Great Britain - An Immigrants Guide

I have heard that new Britons find it difficult to identify with Britishness because it's not clearly defined.
I say they are not looking hard enough, you have to read a book or two!
The definition of Britishness is in our treasured fables and myths, our brilliant thoughts and deeds, for we, the Britons, have always been brilliant but 'far more better' I think than brilliance, one trait shines through above all else that we are.
In every last story, from ancient legend to cricket pitch, one principle for me is enshrined... Fair play.
That Britain is said to be both a nation of shopkeepers (freemen and free traders) and also run by committee (from parliament to local organisations) is evidence that all decisions are considered by a group of 'interested' parties.
You cannot be judged any better than by a group of your peers.
There is here a deeply ingrained sense of justice for the group which is weighted beautifully against the freedoms of the individual.
I could go on trying to explain but I think this is a more straightforward, if tiny, example of what it is to be a Briton...

We are Merlin, Boudicca, King Arthur.
We are Alfred, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe.
We are the kings of middle fingering Babylon.
We are William Wallace, Rob Roy and King Henery VIII.
We are Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare and Cromwell.
We are Rourke's Drift, The Wooden Horse and the Great escape.
We are R.J. Mitchell and Douglas Bader.
We are Emmeline Pankhurst and Diana Princess of Wales.
We are Dorris Lessing, Quentin Crisp, Queen Victoria and Dr Who.
We are the bane of fascism.
We are Steven Hawking and David Beckham.
We are George and the Dragon
We are Faraday, Babbage and Turing.
We are the industrial revolution and Celtic knot work.
We are the battle of Britain and the spirit of the Blitz.
We are Agincourt, Waterloo and Trafalgar.
We are Blackbeard, Morgan, Bartholomew Roberts and the East India Trading Company.
We are free.
We are Tea
We are 'V'
We are Tim Berners-Lee.
We invented almost every ball game you ever heard of.
We back the underdog.
We want the little guy to not be oppressed by the big guy.
We want the play to be fair.
We are implacable and indomitable and no matter what anyone says "Britannia does rule the waves".~ Granddad
We are Churchill and Darwin and Blake.
We are Orwell and Austin and HG Wells.
We are Douglas Adams and Mary Shelley.
We are him off the telly.
We are Brunel, Issigonis and Monty Python
We are Tolkien and Dickens and Roald Dahl
We are Doyle, Carroll and Agatha Christie
We are Viagra, The Jet engine and Radar
We are Newton, Crick and Bertrand Russell
We are Alexander and Ian Fleming (no relation!)
We are cockney rhyming slang and the voice of the valleys.
We are Twiggies, Beatles and Stones.
We, Tim, are also Rock!
We are the isles of never say die with a passion for peace.
It's why we are happy to queue.
It's why we are Great Britain.
It's taken centuries to make it.
It's why you want to come here.
PLEASE DON'T FUCK IT ALL UP WITH YOUR OLD COUNTRY'S BAGGAGE.

We, the Britons, are the reason you want to live here. We don't care what colour or class or sex you are.
But why must you drag your old customs and religions to a land where evolved so gracefully this clarity of purpose, this high mantra we call fair play?

• One Law for All
• Council of Ex Muslims Britain

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Do Americans Not See Themselves As A Team?

I had not thought much about health care until everything kicked off last week and I started hearing the horror stories from Americans about their apparently selfish and heartless system. Until then I'd assumed that the American system would be as good as Britain's NHS, but just simply funded differently.
I've been shocked by the stories I've heard from many Americans about their health care, you can read some on my blog comments. Stories of how Americans have been permanently disabled or disfigured, because they personally couldn't afford medical care at their time of need. (Makes the big book of British smiles seem less important - don't you think?)
I am astonished because, myself and all members of my family, from my great grandmother to my youngest nephew, AND EVERYONE I KNOW, have been in the complete care of the NHS for all our lives. NONE of us ever had to consider the cost of treatment, or put treatment off for thrift's sake.
Disablement and disfigurement for the lack of cash has been absent from Britain for more half a century. It's unheard of!
The first thought for every citizen in the UK is - call the ambulance and if it can be fixed, the NHS Will fix it, no charge. I can't begin to describe what a great comfort the system is. (Although my heart attack story tells it's own truth about the value of an NHS)
See The Great British National Health Service Saved My Life

With the American system it seems, one must make a judgement call, at a time when you are least able, as to the value of your life!Is my life more valuable than the debt I'm about to incur?Whereas, with the British system, at the time when you are least able, there is this great team of people at your instant disposal, and they are all in it, only to save your skin! NO CHARGE!

I don't get why Americans think that's a bad idea!!It seems contrary to the stuff we know about America!

Probably one of the most recognisable buzz-phrases is from American movies, where high school coaches trip out the trite line "There is no I in Team", but the the adage does not seem to apply to the 'great nation of America'! Your health care seems to be all about 'I', displaying no team spirit whatsoever! Why is your health care not a team?

Another buzz phrase - 'Divide and Conquer' (Julius Caesar)

When you've managed to stomp all over your own civilisation and are giving whoops and cheers that you defeated Obama's humane health care reform, please remember that you've done the bidding of the pharmaceutical giants!

Of course they want you to think a National Health Service is bad and evil

They make more money
selling you your medicines,
one pill to one customer at a time.
The corporations fuel your fear of socialism to keep you from banding into the force they fear.

Defy them
Forge your country into a family,
and remember,
Together Everyone Achieves More
When 300 million people buy their medicines together, they can pretty much dictate the price! Hell - 300 million people can buy a licence to make their own pills!!
300 million people acting with one voice!
No corporation in the universe
can drown out that kind of noise!
So, why let the corporations have your cash, when you could be using it to fund the American dream for all?

You say that ANY American can follow the American dream to the white house, and it would seem, that, as you now have your first black leader, the dream is truebut is it actually false?
Not so much a lie,
but an accidental falsehood?If president Obama had been born with a congenital heart problem, which had needed constant medical care for the whole of his life, his medical insurance would have run out before he got chance to lead you in your 'yes we can' dream.
He would therefore not have had the opportunity for the American dream.
As it is for each and every American who has been tossed away because of the lack of a fully functioning National health-care team.
All, automatically denied the American dream.
Every person disabled or disfigured when their health insurance runs out, is lost from a nations potential.
Why choose to waste potential?
Look to your future USA
Tell me, to which U.S. family will the next Abraham Lincoln or Samuel Clemence be born? A rich or a poor one?
Impossible to tell right! And if it's impossible to tell, it's foolhardy to play favourites.
Whether that potential great talent survives to be a great talent, could be down to whether he has adequate personal health insurance!
How can you think entrusting the health care of your future geniuses to random chance is a good idea?
People are the future of a nation - why toss potential aside because the corporations encourage you to fear each other?

Without the solidarity brought by caring for all,
a nation is not a band of kinsmen under one banner,
but just a bunch of potential enemies,
existing in an uncomfortable truce.
I wonder if that explains all the blunderbusses?

I don't think the notion of death panels would occur in a nation of kinsmen.

More on Health Care

The Great British National Health Service Saved My Life A National Health Service Is A National Treasure I Love The NHS - Did I mention They Saved My Life Do Americans do not see themselves as a team? Death Panels - Just a Matter of Perspective?

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Islam - The Stranglehold Religion?

I Just watched the supreme leader of Iran give his speech.
(You can watch it here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8108938.stm)

First time I've seen him!

Always wondered what Father Christmas did for the rest of the year - Now we know!

What a load of hot air and pompous nonsense!

Santa Said "I recommend that they open their eyes and see the enemy."
Ironic much?Every eye in the room, and across the world, was open and watching
the enemy of freedom speak!
People are on your streets sir, they telling you they are not happy with how THEIR country is being run!
It's not your country, it's THEIRS. Listen to them, you are their servant.

Why not compromise? - You give them a new UN observed election, and they'll stop seeing you as silly old-fashioned santa claus wannabe.

It's time to let go of your stranglehold on your people. Give up your evil corrupt ways and accept that people like to be free.
Yes that's free, you know their BIRTH right, their Human Right.
I know it's a hard concept for the supremely deluded to comprehend but it's widely accepted accross the globe, that people do not want to be controlled by religious bigots, power crazed old madmen, intent on totalitarian control of all they consider beneath them and trying to hang on to ways long dead.

To all people of the world who are ruled by the supremely deluded (my shorthand for religious leaders)
STOP GIVING AWAY YOUR RIGHTS
TO THESE ULTIMATE PROPONENTS OF BIGOTRY.

Santa Said "Islamic republic state would not cheat and betray the vote of the people."
Seems like some cheating went on, so does that mean that your state is not islamic, or that you are a liar?

Santa your crowd chanted "Death to the UK, Israel and the US" - and you did nothing to dissuade them!!
YOU - the 'supreme leader'! OUTRAGEOUS!
You are the most disgusting representation of bigotry and prejudice.

Ordinary muslims say Islam is all about peace, yet we see the 'supreme leader' of what one might call the heart of Islam condoning bigotted, racist chanting.

Oooooh It makes me so mad!!!

There are 303,824,640 people in the US, 60,943,912 people in the UK and 7,411,000 in Israel and you are happy that you crowd thinks that every man, woman and child in these communities, over third of a billion people, should be slaughtered!!
Call yourself a man of God/Allah.
You are shameful and not worthy!

This blog was published from the FREE UK, I use twitter and all social networks FREELY, I have the right to think and say what I choose.
This is freedom
I don't know what you think you have Iran but freedom it isn't.

I find it hard to understand how the people who follow Islam can enjoy what seems, to a non-muslim atheist, to be a totalitarian fascist and sexist dogma, promoted and enforced by bitter and intransigent old men.

YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T PRAY?
You get more life in your life!

To all religious leaders FUCK OFF and leave us all in peace.

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I was born with no roots, a child of the earth.
I have no natural affiliation to any race,
creed, colour or geographical location.
I bear no label or stamp on me to denote ownership.
My DNA says only; member of the human race;
no religious, political or social emblems encoded.
I owe allegiance to none but those whom I choose.
My freedom is my own to do with as I wish.

Crispy Sea - 2005

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A Tribute To The Victims Of Terror

On September 7th 1940 Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe began the Blitz, the non-stop bombing of the United Kingdom, destroying hundreds of buldings in cities and towns all across the country. Portsmouth, Southampton, Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Norwich, Ipswich, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Hull, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast and London all suffered. During the nightly bombing raids on London, that continued to May 16th 1941, people took shelter in basements and underground (subway) stations where they slept on makeshift beds amid primitive conditions with no privacy and poor sanitation facilities. 32,000 civilians were killed and 87,000 were seriously injured over 57 consecutive nights of bombing. To all those whom lost loved ones in the Twin Towers, there is a way forward, a path through the tragedy, as so many surviving relatives of those who died in the Blitz can testify.

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