Where/when did it all go wrong for the UK.?

Question

This country is now bankrupt. It was once a proud nation where people smiled and said hello and held doors open. Now all you get when walking down thehigh street of any city centre is a glare from foreigners and youths walking around clad in "nike" drinking cans of beer and spitting on the ground at random intervals. Fat single teenage mums with big overhanging bellys and cheap agros jewellery THINKING they look "all that".

Thank you for your answers.

Answer 1

Why didn't they listen to Enoch?

Answer 2

I think when all discipline was taken away from parents and teachers theres no respect from most of the youths today

Answer 3

What you just said makes me want to hit you! Take a look at yourself before you start to criticise others.

Answer 4

Geez, that sounds awful...maybe you should leave while you still can.

Answer 5

thanks to messers blair and brown and all their labour cronies..

how did it all go wrong? here's an abbr. list:

education: - testing instead of teaching - lack of discipline

home values:- the breakdown of the 'family' - due to the need for women to work long hours, easier divorce laws andlack of support for honest families - with resources given to single parents and rewarding disruptive children

mispending of nhs money: - we have less help with mental illness now then in the 50's - no wonder we are so depressed! plus managers etc in hospitals taking power away from docs and nurses

shame of armed forces/police/authority figures: - lack of pay/resources/pc attitudes which mean we'll always be the 'baddies' - (see the 'outrage' when the army tried to recruit from schools, wanting to give young kids the chance of a better life?)

lack of support for small businesses - thatcher knew the importance of that coming from such a background - however, now the uk has gone corporation crazy - taking pennies from the small man of the street

the growth of the public sector  - the maths do not add up if over 40% of GDP is in the uk's public sector, do we really need made-up jobs with no industry

lack of leadership: - in all walks of life, now we have chavs, drinking in the street, because what else is there for them? no trades, no prospects, it's too easy to sit on the dole, the hope has gone trying to make it better

i could go on...

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Answer 6

They let all the indians in.

Answer 7

It all started going wrong when folks like some of the responders to your question (and you, for that matter) started thinking it was right to look down on those who don't look, speak, act, or have money like you.  Sad times for sure.  Too bad you're just making it worse.

Answer 8

Over years. Things do seem much worse now then before. I feel it is to do with the SOFT approach to everything. The country need some backbone!

Answer 9

Well, losing your empire after WW2 was a big comedown, and with friends like the French who needed enemies? I wonder the same thing about the US.   The poorest people have the most babies, generation after generation of b******s.  Perhaps you have seen the film "Idiocracy"?  It is too true to be funny.

Answer 10

First you tried to have an empire, oppressed people, took slaves, exploited other lands, and had a couple of Crusades. Then you sided with George W. in Iraq.

Answer 11

people are not being brought up properly. the fat teenage mums are recieving benefits for getting pregnant.  the youths spitting have no respect. the country is going up in flames. The goverment goes easy on criminals.

Answer 12

Crikey! I think it went wrong when the government thought they were getting it right.

Answer 13

When the East finally figured out how to use the inventions we (and the rest of the West) invented years ago, and decided they'd shoot each other with them, and travel over here on them.

When we opened the borders to everyone.

Answer 14

when we started PAYING them to have babies!

Answer 15

i honestly dont know. but the u are asking a complex question so there is probably no straight answer

Answer 16

Eurgh. I know what you mean about the youths walking round in nike. I am a youth, but I do not dress that way. I have my own style and people say they like my style. I dress indie, and I HATE tracksuits, and I would never ever wear one. I'm always polite to people, and if I'm walking through a door and someone is behind me, I keep it open for them. I'm 13, and people say I'm extremely mature for my age. But I like being this way, it makes me feel good!

Answer 17

April the 10th 1694 at around 3:20pm in St. James's Park.

Seriously though, it was when we discovered what it was like to break all the boundaries. We forgot that some boundaries are good and should stay in place.

Through most of my life I've seen selfishness, spitefullness, ignorance and arorgance being promoted as being cool. It's now getting worse as our Politicians are shameless in their dishonour and dishonesty. When they get caught doing something wrong, they don't see why they should resign any more.

Politicians and celebrities are largely to blame for setting a ba example to the masses who follow them. The press is bad for it's slandering and needless gossip-mongering. The people who choose to behave that way are mostly to blame as they are responsible for their own actions. They behave that way because they can get away with.

Parents carry a large amount of responsibilty too.

It is a fine example of human weakness when somebody feels the need to be rude or aggressive to everybody. A true individual has manners and is decent as much as possible.

You're becoming overcome by the things you see. Look for the the positive stuff too.

Answer 18

Electing Gordon Brown, just blame it on him!

Answer 19

Paying money for those lazy people who dont want to work. and those single mums who wont get a job when there kids are at school

Answer 20

The banning of the cane,and liberalisation in school,during the mid '70s!

Answer 21

When did it all go wrong?  I think it was when we joined the EU, it was supposed to be a trade agreement, they called it the common market.  We were so misled!!

Now the rot has really set in with all the EU directives giving rights to the unrightable, and wrongs to the rest of us.

Back in the 'old days' people had standards which they lived by and taught to their children  Respect for themselves, their property, and for others and their property  Now I see everywhere the things you describe and more besides.

British standards are gone and forgotten, only to be replaced by greed and violence.  The blame for much of this lies at the feet of those who are responsible for the running of this country, Namely our Honourable Members of Parliament. ----  Running it down is more like it!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 22

I completely agree. The country is no longer our own, it's everyone else's. After a spell in America, I suddenly realise just how tragic the UK really is nowadays. It has nothing to be proud of anymore.

I can't help but wonder what kind of country we're living in when government representatives are trying to accelerate a 'positive discrimination' act whereby a white, hetero male is at the bottom of the pile for job opportunities. Strikes me as completely and utterly wrong. But it seems I'm screaming in the wind.

Answer 23

The tax is too high, the laws are not tough enough, parents and school teachers are too tolerable for children and teenagers ( I'd lived in many countries and I found Britain has the nastiest teenagers, especially those hateful anti-social behaviour ones ), and last but not the least-- the benefit system. Young girls abuse the system by getting pregnancy and get a council house, plus benefit money and thus no need to work anymore. Why don't all European countries stop all that S****y benefit and act like Asian countries-- you work or you stay lazy with no help and money at all.

Answer 24

While I was cycling to work this morning I passed five people, all smiled and said hello, although I didn't know any of them. I hold doors open for other people, and other people do the same for me. I can't remember ever getting a glare from a foreigner, they are usually friendly people. There are a few unpleasant youths around, but they have always existed, and are no worse than they were 30 years ago. I wonder where you live, the UK that I live in is nothing like the one you describe.