B0ycey wrote:The Anglos are no different from any one else. The problem is they hang on to former glories which I guess is absent from other nations which make them do idiotic things. Brexit is the sense of doing things on our own and the Americans don't want to lose their hegemony.
I think that the English are very different from other people and all European nations have their particularities.
I understand your point that politically the Anglos have simply made a bad political choice like everybody else and that national character conversations are best to be avoided but in all honesty mate I think that such conversation cannot be avoided for the particular case.
The English are dead set on self-destruction and they are proud of it too. Frankly I cannot fathom the fact that the government is still standing and standing firm with no alternative in sight after all these massive cock-ups.
This is a big thing, unique in the UK.
The country is running out of fuel, medicine, food. I book electricians 2 months in advance, plumbers 4 months in advance. Not a single hire in over 6 months despite offering crazy signing, and retention incentives and 35% higher salary. Today I had to go find petrol in 5 litre cans from the villages for my staff to be able to go to work. The petrol situation has been going on for at least 3 weeks in Cambridge and not a single peep had been made until this past Friday when the industry leaders finally decided to speak up.
But this is not the worse, the worse is that there is no alternative narrative. There is no option B. This would not be so in any other European country. And that is where the national character kicks in. You have entitled manchildren that refuse to admit error no matter how deep in the shit they are in and I'm not talking about the politicians but the demos.
I totally agree with Potemkin the English have some unique characteristics that play into this problem in a very big way.
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...