It's a special day this Thursday.

12 months already. Good grief.

agree cant believe its a year......... hope those 2 nutters never get of prison unless its in a wooden overcoat

I think they are the sort of scumbags nobody wants here.

Unfortunately, being Britsh born, raised (and radicalised) there's no party that has a credible way of ensuring these kind of people are 'not here'.

....and before anyone goes 'BNP!....(drool....burp....back to sleep)' I think their line is 'voluntary repatriation of anyone with a darker skin than Nick Griffin....oh and Jews...hang on though, where does that leave Aryan-looking Poles......look , anyone who isn't me, sucks!'

good old British justice, before Jack Straw signed it away, would have been a well deserved death penalty.
Caught red-handed, no laywers, no trial, no appeals, just string the bastards up.

£1 is too much.

No wonder this country is a laughing stock of the entire world, as we just don'y get anything right!

In this instance we responded slowly, but the unprepared police just stood around hapless, until the firearm boys arrived
and then couldn't hit a barn door.

To be fair, they are probably sh!t scared of a disciplinary, if they cause a fatal!

No point issuing weapons if they have to be signed out every time, and authority being requested before they can be used!

Have to think back to our Olympic Games, where massive security was put in place, but somehow broadcast to the entire world,
of what measures were being taken.

Anti aircraft missiles on roofs being shown on tv. Then the revelation that they were only of use in good visibility.
That followed by the statement that they could only be locked onto at a distance of (can't recall without a big search) but it was close,
and then they had to wait for the approval of some obscure individual who was probably fast asleep!

It's a fact that, by the time this would have been approved, the aircraft would have been within the urban conurbation anyway.

Yes Roger, that was our proudest moment of recent glory and I for one reveled in it!

One thing we are certainly good at is ceremony, a good wedding, funeral, "The Queen's" whatever anniversary,
"trooping" (you can't beat a bit of that) but for every day stuff such as "border patrols" we are weak kneed and useless!

Have enjoyed watching some documentaries of just that and who are the most useless?

Well it isn't Australia or Canada so for the £1,000,000 prize, who is it?

It's the same country who let despots stay, for one more day, only to never be seen again!

It's the same country who let convicted murderers out on day release, even for a third time, when they absconded before!

i love welcoming foreigners to our great nation. always impressed with foreign students, 99.9% of them speak better english than most english people do. makes me very proud of our wonderful tolerant multi-cultural society! greatest nation on earth britain, even wales!

the olympics were brilliant. jessica ennis. the somalian bloke. made me proud to be british!

doo doo dee doo dee doo
doo doo dee doo dee doo
god saved the thing

NB - I'm not a 'my country right or wrong' type. You're sleeping on the job as far as I'm concerned if you're not pi$$ed off about something that stops us being the coolest nation in the world.

But we're not doing so bad, irrespective of which political mast you nail your colours to.

Boasting about your successes is rather un-British. Johnny Foreigner seemed generally satisfied with the Olympics, so quiet self-satisfaction would be the appropriate response imo.

But then, I'm only half-British, so what do I know? With a z in my surname, UKIP voters would have me sent back where I came from (Slough).

Just for a second it made us feel good about ourselves.

That this stoic, reserved, rainy and generally cold and unfeeling nation, coughing our way to another day of 'you don't have to be mad to work here but it helps' in the hope of cheaper beer and overtime, could actually be outward looking, welcoming, warm and (steady....here it comes....!) vibrant for a few minutes.

Of course, it was asking the earth for this self-confidence and joy to extend to celebrating the fact that Mo Farah runs for Great Britain and we went ( and the majority still go) mental when he wins. Much more 'British' to be mealy-mouthed and critical.

British people are no longer stoic and reserved, if only they were.

twizzle22
22 May 14 09:00   
As for the athletic part of the gig,it hasn't made a smidgeon of difference to folks participating in sports,something that Lord Coe banged on about leading up to the games. !!

Perhaps somebody should ask Lord Smugbastard of Coe why so many school sports fields have been closed down since the Olympics.

There was no money to rejuvenate the east end of London since the war finished. Suddenly it was all systems go and £billions poured in for two weeks of games. What did east Londoners gain out of it, apart from a stadium?

Somebody on politics reported my identical thread.
The opening post has been removed from it.