2005 UK General Elections

Not dissimilar to the Green Card scheme heralded by Germany for the shining cyber-boys of Bangalore.


Do I detect a tinge of envy?

#2 by ozerkhalid on May 8, 2005 3:06am PT
Re: # 1

``all the muslims and south asians`` as you so grandiosely put it , my friend, make up about 2% of the total population of 50 plus million.There is no racist xenophobia on my part.Infact there is every reason for me to accuse you of the same.Just because you are in the Uk, and that you work hard( all laudable qualities), does not in any way make you a Briton, or an european or `superior` to your fellow south asians, that you cannot accept `plain-speak` from one of them, in this case, moi.

I do not deny and respect british prowess during the nineteenth century.We`re in the 21st.Things change.Britain is irrelavent now.Period.If not for american money, britain would have gone bankrupt decades ago.Just like MG Rover.

Re: # 3

Cayenne

Let us refrain from “Eminemishly” tit-for-tatting at one another. Surely Chowk is too mature a forum for school-boy scoundrel antics to be deployed. Too facile a game to play.

A few corrections are in order. From where did your cerebral cortex assume that I claim myself to be “superiour” to you? Or anyone else for that matter? Stop throwing assumptions from thin air.

For they wither like the aged leaves of autumn.

This is not an ego-battle on an 8 mile road. The problem with your “plain-speak” is that it is raw over-simplification ebbed in error. Let’s be pedantic: Britain’s population is not 50 million as you conveniently conjecture but 60 million. Asians form not 2% of the entire British population but 3.2%, including multi-cultural variants such as myself.

Your maladroit history lecture suggests a 19th century Golden Age for Britannia, when, let me enlighten you, British dexterity flaunted its muscle in the 20th century !! Get those facts straight-wired into your cranium.

You anxiously quote American prowess, which I never deny: however whilst so doing you hasten your over-stretched belt to cite MG Rover. That is meager and portrays a faddish example of you name-dropping “one firm” just because you pressingly picked up an FT and doggedly browsed it after a couple of years in the lurch.

Your naïveté overlooks the verity that for every MG Rover there is an Enron Corp., Tyco International Ltd. and WorldCom Inc, degradingly entangled in accounting scrape despite the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

There exist a plethora of British firms who are fiscally sound, solvent, exhibit profitability, liquidity and a healthy capital structure.

Stop playing the “Self-Victimization” card. I will no longer waste my time. I have bigger fish to fry in the ocean of life. For the record labeling “Britain as an irrelevant island full of irrelevant people” IS RACIST to anyone possessing an atom of IQ.

Cayenne this is not an EGO-GAME. If you do childishly want to flaunt your final word go ahead and brazenly sooth that entrapped insecurity.

For it too one day will melt in a molten sky.

Re: # 4

Ozer K, my brother, 3.2% of 59.6 million ain`t still a whole lot of people.Russia celebrates it`s 60 years v-Day celebrations as i type.Fifty world leaders invited, Bush, Hu-Jintao,Chirac, my man Dr.Manmohan who`s having a meeting with both Putin and Bush and other worthies, but no Blair and no Mushaaraf.You see the world doesn`t invite hired hands.Only lawfully elected leaders.Britain is `a second rate power` as an indian politician so delicately put it, when QE II came calling on New Delhi a few years ago.I wish all south asians well, wherever they may choose to live or were born in.My issue is with Britain`s status in the world and at present it is way down the pecking order.It may change and i certainly wish them well.

To give you an idea of where Britain is economically:

1 World $ 55,500,000,000,000 2004 est.
2 United States $ 11,750,000,000,000 2004 est.
3 European Union $ 11,650,000,000,000 2004 est.
4 China $ 7,262,000,000,000 2004 est.
5 Japan $ 3,745,000,000,000 2004 est.
6 India $ 3,319,000,000,000 2004 est.
7 Germany $ 2,362,000,000,000 2004 est.
8 United Kingdom $ 1,782,000,000,000 2004 est

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html

Hey, we indians might even bail out the british in a few years, say what??.Say hello to Lakshmi Mittal for me won`t ya??.Cheers.

Re: # 28

Cayenne

Another feather in the cap to Mittal Steel, at the helm of it Britain`s most affluent magnet. With an ``official`` net worth of $2.2 bil surely if this country were in the pits, as you so sorely suggest, then why would Lakshmi and Usha Mittal still be here ? You are a living paradox. Yet again contradicting yourself.

Surely the fact that ``some`` South Asians are towering like minarets in Britain is a salutory emblem of their hard work and enterprise. I think for once we both concur: deservedly so.

My firm helped organise Amit Bhatia and Vanisha Mittal`s wedding in Versailles. Renu and Arun Bhatia were up-to-the minute and exemplary. The wedding extravaganza took six-day long, which saw over 1000 guests, ceremoniously concluding at the Grand Intercontinental in Paris.

Real bore.Who cares.Britain is an irrelevant island full of irrelevant peoples.If not for american money and investment the British would have to clean toilets and fold bedsheets for the rich arabs to make a living.I give them credit for the past.No doubt.But we live in the now, and the now for the british is pathetic.God save the Queen!.

Re: # 1

Cayenne

Your sweepingly grandiose myopia such as “Britain is an irrelevant island full of irrelevant people” smacks of racist xenophobia. You are single-handedly tarring the brush of all the Muslims and South Asians with dual identity who live on this island. Who bequeath themselves with a British as well as an Asian background, and form an imperative entrepreneurial backbone to the spine of the UK .

Admittedly not all of Great Britain`s policies are well-perceived or garnered in equilibrium, but cease living in an Elysium. Which country, in the comity of international relations is perfect?