Whingeing Brits behave badly abroad

Time magazine branded Brits abroad ‘the undisputed champions of drinking and fighting’ this week, labeling alcohol-fueled misbehavior a ‘fundament of Britishness’. The article appeared after research on 3,003 Brits coming back from Majorca and Ibiza was published, revealing that over half admitted being drunk for five or more days a week, with one in fifteen having a holiday fight.

“Overall illicit drug use was highest among British visitors to Ibiza. Here, for example, 44.2 per cent used ecstasy during their holiday and 34.2 per cent used cocaine,” the Daily Mail reported. “Some 7.2 per cent said they had been involved in a physical fight during their stay, compared to just 3.6 per cent of Germans and 2.3 per cent of Spaniards.”

Britain’s Foreign Office, meanwhile, published data on overseas arrest figures for 2007 which revealed that 4,603 people were busted in 2007, up 15.6 per cent year on year. While Spain topped the arrest charts, Dubai performed well, with almost one Brit a week nicked for drugs at the airport, and 230 jailed overall.

Britain’s latest high profile offender, Michelle Palmer, currently facing six years in jail for allegedly having sex on Jumeirah beach, begged for mercy this week, in a written statement presented to the Dubai court. “It was just kissing and hugging. We did not have sex,” the expat wrote, describing her tryst with also on trial British holidaymaker Vince Acors. “I have spent two and a half years in Dubai – I know how it works. I am very, very sorry,” she added.

Another survey on Brits’ holiday habits said the British are becoming experts at making at complaints such as one man who wrote to ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) complaining about the quality of his room’s night-lights in a hotel in Birmingham. “I accidentally thought the walk-in wardrobe was the loo,” he explained.

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Chach says...

on August 16th, 2008

Is that Shaun Ryder?

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