To ask you to share what you like about the UK

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The last few weeks, months, years have felt so divisive: the ref, multiple elections, polarised debate, cultural/political/environmental crises etc.
In the spirit of Christmas, I'd love to escape that for a bit. Especially today. We don't know who will govern us tomorrow. Chances are millions of people won't like the outcome. In the meantime, can we celebrate what's good about the place and what brings us together?
I am being unashamedly cheesy here, but I think it would be great to be positive for once!

Good old english castles
English garden in bloom in summer.
Countryside
British wildlife

Diversity
(Generally) tolerant
Democracy
Pubs
Fish n chips
Sunday roasts

I was on the tube a while back, just in London for the day and this lovely teenager got up and gave me his seat. I'm not pregnant or anything, there was no need, but he insisted. He was so nice.

I saw James Taylor in Hyde park at the summer festival last summer and it was the highlight of my life.

I love that the Queen spoke Irish when she was here in Ireland, one word meant the world. She is absolutely fantastic. There are very few older women to look up to, especially over 60. I'm not wording this very well but she is devoted to her job, (that she didn't even apply for) she just got landed with it and I really admire the way she faces everything.

The foldline.com, my absolute favourite spot on earth.

Woolly hugs, that is pretty amazing too.

I also love that the 'chips and gravy' debate can keep a group arguing for hours

Not half as long as the jam or cream first debate

The countryside with its rich colours.
Some of our beautiful buildings such as castles and churches.
Real ale.
Wensleydale cheese.
Some of our theatre and cinema.
Her Majesty the Queen.
Cricket, especially at Lords.

Dogs in pubs
Pigs in blankets
Selection tins
Percy pigs

Its proximity to France

The food - fish'n'chips, Sunday roast, sausages, chocolate
The weather - no extremes
Pubs

Whenever I'm away from home, I miss

British music
Wide variety of food available from all over the world
The fact it isn't too hot or too cold
Lack of big / biting insects
Carpets in cold weather
Salt and vinegar crisps

The fact that Southerners don't think they have a regional accent :)
And the endless North/South banter.

The landscape, the beaches, the countryside, the history and all the old stuff, fish n chips, curry, all the food, tea, booze, Christmas, the socialising, the humour, fleabag, Dickens, the music, the weather (apart from icy rain), the lack of mosquitoes, real fires, multiculturalism, freedom, the NHS.

The weather (all of it)
Pubs
Our history and old buildings
Proper tea
Curry

I didn’t grow up in the UK and used to be a patriot to the place I grew up in. I used to home negative views or England due to its foreign policy.

But that changed.. I learnt to appreciate few beautiful things and realised that every culture and country has the good and bad and we should take the good and work on changing the bad.

What I love about England are many things but mainly:

THE DIVERSITY of its people and culture. And I hope this doesn’t change after brexit.

Tea, marmite, pigs in blankets

The local pub quiz night
The cliff path
Fish and chips
Scons jam first this is Cornwall FFS
Listening to the sea while in bed
Flora day
Rugby union.......The Six Nations
Santa coming in on the lifeboat
All the little boats with Christmas lights
My Mum's pasties
Tennis at Wimbledon
Pretty English Gardens

The NHS. We are so lucky to have it.

Free education
The NHS
Our literary and cultural heritage - Shakespeare and The Beetles to name but a very small few
Manchester (best city in the U.K.)
The countryside
Fish and chips
Easy access to Europe
Us being a nation of dog lovers

London

The NHS
Our beautiful scenery
Our sense of humour
Our tv (especially the BBC) and the great programmes they produce/ broadcast
Our history
Castles, stately homes etc
Great indian restaurants (they are so awful in France)
Great museums and art galleries, a lot of which are free unlike other countries
Our obsession with the weather
Not having huge spiders
Not having tornadoes, hurricanes etc
British music (the music today and how so many groups and artists have had such a huge influence on music over the years)

How did I forget Wimbledon? Oh and London - my favourite city and one I never get tired of visiting

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Has anyone else spotted it?? (As my head explodes with frustration).

Good TV programmes and channels
Great literature and libraries
Sense of humour and eccentricities
Free art galleries
Vibrant cities with great nightlife
Tolerance and open mindedness (on the whole)

I was born here. It feels like home.
The Pennines. So beautiful.
The feeling that decency, honour, straightforwardness - whilst often absent in this age - are there, waiting to be rediscovered.
Our insistence on not falling apart - eg Manchester after the Arena bombing, the people flatly refusing to hate each other.
Great music and musicians.
Old buildings, and especially old windows.
I like the Queen, too.
Crumbly Lancashire cheese.
Yorkshire Gold tea.
Waitrose Spiced Fruit cake.

Beautiful old buildings
Diversity
Availability of goods
Cash machines (seriously you can do SO MUCH from a cash machine)
Rememberance day
Period dramas
Political comedy
The amount of culture - days out
Libraries
Nhs
Pubs
Gastro pubs
Convenience - things like supermarket deliveries, click and collect
The countryside
Ordinance survey maps
Choral singing
Fish n chips, pies, apple crumble and custard, pork pies, scotch eggs, branston pickle, crisps in all flavours, shortbread, mincepies, pizza express.
Pantomimes!
#dogsatpollingstations

Day trips to London/museums/art galleries
Beautiful countryside
Mild summers
Occasional snow/sledging
Devon and Cornwall coastline
Harbours, marinas and boats
Lake District
Cotswold villages
Gastro pubs
British sense of humour
British cinema
Period dramas
Friends from different nationalities
National Trust properties, castles and gardens
M&S Food and Waitrose
John Lewis
Waterstones
British pop music
Choral singing
Musicals and theatre
Independent gift shops
Dark chocolate
Cheese shops
Caffe Nero
Black cabs
Christmas trees
Royal pageantry