[GMMAC]

"Maybe he meant “The British Empire, alone”."

C'mon, passing-up ample opportunities to clarify his appalling comment - in the unlikely event that's what he meant - along with alternately denying he said it & whiningly playing the 'victim' card over having been thus exposed, literally reeks of shameless TROLL.

[Vicomte13]

It’s a fair cop.
Anyway, he appears to have retreated.

“When danger reared its ugly head,
Sir Robin turned his tail and fled,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin...” - Monty Python