We receive scores of emails every day from Brits and anti-Brits from all over the world. In the main they're interesting, informative, and most are complimentary - but a few aren't. So what we've done is taken a line or two from many of these emails, being what you might call, 'E Mail Out-Takes.'' They are nearly all approved by the email writer before being added here - but some aren't. Ha Ha! The most recent additions are listed first - in case you're looking for yours!
It's good to visit your website regularly because you dare to say and print what a lot of us emigrated Brits think.
JF St.Johns. Canada.
One thing for sure Britain is nothing like it was when I left it in 1974. If I'd have known it would look and be this good today I'd have never left in the first place.
KL. exPort Elizabeth, South Africa, now moved back to Oxfordshire.
You know I never knew so many Poms came to Australia [Ten Pound Poms] but I'm glad they did. My grandparents are Poms and they're good Aussies. Hope you understand what I'm saying. (Yes!)
Peter Wendell, Adelaide, Australia
You Brits are a pain in the ass. Can't you go anywhere in this world and not complain about it.
JG. North Bay, Canada
The Americans certainly don't talk about us Canadians so much, in fact they hardly ever talk about us at all.
Alan W. Winnipeg, Canada
Imagine if it was the UN or the UK that got us all involved in the pointless war in Iraq.
Oh my goodness, we'd be hung, drawn, and quartered - by the very country who has taken us to the brink. The US. DR Christchurch, New Zealand.
It used to bother me that when I'd talk of England and how proud I was of it, because it seemed to piss people off. Now I do it deliberately - to piss people off.
MG Calgary, Canada
What a pity the US doesn't come across in real life the way it comes across in all its movies.
Hurricane Katrina exposed just how useless it is without a script.
BN Portland, Oregon US
What bothers me is that Canadians actually believed that anti-British fabrication on CTV morning news, mostly because they wanted to.
KLR Regina, Sasketchewan, Canada
So Australia is advertising for another 20,000 British immigrants. What about the 20,000 stuck in prisons in the outback? No they're not Brits, but they're ready to learn.
LP Wagga Wagga, Australia.
At last the hopeless dream I once had about doing a great deal better by going overseas is buried. I'm home, in the only country a true blue Brit belongs. And it feels damn good.
Sheila Wise, Bristol, England
My son just went through his cap & gown graduation from High School for completing the simplest basic academic education. I love him dearly, but he can't spell or add up!
GM Victoria, BC, Canada.
What an ignominious, pointless, pathetic country Canada is.
If they took away all the TV's and closed the shopping malls, what would Canadians do? It's all yours - and best of British!
HY - back in London UK
My life in Canada has often reminded me of living in a karaoke bar
where no one has much talent but there is a lot of participation.
KW. Nova Scotia, Canada
Your 'Emigrating' series about Canada is full of inaccuracies.
Of course we joke about the Americans. Haven't you watched 'Royal Air Farce' on TV?
RO Alberta, Canada.
Imagine if those bomb amateurs in London had been experts.
They're certainly not sophisticated at war and at killing like the US or Britain.
MB. Bundaberg, OZ.
Let no one, no one, say a bad word about London until they have seen the magnificent, new, bold, vibrant and exciting London where I have just spent an amazing two weeks holiday. And thery call it 'the OLD country.'
SR Regina, Canada
Your PENSIONS help section is the best on the web, including the Pensions department in the UK where answers to questions take months. Thanks.
JK Sydney, Australia
Once you get past the fancy clapboard houses, the American cars, and the lack of humour, all you're left with is a dimwitted affluence.
BI Canada
I'm home after many years in Canada andI must say I don't miss the 'new' country at all.
CR London UK
England was...months and months of doom and gloom going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark, never ending drizzle, stamping feet on freezing cold platforms waiting for the stifling train to come in to go to work, smelly wet woollen overcoats.....
VP Melbourne, Australia
I missed the country pubs and the lanes and the farms and springtime and it is so nice to be back home where I truly belong.
JLP ex Port Elizabeth, South Africa, now Kingston-upon-Hull
And if all those earlier Brits got here for just £10 then I'd say they got one hellava bargain.
MI Newcastle (Australia)
It was good to see the Duke of Edinburgh come to New Zealand but it also points out very clearly how far this country has grown away from any ties to the Monarchy or to Britain for that matter.
JD Christchurch New Zealand
You balance well your website against all those cosy and nice Brit websites that are all 'Happy Face' by adding your direct and honest coverage about emigrating and life outside Britain for Brits.
KAP Toronto Canada
Haste ye back to Scotland
JM Edinburgh
After 40 years abroad I came home to a different world and different faces, but there are so many familar things to fill an old mans heart, and God, it's good to be home.
LR Oxfordshire UK
To emigrate successfully you MUST cut the proverbial umbilical cord and regard the place you are at now as "HOME"
MC Vancouver, Canada
And also, whilst visiting our son and family in Toronto I was amazed at how many people speak: "vid de broken accent of zee middle European." Whatever happened to the good old Canadian accent?
BJ (visiting from Hertfordshire, UK)
I've never met any of these whingeing, 'never go back if you pay me' ex Brits you keep mentioning, but if I ever do I'll refer them to this website - with pleasure!
ML Austin, Texas.
And whilst I'm knocking old Uncle Sam have you seen that film 'National Treasure.' What a load of collective codswallop. I thought 'Independance Day' was all cringe but this one takes the cake.
JK New Jersey.
Ever heard of that anti-Brit columnist Peter Goers who writes for some Ozzie supermarket tabloid, well I hear two Brits recently chased him through a park shouting, 'give us a big kiss Peter.'
FP Sydney OZ
And whilst I'm at it can you tell me why everytime I visit my family in Vancouver I keep seeing more and more of those 'marginal' people, the sort that are not quite with it but not quite out of it?
PB Brent Cardiff
Are people really buying all that stuff from Geldorf about money for Africa. Does he and others think a rock concert full of obvious drug addicts is going to solve African hunger. Give me a break.
LFM Edinburgh
Why doesn't Britain just pull out every historical link with Canada and leave the wishy washy country to the Americans. This last snidey slap in the face by Canada's government was the last straw.
PN Winnipeg, Canada
I'm Home - at last. Oh, and it does feel good.
HP Ex Fremantle, OZ, now Cornwall
What's the damn point coming all this way to live here then spend your time looking for British food items, British newspapers, and British beer. Why we came here I don't know.
JH Melbourne, Australia
If anyone's looking for me in Auckland tell 'em I've gone home. It was fun, but my goodness it's so far away from everything that I felt at times like I would drop off the edge of the world.
Cindy P, Oxford, ex New Zealand
First it was Heinz UK Baked Beans (not allowed to be imported into Canada) now HP Sauce is getting sneered at by the CBC media. What's wrong with these twerps.
JE Niagara Canada
I can understand the Kiwis changing to a new flag that's more Kiwi than British but I don't understand the Canadian flag. I was told it was a maple leaf. It isn't. A maple leaf has five points, the Canadian flag has only three. What the Canadian flag is is a fleur de lis masquerading as a maple leaf. No ones noticed that?
MN Bermuda
I've lived here 27 years and I never knew that. Makes you wonder why 22,000 blacks would want to murder each other every year. South Africa really is, a nice place to live in.
MD RSA
You know I paid £2.98 for a Big Mac in London. That's over $7 in Canadian money. We didn't bother to get the fries.
DP Canada
I'd like to contribute to your Pension Association but I'll be dead by the time they index my pension.
RT Australia
Are you sure there is a Richmond in Yorkshire? I'm from Leeds and I thought Richmond was near London somewhere.
PMN Canada
When people ask me if I've ever met the Queen, I say yes. I tell them she was working part-time as a barmaid in our local pub in Acton, to get closer to the people!
JY Canada
It smells like everyone has caught a cold in Australia. They tell me it's the eucalyptus trees.
HB Australia
My holidays back home in Britain are rare, due to the cost, but they're neccesary. I go home to top up my soul, then return here where it all leaks out.
BTW Australia
I cried when I read that story about your dogs in quarantine. I cry reading a lot of what you have on your website. Even the humorous sections make me cry - with laughter!
LS New Zealand.
I can't agree with you on your assessment of the USA. [Emigrating] I've lived here in New York nearly seven years and never been mugged once.
PR USA
Did you ever get that 'cobblestones and gaslight' story from Canadians about London? It has just happened again. I told them they're removing the cobblestones to make roads but the gaslight has to stay another ten years because Brits can't afford electricity!
HJA Canada
I never watched football much in Britain before I came here, but now I'm a fan. I never miss a Premier League match on TV. Maybe it's because it's the only show on North American TV that is not interupted constantly with commercials.
GR Canada
Returning to Canada from a holiday in Britain is like coming back to a sanitorium for recovering halfwits.
JL Canada
In a country that throws logic and simplicities at you all the time I can't understand how they can list the visiting team first before the home team. I.E. 'Chicago at San Diego. Why not San Diego versus Chicago? It's so back to front their way. Why do they do this?
SV USA
You don't have to be an immigrant to live and work abroad. I live and work abroad and I'm not an immigrant from Britain. It's nice to go abroad but it's a lot nicer to eventually go home.
LGT UK
On my first trip back to Britain in 22 years I just couldn't believe I actually once lived there.
HF Australia
The worst thing about being here is meeting all the expats with nothing but nasty things to say about Britain. I hate being around them as do Canadians. So many bad vibes.
JA Canada
I live in the US and they call a wash basin a toilet? Does that mean I can pee in it?
MN USA
I get the feeling Canada is country music come to life. People seem to live like those dirgy songs. Hokey & frumpy. Or they're running for some cause to raise money. All so sad here.
ME Canada
I have a flypaper above me as I write this, a phial of anti-snake poison in the first aid kit, and more phone numbers I care to think about to get my kids to a clinic or hospital quickly if bitten by a spider. No this isn't hell, this is Australia.
GA Australia
I'd rather die than ever go back to the UK.
NB Canada
You know, my husband left me to go back to bloody England. Sod him.
YR Canada
Would you mind stating the difference between British and English. In South Africa you're not British. You're either, English, Scots, Boers, Blacks, or Coloureds. There's very few Irish by the way.
RG South Africa
New Zealand does not lack a sense of humour. It's just that there is nothing much to laugh at.
BM New Zealand
One thing, as an ex-pat I will say and stand by I was never ashamed of my upbringing, it was simple but by God we were content.
KH Canada
The hardest thing for Canadians to understand is how come the British police don't wear guns. I'm now at the point of telling them, "they don't because the British are not affected by the gung-ho self-image that gives North Americans such a high.' They still can't understand.
NL Canada
I still don't know what 'expat' really means. Ex Patriot - meaning an ex lover of Britain? Or, ex Patriot - meaning left Britain and gone for good? I'm neither. So why EXPAT??
JF Australia
(Webster's Modern American dictionary states Expat as being: 'To withdraw oneself from his or her native land and from allegiance to it.' So it is nothing to brag about being, if you're not ex Britain in every sense.)
You print any of my derogatory remarks about Britain and I'll sue you.
Jason Blake Australia.
Can you believe they actually voted old George back in? I can't. And now he's got that Rice woman as his - whatever. I bet they don't like that in Texas!
S.T New York
Saw that John MaCrae program last year and thought it offensive to British war veterans. Imagine if we said something similar about the Canadians, the Jews, or the Yanks! Seems they're allowed their refutable responses, but not us Brits.
LJR Canada
They say Canada is Uncle Sam's 'attic', and like most attics it's full of junk, with nothing of real value.
PG Nova Scotia
It truly amazes me why Canadians can't tell us Brits from Ozzies. I get mistaken for the latter and that ticks me off having lived in Oz and knowing how Ozzies hate to be thought of as British.
BW Vancouver
How you ever get people to read this load of crap I don't know. Your jokes aren't even funny.
J.F Auckland, New Zealand
You mean there is a Brit living abroad who actually still likes Britain? Your website amazes me - and pleases me no end.
TAL Prince Edward Island, Canada
Nevertheless, Sir Brit, I do find your writing compelling, if a tad on the whiny side.
ACM, LA, USA
