[rktman]

Apparently we don’t get it either.

[allendale]

They are way beyond “getting it”, they got it. When they changed their immigration laws in the 1960’s they forever and irrevocably destroyed the reasonable social consensus that had defined England. It is gone forever.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I think the British people do....their gov doesn’t.

[Caipirabob]

It’s not like we can afford to judge the British...

[VanDeKoik]

I stopped caring when they decided to turn the day into a big social media circle-je*k.

[SgtHooper]

That’s ok, the British spy agencies were incompetent and compromised during WWII as well, so there’s no reason to believe they got their head on straight now.

[driftless2]

I'm reading a bio of Winston Churchill. In the early 30s Churchill was treated as a pariah in Britain. He was ignored in the House of Commons and frequently jeered and heckled when he gave speeches about the growing threat of Nazi Germany and Hitler.

Churchill had read Mein Kampf and fixed on Hitler as a future problem in the twenties. He paid careful attention to everything Hitler did. He was virtually alone in predicting the danger.

Almost everybody else in Britain wished he, Churchill, would go away. The leading pols refused to acknowledge the threat.

However, by the late thirties more people and big names caught on that Churchill was right. But of course it was too late to stop the war.