How do you feel about this for Germany?

[kmo0416]

As a British person, how does it make you feel to know that Germany has a large economy than Britain and is more powerful than Britain?

Are you jealous or resentful or not?

Really ? Have you heard about Brexit ?

I spend a reasonable amount of time in other EU countries and have close professional relationships with teams in several EU countries. Poland, Denmark are doing well, France and Germany are very similar to us but with much more belief in their country's innate superiority, Spain has done really well lately but still has serious unemployment. Most countries are dealing with the same issues we are.

Most people in England have a "we're English, of course everything is shit, what do you expect" mentality, even when the reality is different.

I am a massive Remainer, but I'm still not convinced the EU can get its act together to be the force it needs to be.

‘Most people in England have a "we're English, of course everything is shit, what do you expect" mentality, even when the reality is different.’

Is that reality London and the south east you’re talking about cos things really are shit in parts of the UK ?

And better beer too. Can't beat a nice German Pilsener or Helles and Weißbeer is delicious despite being potent cause of hangovers.

WTAF? 😱

What a weird and (frankly!) horrible post OP!

Have you ever been to Germany? Do you know many German people? I have…I lived and worked in Germany for 11 years. It’s a beautiful country with great people.

Why in the world would you think anyone would be upset by their larger economy (or anything else)?

Pretty much, yes.

Indeed, some of us in the UK don't even live in England at all. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Why would anyone feel anything like that about The German economy?
Weird question, almost as if someone is trying to write an article or similar

No issue with Germany doing well economically. As for "power", the people of the UK freely chose in 2016 to decrease its international influence. It's unfortunate that the Conservative governments of David Cameron and Theresa May used the vote as an excuse to abandon their manifesto promise to protect the UK's place in the single market, thus hurting the country financially for no benefit or reason, but at least their party is decisively out of power now.

I mean more in an underlying sense of patriotism. The French are deeply, deeply patriotic, buy French, are firmly convinced that the French way is the best way. Whereas when someone publishes a list of shit towns in England, people start complaining that their town isn't in it, because it's clearly shit, if that makes sense?

Yes have you heard about dual passport holders? (UK & EU)

Oh the French also love to complain that everything in France is shit too.

Until the conversation turns to other countries and suddenly France is the best at everything. But also shit.

Just because there were massive lies told during the Brexit campaign and financial and other disadvantages as a result (although, to balance, there are a lot of people who will see that as a price worth paying to regain sovereignty - in the same way as any country seeking to leave a bigger union accepts that they will likely be financially poorer, at least in the early days), in no way does that mean that we're on our knees.

The UK is a very far from perfect place to live, but I bet I could show you 100 other countries - maybe 150 - that you would absolutely choose to live in the UK in preference to.

We're actually thousands of islands - and we aren't the majority occupants of one of the two largest islands that you were probably referring to!

We are a major power, though - for better or for worse. That's precisely why we're in the G7; they didn't pick the names of the members out of a hat! We're long past the days of the British Empire (thankfully), but we are still an influential major player on the world stage.

Quite a few I’d choose to live in but now can’t as well, that right got snatched away 10 years ago. And no, I wouldn’t want to live in Sudan or Angola but we aren’t a third word country so not a good comparison.

Indeed, there are still plenty of countries that are as pleasant or more so to live in (although none of them, like us, are Utopia)... but I'm sick of the people coming from a position of huge privilege who condemn the UK as a terrible place to live now.

Brits even often describe us as 'a third-world country' in many aspects; but it's all ridiculous privileged hyperbole.