What is broken about Britain?

Damn, beaten...

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AcidHell2 said:
self responsibility, everything is someone else's fault or the states.
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Could that not be attributed to the 'no win no fee' industry. It regularly encourages through various media outlets, people to try to get cash for any mishap.

A prog I saw of the process showed that some companys will pay small(low £x,000) rather than have poor publicity.
 
Nice To see my first post was deleted, despite the fact I was trying to make a light harted comment after that completly racist comment....:confused:

Britian is not broke, people just wont own up to there own mistakes, its always somebody else fault, bit more pride in the counrty and we might get somewhere.... All countrys go through hard times, its just takes time to get things back to normal.
 
1.67million jobs created but near 99% went to immigrants, i don't see this as an immigration problem in this instance more of one where the government have allowed the benefits system to be a trampoline and not a safety net.
the unemployed as seen as unreliable and lazy and for the most part i think they are right.
 
deadite66 said:
1.67million jobs created but near 99% went to immigrants, i don't see this as an immigration problem in this instance more of one where the government have allowed the benefits system to be a trampoline and not a safety net.
the unemployed as seen as unreliable and lazy and for the most part i think they are right.
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Do you have actual figures to prove this? :) I genuinely intrigued, I have no idea what the real figure is. :)
 
How strange, I have a friend named Vinnie and he is from Denmead :D

I'm tempted to go with what robgmun said :)
 
snowdog said:
I will avoid paying anything I don't have to, we have had dozens of fines from Germany, France and Poland in the past 10 years, we've never paid em and even though we were stopped for something in Germany after, they haven't said a thing about previous fines.

I will use every loophole in the law available, if I get a fine I will always contest it, I will always do my best to play the law in the best way possible, if there is any plan or excuse or action I can do to prevent paying, I will do that, anything that will prevent them from taking the money. Basically, I disagree with a lot of laws and I make it and will never make it no secret, and I'll make it as hard as possible for them to win.

In short this means, I'd rather not go back to whatever other country I don't live in than paying their fines. And when I get a fine here like for speeding, I will demand the photo first, the report that the officer in question is allowed to use the equipment in question, the certificate of calibration ( required every year here) of the equipment, etc, before paying it. Basically, anything I can get away with.
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Nuff said really :rolleyes:
 
Britain is broken ? I see people buying new cars all the time in motors forums, people buying new electronics, new media, new this new that. If Britain was really broken, OcUK would be broke in no time, and this forum wouldn't exist.
stockhausen said:
Nuff said really :rolleyes:
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Lol :D, what has this to do with Britain being broken ?
Please tell me.
Eagerly await your reply.
 
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Its not much different to any other country, its just alliterates better and sells more advertising space in the media.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
Do you have actual figures to prove this? :) I genuinely intrigued, I have no idea what the real figure is. :)
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Mark Easton said:
The figures show the number of UK and non-UK workers in the labour force and, within that, the number of EU workers with jobs in Britain. It is possible, therefore, to identify UK, EU and non-EU workers and to see how the picture is changing.

The latest data show that, comparing the last quarter of 2009 with the same period in 2008, there are 76,000 fewer non-EU workers and 13,000 fewer EU workers employed in the UK. The EU change is not large enough to be statistically significant - in terms of a trend, the picture is stable.

What does this mean for British workers - after all, fewer of them are employed too? Well, the proportion of all jobs occupied by UK citizens has risen - very slightly. At the end of 2008, 91.9% of jobs were held by Brits. At the end of 2009, it was 92.1%.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/05/british_jobs_for_foreign_worke.html


EDIT: Yes the post underneath by 'Sara' is me - I'm amused by the whining of 'bestoftherest' - I didn't check back so I've only just seen he's asked me a question - he's rather let the cat out of the bag as to his motives by asking me what I think about Britain being a 'non-white' country....
 
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Oh, more from Mark:

The year everything really changed was 2007. The economy was expanding and about 615,000 new jobs were created. Who got them? Roughly 200,000 went to non-EU workers; 275,000 were taken by EU migrants; the remainder, about 140,000, went to Brits.

Looking at 2009 again, one can see that all three groups lost jobs. UK workers lost the most jobs - 335,000 - but things look rather different when you analyse it in percentage terms.

Among all UK workers, 1.3% lost their jobs in 2009. Among EU workers, 1.2% lost their jobs, a very similar figure. But among non-EU workers, 6% were made redundant in that year.
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So non-UK workers took lots of the jobs while we were expanding, yes, but the non-EU workers (the only ones we can actually legislate against entering into this country unless we leave the EU) were turfed out faster than EU or UK workers.
 
Some excellent reports on this exact subject in the economist if you have online access, as stated above statistically things are improving, but people are becoming more dispondant with the country in general, a growing number of people think its becoming a worse place to live.
 
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