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Dad was right in view of Britain
Thursday 14th May 2009, 7:00AM BST.
Letter: Until my father’s death in 2003 he was a prolific writer and contributor to the letters page in the Shropshire Star.
Now, six years later, I find myself subconsciously agreeing with all his comments and views.
Top of the list, I would like to ask this government “Where is my England?”.
I am now 62 years old and my working career has spanned nearly five decades. I have watched the demise of the coal industry, the steel industry, the motorcycle and car industries and the engineering trades.
The shipbuilding industry, the fishing industry, the agricultural industry – to include dairy, arable, beef, pork and poultry trades. The Church of England is in fast decline.
Morals and manners are out of the window; just like the litter along our roads and graffiti is everywhere, just like our half empty industrial estates and factories.
I am a lorry driver and I see more European-owned lorries than British-owned. All are driven by foreign drivers who in some countries can purchase a driving licence like we purchase a television licence or car tax disc.
They are unable to speak our language, read our road signs but are in charge of 60 foot-long vehicles.
The only brief prosperity that we enjoyed was the North Sea oil and gas, which, incidentally, Europe was soon buying from us at favourable prices and we were having to pay more than we were selling this at to see us through last winter.
The more I write, the more depressed I get. Please can we look at a future where British children can have a future in Britain?
Bob Oakley
Shrewsbury
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Bob, A question for you…
How many English lorry drivers venturing abroad are fluent in European languages?
What’s sauce for the goose…
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So Bob says “The more I write, the more depressed I get.”
I’m no counsellor but perhaps you should stop writing?
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If people stop making fun of his letter they would realize that our country is in a pretty poor state at the moment.
1) MPs paid to serve us on the take
2) Courts unable to serve decent jail terms
3) Youths gone wild
4) High levels of unemployment
5) Lack of respect
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Thank you Peter and Lucy W – people like you really are a credit to our education system.
Bob raises some excellent points which the current bunch of buffoons we have put in charge will have strategic, world trade and free economy answers to.
To put that in english – they are feathering their own nests and couldn’t care less about this country.
What they have failed to realise is that the real people are sick to death of their nonsense and that the biggest challenge they now face is persuading the real people not to vote UKIP or BNP at the next election.
I have voted tory all my life but never again!! I hate the idea of the BNP being in charge but they talk the talk real people want to hear, albeit with a horrible hidden agenda.
We need an alternative to the current alternatives – a party which stands for real people and for what really matters – justice, decency, prosperity, hard work and just rewards.
Anyone want to join the commonsense party?
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Y Mab: did you acidentally miss,
6) pathetic police. ?
Captain: I fear that if we don’t vote in BNP, UKIP, The Greens and other extremist parties, then this lot will see their re-election as an endorsement by the electorate.
I personally predict that the next election is going to be like none before with some radical results that until now, were unimaginable.
After watching the BNP last night, I can see Nick Griffin having tea with the Queen, and if that’s what it takes to stop the rot, then so be it. Sometimes the medicine isn’t pleasant.
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I didnt see the BNP boradcast last night Lucy W.
How was it?
and would you really trust the big issues to the BNP
economy etc
I would fear a even greater meltdown
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Y Mab: I forget the finer points but Mr Griffin wore a nice suit and said he would get the snouts out of the trough – sounds good to me.
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I remember vast bomb sites,non-stop road building and cars starting to dominate our world and new construction everywhere.
I remember massive discrimination against black or asian people,women and those persons young or old with disabilities were shut away from society and pitied.
Homosexuality was treated as a disease or a joke.
Somethings were good and some things today are good.
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Capt Cynical – I fail to see why the perfectly reasonable point I made should cause you to call my education into question. Why is it that the letter writer expects foreign drivers coming here to be fluent in English, when there is clearly no reciprocal expectation of ‘our’ drivers?
Or are you perhaps amongst those who thinks that ‘Johnny Foreigner’ ought to have to learn English whilst we are as a rule useless at learning other languages?
Y Mab – I did see the BNP broadcast. It was simplistic nonsense. Interstingly, for a party founded on hatred and division, they didn’t mention race or religion once, although I did hear the holocaust-denying Griffin on Radio 4 earlier in the day saying that he didn’t want Muslim countries in the EU.
I also watched the UKIP broadcast, in which their leader Farage indulged in a lot of scare-mongering nonsense, and repeated the falsehood that ’75% of our laws are made in Europe’.
I wouldn’t trust either party to run a bath…
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William Hill latest betting odds:
EVENS THAT UKIP WILL WIN 15 OR MORE SEATS
1/5 (odds on!!!) THAT THE BNP WILL WIN A SEAT
3/1 THAT BNP WILL GET FIVE OR MORE.
THE GREEN PARTY ARE 3/1 TO GET FIVE MORE SEATS.
WILLIAM HILL believe that UKIP will end up with more seats at the forthcoming Euro elections than Labour.
Well I think that says it all!!
If only people hadn’t been so biggotted and high handed towards minority views this wouldn’t be happening.
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Peter
I suppose Bliar and Clown could run your bath!
We are all entitled to our opinions, but apparently not under EU and the Labour thought police.
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moaning old man – this is just the passage of time and the creation of new industries have replaced old ones
thank god coal is over, now the hillsides around shropshire are clean and green again
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Dear Bob Oakley, the whole Western World is in decline, witness America’s swindling Financiers that have brought Capitalism to its knees.
One other madness that is allowed to spread is unchecked migration. Countries are losing their identity because of sickly sympathy with 3rd World countries that should be left to evolve, as Western Countries have had to do over the centuries.
The European Market has been handled wrongly by politicians who should have fixed limits on inter Union migration.
Again: The world is grossly over-populated, due in some ways by Governments allowing payments for children, which should stop at two children per family.
The Catholic church should be maligned for refusing to sanction Birth Control.
People=Factories=Pollution=Global degradation and chaos.
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