It's a strange place, England

Everyday I'm grateful I was born English and still live in England. However I'm also very sad of where we are currently as a country, largely due to a really inept couple of generations of politicians.
Also we really do need to better educate ourselves on our past and particularly the position is plays in our current reality.

YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE!

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Wherever the British empire left its mark there is a love of cricket. I worked for a tech company with many guest-visa workers from India. They were all cricket fanatics. The only exception is the U.S. Maybe because of the popularity of baseball?

Things I love about the U.K. A huge number of writers, prose and poetry. Everyone from jane Austin to S.T. Coleridge to George Orwell and hundreds more. Bertrand Russell. Music in many forms. A unique sense of humor, which is often surrealistic. Victorian-Edwardian erotic fiction.

Walking the streets of London, or any U.K. city, on a grey damp day, finding a pub, having a pint or two. A vibrant modern inclusive culture thrives. Villages which retain their character and traditions.

Today cities in the U.K. often look rather run down, at least in sections. Faded post-industrial revolution-empire melancholy. Yet those same cities also have elements of beauty; fine brick buildings aging gracefully, grand houses from another age, gardens, old rail lines. And new buildings looking to the future.

Not so good things; Empire and class system.

As I say on my profile in another place ‘I live in Wales.
Wales is not in England’😀
I do cross the border often....😀

Oh – there is a difference between England and Britain? 😏

'Some among us don't even know the difference between England and Britain!'

And you ? Are you talking about Britain or just that part of it we call England ?

Well said Liz,
Unfortunately not a very bright future for the UK, it’s difficult everywhere today but much worse for the UK

The british empire is the largest and oldest (still active) terrorist organisation

Hi I'm from Liverpool

2nd gen immigrant here born in London. Im under no illusion how fucked up a country we are/were but home is surly where the heart is.

They way they live is borderline third world country status

A major player of history for sure.

Full of nut cases

Immigration is not an issue, Economic Migrants ARE ... especially with the most recent news - within the week - of Economic Migrants get'n more money than people in England that have been paying into the system for YEARS