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

Our ancestors who all inhabited this green and pleasant land went through good times and bad times.

Ours has been a very fortunate generation to have lived through good times.

We must do all we can to ensure that our children and grandchildren do not have to live through very bad times.

We owe it to them to do all that we can to STOP BREXIT.

We owe It to our grandchildren to see brexit through and to disentangle ourselves from the bullying corrupt EU. The rich mans club who cares little for the financial misery they cause to smaller vulnerable nations as they trap them further and further into debt. Who on earth wants to be a party to, and responsible for, other peoples despair!

The UK isn't one of the smaller vulnerable nations and isn't in the Eurozone. We are one of the strongest nations in the EU. Do you really care about smaller vulnerable nation, Jabberwok? How would you feel about increasing state aid to some of them? PS. I wouldn't mind disentangling myself form the bullying, corrupt UK government and becoming the US's poodle - I think our grandchildren would really thank us for that!

It’s just great to see this thread has grown legs! Thank you so much all you cheery and optimistic people for taking part.

It’s brilliant to have so many positive posts to read from maddyone, Mealybug, BradfordLass (big thank you for the gorgeous photos there!) plus great messages from wildswan GabriellaG54, dogsmother and BlueBelle, eazybee and Dee1012 for instance.

I hope we can continue add to this thread to celebrate and share the good news about the U.K. it reminds us that we have much to be proud of and it’s a nice change from putting ourselves down.
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Yep! A good dose of bread and circuses will keep the plebs happy.

The old Country is still a good place to live due to the unwritten rules of good behaviour that most people subscribe to. Teachers , nurses, doctors, paramedics, who keep on being conscientious despite forces of unreason and sheer criminality.

I'm not quite sure how this qualifies as good news, almost 2,000 years after the event

Err, I don't think Jesus would agree or indeed anyone who currently reads the Gospels.

Alan Turing on the currency - that is truly marvellous news. Such an amazing man, ahead of his time in so many things and sadly the victim of appalling bigotry.

So, add to the the good things about the UK, the astonishing brains which have contributed so very much to our present freedoms.

And our changed attitudes so that gay people are no longer routinely scorned, disrespected and even hounded to their deaths.

Yes!

BradfordLass, I'm still baffled why "news" that Christianity originated in Britain should be relevant to this thread, especially as it's not even true.

RationalWiki describes "The Drama of the Lost Disciples" (the book RosieLeah was describing) as:

"a pseudo-historical book by George F. Jowett. The book purports to trace the evidences of Joseph of Arimathea, the apostles, Mary and even Jesus in Britain.

The Drama of the Lost Disciples has gone through 16 editions (printed up to 2009 by Covenant Publishing) selling 55,000 copies (16th ed. preface). The book has sold so many copies based on its sensational and eccentric claims. The content however is dubious, ranging from entirely speculative, misquotes, unsourced assertions, to claims that are outright lies."

I'm sure it makes gripping fiction, but I still don't see why it's "good news".

PS. I agree with you about Alan Turing and am glad that there is more positive acceptance of diversity of all types. It just such a shame that Brexit and "Trumpism" have given some people an excuse to exhibit bigotry in other areas. I hope we're not going to go backwards.

Britain wasn't the first country to embrace Christianity, as RosieLeah claims. If the intention of this thread is to celebrate good news, maybe we could stick to facts not fantasy.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
We were talking with a young patriotic Canadian who had a quite different knowledge of history. He had no idea that penicillin, auld lang syne, telephones, tv, lighthouses, tarmac, raincoats etc were Scottish inventions but rather Canada was the place to be proud of.
It made me very happy actually. I think we should be proud of our own achievements as well as everyone else's.
A Sudanese refugee when looking at the river Tweed told me how beautiful the Nile is.
There's a newspaper called positive news which is full of good news stories.
www.positive.news

Some classic right wing authoritarian rhetoric on this thread. "See the world as I see it or you don't love our country" stuff.

Only the Leavers could think we need such a thread. The rest of us can see the good news of how things have improved over the last 40 years while being members of the EU. No need to be running what we have down all the time.

gg3 I have to grin to myself at some of the posts.

Trust you two.
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Might have known the gloom buckets would stick together.

You don't read or understand anything you don't agree with do you UG. I have just explained why I think this is a great country but you turn it into Newspeak - completely reversing what I have said. It is a great country; the only people who list their dislikes of the country as it is now are the Leavers.

Oh Only the Leavers could think we need such a thread I wonder why that might be GGMk3
Could you maybe think of a reason why that might be?

Just come onto this discussion, Grandad, can you give the ground a kiss from me ass well. Whats to celebrate, the wonderful weather which lifts your spirits. How generous the brits are in helping others in their time of need. And lastly that we have people who have a brain and are fighting to stay in the EU. Lastly the wonderful coffee shop down the road where I am now going.

Oh, for heaven's sake, stop wittering on about leave/remain, Brexit on this thread. There are plenty of other threads where all the bores (on this subject) can stick together and witter to each other.

Don't let it creep, like Ebola, and infect every other thread in this forum.

Well said Monica ????????????

One happy and celebratory thread about the UK is allowed surely!

I think they just can’t help themselves M0nica - like Pavlov’s dogs......

Wales now has the steepest street in the world, according to the Guinness Book Of Records, taking this accolade from Dunedin NZ ?
There are pics on the ipad news, the people who live in the Welsh village are very happy indeed, as they can now put up signs saying this ( and Dunedin will have to take their signs down.) Increased tourism.

No M0nica I will not be dictated to by the far right. The only reason you could need a thread like this is because of the "if onlies" who are generally Leave voters. This could try is great, good things happen here and where things are not as great as we would like we work to change them. The only people who want fundamental change of our whole way of life because, the tell us, things were better in the past, are the Leavers.

I think threads like this are quite tricky to navigate in tone and content. I like lemon’s contribution about the steepest street in the world - it’s quirky, factual and non controversial. There’s also a difference between sharing good news - which is something happening here and now. ( ie the street) and generalised what is ‘good’ about the UK which can result in discord.

You're quite right M0nica and Lemon, and I'm sorry to have allowed myself to be rattled! It's a truly beautiful morning here, so who couldn't be glad to be living in one of the best countrys in the world and be optimistic!