Posted on 11/30/2025 7:16:26 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Whatever happened to Britain, or the UK, or England, or whatever they’re calling it? We can’t even agree on what it’s called. But what happened to England, the England that, if you’re over 50, you grew up learning about, the England that controlled the world, the England that ran the largest empire in human history at the end of the first world war?
Britain, which is an island in a pretty inhospitable climate, controlled something like a quarter of the Earth’s surface – and not controlled in the way the United States controls the rest of the world with an implied threat or with economic ties through trade, but with administrators and people sitting at desks with eyeshades, counting things. Way more than Rome, way more than the Mongols, way more than anybody, ever, or maybe in the future, ever.
Britain was the most powerful country in the history of the world. And then 25 years later, it was this kind of sad, soggy welfare state, which is, to some extent, what it still is, except maybe even a little bit worse. What happened?
There are a couple of levels on which to think about this. First is just geopolitical, and I guess they spent a lot of money in these wars and the ruling class, half the class at Eton in 1910 was killed in the trenches. You can think of a lot of different ways to explain what happened to Britain. The fact remains, however, the British won the two biggest wars in human history. They won and yet they’re still greatly diminished and to some extent humiliated. What is that?
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The Brits turned out Winston Churchill for Clement Atlee at the end of WWII which put Britain on the road to ruin
We did the same with Bill Clinton after the end of the Cold War
Used to be said,”The sun never set on the British Empire”......
from a certain point in the late 1700s/early 1800s until very recently.
The phrase signifies that the British empire was so geographically
vast that at any given moment, at least one of its territories was in daylight.
Been downhill ever since.
Yeah but Bill Clinton did not create the American version of the NHS even though his wife attempted to do that.
I think we all know what happened...
England and some of the rest of Europe thought the EU would be a good idea. They thought the socialists they elected would be a good idea. They saw what Obama and Biden with the borders and they thought that would be a good idea.
They saw what Trump did when he took his rightful place and thought he was a BAD idea.
Their self-destruction is such a sad thing to watch.
When Britain first, at Heaven’s command
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain:
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.”
The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.”
Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.”
Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.”
To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.”
The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! with matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves.
Not so much anymore.
Two World Wars in less than 30 years, not only killed off nearly a generation of people, it put the country deeply into debt, then they elected liberals who greatly expanded the welfare state, started importing huge numbers of people who have no desire to be British and you have the recipe for killing off the culture and the country itself.
The Islamic Republic of Brittania
Bkmk
“...it put the country deeply into debt...”
“Whatever happened to Britain...”
They allowed the woke leftwing scumbag cretins to take over the empire. They have not had a true British leader since Margaret Thatcher when she stepped down in 1990. That is 35 years of uninterrupted raving woke leftwing government (I include Boris Johnson and John Major as socialist cretins). And then the EuroTrash decided to import millions of third world parasites. Watching an empire crumble in a few decades is a thing to behold. The Anglo-Saxons replaced themselves with primitive cannibal savages. It’s happening all over the Western world now.
Invade the Third World. Import the Third World. Become the Third World. The USA is following the same path.
It’s only a strange death until you see who’s doing it.
Tucker Carlson: Has Britain died inside?
Regards,
the UK is collapsing
Wales and Scotland will soon go their own way, to be controlled by others.
“IMHO....they turned against having a homeland for the Jews in May 1939.”
Absolute, superstitious nonsense.
The Pharisees rejected Jesus. Did the Apostles still mix and mingle with them? Did Paul advise it? Did salvation in the New Testament ever require belief in the Jewish ethnicity as a requirement for blessings from God? Cite the verse, just one.
Go look up the Balfour Declaration.
The Kinks - Living On A Thin Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMXNxfkQz2k
They tolerated "Mohammedan" immigration for way too long.
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