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.

well known exceptions

Rufus what is wrong in what I am saying?

Im not sure anyone has a massive issue with you saying that if someone has moved here and doesn’t like it they can leave

I dont think its necessarily that easy

And British people complain about this country all the time....especially about the weather in my case

I am technically English, born there to mostly English parents one of whom was in the RAF at the time. I don't sound English though because I haven't lived in England since I was a little girl and the abuse I've had on my last few trips to England has been eye opening. It's always good to know that my high earning hard working husband is a scrounger amongst other things purely because he sounds Scottish. I must admit I no longer correct people who make assumptions about where I am from.

Dh who has always classed himself as British no longer does so. He puts Scottish or Irish depending on the circumstances. I thought with his family background, he'd never give up on the Union but Brexit has shown what contempt a large chunk of England has for the rest of the UK. My in-laws met whilst working during the University summer holidays in England, they bonded because of nastiness handed out to the Northern Irish (MiL) and the Scottish (FiL) and nothing seems to have changed.

Anyway...I honestly have to get dressed, ive got the dentist at 10.20 so if anyone responds I’m not ignoring

I'm so sick and tired of foreigners complaining about our country, yet will happily move over here and don't mind dossing off on our benefits, having 10+ kids and a council home, being put first for operations and English people being moved back so that Europeans can have their operations first. English people not being able to see a doctor because of mass immigration and the surgeries and A&E cannot cope. These people wonder why we want Brexit and have had enough. It's fact we don't look after our own anymore because if we look after our own people we are called 'racist'.

Have you ever been to the Spanish 'costas'? This is exactly what British people do in Spain. My DP's accessed local clinics and dentists. My own DF had a major heart operation in a Spanish hospital, putting some Spaniard further down the list.
We live in 'clusters' of British communities; eat our 'British' food, from 'British' restaurants and shops; speak only English; moan about the 'locals'...I could go on.

“To be fair.. I have the right to say, if this country is so bad and you are unhappy in it why be here? Why not leave it if it is so bad a country.”

Of course you have. Who’s saying that the country is so bad?

It's strange that British schoolchildren are made to wear uniforms for years, apparently to teach them how to dress in the workplace, and yet some politicians think that a bright yellow t-shirt with a rude word written on it is appropriate. That's embarrassing.

(For the record I also think that the Brexit Party turning their backs was petty and looked silly).

Regarding TV adverts - Iran Bru tend to use non English actors. Generally Scottish ones. Shocking really. 😱😱

quite a few British people to have 10+ kids on benefits and sit on the dole

I have just copied and pasted what I said. Quite a few means quite a few. It doesn't mean 'all'. Just like 'quite a few' non white and mostly non EU migrants have 10+kids. If anyone said 'they have 10 kids on benefits, it's you.

I took USER comment to be sarcasm

For the record, I think the t shirts were a bit of a dick move.

But turning your back on an anthem being played by real musicians is unforgivable.

Janet, have you ever heard the term ‘whinging pom’? It is in current use in Australia to describe the attitude of British, but predominantly English migrants, who perpetually complain about their new country. They are often in told to go home if they don’t like it. Very few do!

SOrry, Janey, not Janet.

Once upon a time......countless thousands of British people moved to far away places and settled there and gave them new names, claiming those foreign countries as their 'Empire'. Some of these places we know today as India, America, Caribbean islands, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa .....but there are other places too. The British moaned about their culture, their beliefs and practices, how they dressed, how they spoke and of course, the weather..............and then, one day on mumsnet...........

It's also the parallel with the Nazis turning their backs in the Reichstag when they first got elected that is shocking. Farage has enough education to know this full well.

(Last post referred to the brexit party in Brussels)

Oh man all of janeys posts have gone

Now I’m never gonna find out about the adverts

And what country janey thinks i come from

I know my SPAG and is bad...but English is my first language, honest!!!

I'll take a shrewd guess that @Janey0808 has been shown the door.

I think both sides of some comments on here are grossly unfair. Janey, your comments are bordering on extremist and quite far right but some of the comments here about British immigrants are also unfair. We aren't all bad and disrespectful when we move to and visit other countries as English people and it is narrow minded to label us all that. It is also narrow minded to label and call us English people mostly lazy and on the dole. I do have to be honest I hear that a lot about English people that we all are on benefits and lazy that is also an unfair stance to take. Likewise, calling all foreigners benefit takers is completely judgemental.

Still, I'm sure Janey wasn't a Leave voter, right?

I think both the Brexit and Liberal Democrat MEPs behaviour was immature. However, ashamed is strong wording. I would only feel ashamed of my own behaviour. I am not responsible for the behaviour of others.