"Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures.
Another popular destination is Spain, which is home these days to 761,000 Brits. Are they all brain surgeons? Inventors? Did Sir Christopher Cockerell invent the hovercraft and then move to Puerto Banus? No. Spain is where you go when you’ve sold your taxi."
For the rest of Jeremy Clarkson's piece on why it is pointless even to leave the country (expat existence is not all it's cracked out to be, apparently), go to:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article2326687.ece
2 comments:
So Spain is where you go when you've sold your taxi.
That's it, is it? No more to be said. Retired taxi drivers - no matter how hard they've worked - are not worth a minute's consideration.
What's wrong with the Brits is not so much their whingeing but - in many cases - their pathetic snobbery.
I believe Clarkson to be saying Britons should stay in Britain and make the best of things, because no one likes them anyway and life won't be better abroad.
He is not sneering at the taxidrivers who stay but at the ones who do go.
Jeff, it was a rallying cry to stop rats leaving a sinking ship!
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