Originally Posted by
callum91
why don’t we just use Doc 4444? It’s actually far more comprehensive and more up to date in many aspects.
Because the UK used to be in the vanguard of development, of positive change which went beyond the minimum standard stipulated for the rest of the world. ‘We’ broke new ground, led the pack, and were credited with achieving significant improvements.
That’s all changed, to the point that simply bringing the UK in line with the lowest common denominator now seems beneficial.
We’re making an appalling job of being the human race, generally, and specifically in the UK (see my remarks previously about the ludicrous idea that the disparate peoples on this miserable rock are ‘united’ and that we are all subjugated to a ‘king’ whose obsession with feminine hygiene products was world news), we could not be doing a more contemptible job of supporting our forebears achievements.