so then i have to ask if it's not the smallness then what is the problem(s)?
Well maybe I'm kinda jumping in a bit here and the answer for me is different from that for Version. For me I didn't so much move AWAY from the UK, as TO Portugal... I don't really have a problem with the way Britain looks or its size or the national psyche or whatever. I possibly did when i was little and saw films from US (mainly) but as I grew up my perspective changed I suppose - I didn't think that bigger roads with bigger cars next to bigger tower blocks was better. In fact I had what I want to call a realisation - but which is really just a change of opinion - that a lot of the reasons I had for disliking the UK compared to US were suddenly reasons for preferring it.
But now I just hate the political culture. The constant lying, the debasement of government, Brexit etc I mean I've said it many times before I'm sure, but the problem is that people in power realised that a lot of the rules they were supposed to follow were effectively no more than guidelines as they had way of being enforced. So things that people resigned for in the past cos they were awful, they now just go "fuck it I'm staying" and no-one can do anything. Right now this minute our PM is the first sitting leader to be convicted of a crime, he's mislead parliament countless times, being fined for breaking his own laws and... etc etc well we all know all this. Each one of these would have been a certain career ending offence not that long ago, but now they ignore it and you have Nadine "Really Fucking Particularly Fucvking Thick Even By The Standards of These Thick Cunts" Dorries on twitter calling Starmer a liar as she shares a picture of him eating a curry with a man who died in 2019 to prove that he broke lockdown laws. This fucking idiot is the culture secretary and she went on telly talking about the privatisation of Channel 5 the other day. The whole political class is not up to the job - they are thick as fuck, lying, grasping bastards and they are spiteful. They won a huge majority of seats with a minority of votes and they use it to line their pockets, bully immigrants and make the country worse. And it makes me really angry and really sad and really ashamed and I'm glad I don't share an island with them any more and I live in a place that is sunny and Boris Fucking Johnson isn't in charge oit.
TLDR; there is a load of stuff that I hate about the UK, but I get the impression that it's not at all the same stuff that Version hates, in fact there may not even be that much overlap (I mean I'm sure he hates Dorries, Johnon, Mogg etc like any right thinking person but I think his main issues with the country are different and arguably run deeper).
