To be embarrassed to be British?

[ReasonablyIntelligent]

I've just seen on the news that the 29 Brexit Party MEPs all turned their backs (quite literally) during the European anthem in yesterday's opening session to the European Parliament.

Regardless of Pro-Brexit / Anti-Brexit debates, this is deeply deeply inappropriate, insanely undiplomatic and will have done nothing other than make the UK look ridiculous, childish and plain rude.

I'm ashamed to be represented by these people and the way things are going, ashamed to be a part of a country that is behaving like this.
Everyone else in Europe must think we are dirt.

Okay. So for the non-english people on this thread. I have a genuine question for you. Answer this honestly as much as it kills you. How would you feel if I moved to your country and moaned about your ethics, laws, beliefs but still lived there and didn't mind using your benefits, using your free healthcare and wanting to be treated equally to you?

I'm non English, I'm Scottish. Please do move to Scotland, you will get educated out of your racism.

“How would you feel if I moved to your country and moaned about your ethics, laws, beliefs but still lived there and didn't mind using your benefits, using your free healthcare and wanting to be treated equally to you?”

I’ll answer, although I am British. I am sure I would hate it. Can you give some examples of people doing this, please?

You have just said white people mostly are on the dole with 10+ children

No she didnt

Yes, yes I am far right

Least surprising post of the year 🙄

ar right for calling someone out on an ignorant comment that all english people are on the dole and claim benefits

She didnt say that either

None of you have answered my question

You asked for non english people to answer

You got a Scottish person...and an Irish one if bellini comes back

Thats 2!

I answered your question!

And simon and i really want to know about the adverts

Please

None of you have answered my question lol. Just jumped on the racist bandwagon as per usual yawn

I answered you! Can you read anything other than Mein Kampf?

They wrote that it is mostly white people on the dole with 10+ kids

No they said a fair few

No one should be spreading hate, neither YOU nor the hate preachers I assume you're referring to here.
No one should commit criminal acts. If they do they should be punished. If you care about the victims of grooming gangs you should turn your frustration against the system that allowed it to go unpunished.

Who is defending it?

Im not...i think its a large handful at most!!

I dont think that many people have 10+ children

And to be fair

I didn’t even notice that posters original post

I was much too taken with your advert claims

And then it got on to us all be foreign...so that distracted me as well

on't judge all English people then get defensive and pull your stragetic racist card on me

Who are you talking to

Its much easier to use names

I’ll assume me

Please point out where i have called you racist

There is a lot more racial diversity in adverts. After decades of very little to none. Surely people have noticed?

catherine

Of course ive noticed racial diversity

jane said non English

I have the right to say, if this country is so bad and you are unhappy in it why be here

Of course you do

RubberTreePlant
The idiot Brexit Party are the ones 'behaving like this'. Not the national government or the country as a whole.

Do you get embarrassed by everything every political party ever does?

They're representing the UK, and TBH they're representing the national feeling more accurately than any of the other parties, and the rest of Europe knows that - we've been told so often enough

@Janey0808 I'm interested in the discussion about adverts - are you referring to tv ads or advertising in general? I genuinely haven't noticed that there has to be a non-English person in them, I recall the well exceptions (Kevin Bacon for example) but I can't think of too many with non-English (or rather non-British people in them).

Can you give some examples please? It's a valid point to raise and I'm very happy to be corrected as I admit I do have a habit of FF through ads on tv where possible! I still feel that there is a huge lack of diversity in advertising, but acknowledge that that is only my perspective.

jane said non English

Ah. Did you mean non-white then Jane.

Or indigenous English - 6 generations or more etc?