Ashamed to call yourself British?

What is this country coming to, we have the Olympic games that was going to show case Britain at its best, according to Lord Coe. Then we have the venues with empty seats because they have been acquired by the corporate sponsors, so we are going to fill these empty seats with soldiers and teachers and school children. What message does that send out to the people who have in some cases spent thousands of pounds on tickets to see these empty seats been given away. Although they will have been paid for by the sponsors, but again so much for the vaunted "The Peoples Games" that Coe was on about. Then we had the debacle over G4S and the security fiasco, now we have lost keys to the Olympic stadium although we are being told that this has been fixed and security was not compromised. Now we have Border Force having staff replaced only weeks after we spent £42 million of tax payers money making people redundant because they were surplus to requirements. This after 450 staff were made redundant to meet governments spending cuts. Now it will cost more recruiting new staff,to fill these vacancies, that didn't require it in the first place if the people in authority had been doing their jobs properly, but   its tax payers money  we just give away £42 million as though it was nothing. But away from these fiasco's we have Durham county council saying that binmen have no longer to take the bins from 287 homes many of them pensioners because the wheelie bins have to be dragged down alleys and they may hurt their backs, because they may have to adopt "awkward positions" and could suffer muscular injuries wheeling the bins to the  front of  the houses, but its OK for pensioners to suffer these possible hypothetical injuries. Will these house holders have monies taken from  their community charge bills? I very much doubt it. The sad part is that if these binmen are not up to the job of wheeling a bin without hurting themselves then they shouldn't be doing the job. Whats in today's wheelie bins? Cans and bottles are put in separate containers, cardboard and paper are in different bags or containers, perhaps household food waste is put in the wheelie bins. Long gone are the days when the binmen had to lug a large metal bin onto their backs that contained tins, glass bottles, cardboard paper but they also had the ashes from the fire grates, and carry it down the backs before heaving the contents into the lorry and this in all weathers, with ash blowing into their faces on windy days. These were truly binmen who had the strength to do a job that today Durhams pensioners and old ladies are being asked to do. Is it any wonder that this country is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the civilised world. Cameron said that the Olympic opening ceremony paid respect to this country's heritage that was respected around the world. Today most British people with a sense of this history must only hang their heads in shame so much so that most would say that they are ashamed of today calling themselves British.