A broad, sweeping, generalization, which, of course, is not true. That you would say such a think shows poor critical thinking skills. There is no way you are able to speak for most people who live in the UK. That anyone would claime such a think also shows poor critical thinking skills. I work with British people all day every day and have for 10 years. Educated, professional people. No one has ever suggested such an idea to me. What you claim sounds like pub talk and a tabloid approach to understanding reality. The US government is no more of a shambles than the British government.
Hate to tell you that most of the world think you are a total shambles because you are.....the latest chaos not only affects you drones but everyone else......but due to your myopia and arrogance you feel empowered to slag off Nico,talk about the blind leading the blind........by the way it's CLAIM not CLAIME and it's THING not THINK,you need to go back to school,just as well that you work with Educated and Professional Brits...BUT DO THEY UNDERSTAND YOU.....or are they just being polite.as the Brits often are
Those are typos which I corrected after you apparently quoted me. Anyone who would think otherwise, not realize they are typos, is an idiot.
I work in an international setting every day, and have for 10 years. I have lived in 4 different countries around the world during the past ten years. I work with entirely international people, few Americans. For those ten years, I have had, and continue to have, close contact with people from various parts of the world on a daily basis; all are colleagues, all are highly educated with at least 4 year university degress, usually higher. People like that do not think in simplistic terms. I also travel about 14 weeks a year all over the world. Most of the time people don't think I'm an American because it simply doesn't come up. And yet, never has anyone suggested the US government is falling apart. Not anyone who is unbiased and with half a brain.
I am not defending the US. I am defending rational, logical thinking, something of which you and your pub cronies are obviously incapable. People who know how to think do not imagine the sky is falling when a government goes through ups and downs. There was a thread on this board a few months ago claiming Turkey was about to emplode. Turkey has a stable government. They didn't emplode and they won't. The US has a strong government as well. Simple minds envision the world in simplistic terms. That is what people are who think that the US government or the Turkish government, or any other stable govenment, is going to fall apart because of temporary problems.
And, btw, to claim that most people in Europe blame the GOP is utter nonsense. Most people in Europe don't even know what the GOP is. As well, British people are not too polite to say what they think; that's a stereotype that anyone who actually knows the English know isn't true.
Well, you certainly seem to know a lot of dumbazz business people. How do you explain approval of Reagan and W UNDER 20 PER CENT WHILE OBAMA IS IN THE 80'S. My mother's isde of the family all live in England and France and they thought Reagan and W were total fools, as did all my friends and others I knew in France and Spain, but theylove Clinton and Obama....
I agree the USA is very stable, but no thanks to the idiotic, irresponsible Tea Party GOP and their scary talk of defaulting, civil war, revolution, racist and ugly American arrogance. A GOP DISGRACE, AS ALWAYS. Thanks for the world depression AGAIN, and the stupidest wars EVER ETC ETC ETC...
HERE'S SOME rw tory bs from THEIR IDIOTS...
Ed Miliband urges Daily Mail owner to examine 'culture' Ed Miliband (L) exchanged letters with Lord Rothermere over the Mail newspapers' coverage of his family Continue reading the main story
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Mail on Sunday apology to Miliband No need for Mail apology - Gove Profile: Mail editor Paul Dacre Newspaper owner Lord Rothermere must take a "long, hard look" at the "culture and practices" of his Mail titles, Ed Miliband has said.
The proprietor has apologised to Mr Miliband for a Mail on Sunday reporter intruding on a family memorial service.
The Labour leader told BBC Radio 5Live the apology was an "important step" but that he did not think his treatment was an isolated incident.
Mr Miliband said he wanted to know "how these practices are allowed to happen".
Last weekend, a Daily Mail article labelled Ralph Miliband, a Marxist academic who died in 1994, "the man who hated Britain".
'Line crossed'
That prompted Mr Miliband to complain about his father being "smeared", but although the newspaper offered him a right of reply, it has continued to defend its coverage.
In a separate incident on Thursday, the Mail on Sunday suspended two of its journalists after it emerged the paper had gate-crashed a service for the Labour leader's uncle, at which they pressed the family for reaction to the original Daily Mail article.
Quentin Letts: "He was furious that we won the Falklands war... is that the behaviour of a man who loves his country?"
Mr Miliband told 5Live Breakfast that Lord Rothermere "has a responsibility to take a long hard look" at the way his papers are run after the intrusion.
He said: "I hope what Lord Rothermere will do is look at the wider culture and practices at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday because I don't think it's an isolated incident.
"I'm interested in other families, not in public life, who've had similar experiences."
Mr Miliband said he expected the papers to criticise him and his policies but that they had "crossed a line" by accusing his father of hating Britain.
While acknowledging the Daily Mail - which has a circulation of more than 1.8 million - was a "popular" newspaper, he suggested many of its readers agreed with him that it had "overstepped the mark".
But he said he did not agree with the Jewish Chronicle's suggestion that there was "a whiff of anti-semitism" about the Daily Mail's Ralph Miliband articles.
Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig said the reporter had been sent without his knowledge and an investigation was being held into "a decision which was wrong".
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Who is Lord Rothermere?
The 4th Viscount Rothermere - or Jonathan Harmsworth - inherited Associated Newspapers (now DMG Media) when his father Vere died in 1998 He became the fourth Rothermere to take the title and become chairman of the media group He was previously managing editor of the Evening Standard, which the Rothermeres bought in 1980 Lord Rothermere is ranked 120th on the Times Rich List, with an estimated fortune of ÂŁ720m The Harmsworth brothers Alfred and Harold founded the Daily Mail in 1896 - the "Viscount Rothermere" title was created for Harold Harmsworth in 1919
Before WWII, Harold Harmsworth praised Adolf Hitler and in 1934 penned a Daily Mail article headlined "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" celebrating Oswald Mosley's British fascists Both he and Lord Rothermere apologised "unreservedly", with the peer also writing to Mr Miliband.
'Ethical roots'
Neither Labour nor the Daily Mail and General Trust - the papers' parent company - have released the text of Lord Rothermere's response to Mr Miliband.
Mr Miliband told 5Live he has met the Daily Mail's editor Paul Dacre "two or three times" since becoming Labour leader.
He said: "My personal dealings with him have been absolutely professional. Sometimes we've disagreed about issues. We've disagreed about press standards but sometimes we've agreed on some issues."
The row comes days before a crucial meeting of MPs next Wednesday on press regulation.
They will consider proposals for a press royal charter with a new regulator to replace the Press Complaints Commission.
The plan is backed by the country's largest newspaper groups, including Mail publisher DMG Media, News UK, who own the Sun and the Times, Telegraph Media Group and Trinity Mirror.
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Mr Miliband supports an alternative plan, backed by the three main political parties and press intrusion victims campaign group Hacked Off, for a form of press regulation backed by royal charter.
A senior Mail executive has defended the paper's journalistic methods, saying it was "extraordinarily careful" about how it pursued a story.
"I hear the the editor, I hear the deputy editor almost every day saying to reporters, saying to editors of their sections 'be careful how you go about getting a particular story'," City Editor Alex Brummer told Radio 4's Today.
'Useful idiot'
"That's a practice which goes to the core of the paper, and I do think there are some good ethical roots in the paper and this is the exception rather than the rule," he added.
On Thursday's Question Time on BBC One, the Daily Mail's political sketch writer Quentin Letts defended its original reporting of the views of Ralph Miliband, a Jewish refugee who fled Belgium aged 16 to escape the Nazis and who served in the Royal Navy during WWII.
Yvette Cooper: "I just think this is shocking, to decide to pursue and distort and twist the words of a father in order to pursue an attack on a son."
Mr Letts described the socialist academic as a "useful idiot" for "people that were promoting Marxism" during the Cold War.
Mr Letts added that Ralph Miliband had been "furious that we won the Falklands War. He wanted us to lose the Falklands War.
"Is that the behaviour of a man who loves his country? I'm not sure it is."
However, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, praising Ralph Miliband's military record, told the programme: "People who haven't served their country and fought for their country should really think before deciding that they have a monopoly on determining British values."
Meanwhile Ralph Miliband's biographer, Michael Newman, said the late academic "wanted a different kind of Britain" but "wasn't against Britain".
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