The good thing about our crap weather is it keeps Johnny Foreigner at bay and improves our own intellect.
Because we haven't got the weather to laze around on a beach all day, we get busy in our sheds inventing jet engines, designing fantastic buildings and writing great pieces of literature or a fancy play that will be studied for generations.
Visitors come, stay for a while, but only the really determined will stick it out. Unless you're a refugee on some benefit scam that is.
Rod