for me has been the arrogant pig-headedness and sense of entitlement that has come to characterise, in particular, many of those caught disseminating their words of wisdom, always repeated parrot-like from the gutter press, Farage & Co. It seems to me mostly those on the right who support Brexit who are too rigid in their dogmatic thinking to entertain any posssibility at all that they might have been wrong. It is almost as if many such people have been keeping their reactionary opinions closeted since the days when they formed the stuff of innumerable family arguments, decades ago, and they now feel permitted to give full vent to them. They were just waiting for the trigger the referendum has provided. It is as if the past that was once, thankfully in so many ways, a foreign country, has truly come back to haunt us.

Smack in the cross-wires.

[teamsaint]

Stereotyping is a really bad idea, and those with education , power and influence have no excuse whatsoever.

I ( and I assume other people on here) certainly wouldn’t judge another nation , even if that was ever a good idea, by the way it occasionally votes, or the behaviour of its politicians.

I mean, we all love Italy, right ?

And re S-As , post, yes I agree that is the worat aspect of the last three years, but sadly not the only example ofpoor responses.