any recent speeches by John Major or Blair regarding the classless society? and what is everyone elses view on this in Britain, please support with evidence. thanx
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Is it relevant? no.. does it exist? yes.
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hi daniel!! i wuv u!!!  i missed his address 2 the nation, but usually what he says is rubbish-full. give me the 10 pts, since u know u want 2! lol!
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The worrying thing is that this has actually happened - some numbskulls on a council estate attacked the home of a female paediatrician.\n\nMakes you despair of this country, doesn't it?\n\nYou know what - I actually feel EMBARRASSED for the twats that took this seriously. Wake up to yourselves, FOOLS!
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No doubt you failed in the lower classes as well...do your own homework. God, you are the true example of "much ado about nothing", posting useless questions with "urgent" tag !!
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So you don't know any white british people who work???\n\nSorry but although I do agree with you opening sentiment about 'foreigners' being the backbone of the econony and that you are having a dig at the red top tabloid readers' ingnorance and generalisation of 'foreigners' motives and involvement in british society, I have to pull you up on the blatant hypocrisy of your question.\n\nWhy complain about being 'generalised' in the public domain when you have really made the most rediculous overgeneralisation of white british people.\n\nYou are doing race relations no good in this country if you resort to tit for tat accusation. Opinions are polorised enough without stiring the big racial pot which is about to explode in this country.
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English flag has become a symbol of fascism , and now taken over by the BNP\nEngland is supposed to be Cosmopolitan? \nHow would the English feel if all the people from different Nations flew their own flags on specific days in England??\nEngland is starting to vote BNP, put up with it or kick them out and regain your pride in your flag!!
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All my childhood I was brought up to believe that honesty was the best policy.  Well now that I am 24 I can say bollocks to that!!!!!!  The hard working honest person gets nothing in this life.  Even the illegal immigrants are better off in the UK than the working class.  I packed up a f*cked off when I was 22 and moved away.  But I still read the papers on line and my opinion is that Britain is screwed!!
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I'm not English - I'm Welsh\n\nIts not just "England" its the UK as a whole - Wales Scotland and England.  We all have the same problem.  Wales is just as bad.\n\nIts because the whole of the UK is overrun with Muslim immigrants and our Government are too spineless and PC to stand up to them.\n\nAny hint of restricting their activities and they go mad and start screaming about "racism", protesting and taking everyone to court (see the latest news story about the muslim female teacher - who has links to the mosque used by the 7/7/05 bombers btw - who was told she couldn't wear her horrible head to toe black outfit and veil in the school, so she goes to court and tries to sue everyone.) \n\nMuslims can do what they want over here - anyone who tries to stand up to them or complains is called a racist.\n\nAnd there's always some stupid bleeding heart liberal who will go on about the British Raj and how our ancestors "raped" their country so we today have to let them all into the UK to trample all over us and disrespect us and treat us like crap (Umm - no we don't.).    There are too many PC liberal idiots in this country.\n\nThe fact that many native Britons have turned in desperation to the BNP (British Nationalist Party - a far right political group) shows how desperate the situation is and how many Brits are sick to the back teeth with these ranting crazed lunatics trying to bomb us all the time.  We had all that with the IRA, now its the bloody Muslims.\n\nWell this is one Brit who has no sympathy with their cause whatsoever and wishes all Islamic extremists and ranters would get the hell out of this country.  they are not wanted and no way will this EVER be a "muslim state"  as they love to brag it will be.  Our fathers and grandfathers didn't lay their lives down in WWI and WWII for this.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Whether or not Bush is doing a good job, and he isn't, he should be the least of Britain's concern. Last I heard, Tony Blair wasn't any better, so they need not complain about our government. Plus, we're actually being affected. They have no idea personally what it feels like to have a man like Bush in power.
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Lecture delivered by Minister Hiroyuki Kishino at the Local Government Centre (CLAIR)'s Japan Day Seminar in Belfast \n(http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/speech/060206_JLGC.html)\n\nJapan-UK Relations and Northern Ireland  \n\nDistinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, \n\nIt is a great pleasure for me to have come back to Belfast after a ten-year interval, the hometown of that great footballer, George Best. I really feel at home amid Belfast's splendid architecture and the beautiful scenery nearby. At the same time I sense that the buds of economic and social dynamism just visible ten years ago are really blooming now. I am most pleased to see you all at this Japan Day Seminar, which I believe provides an important occasion for me to learn more about Northern Ireland and to keep you updated on Japan-UK relations. \n\nAs Deputy Chief of Mission at the Japanese Embassy I have the agreeable duty of facilitating better mutual understanding between the British and Japanese peoples and of promoting the overall Japan-UK relationship. What does this mean? We often say that the main problem facing us here is that there is no pressing issue between Japan and the UK! This is not a joke, but witness to the fact that Japan-UK relations have never been better. The primary mission for us, therefore, is not necessarily to engage in trouble-shooting in the bilateral context but to formulate and coordinate policies on what Japan and the UK should do for the benefit of our two peoples as well as for the peace and stability of the world. This is a forward-looking and pleasant duty to fulfil - a real luxury only granted to those posted to a capital like London. \n\nOverall, Japan-UK relations today are solid and mature. They are functioning smoothly, based upon market mechanisms and subject to the rule of law. Government intervention is rarely required. In business, tourism, culture, education and most other respects, our ties are refreshingly free of major areas of concern. In this sense, the Thatcher government's determined approach to the Japanese government and business sector in the 1980s in pursuit of direct investment from Japan in the UK, notably by Nissan in Sunderland, has acquired anecdotal status. Meanwhile, it is seldom recalled these days that the Japanese and British governments quietly coordinated their efforts so as to come up with a final settlement of the liquor tax issue after the WTO panel had ruled against Japan in the mid-1990s. The records of these episodes are now filed away somewhere, gathering dust. \n\nMore relevant today is the fact that about 1,200 Japanese companies are operating in the UK as good corporate citizens, having put down deep roots in their respective communities. They have created around 90,000 jobs. Indeed, a number of these companies, some of them household names, go about their business as they always have done; therefore, few people are aware that they have Japanese owners. In the fashion world DAKS and Aquascutum come to mind, while Leicester-based Freed, a world-class manufacturer of toe shoes, is another example. The UK continues to be the most favoured destination in Europe for Japanese direct investment. Just last week, for example, the large pharmaceutical company Eisai announced a 75-million pound new investment in Hertfordshire. \n\nIn Northern Ireland four Japanese companies have business operations, and two of them are engaged in research and development in high-tech fields - a growing trend today. I am pleased to note that they have expanded their activities over the past decade through the enlargement of production facilities and in other ways. In addition, three Japanese companies have business tie-ups in research and development here. Yet I must say that, compared with the other regions in the UK, Japan's business presence in Northern Ireland is modest in scale even when the size of the region is taken into consideration. How come, one may ask? I do not have a s
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I doubt it - I feel that British people (and I include everyone who holds the basic principals as desirable) should stand up and be heard. The problem is that the Government (who we put in place not so long ago) are not listening to the majority of law-abiding people, because they know they have another 2-3 years where they can ride rough shod, without worrying about their position. I think they will have a difficult time come the next general election.
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No I entirely disagree with these citizenship exams and I don't need three reasons to tell you why. The main problem with this is who decides what "Britishness" is? The answer is the British Government and I don't need them telling me that to be British you need to know what happened in 1066 or who is 5th in line to the throne.\n\nIn any case my perception of Britishness is certain to be very different from yours, which will be different from your grandparents, etc.\n\nThis is just another example of the increasingly prescriptive nature of Blair's government. For example I read over the weekend that the government has decided that there will be a two minutes silence for the victims of the 7/7 bombing. Surely this is a matter for the individuals conscience? Apparently not.
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"The dome was never going to work but actually came from a tory dinner party"\n\nActually what became the dome was not. The dome as envisaged by the tories was a permanent structure designed to last the next 1000 years and celebrate the best of the last 1000 years. A magnificent dome, out-shining the Taj-Mahal in India and a symbol of our national pride and our place in the world.\n\nLabour took over the project and turned it into a plastic piss-take.\n\nThe dome as it is now, is a perfect piece of symbolism representitive of the Labour party. A plastic, expensive and utterly pointless failure!\n\nThe Wembly project is ALSO very symbolic of a Blair government insofar as it is representitive of his attitude to the English and for the vast majority of his tenure, the English have not had a home for their national game! We've had to go to Wales to see our national game played at the highest level. Another expensive insult.\n\nI dread to think what these bunch of incompetent and corrupt tossers will make of the Olympics.\n\nAfter lying us into war and turning the UK into a political rogue state around the world, Blair may well have the Olympics as another example of turning our nation into an international embarrasment.
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I think the Britain of Churchill's era was pretty great.  What I don't understand is how the brave and amazing people of the UK can roll over and let themselves be trampled by political correctness and blatantly hostile cultures taking root in their very midst.  I love my cousins across the pond, but I fear for your future.
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Tony Blair has caught a lot of criticism from his fellow countrymen, much like that other leader . . . George W. Bush.  The majority of his critics, like in President Bush's case, is from the opposition party to that which is in power.  Although I am not British, I have kept up with their news, and it appears that Prime Minister Blair is doing well.  The media, (remember it's the liberal media, while Bush & Blair are respecitvely conservatives), has been attacking both of the leaders for about the last three years.  Gee, I guess that's why the U.N. military commander in Bosnia is the "FORMER".  I haven't read any positive news concerning Bosnia and the U.N. involvement.  So, putting two & two together, the proverbial statement holds true, "Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones."  Or to reference the Word, "He who is without sin, may cast the first stone."  If anyone would like to forward this to that FORMER U.N. military commander in Bosnia, you have my full permission . . . . if President Bush or Prime Minister Blair are doing so poorly, then I'd like to see you do better!  Come on, you've got my vote.  I'm sure your response is something like the following:  "No, I don't want that job!"  Good, then sit back, shut up, fasten your seatbelt, enjoy the ride and just use sunscreen!  Sorry, I'm a history major and love to argue politics.  Although evidently biased, maybe it shed some light on your question.
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what I don't understand is your failure to recognise that Blair never answers the questions put to him, he will answer e.g. Mr. Prime Minister what do you intend to do about the appalling situation regarding funding for NHS? \n..Answer I do know that when the opposition were in power they never spent as much as we do now  on helping the poor.. or something equally irrelevant!
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From the Daily Telegraph, 30 Nov. 2006:\n\n" Britain's special relationship 'just a myth'\n\n"Toby Harnden in Washington\n\n"A senior American official has spoken of "the myth of the special relationship" between the United States and Britain, arguing that Tony Blair got "nothing, no payback" for supporting President George W Bush in Iraq.\n \n"Bush and Blair at the G8 summit at St Petersburg when their private conversation was overheard\n\n"Kendall Myers, a leading State Department adviser, suggested that Mr Blair should have been ditched by Labour but the party had lacked the "courage or audacity" to remove him.\n\n"David Cameron, the Conservative leader, was "shrewd, astute" to have distanced himself from America.\n\n"In candid comments that will embarrass Mr Bush and Mr Blair, the veteran official said America "ignored" Britain, and he urged Britain to decouple itself from the US. . . ."