Two points you mentioned crawley that I disagree with.
I. The English mentality to work hard to gain rewards. I don't think that's true. I think we have a mass culture of free riding and entitlement amongst brits in the UK. And oddly enough, it is usually ukip supporters I find that have this mentality. Its always someone elses fault and why arnt the govt helping 'me'
II. I'm also not sure I trust UK govts to manage our country exclusively. Look at the state of the UK before we joined Europe, quite a grim place. Things privacy laws and working time directives are what create a good balance between work and enjoying life.
I believe the UK outside of the eu will become like the bad aspects of US life.
I alsonk we greatly underestimate the effect foreign nationals have had on skills, cultural development and working. methods in the UK.
Well the first point i think the is a problem with freeloaders in this country and i look at the home grown population and a lot of them seem to want something for nothing, my son who is at private school if he goes to university i expect him to get a summer job and work even if it is in the fields fruit picking i do not care but he will work and not be one of those lazy students demanding grants.
I do not see the problem as being among UKIP voters who although quite a moany bunch and i know a lot of them, they/we want a relaxtion of certain laws, i am a small business owner myself and the thought of taking on a woman of child bearing years is scary because if she got pregnnant i would have to pay her off for 9 months and then get someone else to do her job. I employ a lady but she is in her early 50's.
On the second point i do not trust governments either which is why i do not want 2 of them, her and in Europe. One is enough. In the 90's the tory's were struck down with sleaze and corruption, labour reinvented itself and the people of the country liked their social policies, they rightly got elected, this was also when the liberals were doing well and they rose in the opinon polls.
Now i think things have gone to far and people want decent social values but they also realise they need to put more in and we are not the rich country we once were, especailly with asia rising fast. Gove was correct when he said about we needed a stronger emphasis on the core subjects in education to be able to compete in the future.
I do not think anyone i underestimating the influence foreigners have had on this country, but it feels like political correctness to me to even mention this, like it is an opposing side to an argument that is not even there. The argument is not whether foreign people have contrubited to this country but whther we can afford to keep allowing more people in and the strain it puts on public services. Also the blocking effect it has had on certain sectors of employment.
The is a piece in the Sunday Times today about how nurses in this country are struggling to find work and the fees that it costs them to do exams, but we are employing more and more foreign nurses. I think we should be going out of our way to try to employ British nurses and give them the opportunity to progress.
