I don't agree. What I observe is people discussing how they would like to improve their country, which will often involve identifying problems. And then a reaction saying that it's worse elsewhere. Or that people should leave.Ben@Forest wrote: ↑6 May 2021, 8:36amThere is an undercurrent on the Tea Shop that Britain but often just England is an unusually unpleasant country with unusually inept or corrupt politicians or police or bureaucracy or even citizenry and that other countries (not least Scotland if England is the target of ire) always do things better.
Comparisons with other countries are an excellent tool for discussing improvements to our own. But whataboutery is a logical fallacy that drags the discussion down.
Jonathan