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> There's a similar story happening with our rail lines No, there's a similar story happening with everyone's rail lines. There's a curious thing bout Britain

• LightG 4y ago
  Britain is broken. This isn't the place to debate it, but we're currently a rudderless, borderline second world country. It's going to take a generation to recover (let alone thrive) from what the last decade of flagshagging idiots have done to this once great country.
  • dragonwriter 4y ago
    > This isn't the place to debate it, but we're currently a rudderless, borderline second world country. You are teetering on the brink of alliance with the Soviet Union? (The first/second/third world thing originally referred to cold war alignment: first and second were US and Soviet spheres, third non-aligned; later first- and third-world got adopted as synonyms for “developed“ and “less developed”, but second-world is never used in that economic sense.)
    • LightG 4y ago
      Well, I'm using it in an economic and social sense. Glad I could clarify. Edit: and now my annoyance has settled down, I accept your correction. Thank you. Second division is more appropriate.
  • smcl 4y ago
    That may be, but by and large the loudest voices who make those complaints are usually just whining about immigrants, things being "too woke", the colour of their passport or whatever the flavour of the month target of hate is. They've little interest in looking at making people's lives better, they only seem interested in personal grievances