Piratis wrote:Cypriots don't hate the British people. What most Cypriots hate is the British bases which basically means that part of our island is still a British colony, as well as the British foreign policy in regards to the Cyprus problem.
Some arrogant people believe the Cypriots owe them because they come to Cyprus as tourists. This is nonsense. Cyprus offers products and services and others are free to buy or not to buy them. Just like we buy cars from the UK or we send our students to universities there, the British are free, if they want, to buy the products and services we offer.
The UK is the one who owns to Cyprus because they have two huge military bases on Cyprus and they don't pay even a cent for them while they should have.
You are correct , the Cypriots DO NOT HATE THE BRITISH PEOPLE .
A very large number of Cypriots , men mostly , are married to British women , their children are part Cypriots and part British . The actual figure must be in excess of 100 thousand Cypriots with English blood in their veins.
My wife who does not speak Greek , looks 100% English , has been in Cyprus hundreds of times and has never encountered any adverse reaction from any one , on the contrary she feels much safer in Cyprus than in London . She has never ever through the 40 or so years that she has been coming to Cyprus encountered any anti-English feelings.
What we Cypriots find un acceptable are the actions of successive British governments mostly detrimental to the Cypriots interests , politically that is .
I hear on the grapevine that the British having become experts in employing black Africans to manage our traffic systems , are now hiring out these skillful arrogant , ignorant Mercenary Traffic Wardens to the Cypriot government in lieu of rent dues for the bases !!
One of my vans was ticketed and clumped yesterday in Brixton . I called the Mafia to pay my dues and a thick African at the end of the line asked me to spell London Road , I replied LONDON , like Paris New York you know London . She replied how spell Paris !!!