[thepaulmcbride]

Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...

[tempodox]

Could you write your comment in a Scottish accent, please?

[worik]

> Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...

That is true. Especially these days, even in London.

But England completely dominates the politics of the UK.

FWIIW this sounds English to me. They bought us the Magna Carta that made Kings subject to law, but they have never been free.

[alasdair_]

>but they have never been free.

Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed the cop off, you'd never get shot for it.

[UrineSqueegee]

can you be that socially inept that you can't understand it's a joke?

[card_zero]

Is something that's just wrong the same as a joke?

Anyway London accents don't go "oi". This is a Birmingham accent. London accents go "ah".

[kristiandupont]

I am honestly trying to figure out what you are arguing here. GGP didn't say something like "This is what everyone in England sounds like: ..."

[card_zero]

Isn't that what a caricature is supposed to do?

Here we have a caricature which is irritating because it's off the mark. I demand better mockery.

[tempodox]

Is Birmingham accent bad mockery?

[card_zero]

It's oddly specific mockery, like Ozzy is England's international representative. I don't know, maybe he is. But I doubt Birmingham even inspired the meme, this is probably a caricature of Dick Van Dyke more than anyone.

To be fair, Brits seem to think New Yorkers go "oi" and they don't really either.

[yieldcrv]

we know, enjoy the mockery

[blitzar]

quite