Germany versus Britain - shocking statistics

[MyUserName]

Britain could have beaten anyone on water back then. And for an island nation that is all that matters.

So long as the enemy aircraft are unable to deploy troops on the island?

[Bunk]

... and their beer's boring.

It's much nicer than British stuff.

[Robinho]

So long as the enemy aircraft are unable to deploy troops on the island?

Very doubtful that anyone would be able to do that in enough number.

[Robinho]

Interesting to note the low house ownership in Germany as well as stable house prices thoughout the years when the BoE was fuelling a nice speculative boom over here.

[original PM]

So long as the enemy aircraft are unable to deploy troops on the island?

anyone who has played Civ will know that attacking from a water square incurs a huge penalty for the attackers and huge defensive bonuses for the defenders.

so it must be true then....

[Troll]

Surely the Russians won because the winter crippled the German advances and then the Russians simply threw people forward even if they did not have a gun.

It depends on how you look at things but Britain seems to have been saved by:

• The channel
  

I think it is pretty harsh to describe the British performance as mediocre though.

Churchill was exasperated by what he saw as a failure of the British troops to fight as well as their fathers and grandfathers did

[Troll]

Britain could have beaten anyone on water back then. And for an island nation that is all that matters.

We put too much faith in ASDIC to counter the submarine threat

[Troll]

Basically Germany exports 3 times as much as Britain by value, both countries having a similar population

Services will save us!... oh wait

[BrilloPad]

Basically Germany blah Britain blah
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I am a

Maybe if we got rid of useless twunts like you we could compete a bit.

[sasguru]

Interesting to note the low house ownership in Germany as well as stable house prices thoughout the years when the BoE was fuelling a nice speculative boom over here.

More interesting to note in this context is the active industrial strategy Germany follows with government, firms and workers acting in concert, and long-term strategic goals given priority over short-term market diktats* - the exact opposite of the generally laissez-faire policies espoused by Britain since the 80s.

* to the extent that, as happened in 2008-2011 and is still active policy, the government will subsidise firms to keep on temporily redundant workers if it judges that demand is only temporarily low.

I'm inclined to think that (re)industrialisation can only happen with active government intervention, as happens and happened in China, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea. Private enterprise on its own as structured in the Anglo-Saxon countries cannot and will not work to rebalance the economy.