I worked for 12 month in the UK and I met a lot of people that absolutely hated everything about Europe, the EU or the Euro. And this was before the crisis.

I think it depends a lot on the age and the amount of consumption of Murdoch media per day.

Fair point. There is a shit ton of moronic dross in the UK.

I've actually been told I was "gay" (immature eh?) for not reading a Murdoch rag before so your point hits home pretty hard.

Perhaps I should just move out of the country :)

You are not excused from taking responsibility for your government, which is formed on the basis of the support of its people. You are responsible for your British government, citizen.

I certainly am excused when we don't have proportional voting, coalitions are used to keep the major parties in power and I don't vote anyway because I do not wish to be responsible for what the government do which is never what I have voted for. No UK party had ever kept to their manifesto - they all serve the same masters: corporations and banks.