The British National Sport of Whingeing

I have been taken to ask by for suggesting that workmen and women whinge, and suspected of misogyny, illiberalism and goodness knows what else. Perhaps I should just have said that all poms whinge and are known in Australasia as "whingeing Poms". This is undeniable, thankfully.

"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