The UK stinks

Th UK stinks and i mean it, there are times i am ashamed to have come from the UK.

The story my Cousin like all here family are from the Midlands as is my Mum. My Cousins son moved to Mozambique many years ago to be a teacher and settled down. In time he married and had a family BUT yes a big BUT. This year it was planned to spend Christmas in the UK, a chance for Simon and his family to spend time with his family.

Portugal is the oldest friend the UK has had going back to  the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373. This is about 400/500 before America was found.

In the 1950s, the Portuguese overseas colony was rebranded an overseas province of Portugal, and by the early 1970s it was officially upgraded to the status of Portuguese non-sovereign state, by which it would remain a Portuguese territory but with a wider administrative autonomy. From Wikipedia Also from, Wikipedia In the last decade of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, integration of Mozambique into the structure of the Portuguese nation was begun. After all of the area of the present province had been recognized by other European powers as belonging to Portugal,

So if other  European nations recognise Portugal/  Mozambique Why can't the UK after all Portugal is the UK's oldest friend.

I can only hope my cousin and Simon's family get to spend Christmas together.