Originally Posted by
JamesWales
The point here is that some people will only ever report bad news, and in often hysterical and hyperbolic fashion and they will do so not at an attempt to be accurate but to make party political points - I suspect several posters are members of parties and thus view this as part of the battleground.
So when people only ever cherry pick bad news and then, with limited rationale then point it back to an event in the past they disagree with, it does become relevent to point out that nearly every single problem facing Britain is also faced by other countries, sometimes to a greater extent, sometimes to a lesser extent.
And that's important in my opinion, because that is far closer to the truth than some people want to portray.