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Originally Posted by Chris
We are at the centre of world time, world finance and the world’s most widely-spoken language, with a reputation for stable government and society. The territory hasn’t been successfully invaded in centuries.
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Yet ironically people who live here reap almost none of the benefits of the above.
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It is very fashionable, especially on the British Left, to whine about what a dreadful place this is, but don’t let self loathing and short sightedness sway you. This is one of the great places to live on Earth, regardless of whatever transient issues we have right now.
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I’d argue that the self loathing on the right far outweighs that on the left. Constantly pining for a nostalgic past that never genuinely existed. Believing more in the myth of what this country used to be than actually what it was - a parasite on the rest of the world.
The only thing left to exploit is the people here hence the need to invent the bogeyman of the immigrant, the Brussels bureaucrat, to distract from reality.