Grim Death of British Civility and Courtesy. By Uncle Monty.

Grim-Death of British

Civility and Courtesy.

By Uncle Monty.

-=-

Once upon a time, the British were rightly considered
perhaps the most civil and polite people in the world.
At generation after generation, they were taught to

be such to one another and to those visiting us from
outside of Blighty. But, not so anymore. We have

now become crude and rude and ill-mannered

and ill-tempered to one other and to all manner

of other folks over the past two decades or so.

-=-

The result has been the ongoing grim -death of

British civility and courtesy that now makes our

once considered ill-bred "American Cousins" look

almost like ladies and gentlemen compared to

many of our modern, cold, rude, and

uncivil British folks of today.
-=-
And, it’s getting worse by each day and among

all social strata-of Britain’s now fragmented and

sick society. The more fragmented we've become,

the more grim and the more sick we seem to

have become, too. Along with becoming cruder

and ruder to each other more than ever before.

Ill-manners and blatant disrepect have now be-

come the growing norm from shop assistants to

street cops to co-workers and among the travel-

ling public, and not the exception anymore, in

today's ever rude and "Broken Little -Britain."

-=-
Why has all of this happened to the once

civil and polite British? One of the major

reasons, I believe, among others, is simply

we are no longer a relatively homogeneous

society of English people that we once was.

We are now an hetrogeneous one that has

seemingly thrown away many British values

and ideals out of the window to accomodate

the massive influx of millions of past and

present African and Asian immigrants and

European foreigners that have settled in

the UK. They have helped to uproot and

destroy what was once considered good

British manners and politeness. At one time

we positively shaped such people, but their

sheer and overwhelming numbers of recent

times has now started to negatively shape

us to the detriment of all-things British.

That includes, of course, what was once

our belief in good manners and polite

behaviour that is now pretty much

in the pigsty of modern settlers.

-=-
There are 12 other reasons, factors, and/or

problems, in my thinking, that has contributed

to more and more rude and crude behaviour

that overwhelms whatever civility and

courtesy is now left in the awful UK:
=
1: Binge Drinking and Anti-Social Behaviour.

Such excessive beer boozing and drug use by
youthz and young adultz in all regions of the country
engenders no civility and courtesy whatsoever. In
fact, such widespread misconduct has contributed
to greater rudeness and ill-manners by such
out-of-control people. Anti-social behaviour –
that includes vicious vandalism, petty crime, foul
language, and street violence - by kidz as young
as age 7 year is now becoming commonplace

in the British Isles.

=-=
2: Abusive Traffic Wardens and Tyrannical

Parking Enforcement.

Most people at first wouldn't associate such with

the rise of bad manners and lack of courtesy in

Britain. But such does on a daily basis in which

the motorist is compelled to be rude and angry

at the predatory nature of parking enforcement.

Now called “Civil Enforcement Officers,” traffic wardens
have brought about more rudeness and discourtesy by
their mindless ticketing than anything else. It makes

people scream and shout at them and the punitive

councils with justification by their enforcement of ty-

rannical parking rules that only reinforces the decline

of good manners and civil behaviour in Britain.

So wide spread is parking enforcement that we

cannot avoid it with local councils there to extract

more and more unjust fines out of the motoring

public. Greedy councils have been allowed to

commandeer all the public streets for their own

profit of millions of pounds at the gross expense

of the driving public. Some 700.000 parking

tickets alone were issued last year to visitors to

Britain by such council jackasses. It’s amazing

anybody would want to visit Britain in a car

with the state of wicked traffic enforcement and

all the rudeness that goes with it and all the out-

rageous ticketing, clamping, towing and impound-

ing, and parking fines to boot. That contributes

to greater incivility in the country today. The

UK is now the world's No. 1 country for writing

traffic tickets in its quest and war against the

motorist. More than 10 million traffic tickets of

one kind or another have been savagely imposed

by the country's traffic wardens in the past half

decade or so on the British motoring public. And,

there's no end in sight to the rude response.

=-=
3: Mindless Mass Immigration.

Without a doubt, Third World immigrants are

some of the rudest and most ignorant people

you’ll ever want to meet. They always push,

shove and shout their way onto crowded buses

and run shipshod over whoever gets in their

black way. Most have no manners because they
never have had any. Foreigners of every ilk also

show few manners. Ill-manners is a vicious cicle

in which once manners aren’t used, then the next

person oftentimes does the same. If your face

gets slammed in the door because the door wasn’t

held open politely for you, then next time you are

also likely to do the same to the next person.

-=-

4: The Criminalization of the People.

The present decade-old government or more of

Britain’s New Labour has passed more than 3,000

new criminal laws against the people. People are

being criminalized for everything and people are
angry over all that the government is or is not

doing other than making them criminals at every

turn. So bad is the country it is now in a perpetual

state of mindless phobia about racism to the degree
that pages after pages are written almost daily

about the nature of racism that amounts to catch-all
legislation and arrests used against those who are

native white sons and daughters of England. They

feel hounded every day and when folkz feel hound-

ed they aren’t civil or polite. How can we expect

them to be? Millions of Britons are fleeing the

country to live anywhere else but inside their own

country. Tragically, they are then replaced by

more immigrants and foreigners to our shores.

-=-
5: The Rise of the Mass Culture.
Most British grandparents have now lived to see
the rise of the mass culture than entails catering to
the masses that never existed until now. Everywhere
you go the food stores are packed, the banks are full
of folkz wanting money, buses and trains are jammed,
sidewalks are crowded with the faceless public, and
shopping malls and over-retailing suck in the
shopping masses like sociopaths on the run. How
can we be polite and civil when we’re treated
like dead sardines every day?

-=-
6: The Loss of Community and Belonging.

Mass immigration and the flood of EU foreigners

to the UK now sees the loss of community and
belonging for many of those who have lived in their

own communities long before all the useless immigrants
and lousy foreigners took over the place against the
will of the local people. Such has created friction and
will eventually spill over into violent confrontation,
if steps are not taken immediately to reign in New

Labour’s mindless mass immigration to the UK.

When one feels one no longer belongs, then the

spirit is destroyed and the levels of rudeness

and incivility increases as folkz lash out in their

anger at such outsiders taking over. Many

working folkz feel under siege from all the

immigrants and foreigners now overwhelm-

ing the country beyond all belief or all reason.

-=-
7: The End of Traditional Values of Child Rearing.

Do you ever hear today such common courtesy

as "Yes, sir" or "No, sir" or "Please, sir" or

"Thank you, sir" coming out of the mouths of

today's ill-reared and empty-mannered British

school kidz to their teachers or elders or to

those in authority? Well, of course, not. We

have instead, in the past couple of generations,

reared educational and social child morons that

are seen at our failed school system and poor
standards of education. Children are no longer
taught manners it seems now that we have
liberated them from almost all forms of
discipline and control in the home and school.
The callous disrespect for the elderly is also

seen in such children who also treat their own

parent as shoddy as their own parents are.

=-=
8: The Mass Mobility of Society.
Mass mobility has brought about the lack of
rootedness of many people that go everywhere
thesedays, but know nowhere other than on the

constant move to somewhere else from whence

they first came. When folkz suffer from "un-

rootedness" - like many of the homeless do -

we oftentimes see they also lose whatever

sense of manners they may have once had. As

our national and world populations explode, too,

the mass mobility of society become even more

pronounced and hence the lack of rootedness

grows greater along with the lack of kind

respect or courtesy to or for others.

-=-
9: The Impersonalization of the Individual.

The rise of the ID Card is a classic example of
Britain’s impersonalization of the individual with
an attached number and photo around their

neck as they enter their workplace to prove he

or she is indeed "a someone” who works there.

Distrust and suspicion of the individual is now

always tied to those without an ID Card to

show. Such can bring unpleasent confront-

ations from in-house security guards for

those "IDless," even though they are

perfectly harmless individual after all

is said and done. And, who then

guards the bloody guards?

-=-

10: The Cult of Celebrity.

Pick up any freesheet on any morning, at

say London's Waterloo or Covent Garden or

Canary Wharf, and you'll be visually-waylaid

by at least 3 or 4 or 5 pages of celebrity news

and gossip and their scandals and their dis-

gusting lifestyles or their arrests for this or

that, along with full TV listings of their talk

show appearances with say Oprah or

whoever. Many of those celebrities are

simply shallow and hollow. Yet, the public

thrives on them like empty idols that they

are. Worse still, their ill-manners and

filthy mouths infect the public mores

that are copied or mimicked by millions,

especially by the young who oftentimes

act out - consciously or subliminally - by

what they see of what such celebrities do.

Many celebrities have helped to bring about

the present contempt for what was once

good and solid British civility and courtesy.

-=-

11: The All-Embracing and Non-Stop
Use of Digital Gadgetry: Cellphones, etc.

Of all the modern digital monsters invading

our personal space thesedays are those

addictive and irrational users of the mind-

less cellphone or mobile at every spot of

the public realm. Public rudeness is rife

with many cellphone users who scream

and shout with their "must have" i.phone

or swanky model or their Blackberry to

constantly bring out of their pocket or purse

so that we can all see what they own and

have. Public laptop users, like cellphone

users, have no regard for anybody but

themselves in many cases. Good manners

go down the drain, too, as such users re-

fuse to interact outside of their gadgets

or machines. Ironically, today we have

more ditigal tools than ever before to

widely communicate, yet such tools have

in fact brought about less communication

with each other on a personal and social

level. Everybody is talking into "something"

like the cellphone, but less and less are

we talking directly to each other more

often than not. When people fail to talk with

each other, then there's less need to excerise

civility and courtesy to each other much like

we continue to see every day in places like

England that has now lost its past beauty of

mutual respect and concern for one another.

-=-

12: The Rejection of Church Teachings.

For ages, The Church has taught us how

we should as Christians treat each other.

That means using kind words of greeting

when we meet or bumped into one other.

With the grim death of British cilvility

and courtesy, we also see how folkz now

fail to greet each other with kind words

like "Good morning," How are you?,"

"Nice to see you," "What are you

doing today," "Hope you're alright?,"

and/or "Have a nice day ..." In almost 4

years, just as an example, as a Big Issue

vendor, not once have I been greeted by

distribution staff using kind words of morn-

ing greetings. Such reflects the dead state of

British manners and politeness today at the

street level at least. The Church teaches that

we most no treat others like they don't exist,

but such is common at The Big Issue at Co-

vent Garden not just to me, but to pretty

well everybody else. Incivility and discour-

tesy always flourish when the individual is

not first discerned for their dignity and

presence and experience by those they

that really don't know if they're talking

to a pauper or a prince or a priest or a

parasite or a plumber or a professor. And,

even if by chance they do know the differ-

ence, they just don't bloody care any-

way ... Again, Church teachings

teaches and tells us otherwise.

=-=

Above all, good manners and politeness

costs us nothing. They're cost free. But

the lack of such costs us alot more in the

overall loss of the quality of life for us all.

The traffic warden's nasty parking ticket

reduces the quality of life by their predatory

job and cold manners. The cold street cop also

lowers the quality of the community because

he or she has lost the ability to serve the

people with being nice and well-mannered.

The shop assistant who insists on not assist-

ing the customer is also part of the decline

of civility and courtesy all over the UK.

The rude kid who is told he or she does

not need to stand up so that someone who

is old enough to be his own grandmother

can sit down on the bus is open rudeness

that gets worse with each ill-bred kid, who

is no longer freely corrected by anybody.

Such are further eamples of all that is

wrong with today's "Broken Little Britain."

-=-

The 12 points I have listed above

are not listed by any special order or

gravity or level of importance per se,

but rather they're listed to demonstrate

some of the factors behind the death

of civility and courtesy right in our

every day midst. Such, explains why

we've become so bad-mannered and

so ignorant to each other.

-=-

Also read below what the

BBC found out about British bad manners

and lack of courtesy back now some 8 years

ago. If we were then called "Rude Britannia,"

we have, at the turn of the upcoming second

decade of the 21st century, now become even

more "Real -Rude Britannia" since then.
=

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/759276.stm
=
Teaching Children and Teens Good Manners.
www.etiquetteco.com/education.html
-=-

We've now become even more "Real-Rude

Britannia." And, we'll never see the return

of what was once truly British civility and

courtesy. People today for the most part

don't give a damn whether we're rude or not.

Why? Because they, too, are oftentimes as

rude and as impolite as the next person.

Who cares anyway? I for one do ...

-=-

Vexed, Uncle Monty.

+Love Is A Many-Splendoured

Thing, 2oo9.

-=-