Gina Miller was the only one fighting against Brexit she even decided to vote in favour of libdem for the first time instead of labour…
So yeah… sorry but labour position was pro Brexit
The line is as high as it has ever been and yet the future of the British people has never looked more bleak.
UK $47,334.36
Poland $17,840.92
Romania $14,861.91
Hungary $18,772.67
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Our old word for foreigner is the same as non speaker or mute, Niemcy, which now specifically refers to the Germans. I guess they were our first foreigners.
Look at the way these people lived. The way the dressed. The way the carried themselves. The culture. The customs. The traditions.
It was a thriving high-trust society.
The line has gone up orders of magnitude in the past 100 years, but are the people thriving? Is their nation something to be proud of? Do they have any herritage left to pass on to their children? Is there any optimism in the future we have chosen?
I don't think so.
Can we ever return to the past? - no, but the future we have chosen is a bad one.
I have some sympathy for your point of view. I'm very much pro union but when I go to England I think I'm glad I don't live there. So crowded. Most of the countryside fenced off. Unlike Scotland were it's possible to escape to the wilderness. Compared to Ireland I think people in England seem depressed.
On the high trust thing, I think part of it may be partly the mass immigration of the 1950s. As an outside observer I think that may have divided the country a bit. To me there doesn't seem to be much integration.
All I'm hoping is that the UK gets over brexit and doesn't stay in terminal decline. The current Tory leadership only seem interested in managing that decline. At least Boris was optimistic and believed Britain was a great place to be.
By contrast, the Britain (or the cities and towns around where I live) of today simply looks like everybody has just given up.
There are plenty of other videos from the 1900s era.
And sure, we are more comfortable now, and it would be hard to go back to those times, but I'm not really focused on their material comforts.
My point is that the English - as a people - were thriving in those days, and most of their thriving has since been destroyed by modernity.
I want to attack the Whig Historiography concept that a bright future will just spontaneously emerge, when all the indicators are that England is in a state of steep decline in comparison to where it was 100 years ago - even though the GDP has never been higher!