This was written by Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the 1700’s:
“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.”
It’s still relevant today but GB seems to have forgotten that it was once an armed and free society.
“It’s still relevant today but GB seems to have forgotten that it was once an armed and free society.”
They’ve also been through cycles such as they have now. The difference seems to be the mobility of their population. Many brits have left the country.