[5050 no line]

We paid you back every last penny and the interest you charged us for your material Lend/Lease ‘help’, Yanks.

You gave us nothing, I say again NOTHING, for free in this regard.

I herewith make the honourable and notable exception of the blood of your heroes, who died protecting an ideal. Whose boots you are not fit to lick and who would find your comments regarding the Allies they died alongside puerile and highly offensive, as do I.

Kindly dissociate, in what passes for your mind, Brit people from Brit Government.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings 5050 no line:

Thanks for reminding FReepers that our Brittish cousins also have their share of silly politicians too. Concerning Lend-Lease, you both are correct:

A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to nearly $700 billion at 2007 prices) worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France and $1.6 billion to China. Reverse Lend Lease comprised services (like rent on air bases) that went to the U.S. It totaled $7.8 billion, of which $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth. Apart from that, there were no repayments of supplies that arrived before the termination date, the terms of the agreement providing for their return or destruction. (Supplies after that date were sold to Britain at a discount, for £1,075 million, using long-term loans from the U.S.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Cheers,
OLA

[napscoordinator]

Could of not said it better my self.

[snugs]

Well said the British government and the media can say what they like but Brits will say terrorists and WOT amongst themselves, this is just a PR exercise that probably will be forgotten in a few days like when the BBC stopped using the word terrorist, they soon forgot they should not use it and used it again.

[ought-six]

“Kindly dissociate, in what passes for your mind, Brit people from Brit Government.”

Yes, there is a difference between the British people and their government, as the British people are made of sterner stuff. Why they allow their government to insult them and their heritage as it does is beyond me, though. I guess that explains why the British government disarmed its citizens. Taking up scythes and pitchforks looks okay in a literary sense, but such armaments don’t dare well against an armed and oppressive government. Oh, wait; have scythes and pitchforks been banned, as well, just as kitchen knives have been?

[Mac1]

“Kindly dissociate, in what passes for your mind, Brit people from Brit Government.”

What people don’t seem to have noticed is the irony regarding our govt’s actions since 2001: 2 wars/invasions etc from what is basically a collection of moonbats. 25yrs ago the people currently in charge were the total antithesis of everything Thatcher & Reagan stood for; probably the main reason the Labour party was out of power for 18 years. But they’ve used our military in anger far more often than Thatcher.