Reply #98: You are totally entiteld to your opinion.

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However, if you're discounting my opinion ONLY because you think I don't live there...well, do you think that's a good enough reason?

I could just as easily say I discount your opinion because you've never lived anywhere else, or because you don't have the benetif of having been an outsider looking in.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, you and I both know that you disagree with me simply because you have some very firm opinions which NOTHING would shake. Say I do live in the UK, you still wouldn't believie me. You're trying to find reasons not to agree with me, and you really need something don't you, because it's not enough just to say my arguments are bad, or whatever. You need a little more than that.

Incidentally, the probelm with every culture is that, to replicate its hold or power or whatever, it has to convince people of certain things. I think it's very much a part of the British culture to have the powerful convince the masses to do things against their best interest by encouraging them to divide themselves on the left. It's alwasy the far left end of Labour which destroys Labour. They've done this overa and over again. It's why you had a century of one term labour leaders until Blair. Now the right is encouraging the left to do it again, and the result will be a Tory PM if the right is successful. Perhaps if you could get a view from the outside you'd be able to see the mechanisms the right uses to achieve this. You could start by looking more closely at the things Bush has done to sabotage Blair.