I don't stand, I don't sing along to the national anthem. I don't really believe in patriotism... I don't see why I would be proud about being born on a certain piece of land. I have no control over where I am born, and all the great things (and terrible things) that English people have done throughout history are nothing to do with me. The only connection is that they were born on the same floating piece of dirt as me.
Yep. You didn't choose to come here, but a lot of people would like to think you did for some bizarre reason.
"This country gave you so much" Yeah, and it also deprived you of so much too. Such as decency, protection, and has moral values that are about a shallow as a drying puddle. You don't even get your own land to grow a few measly crops unless your family are stinking rich, so you're forced to buy GM unless you're rich enough to buy organic (which, often times is impure also), even if you greatly disagree with it.
If you don't like it, you're asked "why do you even stay?".
Uh, if there were enough JOBS I would save MONEY to GET AWAY FROM HERE. But, you see, I can't get a JOB. Because, you see, I'm competing with hundreds of other unemployed applicants who are all applying for the same dirty minimum-wage job because it's the first open job to crop within about ten miles up in WEEKS (yes, these days I apply for jobs where they're not even hiring, I'm that desperate).
They say there's not enough money to create new jobs. Yet I see money being WASTED everywhere I go - by those who say there's not enough money for jobs! On meaningless things too, like having the grass cut unnecessarily by expensive to run and polluting machinery every single day. Or paying expensive salaries to those who quite frankly don't need that much nor deserve that much. Or erecting ridiculously expensive works of art/architecture that are completely unneeded (and always somehow dramatically break the estimated budget).
Most of our government are greedy con artists. Even those lower down in the council positions are overwhelmed with officials who just want to line their own pockets. Everyone knows this, yet nothing is done about it, people like to pretend it doesn't happen so they can go on being "patriotic". That feeling of belonging is quite cosy I imagine. People are so social that they were willing to do dirty things in order to "belong".
I don't like what our country was in history and I don't like what it is now. I want out. Oh, right, most countries around the world are PRETTY MUCH THE SAME!
All I want is a small bit of land in a country where I can stick by my moral beliefs without hassle. Here, I'm constantly having to break them out of necessity. Cut-throat culture. No chance for self-sustenance.