Sixty Percent of British and US Citizens Now Not Recognize Their Country

Voters are deeply pessimistic about the state of Britain today, believing that society is broken and heading in the wrong direction, a Populus poll for The Times has found.

[ If you have traveled in Britain in the last 20 years you would know that the UK leads the USA in demise by 15 years. Now the British are finally finding their lives unbearable. Malaise & Demise is the future of Bend, so studying those on an accelerated slippery slope of decline is very important in order to understand our future. During the last decade Britain experience also a housing boom, the political elite opened the door to millions of immigrants that created a 'housing demand' and the majority of people enjoyed virtual equity, but today like Bend, they're under-water and very "pissed off" at the outcome of the 1998-2008 Real Estate Ponzi Bubble. ]

Nearly three fifths of voters say that they hardly recognise the country they are living in, while 42 per cent say they would emigrate if they could.

But worries over the pace of social change and dislocation are balanced by the belief that life will get better, according to the survey undertaken at the weekend.

It suggests that 70 per cent believe that society is now broken, echoing a Conservative campaign theme of the past two years, while 68 per cent say people who play by the rules get a raw deal and 82 per cent think it is time for a change.

The snapshot of Britain also confirms, however, that the battle between the parties has tightened with Labour two points up at 30 per cent.

Women, working-class people and Tory voters were more likely to say that they hardly recognise their own country.

Overall, 64 per cent think that Britain is going in the wrong direction and just 31 per cent believe it is on the right track.

This is a widely used measure of mood in the United States where 57 per cent of people think America is going wrong and 37 per cent believe it is on the right track.

[ Probably always been this way 2/3 saying that life sucks, and 1/3 saying that life is great. Well we know who has the good paying job, and who is getting shafted. Today's Bend the 1/3 are gubmint workers with the best pay and benefit, the 2/3 are the under-employed. Then there is the handful of elites like Hollern and Moss that rule the plantation and give orders to the Gubmint workers. Slavery in simply a new form, nothing new under the sun. ]

It is not all gloom. Three fifths (60 per cent) of those polled say they look to the future with optimism, against 38 per cent who are looking forward with anxiety. While 45 per cent say Britain’s best years are behind us, 50 per cent say that they are still to come.

More than half the public (55 per cent) say that their children’s lives will be better than their own, while 37 per cent say that they will be worse.

Voters’ main fire is directed at political institutions: 73 per cent say politics is broken in Britain and 77 per cent say there are far fewer people in public life that they admire than there used to be. The poll suggests anger at MPs who have had to repay expenses. A third say that they will vote against their local MP if he or she had been required to repay money.

[ Interesting that most blame for the demise is on immigrants. That the ruling party 'Labour' caters to immigrant votes. That the welfare class is now the most powerful voting block. I really think that Orygun could well elect 'poly-tickians' who provide the best 'comfort', e.g. food-stamps, free housing, free transportation. In other words destroy all incentive to work. We never really had jobs in Orygun, its now an exhausted resource state. Its funny that so many come to retire, but their children have no hope of employment. So in many ways I think that Bend is full of immigrants like Britain, and their spawn is like Bend children from California. Bored and un-employed. Bend is desert, its not the British isles, and Bend never ruled the world. But we ( city taxpayers ) have spent 100's of millions recruiting retirees to move here and buy houses ( Hollern ) too big for themselves. Now our poly-tickians cater to these retirees whose concern is their spawn is pampered. Should be an interesting future in Bend. In summary while HOLLERN & MOSS may have made Billions on the 1998-2008 Ponzi scheme of promoting "Bend as Paradise", the immigrants did not make this city a better place. ]

David Cameron claimed yesterday that his generation of Tories were better placed than the Government to “fix broken politics”, and unveiled new rules that would bar former ministers in the private sector from lobbying government for two years.