Britain falls out of love with America [Survey for The Telegraph.]

The Telegraph (Britain) ^ | 03JUL06 | Anthony King

[Kenny Bunkport]

Sod off, you limeys.

[familyop]

"They are more civilized than we are, but they are destroying their country with illegals, and islamic scum."

I've argued with some of their politicians (including Conservatives) and members of highly regarded organizations (e.g., RSA members). At least some of those who are educated tend to discard objective evidence--especially when vanities get in the way.

IMO, there's only one good kind of nationalism: nationalism expressed according to good deeds.

[impatient]

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

-- Winston Churchill

[Frank_2001]

Yeah well, it'll be a long time before the Queen gets MY vote!;)

[HungarianGypsy]

A considerable minority, 19 per cent, replied that they would but more than three times that proportion, 67 per cent, indicated that they would prefer to stay put or go to some other country."

That's interesting! I have read posts of a lady from England who now lives in Scotland. She said the English bash America, but many would jump at the chance to live here.

[familyop]

"A related post."

And here's another related post.

[stephenjohnbanker]

No arguement there!

[stephenjohnbanker]

There is some truth to that.

[familyop]

"barf alert."

The Telegraph has been the English daily most friendly to the USA. Most of its editorials have been good to us. The YouGov poll that was done for the Telegraph, however, gathered its subscribers' opinions.

[teletech]

I can't speak for other Americans but THIS American won't lose 1 seconds sleep worrying about what Briton's think.

[Rte66]

*Michael Jackson doesn't live here anymore.*

[familyop]

To correct something that I wrote regarding those polled:

"YouGov elicited the views of 1,962 adults across Great Britain online between June 26 and 28. The data have been weighted to conform to the demographic profile of British adults as a whole. YouGov abides by the rules of the British Polling Council."

So it including more than subscribers to the Telegraph (who might have given us a nicer review).

[NutCrackerBoy]

Bump.

[familyop]

...included, even.

[Gunslingr3]

Well over half of those interviewed regard the US as an imperial power bent on dominating the world by one means or another.

The crux of the matter. The sun never sets on the American Empire these days.

"The forces of the United States military are located in nearly 130 countries around the world performing a variety of duties from combat operations, to peacekeeping, to training with foreign militaries. Some of these deployments have existed for nearly 50 years, as in Japan, Germany, and South Korea, while other deployments have more recent origins such as the current occupation of Iraq.

As of January 2005, there are some 250,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen deployed in support of combat, peacekeeping, and deterrence operations. This figure does not include those forces normally present in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom or Japan unless bases at those locations are actively supporting a combat operation. Furthermore, tours of duty in these locations are routine and not considered hardship tours. If one were to include these forces the number of deployed troops worldwide would be around 350,000."

[Sender]

Worth repeating; Independence Day celebrates our parting from...England. I still have a special admiration for them as all my ancestry is British. They are simply temporarily mad. After they get over their Muslim-coddling and kitchen knife bans and Red Ken, they'll come around.

[Rte66]

Oh, I thought our "empire" consisted of Puerto Rico and one Virgin Island. Oh, and the District of Columbia.

[lafroste]

Where is MadIvan? I'd like to hear his take on this poll.

[familyop]

"The sun never sets on the American Empire these days."

..."empire?" We Americans loyal to the USA are not fond of "empire." Empire is for rearward-gazing Europeans and Euro-identity Americans.

And we keep military forces overseas in order to stop attacks from coming to us on our own soil (and while we're at it, to defend allies). Every conservative American knows that.