If the UK went to war tomorrow

[Monki]

would you be willing to fight and die for your country?

Personally.... don't really feel proud to be British anymore and to be honest, wouldn't see what I was fighting for.
Hard to think that 10 years ago I was all up for joining the army air corps

[6655321]

Monki said:

would you be willing to fight and die for your country?

Personally.... don't really feel proud to be British anymore and to be honest, wouldn't see what I was fighting for.
Hard to think that 10 years ago I was all up for joining the army air corps

depends what the war was fought for. Running off to get an oil field on the other side of the world, nope, sorry. threat to the UK, and it's allies? Yup.

[working class]

Without question.

[Cappsy]

depends on who we were fighting, if it was mad pikeys with wooden legs and spears then im running the other way

[elster]

I am pretty sure we are at war.

I did consider signing up, but was talked out of it. Still think about it.

[Shay HTFC]

Probably not. I just don't feel any passion towards the UK.
I would more likely fight defending Yorkshire, than the nation.

[Saddle bum]

If "they" don't want me to own a gun in peacetime, don't let them try and give me one when a war starts.

[Cotty]

Monki said:

would you be willing to fight and die for your country?

Or more to the point would you be willing to fight and die for your life and your way of life. If we were being invaded by a country that wanted to ban alcohol and driving fast cars, then yep im there.

[plg101]

Monki said:

would you be willing to fight and die for your country?

Personally.... don't really feel proud to be British anymore and to be honest, wouldn't see what I was fighting for.
Hard to think that 10 years ago I was all up for joining the army air corps

Erm.... we are at war. Have been for a while. Try clicking away from PH to news.bbc.co.uk or any other mainline news outlet and see some recent items. Or indeed any news from 2003 onwards...?

If you refer to fighting, to every last man if we were invaded, then yes, probably. Depends if we had committed an endless stack of war crimes to deserve being invaded...

[Somewhatfoolish]

I would fight for our islands. I would no longer fight for our country.

[cazzer]

Cotty said:

Monki said:

would you be willing to fight and die for your country?

Or more to the point would you be willing to fight and die for your life and your way of life. If we were being invaded by a country that wanted to ban alcohol and driving fast cars, then yep im there.

You already live under a government that wants to ban alcohol and driving fast cars.
They just realise they have to do it bit by bit.
Drip drip drip.

[loltolhurst]

nope - for my family yes - for a bit of soil and a name no

[him_over_there]

No, I wouldn't go to war. I don't feel patriotic at all. I don't see why I should like a place or want to die to defend it just because pure chance meant I was born there.

It's so illogical to me, to say I'm proud to be British. If you were born in Spain you would be proud to be Spanish; or in Germany, proud to be German. Just being born in a country doesn't make me proud to be a citizen of it, it was a situation brought about entirely out of my hands.

[OnTheOverrun]

cazzer said:

You already live under a government that wants to ban alcohol and driving fast cars.

America actually did ban alcohol for 14 years. It wasn't very popular and eventually got overturned. They then tried to ban driving your car fast with the 55mph limit in the early seventies. That also wasn't very popular but still managed to last over twenty years before being fixed.

Let's hope if we are stupid enough to make the same mistakes as America, we don't take so long to fix them!

[Airbag]

working class said:

Without question.

And the working class jumps to defend Britain once again.

[okgo]

fk know, it's a sthole.

Seriously though, no it's a pit.

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 27th October 23:54

[loltolhurst]

Airbag said:

working class said:

Without question.

And the working class jumps to defend Britain once again.

good we'll need some dumb cannon fodder

[fido]

Shay HTFC said:

Probably not. I just don't feel any passion towards the UK.
I would more likely fight defending Yorkshire, than the nation.

Me neither, except for a couple of places on the Northern Line. But not Tooting.

[Menguin]

Saddle bum said:

If "they" don't want me to own a gun in peacetime, don't let them try and give me one when a war starts.

?? "They" don't want you gunning down people in peacetime, but they would want you to do that in a war. What is your point exactly?

[TehMonkey]

I say we go to war against our own gobberment and install Jeremy Clarkson into power