- Houston is not perfect, but wonderful in many ways, especially aesthetically for those who appreciate SW modernity and industrial landscapes.

- This is London is the Daily Mail – small point.

- There are many and frequent stories in the UK press pushing back against all forms of liberalism. The Daily Mail is a prime source of them – eg Melanie Phillips – and there’s plenty of pushback throughout society. It’s a real problem, but no worse than the American form of the disease as implemented in HR, polite society, the msm, victim lawsuits, government service, public schools…..but the absolute right to freedom of speech is a giant blessing for America. Well done the Anglo-Saxons who gave it you.

- My main point to you is that your secondhand stereotypes of the UK are a displacement activity for seeing the terrible mess America is in. You desperately need a Thatcher (her grandson is a Texan, maybe there’s hope), but you’re voting for Pelosi and Obama – dangerous jokes.

- Andrew Roberts’ History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 seems excellent on the whole subject.

- America will be able to look the UK in the eye when the term ‘restroom’ is replaced by the fine word ‘bog’.

Thanks for your comments. I’m not anti-UK (I’m 3/4 English myself), but the number and scope of the reports last month led me to post my opinions. I admire your optimism and wish Britain the best of luck, they need did it now.

1) In my defense, I’ve seen several blogs with similar stories, not just John’s. Also I’ve linked to stories from the Telegraph, This Is London, and Fox News, not just the Daily Mail. Having said that, I don’t live in the UK. If you, or any other commenters, can send me a link to an article championing individual rights and common sense against the oppressively idiotic bureaucracy in jolly old England, I would be happy to post them (and sleep better at night). Can’t defend Obama, and I don’t even want to try.

2) Way to hedge your bets.

3) Agree, mostly

4) Luckily, Second Amendment still works, so we’ll be able to fight off the invading hordes.

PS – I also lived on NJ, but never been to Houston.

1. Americans like John Hawkins, cited above, get their image of the UK from British newspapers especially The Daily Mail. In parenthesis I note how ignorant many Americans are about America itself. Hawkins has only just visited NYC for the first time and was blown away. What is it, a 2 hour flight from NC ? My wife, a New Yorker, had a media-fed image of Houston as a dump, before I took her there and she was blown away. End parenthesis. The image of the UK does warn of an obnoxious trend, but it’s far from pervasive, widely scorned, widely resisted and ridiculed. The British press is more muscular, more scurrilous,more interesting and less pc than the local monopolies which pass for newspapers here in the States. Bottom line, you’re getting false image of the whole. Your situation in the US is far more dangerous. Obama is a very very bad joke. He will pass, but the fact that maybe a majority of Americans want this sophomoric bullshitter for President says something upsetting about Americans.

2. My kids have dual nationality, so here’s hoping one of our countries gets its virtue back.

3. The socialization of Fannie and Freddie’s losses….a trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money….may trigger a loss of confidence in the “full faith and credit” of the USA. You guys have been loading up your children and grandchildren with the cost of today’s social programs….like Cronos eating his children. I fear more for the US than the UK…we’re less insular and used to adaption.

4. Altho you probably see our Moslem population as a poison pill, the best outcome would be an Anglosphere Economic Union and military alliance. That may not work soon, what with the reconquista and all.

One wonders what they are teaching the kids over there.

Recently, I actually witnessed an argument where a Brit was telling an American, in all seriousness that if it were not for Great Britain, Americans would be speaking german right now.

LOL