Poll: Best reason Britain is no longer polite (as selected by one reader of the Telegraph).

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Selections are from the first comment in the comment section of this article.

Parents are to blame for not spending time with their children.
Television car programs are to blame for encouraging bad driving.
The government are to blame as they don't encourage family values
Television is to blame for promoting bad behaviour.
Schools are to blame for employing some terrible teachers

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Television car programs are to blame for encouraging bad driving.	23
Parents are to blame for not spending time with their children.	9
Television is to blame for promoting bad behaviour.	5
Schools are to blame for employing some terrible teachers.	4
The government are to blame as they don't encourage family values	0

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

'bad behaviour'

― shiroiestebanshoes hoppez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

I think the fault is firmly with Television Car Programs.

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

Shakespeare

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

Audience-members-flee-pornographic-sex-scene-Shakespeare-play.html

― shiroiestebanshoes hoppez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

Bill Bailey could write a complete stand-up routine composed entirely of Daily Mail URLs.

― shiroiestebanshoes hoppez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

The Poll of the Walking Brain Dead.

― Aimless, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

jeremy clarkson is to blame

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

jeremy bentham

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

Where is alcohol on this list?

― caek, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:24 (seventeen years ago)

where is rock n roll and cinema

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)

t-super to blame

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)

Beneath the excessive drinking, sexual hamfistedness, and infuriating self-deprecation and lack of candor that Lyall sees as characteristic of English men, she discerns the malign influence of the boarding school system, something she's unusually well-placed to observe. Not only are the London circles in which she moves—literary, journalistic, and political—still disproportionately peopled by the products, or survivors, of England's so-called "public schools," but the menfolk of the family she married into were supreme specimens of the public school ethos.

― caek, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:27 (seventeen years ago)

pea souper to blame

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:28 (seventeen years ago)

this is an interesting read: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21799

(although watch out for his statistical sleight of hand on Britain's drinking culture)

― caek, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:29 (seventeen years ago)

repression, repression, we're a massive bubbling cauldron of seething repression... I mean, err, STOP TELEVISION FOR THIS SICK STUNT BEHAVIOUR NOW!!!!

― You only like him coz he's sexually appalling (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

If there were no foreigners there would be nobody to compare British behaviour to, so I'd say foreigners are to blame.

― StanM, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:43 (seventeen years ago)

I blame the parents.

― jel --, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

I truly would have lived a better life had I been spared watching television car programs.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 21 December 2008 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

Thatcher is to blame.

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

sexual hamfistedness

― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

Having said that I do not think that Britain is any less polite than it was.

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

No genitals were on show, but buttocks were visible.

― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

We no longer doff our fucking caps at Telegraph readers.

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Television Car Programmes without a doubt. I sad a bad word the other day just thinking about Jeremy Clarkson.

― GamalielRatsey, Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/Gallery/Insight_nov05_gallery_ross_large.jpg

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 21 December 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

OBE stands for Obnoxious Bastard of the Empire (Cinema)...
...and Bah (Humbug)

― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 25 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

wow

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 December 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

torygraph readers definitely arent polite themselves. just look at some of the comments here!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6475543/Its-a-wonderful-mixed-up-world.html

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 2 November 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

If you and your child are so smart and wonderful why is it that you only have a "partner" and not a husband?

― dowd, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:20 (sixteen years ago)

no way

― antastic mr ox (darraghmac), Monday, 2 November 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

People who oppose diversity and experimentation in breeding seem to tolerate it in spelling and grammar.

nice

― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 2 November 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

labour education policies, innit?

― antastic mr ox (darraghmac), Monday, 2 November 2009 12:30 (sixteen years ago)

that or the zionists

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

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