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Hi Tony, it certainly is a sobering, if not humbling experience as an Englishman looking in from the outside. When I lived in the US, especially during the 90's I had a deluded romantic perspective of why so many British institutions were superior to the US, I would happily mansplain to the unsuspecting American friends how we did things in some form or fashion 'better' than in the US. Now looking across the channel I see a dystopic version of the country I still fondly remember growing up in.

Reasons not to be cheerful part 76: The Post Office pursuing innocent sub-postmasters to prison, suicide, divorce, financial ruin due to a system implementation disaster while the leadership moved on to CBE's, cabinet advisory roles and board positions. This is on top of everything you have said about Johnson and his enablers, the billions 'spaffed up the wall' for "NHS" Test and Trace run by the same outsourcing grifters that did the Post Office systems implementation. Profits in the billions for banks and energy companies while ordinary people pay crippling increases in National Insurance contributions. The country is the largest enabler of money laundering in the globe yet has 15% of its population in a food-insecurity situation and 4% using Food Banks.

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Hey Jim, thanks for reading and your comment. I have always been proud of the UK, its people and traditions, but right now I would honestly be rather living on the streets of Paris than be back in the UK. The government is at best incompetent and worse corrupt - to its core, I know the EU has its failings - but at least it doesn't lie, cheat and steal from its citizens.

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