If britain is becoming more like america, does that mean we are all going to get fat? will britain sink?
361918
it won't sink, The Channel Tunnel ties the small island to main land and helps it float! =)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel
529203
Revolution? Hmmmmm, wishful thinking.\nI wish I knew the answer to this one. I think that our (UK) society has to take a giant evolutionary leap and realise that actually, the royals are not all that great and that their vast wealth could be redistributed to make better schools, hospitals, public transport.\nIs it going to happen? That's another question....
898472
Not yet.  We will be once our demands outstrip our resources.  Then it will be like the Dark Ages in Europe when many will die from pestilence and war.  After that, there will be more resources available per person than there has been in a long time.  There will be what can only be considered a new Renaissance.
1009298
I can't see America bombing its self, but I can see it self-implode.\nThe Church is loosing a grip, some religions have gone criminal & breaking basic laws of the Land.  \n\nCivil unrest is a big possibility.  As ordinary people have had enough of Mr Bush & the backlash from his term in office.\n\n& Don't forget the Stinking Pounds £ too!  The UK are as equally to blame for the instability of the region.
559580
I agree with camoman73. U answered my question by saying britain is full of jerks! you are the jerk buddy
280987
I think Britain is more like the village copper. Whilst the guys at HQ screw things up and try and make all sorts of wonderful plans the village copper just gets on with it..\n\nOf course we could be the traffic wardens...\n\nOr the police dogs... on a lead.. just following the master...
829188
Several key factors are shaping the UK at present:-\n\nThe UK has recently (within the living memory of a few very old folk) lost the wealthiest empire that has ever existed. This happened through two expensive world wars where much of our wealth was transferred to the USA. \n\nThe 20th century demise of the church in the UK has been extreme. Whether you are religeous or not, organised religion still serves a purpose in many countries in terms of providing some sort of social framework.\n\nThe caring society has flurished more in the UK than anywhere else largely due to the a couple of major oil rig disasters over-empowering the Health and Safety Executive plus the long term impact of weakening family structures bringing the duty of care to the front of many agendas.\n\nSo we lost our empire, our religion and our position in the world. The sixties saw a generation of students seeking love not war and caring for every flower that grew, followed by the Thatcher years where we saw the rapid growth of self interest as a philosophy. The "Yuppie" culture telling the young "just take what you can get and tread on whom ever you can". \n\nWe have completely lost our way we don't know what we are as a culture anymore or what our values are. Our polititians have the most liberal ideas about caring for everyone and everything sitting in their brains alongside their belief in grabbing whatever they can and hanging onto power at all costs. As long as their give lip-service to every liberal idea they pickup it frees them to act as selfishly as possible and believe they have a sense of balance. We have the least political polititians we have ever had.\n\nIts not the greed that is so damaging, we have always had that, although in earlier times we had the local vicar warning that it would make it harder to enter heaven with great riches. No, its the lip-service to caring, its allowing the HSE to create a great rules for industry and commerce but engender a terrible attitude in everyday life. Take an example, in a local school all thirty of the local year 9 science class incorrectly described mercury as a red liquid. It turned out that the chidlren had never seen mercury, and yet it is the most sciencitifcally used and usefull of liquids. It turns out that the teachers and technicians believed that mercury was so dangerous  the children should not even see it! A complete fallacy, but one arising from an attitude of over caring and a knowledge that we all have a "duty of care" (HSE phrase). So our children will find their science education a little bit more difficult than say a French child's because of our overcaring. One example in millions.\n\nSo to return to the theme, we have lost our sense of what it means to be English (not all of the Uk suffers as much), we don't know what to do for the best in any situation but overcaring is always an easy way out. We abuse this overcaring at all levels from "they have weapons of mass destruction" to "no, a policman may not wave his figure in a teenagers face". Its a great tool it stops us all having to worry what we are supposed to think. If you dont like the overcaring option you can always fly to the other end of the spectrum and blame the foreigners, another easy option.\n\nWhat England needs is to recapture our ability to take the middle path and be strong in that. This is not liberalism, it is what we used to be good at , they called it drawing a line. \n\nWe knew how and where to draw a line!
1046640
To u. s. a thats why they're all so fat
705770
I know what you mean.The countryside is your best bet our country of britain aint britain nomore its plays host to every scumbag from the east.Its not wrong to be recist anymore lets face it this country is finished and theres nothing we can do about it.
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we certainly arent beating the world in things that count ,, like education /health,, including Mental health\n we do have more food and more cars,and more pounds of fat ,and more debt. ever think how many people died so you can drive a hummer or fly to grannys for xmass?
264840
The American Empire will crumble.  We will be to China and India in the future, as Europe is to America today.  We will no longer control the wealth of the world.  With the lose of that foothold, we will lose our ability to control other nations.  That loss of power will erode our security to a critical point because of the amount of anti-American sentiment we have (and will) build up over the course of time due to our international arrogance.\nIn short, we will lose our civil liberties, our money, our power, and our pride.  We will be a shell of what we were.
859478
Hello,\n\nThis is one of those questions were I believe the answers could be both Yes! and No!. \n\nOn the one hand Britain is an island nation that has seen successive invasions & Conquests from numerous different races & peoples (the romans, the saxons, the vikings,etc). Britain had a massive empire & much of our historic wealth has come from slavery, expliotation & trading. In the second world war many people escaped from the devastation that was going on in Europe and came into the UK. So you can see we've always had immagration and migration, you cannot say immagration is a new experience for us.\n\n**The problem I think is more about the fact that we ARE an island (all be it a reasonably sized one!) and being an island means we do have limits on space & resources.\n\n**The other paradoxic part to this issue, is do you see immagration as adding something to the whole, i.e. bringing benefit to our society or do you see immagration as mainly a draining of resources. In other words is the glass half empty or half full, that I believe is closer to the core of this question.\n\n**The UK involment with the EU has seen the problem become worse, the dilemma increase. why? as poorer states & countries jioned the EU club they wanted to gain the benefits of EU membership and improve their living standards. EU labour laws allow for workers to move from one EU country to another and thats yet another part of the concern about immagration. Our government wildly underestimated the number of workers who would come into the UK seeking work (I think the orginial estimate was about 10,000 in reality its been 245,000 or there abouts).\n\n**The polish workers coming into the UK are not entirely welcomed why? because they are very hard working and prepared to take lower wages than most UK workers, why? because even though badly paid by our standards by polish standards they're well paid. \n\nSo polish workers can fulfil jobs that UK workers dont want to do, but some people feel polish people are putting a strain on jobs & the jobs market. How true that is, is yet another question and hard to answer. Non of this has clear cut or black & white answers, the answer I suggest is always going to be relative or subjective.\n\nIR
407044
At last someone apart from myself that has noticed the large vacuum of intelligence that is apparent across the Atlantic!\n\nEven better this person is putting this statistic to some beneficial use.\n\nUnfortunately, it may take some time to get these idiots over here as the vast majority have never been outside of the almighty USA. Hence do not possess a passport!  \n\nThe British government has promised to "fast-track" any such passport application in order to assist.\n\nBoth UK and US major flight operators have also promised to increase seat sizes on their transatlantic flights in order so these idiots can get they fat butts in safely!
965756
Hmmm ... yes and no ....\n\nThe United Kingdom has a large population of muslims, mainly from what was once part of the British Empire ... untold millions from Pakistan for example ... the majority of them are peaceful, but there's no doubt they are on a mission to take over the country ... and with the influx of the Eastern European countries into the European Union, Britain will also have to deal with any number of Romanians, Bulgarians and Polish people ... all out to create a "better life" for themselves ...\n\nIt won't be long before Britain, as we know it, will be but a fond memory, and it's all due to spineless governments who are desperately afraid of not being PC enough ....\n\nWe don't have the same problem in the U.S. YET ... but give it another few years of unhindered illegal immigration, and we'll soon be there ... as another respondent pointed out, it really is only a matter of time ....\n\nAs for the Mexican population being docile ... well, don't know about that ... it's not in their interest and in their religion to murder "infidels", granted ... but they're not above destroying this country with gangs and illegal drug smuggling, not to mention taking over office ... appears to me that what they want to achieve with this mass invasion is not so much to become part of the United States, but rather make the United States a part of Mexico ... give it time, and that will be achieved.  In years to come, you will indeed still be able to live here, and work, as long as you speak Spanish and do the jobs the Mexicans won't do ... :)   The United States will have become a Third World country of course, but nobody seems to be willing to look that far ahead ... \n\nSay goodbye to good quality education, healthcare and a pension ... and if you're a blue collar worker, say goodbye to even having a job ... and if you're not, chances are your job will be outsourced ... \n\nPersonally I think it's sad to see traditional Western cultures go down the drain, but that's inevitable if we continue on the same course ... I think the Canadians had better look out, because it won't be long before sh*t hits the fan up there ... I foresee an influx of disgruntled Americans, followed by another influx of Latinos, who by then will be tired of not being able to cream off the by then non-existent welfare system in the United States, and will look to creaming off the Canadian welfare system ... \n\nBut hey, why worry, main thing is that people can go and live where they like, uncontrolled and unhindered, right?
364420
as of now, yes. with our increasingly socialist views, within 25 years we will be tied with China, who is actually turning capitolistic, eventhough they won't admit.  as we conform our society "not to offend", and "not to make to much money" with government laws, we are turning socialist.  to remain the superpower, we need to stay away from government interference in business. now in order to prevent monopoly, we must have some, but it is the consumer who must drive gas prices down, and the consumer who must demand an alternate energy source.  a new energy source will determine the next superpower
935507
You are 100% right. For too long now, successive UK governments have put too much emphasis on playing the global stage at the sake of their own people. I suspect it's a glamour thing and they want to make their mark in world history.
809258
How strange when you specifically ask about Britain that the first answer should be about America-----------HOWEVER.........\nI came across an article (or it might have been on TV !) recently which said that a baby's first poo consisted almost entirely of hair  OF ITS OWN which it had eaten whilst in the womb - and YES, it WAS serious !!! - so the answer really is "Yes, everybody has"