London is the capital of our country.  So why do only Londoners...?
965661
Right! Just how did we get here?  I didn't ask for it and I didn't vote for it.  Hell, I didn't even know that it was coming until a bunch of arrogant, self-engrandising pricks like Lord Coe & Co stiffed me with a higher tax bill for the next thirty years.\n\nI'm really looking forward to my "sporting legacy" though I didn't know that fishing, darts and snooker were Olympic events!
1033731
I'm English and we're great. Not sure about the British.
696037
Poland is a country... Muslims is a religion... I bet you saw other people as well tho... Even i've been there and i'm neither! Not even english! London is a big city with people from everywhere! Just accept it!
736680
Ha ha I like your humour....maybe it's because I'm a Londoner!!
980796
I'm French, but live in London. Here, I've met Mexicans, English (only a few seen as there's not that many in London), Jamaicans, Nigerians, Spanish, Germans, Italians, Albanians, Turkish, Polish, Kenyans, Swiss, Portuguese, Algerians, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Argentinians, Americans, Australians, New-Zealanders, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Khazak, French, Saudis, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Koreans. Think that's about it. That's a lot of people man !!!
1023078
Mostly they don't want to come here. They'd much rather be able to make a living and support their families in the countries of their origin. As far as those that do come here are concerned, they would also rather not have to live on run-down, inner city housing estates full of junkies and thieves.
393876
I met an American who thought that England was in London.\nSo .......... sometimes no
547683
because england is a great country and we are all lucky to live here
1033127
I do. I hate it. London is way more cosmopolitan.
863493
Are you not even in America??? Get over yourself!!! Put down our government and then start talking about house prices in the UK???  I am sickened that someone who has nothing to do with MY government would criticize it so.  We aren't the ones who still live with a monarchy who has to sign off on everything.  Remember the Revolutionary War? We kicked your butts! And we were outnumbered 10 to 1.  All to be a true democracy.
891019
Everybody loves London. I went back home from the US last month and I realized how much I really miss living in London. Driving around you see people of all nationalities; it's a real little cross-section of the world. I just wish it were a bit more affordable.
503055
I agree with you. I think many of them come here for the exact reasons you stated. I know there are war torn countries and whatever but Britain is only a small island and there are plenty of safe countries in between us and their own country. They come here because they are practically guaranteed a good life and a job, if they feel like working, though they don't have to. I get about £300 a month in tax credits to help me stay at home with my own kids. There are people who have a problem with that when these illegals are coming in and being given brand new houses, some built for them, then they were getting those food voucher thingys but that's not good enough is it, they want the cash so they can go and buy themselves a corner shop and rip us off some more. I am all for the BNP on this one. It's not racist. It's fair. It doesn't happen in other countries. If I went to another country, they wouldn't just hand out free stuff just because I was foreign so why do people think it's racist if you don't want to do that?
558474
The British have something of a reputation for being a little bit eccentric, and nowhere does that show itself more than in what they do in their spare time. From going for picnics in the rain (not usually planned) to playing cricket, we do many things which confuse people from other countries. There are some sports and hobbies, however, which confuse even British people, perhaps the strangest being trainspotting. \n\nSome readers may be familiar with the word 'trainspotting' from the tide of the popular film starring Ewan McGregor, but may not be aware that it is the name of a hobby popular with several thousand people around Britain, known as trainspotters, or sometimes as 'anoraks' because of their choice of clothing, whatever the weather. These people can be found most often standing at the ends of platforms at major stations in the U.K., clutching notebooks and pens and sometimes pairs of binoculars, but they can also be seen staring over railway bridges or sitting on fences by the railway. The question is: 'What on Earth are they doing? ' \n\nBritain is where the railway as a public transport system started and it has been a part of everyday life, loved by some, hated by others, for over 150 years. At the peak of the popularity of trains at the end of the Victorian era, Britain was covered with railway track and there were many companies offering to take people where they wanted to go by this quick, but rather dirty and noisy method of travel. With time and with the increasing popularity of the motor car, the number of private companies got smaller until the government decided to create British Rail, one national company controlling all the railways. (Strangely enough, history wants to go in circles and recently the government sold British Rail back to private companies again!) Whoever controls the railways, for over a hundred years in Britain there have been tens of thousands of locomotives, hundreds of thousands of passenger carriages and millions of commercial wagons in operation at any time. These are what interest trainspotters. \n\nLocomotives are not all the same: the Eurostar which takes passengers and cars under the English Channel to France is different from the Intercity 125s that rush commuters long distances at high speed, and they are both different from the little shunters that work around stations and railway yards. Not only are there different types of locomotive, but each locomotive has an individual number; some even have names like "The City of Birmingham" or "The Boy's Brigade". Trainspotters collect these names and, more importantly, the numbers. \n\nIn all weathers these fanatical hobbyists stand by railways for hours at a time. They usually take packed lunches of sandwiches and flasks of tea with them - and every time a train goes past they will write down the locomotive type, its number and its name if it has one, in their notebooks. Every passenger carriage and commercial or "goods" wagon has its own number too, and some extreme trainspotters will try to write down the numbers of every single carriage or wagon in a train! Experienced trainspotters will have shelves and shelves of notebooks at home full of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of numbers which really mean very little to anyone except other trainspotters or people who work for the railway. \n\nWhen they meet, looking for trains or at trainspotters' clubs (which often meet in station buffets!) these unusual people exchange information about what kind of trains they have seen, where they saw them and of course what their numbers were. It is a happy trainspotter indeed who can tell his amazed friends of seeing an experimental train or a very old type of locomotive, or a normal train in a strange place. \n\nSo, that is trainspotting. Most ordinary people think it is a very abnormal hobby, and in everyday English, "trainspotter" means "a boring person&qu
983567
Probably because they're the only ones supported in your country.
1123537
Because the British govt is incredibly PC ... not to mention, they want their vote!! If you think ANYgovernment nowadays gives two hoots about its own indigenous population, think again!  It's votes .. these guys want to be re elected ...
962383
To begin with, we don't have any common wealth "states" or "countries".  That would be England.  We do however have territories.  And yes, people in those territories do vote.
780080
well dont let that affect you.i dont.  me, i am south african, highly educated and yet apparently from a 3rd world country. when i look around at uk, london - a 1st world country, i see the young people, clueless, older closed minded folks with blinkers on, and i think, was i eager to come and see this. like you, i didnt fall short of anything back home, in fact my standard of living was 10 times better than london, in terms of space, parking, less tax etc. but i came here to travel, explore , and my skills were needed here... and better yet, a british company came to my country , to recruit me, i didnt even ask to come here, i just sat back and got brought.... so i suggest to those who think foreigners are idiots, just because their accent is different , to think again - cos english is not the universal language in the world.... and british and americans are the people most likely to only know one language, while us foreigners usually know at least 2 languages.