I never understand all the blowhards on here who are all "Well, I would NEVER go to such and such a country!" You see it all the time on the US threads, and I think it's really silly. Firstly, you not going won't make a shred of difference. Secondly, withholding your input into the economy doesn't help the locals. The problems in their country aren't their fault. Thirdly, when you focus on the worst aspect of a country, you also reject all the good things about it and all the things you might have learned from going there and experiencing it and talking to the people. You don't get to experience the country's history, architecture, art, culture, food, sights, ways, and people. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I don't think those are what I'd call standards. I think it's judgement of a kind that limits your experience of the world.
And, you know, Britain is a pretty nasty little country in many ways. There are many reasons for foreigners not to visit our country. They could decide they are not going to come here because of their moral standards. Would you understand that? If so, do you think that all tourists who come here have no standards?
When I say that Britain is a nasty little country in many ways, where to start?
We have a serious, endemic problem with child abuse. It's been going on in dozens of towns for a couple of decades. Remember Rotherham? There have been SO many similar rings in SO many towns here that have gone on for SO long. Child abuse is baked into our country, but no one ever talks about that fact, and the press are good at not ripping that veil off. They report on one town at a time, but they don't stitch it all together and say "Look - we are a national of child abusers. Why is that?" In addition to all the child abuse rings, there were all the famous child abusers, like Glitter and Savill and Harris.
“We’ve always known that the scale of sexual abuse, particularly of children – but all types of abuse – in the UK is absolutely massive,” said Dr Jon Bird, operations manager for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/2/6/the-uks-celebrity-sex-offenders.
Our disgusting record on child abuse would be a fantastic reason for foreigners to hold the standard that they will not visit such a gross place, no?
Then there was the vile Post Office scandal. Countless lives ruined, suicides....a national disgrace.
Then there is the undercover police scandal. They were trusted by their targets, and they repaid that trust by shagging them and impregnating them, living with them for years.
Then there's the fact that we have been lurching to the right for years.
And for a small island, we've had no shortage of unhinged murderers over the years. Plus, we only made marital rape illegal in the Nineties, and we have one of the most hide-bound and snobbish class systems in the world. I overheard a foreigner once say that it's really a caste system, and it's true, socially.
Not to mention that we have an inherently unfair system ourselves, with an utterly pampered and spoilt royal family that's threaded into our national culture and history, one which is showered with dozens and dozens of millions per annum that would be going to the public good if it wasn't being poured into the pockets of the RF via the duchies. And even with being treated to a lifestyle beyond imagining, some of them have been directly involved in rape and child abuse, or have been benefiting from connections with the American running such.
So, would you like it if foreigners with standards boycotted our country, making our economy even worse than it already is, and straining local businesses? We have MUCH to be ashamed of ourselves.