Anyone have good news to share about the U.K.? ??

The fact this thread is in the news and politics section and is asking for good news about the U.K. and people post general pleasant things which are not news or not specially about the U.K., or plain inaccurate means those postings can be challenged. Doesn’t make people moany or gloomongers or that they don’t like the U.K. or whatever interpretation those who are trying to jolly everyone along to agree with them put on it.

Ah well, you tried Urmston and so did lots of posters, but the gloombuckets seem to be drawn to this thread like wasps to an apple. The fact that it’s meant for good news and uplifting posts goes right by them.

To describe people as "wasps to an apple" is just plain rude lemongrove.

Lemon ?????

Sorry Jabberwok, what is the meaning of those faces?

It’s just an expression Eloethan

lemongrove Yes, and an unpleasant one, akin to referring to refugees as "swarms". You imply that you meant no disrespect but you don't seem so innocently naive to me.

I have cut obesity in Britain by 4st2lbs. Am now a healthy weight.

No Eloethan it has nothing to do with referring to ‘refugees’ so is not akin to anything at all.It’s an old country expression for being drawn to something.
Stop stirring.

Good for you Tigertooth ?

Congratulations Tigertooth ????

The sun is shining I have just driven the length of our Sea Front with my roof down,

Myself and his other Gran are attending eldest Grandsons leaving ceremony. He is off to Senior School in September and we are all very proud of his achievements!!!

I just don’t ‘get’ this thread.

I think, suziewoozie, it's just about anything that cheers us up but I agree a lot of it has nothing to do with good news in the UK.

Myself is/am? going to enjoy my small but lovely garden today.

Well I’ve got a pile of paperwork to get through and I’d like to do my tax return but I think it’ll be too hot soon.

It's not a thread about good news in the UK. It's about good news about the UK. Personal triumphs (not denigrating yours, Tigertooth, I think it's a fantastic achievement) and pleasures are just that, personal. They're not about the UK as a whole.

I think the veiled message behind the OP and the reason why it’s in the news and politics forum is to get people to believe the idea that Brexit is great for the U.K. and anyone who doesn’t believe in the dream is a gloom-monger or worse part of the swamp and should be eliminated. I’m sure most of us have personal reasons to be happy, but imho that’s not the objective of this thread.

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ a wonderful sunny day! Am off to meet GN friends for a leisurely pub lunch.

At a great pub in the UK.
Pubs in the UK are great, in or out of the EU btw.

Well, there are more people recognising that climate change is happening and they are trying to do something about it on a personal level. It might be too little too late or it might make a difference but it's heartening to see some communities making that effort - for instance to avoid single-use plastic, making do with what they already have and not rushing out to upgrade or buy latest models of this and that. I'm ashamed that it took me so long to up my game but I am trying very hard now! Who said 'make do and mend' was history?

This thread was set up to fail in order to place people in poor light so they could be called "wasps in an apple", gloom buckets, etc.

The OP is a political statement and there are always two sides (at least) to any political viewpoint. Today I hear some think we may be going into recession. So, it was seen either, as I say, to give some very rude, arrogant and disrespectful people (see, we can all play that game) a chance to be rude, arrogant and disrespectful of others views or it was set up from a far-right, rather fascist point of view to tell us how to think.

I think some of the personal achievements and loves of our country are wonderful but this was set up, in the OP, as a fallacious argument to persuade people all the problems of Brexit, all the dreadful lives some people are living, are all the fault of those who draw attention to them.

Gransnetters are simply not that stupid folks.

Original opening OP: Anyone have good news to share about the U.K.? ??267
14/07/2019 13:13 Urmstongran

Instead of gloom and doom (plenty about) how about we lift our spirits with any good news
we hear to cheer us up?

Now, try as I might and I've really given it a go I can't find anything in the opening OP that hints at, or alludes to, sodding Brexit. I read it that the OP was hoping that posters could relay or pass on any pleasant or uplfting news, about the UK, I didn't see any "veiled" or subliminal messages at all.

I've found this thread quite interesting, if only because its revealed which posters are able to see some positives in life, in an otherwise dangerous and uncertain world, and which posters are died in the wool pessimists; unable to see anything positive in the world and completely determined to suck the joy out of it for anyone else who can.

No it doesn't at all. It shows a bright and breezy " I'm alright Jack" attitude, rather fake in my opinion.

It also shows some quiet and thoughtful souls who are worried about the future.

Nobody can suck the joy from another human being, neither in the real world or the virtual world. If somebody had such power it would be an amazing thing.

btw, the word Brexit is mentioned in the opening post by the OP, which would suggest some sort of connection?

Chewbacca, you obviously only read what you want something to say - it was totally political as the example shows and yes, it does mention "sodding Brexit".

As in today:
“THE Wall Street banking giant JP ­Morgan is about to embark on a major hiring spree in the City, despite Jamie Dimon, the chief executive, previously warning about Brexit job losses.

The growth plans stand in contrast to repeated warnings made by the bank’s boss about the effect Brexit could have on UK staff numbers”

If you put up a political post on a politics thread you cannot then tell people how they must apply themselves to it. That is far, far too dictatorial and I agree with Lessismore very fake.

To give the OP the benefit of the doubt (although I have no idea why we should) it was, at the very least, confused.