Why I hate Britain under Blair...

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“A similar deal with nativity scenes which are apparantly offensive to (some) muslims” Why?

“WE ARE AN ISLAND, YET OVER 1/2 A MILLION ILLEGAL”: How do you count illegal whatsoever? Immigrants, burglars, criminals? These kinds of figures are non-sense… It is like the secret meetings in unknown place to speak of possible topics. When you know so little, just shut-up…

Now, I am not English, I live in England. And yes, sometimes things are going mad, like 50 P price raise on a £1 tram ticket in two years. And yes politically correctness became too much.
I was watching the 100 years anniversary of the Separation between state and Churches in France. And what was said by the Representatives in 1905 should be prosecuted in England nowadays because it would an offence against Religions. One extreme-left representative (Radical) said Religions are superstitions, defying logic and science. What? Can’t say that today. It is hurting sensibilities…

To come back to the Xmas things, it is stupid. For me, all religions a fairy tales, so let’s cancelled Ramadan, Yom Kippur and all these teachings of non-sense like the guy who allegedly walked on water, the all of them to whom God spoke to etc… But no. Because yes, this is a part of traditions. Father Xmas doesn’t exist but we still celebrate him.

The Flag story is the same kind of things. Why should I be offended because English waves an English flag … Actually, I live in England. Now, he can wave a English flag in France, I don’t bother either. He is English. Now, the offence would be if he burns a French Flag in France (except if it is during a demonstration against the EU Agriculture funds, nuclear power plants and missile or others highly political debate).

For the Sun newspaper and its anti-French stand, I find it funny. First because the chanter of Englishness is owned by an American, second because it puts my British colleague uneasy when I see the titles. This English obsession about the French is incredible…
And about the people put in jail because they killed a burglar, can I remind you that an innocent man was killed by mistake by the police not so long ago. Thing about it, think what the poor police-officer must feel now… And I am not joking. Because I remember a debate in French TV: a guy, pharmacist, killed a burglar. Of course, he acquitted by the Jury. But I always remember what he said to the guy for guns and immediate death penalty: I killed somebody. I can’t believe I killed somebody. I terminate a human life; I saw the blood, the guts all over. I can’t sleep anymore…
So, even when a man is right, it is a little bit more complicated.

Well, perhaps not in Texas.