Britain has more billionaires than any other country

[Count_Lothian]

Well Britain has ruled the world , shaped it too. All those lines in the sand and lumping together tribes that loathe one another, helps with the economics as well.
I think it is the gene pool of choice as well. British white genes are just the most sought after in the here and after as well. Lots of Karmic mechanics to get in there.

I have Indian friends , and if any one else experienced this, just jump in.

So they have this little boy, and another had a little girl . So two different times this happened, in front of me.

When people gathered around they all were exclaiming how "White" they looked. "Oh look how white he looks!" I sort of was surprised the first time this happened. Knowing these people really well for over thirty years I questioned the whole thing.
One of the daughters said that the more white you look the better chances and doors are opened to you.

So there you go, white is tops. Don't shoot the messenger.

Rule Britannia!

Downtown Montreal in the heart of the city King Edward rules the Landscape with Britannia bold as brass protecting us from that Malois crowd

 

[Spade]

I think it is the gene pool of choice as well. British white genes are just the most sought after in the here and after as well.

I have done my best to counteract that myth.

 

[Sal]

Well Britain has ruled the world , shaped it too. All those lines in the sand and lumping together tribes that loathe one another, helps with the economics as well.
I think it is the gene pool of choice as well. British white genes are just the most sought after in the here and after as well. Lots of Karmic mechanics to get in there.

I have Indian friends , and if any one else experienced this, just jump in.

So they have this little boy, and another had a little girl . So two different times this happened, in front of me.

When people gathered around they all were exclaiming how "White" they looked. "Oh look how white he looks!" I sort of was surprised the first time this happened. Knowing these people really well for over thirty years I questioned the whole thing.
One of the daughters said that the more white you look the better chances and doors are opened to you.

So there you go, white is tops. Don't shoot the messenger.

Rule Britannia!

Downtown Montreal in the heart of the city King Edward rules the Landscape with Britannia bold as brass protecting us from that Malois crowd

yes I've had a similar experience... was shocked when it happened.

I was in my 20's at the time. I was working in retail on the sales floor. It was a hot summers day and we were standing and staring out the window. This guy walked past who was built like OMG...he had on a muscle shirt and tight white pants...I turned to my friend who was also watching and said...look at that...did you SEE that? Her reply to me was: blue-eyed, white girls like you always love the really black guys. And she turned and walked away. I couldn't even move for a full minute as I busily processed conflicting thoughts and emotions one of them being...did I hear that right?

 

[Blackleaf]

Rule Britannia!

3.2% economic growth for the UK expected for 2014, the best performance of the world's richest countries.

The US and its Canadian economic appendage are forecast to grow 2.6% this year.

 

[Count_Lothian]

yes I've had a similar experience... was shocked when it happened.

I was in my 20's at the time. I was working in retail on the sales floor. It was a hot summers day and we were standing and staring out the window. This guy walked past who was built like OMG...he had on a muscle shirt and tight white pants...I turned to my friend who was also watching and said...look at that...did you SEE that? Her reply to me was: blue-eyed, white girls like you always love the really black guys. And she turned and walked away. I couldn't even move for a full minute as I busily processed conflicting thoughts and emotions one of them being...did I hear that right?

Finally someone that doesn't need me to type in purple to get me.

 

[Blackleaf]

You have those remnants of the British in the same way that the Romans left behind viaducts, baths and long walls in Britain.

 

[Trex]

Another load of needy, self gratifying bull droppings from Blackleaf.

A Brit constantly droning on about the glories of the UK to a Canadian forum, talk about a guy always bringing sandwiches to a banquet.

Blackleafs list of UK billionaires consists of a bunch of guys who live and or work in other countries and just happen to hold a UK passport as a second or even third place passport of convenience.

Take the Weston clan….they are all Canadians .
Just because they own a ton of UK businesses and investments and a few of them hold UK passports of convenience means nothing in regards to their true home nations.

Lets look at the numbers on the world’s richest countries per person:
The IMF says: #1 Qatar, #2 Luxemburg, #3 Singapore, the USA at #6, Canada at #9 and the UK at # 21. Bummer for the UK.

The World Bank says: #1 Qatar, #2 Macau, #3 Luxemburg, the USA comes in at #9,
Canada at #20, and the UK at #26.
Double bummer for the UK.

The CIA rankings say: #1 Qatar, #2 Lichtenstein, #3 Bermuda, the USA comes in at #8, Canada at # 11, and the UK at #23.
Triple bummer for the UK.

Global Finance 2013: #1 Qatar, #2 Luxemburg, #3 Singapore, USA at #7, Canada at
# 11 and the good old UK bottom crawling at #23.
So that about covers that.

Next the world’s billionaires?
Forbes richest for this year #1 Bill Gates USA, #2 Carlos Slim Mexico, #3 Warren Buffett USA.
In fact of the worlds top 12 billionaires 10 of them are Americans.
Where does Canada fit in to this list of billionaires? The Thomson family at # 25.
How does the UK stack up?
The richest Brit comes in at #82
Pathetic really.

We know Canada has been rated internationally as having the wealthiest middle class in the world.

But how about national happiness and prosperity?
Legatum Institute 2013 rankings are:
#1 Norway
#2 Switzerland
#3 Canada
The USA comes in at #11.
The UK slinks in at #16.

In other words the UK pretty much sucks as a place to live.
The smartest possible thing a reasonably well-educated and hard working citizen of
the UK could do would be to immigrate to Canada or Australia/NZ as fast as is humanly possible.

Bragging to Canadians about how great the UK is much like a small child flexing his muscles at his father.

And whom just happens to run the UK's national banking system and it's currency?
A Canadian.
Amazing that.

 

[Blackleaf]

The smartest possible thing a reasonably well-educated and hard working citizen of
the UK could do would be to immigrate to Canada or Australia/NZ as fast as is humanly possible.

So why is it that the vast majority of UK emigrants to Canada and Australia always return to Britain because they discover they don't like the lifestyle of those countries? It's a well-known fact that a huge chunk of British expats in Canada and Australia find both countries dull and tedious and return to the UK as soon as they can.

Canada, especially, turns out to be incredibly boring with extremely long, dark, depressing, FREEZING winters. When the British are celebrating warm spring sunshine, the Canadians are still suffering freezing temperatures and snow.

Even Australia, with its hot, sunny weather and people having barbecues on the beach, always turns out to be a bitter disappointment for British expats, and they return home in no time at all.

There is NOTHING to suggest that life in Canada is better than it is in Britain, and EVERYTHING to suggest that life in Britain is better than it is in Canada. Despite what certain official "stats" may say, the real evidence points to Britain having a higher quality of life than Canada.

You may think that Canada's a great place to live, but then you've probably never lived in a hip and happening place like Britain.

Revealed: Why thousands of Britons who emigrated to Australia are returning home | Mail Online

No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada | Mail Online

 

[Sal]

You may think that Canada's a great place to live, but then you've probably never lived in a hop and happening place like Britain.

yup, been there, done that, and came HOME again

 

[Blackleaf]

yup, been there, done that, and came HOME again

Good for you.

Can you provide stats which show that a large chunk of Canadian expats in Britain find the country dull and tedious and return to Canada in no time, in the same way that British expats return home from Canada and Australia in no time?

If Canada is so good, why is its population half that of Britain's in a much larger land area, and a tenth that of America's, a country almost the same size as Canada?

 

[gerryh]

Good for you.

Can you provide stats which show that a large chunk of Canadian expats in Britain find the country dull and tedious and return to Canada in no time, in the same way that British expats return home from Canada and Australia in no time?

can YOU provide stats to support YOUR claim?

 

[Spade]

Holy Crikey, I done gave Gerry a thumbs-up!

 

[Blackleaf]

can YOU provide stats to support YOUR claim?

Yeah. Canada's population. 32 million people in a vast landmass shows people just don't want to go there. England, just one of the four main parts of the UK, has 53 million people.

And this guy was glad to return to the UK from Canada, and he has warned other Brits about moving there: No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada | Mail Online

For Britons considering the latest blandishments to move to the Land of the Maple Leaf, the argument tends to go like this: Why carry on hacking away in the UK, paying a monstrous mortgage on a house, battling through traffic and public transport while being taxed within an inch of my life when I could be making the same money, living in a much bigger house, getting lots of fresh air and at least getting good schools and health care for my high taxes?

On the surface, of course, this makes a lot of sense.

But as someone who, in the course of my reporting duties from North America, has visited Canada on more occasions than I care to remember, I should warn you that there are a number of other factors to consider before you wave goodbye to Blighty.

First, the climate makes Britain's look positively Mediterranean. The winters drag on for months, with temperatures well below freezing.

The nights are interminable. And in summer you have a choice between extremely humid and dry and windless. You're either sitting in a steam room or a sauna.

In Toronto, an entire subterranean network of passages and shopping malls has been built for its inhabitants to scurry around all winter.

London feels like Nassau by comparison. And don't think for one moment that there will be enough diversions indoors to distract from the climate.

Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain. Its museums and orchestras are resoundingly second tier, though it may have an edge in country music festivals.

This is, after all, the home of Shania Twain, whose full-throated warblings make Dolly Parton sound sophisticated.

In the dramatic arts, Canada's greatest recent contribution - unless you include Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson - is the incomprehensible, semi-nude contortion act of Cirque du Soleil. And as for its newspapers, they are lifeless and hobbled by the provincialism which divides the country.

Sure, Canada has been through a food revolution similar to Britain's, but still the way to a Canadian's heart is not through fancy Newfoundland oysters, but with ' poutine' - chips smothered with cheese curds and gravy. It makes a chip butty look like the healthy option.

Then there's its politics. However tawdry and disappointing the British politicians may sometimes seem, the Canadian version is no better. Canada now has a conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, but for most of the 20th century it was run by the Left-of-centre Liberal Party which created a culture of big government and high taxes.

As the Canadian poet Irving Layton once said, the Canadian political and intellectual communities' have a tendency to regard ' cowardice as wisdom, philistinism as Olympian serenity and the spitefulness of the weak as moral indignation'.


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[Spade]

I think Layton also said, "When I placed my hand upon her knee, by the way she moved away, I could tell her devotion to poetry was not perfect!"

Sorry, if I didn't get the quote just right, I couldn't check on the net.

 

[gerryh]

Yeah. Canada's population. 32 million people in a vast landmass shows people just don't want to go there. England, just one of the four main parts of the UK, has 53 million people.

And this guy was glad to return to the UK from Canada, and he has warned other Brits about moving there: No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada | Mail Online

For Britons considering the latest blandishments to move to the Land of the Maple Leaf, the argument tends to go like this: Why carry on hacking away in the UK, paying a monstrous mortgage on a house, battling through traffic and public transport while being taxed within an inch of my life when I could be making the same money, living in a much bigger house, getting lots of fresh air and at least getting good schools and health care for my high taxes?

On the surface, of course, this makes a lot of sense.

But as someone who, in the course of my reporting duties from North America, has visited Canada on more occasions than I care to remember, I should warn you that there are a number of other factors to consider before you wave goodbye to Blighty.

First, the climate makes Britain's look positively Mediterranean. The winters drag on for months, with temperatures well below freezing.

The nights are interminable. And in summer you have a choice between extremely humid and dry and windless. You're either sitting in a steam room or a sauna.

In Toronto, an entire subterranean network of passages and shopping malls has been built for its inhabitants to scurry around all winter.

London feels like Nassau by comparison. And don't think for one moment that there will be enough diversions indoors to distract from the climate.

Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain. Its museums and orchestras are resoundingly second tier, though it may have an edge in country music festivals.

This is, after all, the home of Shania Twain, whose full-throated warblings make Dolly Parton sound sophisticated.

In the dramatic arts, Canada's greatest recent contribution - unless you include Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson - is the incomprehensible, semi-nude contortion act of Cirque du Soleil. And as for its newspapers, they are lifeless and hobbled by the provincialism which divides the country.

Sure, Canada has been through a food revolution similar to Britain's, but still the way to a Canadian's heart is not through fancy Newfoundland oysters, but with ' poutine' - chips smothered with cheese curds and gravy. It makes a chip butty look like the healthy option.

Then there's its politics. However tawdry and disappointing the British politicians may sometimes seem, the Canadian version is no better. Canada now has a conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, but for most of the 20th century it was run by the Left-of-centre Liberal Party which created a culture of big government and high taxes.

As the Canadian poet Irving Layton once said, the Canadian political and intellectual communities' have a tendency to regard ' cowardice as wisdom, philistinism as Olympian serenity and the spitefulness of the weak as moral indignation'.


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That's not "stats" that's once man's opinion. I can post my opinion on what I have experience from the couple of lazy a$$ brits I've had to work with. Post some stats.

 

[Blackleaf]

British expats in Canada even find DRIVING in Canada to be boring compared to that in Britain:

April 24th, 2014 17:22

Driving in this part of Canada is boring

By danieljrouse

My step-father recently suggested that I should write an article on the differences between driving in Canada and the UK. We all know the gripes of road trips in Blighty: traffic cones are everywhere, and on those rare occasions they cordon off an area of road works there is just a lone reflective jacket there, sipping coffee in the middle of a three mile stretch. A-roads rumble through the middle of villages, giving each local committee a subject to moan about each week. Caravans and tractors duly roll down these busy roads, seemingly proud of the growing snake of vehicles in their trail.

But, as I said, we all know about that; and I believe they are things that my step-father, one who relishes a journey of a couple of hours to the soundtrack of Radio Five Live, oddly adores. He pulls over sometimes to take photographs of roundabouts.

At least in Britain there are things to look at when you’re behind the wheel. Canada is such a vast country, and much of the scenery nearby to Toronto (in particular to the west) is quite dull. In the opening sentence of Alice Munro’s short story Runaway she comments that in this part of the world little rises in the road are described as hills. It’s all flat, and the same views repeat past your window like the backdrop of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

The odd glitch in the wraparound background – the service stop – is much the same as Britain, only there is a lot more fast food and no Ginsters. Canadians don’t tend to snack on refrigerated sausage rolls or Cornish pasties, instead opting for a fast food feast or dehydrated meat like beef jerky.

To make the tedium worse, on a recent trip I found Toronto’s radio waves to have poor reach. It seems that after a few miles out of the city the signals stubbornly and promptly fold their arms, leaving you to spend the rest of the journey flicking through the frequencies.

There was a radio station called Fresh, meaning an instant dismissal: the use of ‘fresh’ when used with something that is not food or, more specifically, a dairy product invariably means that it is awful. DJs offer ‘fresh licks’ on occasion, which means songs with drooling verses by bad rappers and then dribbly, cheesy choruses that sound as if they have been plucked from the 50p record bin in a Skelmersdale charity shop.

Unfailingly, on the other side is a country music radio station. I really struggle to understand how this contrived, knee-slapping music merits its own airwave. Canadians have often suggested that I should listen to the songs backwards so that the singer drives home in his truck, his wife returns from her sister’s, he gets re-employed, and his dog rises from the dead. All very nice, but then the singer will then inevitably celebrate by hopping back in his truck to have beers by the lake with his boys.

By the time this fictional country singer will have reached the banks of the lake he could have penned another album, as there wouldn’t be much else to do. Driving in Southwestern Ontario needs distractions, and seeing as mobile phone use is illegal, pulling faces at passers-by frowned upon and there are no roundabouts to photograph, you need to find entertainment elsewhere.

After about two hours of leaving Toronto the scenery is beautiful but, travellers, for the first stint I recommend you pack your CDs or gorge on meat sticks.

Driving in this part of Canada is boring – Expat - My Telegraph

 

[Goober]

Well we know how well the Brits are at pillaging.
And how many are imported?

 

[Trex]

So why is it that the vast majority of UK emigrants to Canada and Australia always return to Britain because they discover they don't like the lifestyle of those countries? It's a well-known fact that a huge chunk of British expats in Canada and Australia find both countries dull and tedious and return to the UK as soon as they can.

Canada, especially, turns out to be incredibly boring with extremely long, dark, depressing, FREEZING winters. When the British are celebrating warm spring sunshine, the Canadians are still suffering freezing temperatures and snow.

Even Australia, with its hot, sunny weather and people having barbecues on the beach, always turns out to be a bitter disappointment for British expats, and they return home in no time at all.

There is NOTHING to suggest that life in Canada is better than it is in Britain, and EVERYTHING to suggest that life in Britain is better than it is in Canada. Despite what certain official "stats" may say, the real evidence points to Britain having a higher quality of life than Canada.

You may think that Canada's a great place to live, but then you've probably never lived in a hip and happening place like Britain.

Revealed: Why thousands of Britons who emigrated to Australia are returning home | Mail Online

No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada | Mail Online

You failed to rebut a single point I raised.

You simply denied reality...the "stats" as you call them.
And then you quote more drivel.
I quote internationally recognized research institutions.
You quote personnel opinion pieces in rags that belong in the bottom of parrot cages.
Fact..Canada has the world’s wealthiest middle class.
Fact...Canada is ranked the number #3 nation in the world for prosperity and happiness.
Fact... A Canadian runs the British currency and national banking system.

Care to try again to rebut my well documented facts?

No matter, lets talk about your "facts".
One Daily Mail piece says around one third of Brit emigrants eventually return home.
So what?
Obviously they are the failures of the crowd.
Neither Canada nor Australia needs your dregs.

The second Daily Mail piece is just a Canadian hating rant.
No facts at all, just venom.
Haters gotta hate, it's almost always jealousy.
Fact..Canada has the world’s wealthiest middle class.
Fact...Canada is ranked the number #3 nation in the world for prosperity and happiness.
Burns doesn't it?

As to your suggestion I have never visited a "hip and happening place like Britain".
Hip and happening?
You sound like something out of an old Austin Powers flick.

I hold a UK passport and retain full UK citizenship.
The EU access has been convenient for me in the past.
I have lived and worker all Europe and know the UK extremely well.
Some of my family still lives and holds property there.
So what?
I have lived in the UK and carry a UK passport of convenience.
I would never permanently move there or call it my home.
I have also lived and worked in the USA and would not move permanently there either.

I do apologize for saying the UK is a like a small boy waving his fist at his father.
That was an erroneous comparison.
The UK is more like an old, sick and, worn out senior citizen.
Ranting and railing away.
And Canada, the USA and Australia/NZ are like it's young, vigorous and highly successful children.
That’s just the way it is.

The UK is a mere shell of itself and the direction it is heading is less than appealing to many of her citizens.
I know several highly trained and very skilled young Brits.
A few are now in the USA, some are in Canada, others in Australia.
Some are living and working in other European countries.
And admittedly a couple of them have purchased cottages and bungalows in bucolic English villages.
Most however are buying their homes in more pleasant European countries or North America.

The UK just does not make the grade these days.

 

[Trex]

Why would someone come on a Canadian forum and then spend all their time trying to convince Canadians how great the UK is?

 

[MHz]

Now post how much they contributed to the British economy through taxes. Or did they not pay any like a former PM who happened to own Canada Steamships and all of them were registered outside of Canada in order to avoid paying into the Canadian tax system. Finance minister at one time also, lol. Then things went downhill fast (for Canada) from there.