Do you realise Britain has not invented anything this year...

Probably because all funding and support( especially in Arts) is being systematically removed under the Tories

no, I wish that was the reason Facts, something more fundamental seems wrong.

all the clever people have left for greener  pastures

Wales?

well many seem to think we have invented Utopia

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http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/01/in-pictures-african-migrants-stop-off-in-paris-en-route-to-england/

I think we have invented and implemented the concept of the longest most boring and protracted election campaign ever. It seems to be going on forever.

Nonsense. Facts invents something every day.