Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
British values? I do miss them a little. Similar ones thrive over here. I hold doors open for others, regardless of their age. Those who don't intimate thanks by word or a nod of the head etc do get thanked by me and it always genders the required response. When using public transport in Amsterdam. I get offered a seat, mainly by late te-en to mid 20s young ladies. I decline, gracefully. I also offer my seat up to elderly folk, less mobile than myself and to pregnant women.

It's that sort of thing, the p's and q's, looking out for more than number 1, basically being a nice, kind and considerate person. One might even describe it as being social.
At last…some sense. So these ‘British values’ are, it would seem, also Dutch values. Indeed they are, as I have been saying, universal values amongst ordinary decent folk throughout Europe and beyond. They are the values of politeness, respectfulness, kindness and consideration. Put another way…do unto others as you would have others do to you…a mantra which, imo, you won’t go far wrong with.

Unfortunately such values seem to have been long forgotten of late by the political classes where disrespect and repetitive manipulation of the truth seems to have become the order of the day. Sadly it seems to be, on this occasion, a practice that GP and AF have also adopted hence the utter and untruthful rubbish about me being anti British, disrespectful of the D-Day veterans and ‘ill-informed’ - the latter all because I happened to have retired from my profession prior to the introduction of a particular curriculum initiative.

You’re both happy to snipe away, but apparently not grown up enough to apologise when hopelessly and offensively in the wrong.