I agree, and have to say rather surprised that somebody as young as you should express these sentiments - good on ya but you wait until you are twice your age now, and see how you feel about what's going on out there at the moment!! However, you do realise that things weren't all that great in other times. Life could be said to be never better than right now, compared to Elizabeth 1's time, the Victoria time (unless you were well rich), between the Wars etc.etc. This is very much a 'grass is always greener' syndrome. Coming back to the UK after 15 years abroad (and yes we left in the early '70s when there was a wages freeze going on and we could hardly afford to EAT!) was a heck of a culture shock I must say, but it wasn't all great where we'd been (or we would still be there!!).
I guess we just have to make the best of what we have when we have it?
Yes I feel the same. In 1986, I tracked down a little town in Herefordshire that was already 30 years behind the times. It still had a back street not new-look central area redeveloped, and you could walk into the old-fashioned shops in wellies. There are six pubs in the town. My then wife and I made the decision to move there, and when the marriage fell apart five years later, after a couple of years in bedsits, I bought a cottage ten miles away in a little Worcestershire village, which is where I am typing this now.
My sister in London listens to The Archers every day just after 7pm, but I actually live in an Archers village, where the real-life events are very much the same as those on the show. Last week, we had a wassail evening at the village pub, where we had a buffet meal and the village people did their party pieces in between the community choir (about half of whom also sing in the parish church choir) singing wassail carols.
On New Years Day, a friend of mine gathered together a group of morris dancers, and we went for a long walk around the hills, morris dancing on the way, eating sandwiches and drinking punch outside an abandoned village pub. We found a horse box left open because the hunt were out, so my friend got inside and danced a jig. One of the villagers spotted us, so he and his family came out with some cider for us to drink.
Also I have to say that the average age of us doing these things is about 60, although there are a few children and young people, just about enough to carry on with the traditions when we are all gone. I live alone and have no family of my own. I would deeply love to find a wife who can appreciate these things, and perhaps we can start a family and pass it on down a generation. If nobody from Britain wants me, then I am more than happy to ask a foreigner here, if only the Government would let her in. The Government only wants gangsters, rich tax-free business executives and economic migrants from Eastern Europe, not wives for lonely Englishmen. That is not politically correct.
I try not to think of the nasty places in Britain that modern fashion has changed so much for the worse. It is true, the developers trashed the most ancient and beautiful part of Worcester, the Lychgate and Elgar's shop, and Big Business has now deprived the city of its ancient pottery Royal Worcester, but all-in-all it hasn't done as badly as many other places.
Ive seen this country over many years, and no doubt the country has changed out of recognition and I think it started when pop singers were given Knighthoods and yet a guy on the front line gets nothing, it makes a mockery of the whole set up. I could go on and on but all the folk who writ in here know what its all about but do the politicians.
I am in my 50's and I feel the same as you. We are but a small island that cannot manage such over-population. If anyone dares to state why, they are deemed racist because the government indoctrinate people into that way of thinking. We once had some of the most fertile land in the world, which is why everyone wanted a piece of it. But greed by a minority has encouraged mass immigration to lower wages and create greater wealth for themselves. But in so doing, the fertile land that could support our nation has been built on. Flood plains are now concrete and floods in villages and towns that never before suffered are now victims.
Multi-culturalism doesn't exist. You can name "provinces" around the UK where immigrants of certain cultures amass; Bradford, Leicester, Birmingham, Brixton, Mill Hill, etc. They keep in their own groups and control their own areas.
I have nothing against people of other cultures but common sense shows we cannot support such growth in the population. Sadly common sense is not that common. Take a look at the infrastructures in Hong Kong, India, China and the Brazilian Favellas to see our future.
we need a government that gives hope to its people. I've yet to see one and on a personal note, I would rather vote for a party with no experience in the hope they could actually do something positive rather than vote for one of these main parties that have forever proved they are self-serving.
You are not alone in your thoughts. I just wish there were enough people in this country willing to vote for change instead of just talking about it.
Im and ex Royal Marine i now live in Germany exactly because of the reasons you state the old Britain has gone and whats more it is never going to come back.
They call it progress i call it a sin but everyone has their thoughts mine made me move overseas there is nothing left of the way it used to be. Like everywhere else. the politicians that the public vote in decide the people get no choice and the law changes faster than the public can follow it.. All down to bad politics and shifty money grabbing M.P.s. They are public servants that choose to take control rather than listening to the people that vote them in Hence they have become the master and not the servant. Thatcher and her henchmen are the people responsible for starting the ball rolling its rolled faster and faster ever since. She must be the most hated of all politicians.To this day.
Depends which 'Britain of old' you are talking about!
I can remember the 70’s in Britain. Three day weeks, petrol rationing, miners strikes, power cuts, unions getting the whole of Raliegh Bikes to walk out because the 'wrong' person switched the lights on in the factory and it wasn't his job it was the electricians job to switch the lights on. How fckd up was that? Ted Heath giving into the miners, Wilson scrapping the TSR2, that flying on ONE engine could fly faster than the EE Lightning, and whingeing lefties trying to ban soft porn like playboy and page three! Shrinking Britain, as the Empire continued to die and give states back that we did not really have to! Nobody 'kicked' us out, our traitor govts simply gave them away!
No, Britain is far from perfect now, but the 70s were dark, cold and miserable days in comparrison to now.
One thing the history of Britain has proved is we adapt.
We've been invaded over the centuries by the Romans, the Spanish, the Norse and some clans/nationalities that no longer exist, ie the Huns.
WE NEVER JUST CURL UP & DIE.
We absorb & we adapt.
I am very well aware there has been a deliberate attempt by liberals since the early 60s.to very slowly destroy the country we knew. Although only a lad at the time I spotted it.
We have been dumbed down so immigrants will not be so overawed as they would otherwise have been.
The Army regiments of my Father and Grandfathers day which gloried in such names as The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is today called "The Rifles" I am sure the Rifles do a splendid job,but its not a very inspiring name really?
I don't think anything will change here.The irony is such countries as Spain and France has not changed to the extent we have.
If you feel unhappy perhaps a trial few weeks in France and Spain would allow you to decide if you prefer them?
There never was a "Britain of old" really. Our society has been in a state of continuous flux for thousands of years, and will continue to be so. An individual's perception is based on their own experience, and it's natural that those formative surroundings would be most comfortable - but the only thing you can count on is the persistence of change.
the precious britain of old ?
im 35 soon and i honestly despair over the place this country has become, the britain of old, the way of life and christian society is rapidly vanishing due to overly mass immigration, broken down schools, the erosion of the hurch...our values way of life.....the britain of old ?
where will it lead? in the near future will british people become extinct ? will this country no longer be britain but a conquered land and another way of life will emerge ?
although im a european person born in spain, my family are french and spanish, ive lived here all my life and feel very patriotic towards britain....i went through all the schools here, my mother/ father paid into the system.
i grew up through the 80s and i see this country changing fast to an unrecognizable conquered place.
many brits dont agree with me on here, but that will not stop me saying how i feel.....im fearful for this country and its way of ife.
plus i heard in my last question that tons of people from the u.s come here? why ? who is asking them here to this already overcrowded place ?
i really despair....does anyone feel the same who treasures the britain of old ?
Is this opposed to the utopia of 1980s Britain, lol? Riots, etc
If they had stopped your lot coming in in the eighties, etc., etc.,
Look, if you don't like it, why not go back to the country of your birth, Spain...
This is a question and answer site, this section is for current events and news, not for your continual whines about your own predicament...
Hobbits are fictional...
The 'Britain of old' never existed, it's an elitist fairy-tale, most Brits seem to buy into.
Britain is ever changing. It has never stayed the same.
no get over it
