Sky Atlantic - The British

[original PM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal

[BrilloPad]

Bee disagrees with me. Oh no! I must be wrong!

[Bee]

Very interesting watch. It has pointed out that for 5000 years the UK has punched well above its weight. Stonehenge was the marvel of Western Europe. There has been the odd invasion - though the UK was never fully conquered. The UK has had the largest Empire the globe has ever seen.

I am not quite sure why the UK should suddenly start doing badly after 5000 years just because of BrExit.

Though if the UK does start doing badly, I will be blaming it on the Bremoaners and the leeches who do nothing except criticize. Led by sasguru of course....

[xoggoth]

I blame Lloyd George. Sowed the seeds of the welfare state back in 1906.

[SueEllen]

The UK did not exist that long ago.

Well the UK has been around longer than the country of Germany - 310 years versus 146 years.

[scooterscot]

The UK did not exist that long ago.

[Lockhouse]

It was the two World Wars that did for us.

[BrilloPad]

Punching above one's weight and handing out a begging bowl to the IMF are not mutually exclusive.

Better than letting the population need a begging bowl for food like the Southern EU.

[minestrone]

I am so happy with being British that we have again decided you can have Andy Murray over the Wimbledon tournament.

[BlasterBates]

Punching above one's weight and handing out a begging bowl to the IMF are not mutually exclusive.

[vetran]

New Labour harnessed 'New Britannia', the belief that somehow the national construct of Britain was broken and needed to be fixed. I don't think it was broken.

It was when New Lie was finished. In hoc up to the eyeballs, obsessed with fairness not justice.

anyway away with you dreaming of past glories we can't live without our mates JC Junket & Angels Merkel telling us what to do.

[minestrone]

New Labour harnessed 'New Britannia', the belief that somehow the national construct of Britain was broken and needed to be fixed. I don't think it was broken.

[original PM]

Very interesting watch. It has pointed out that for 5000 years the UK has punched well above its weight. Stonehenge was the marvel of Western Europe. There has been the odd invasion - though the UK was never fully conquered. The UK has had the largest Empire the globe has ever seen.

I am not quite sure why the UK should suddenly start doing badly after 5000 years just because of BrExit.

Though if the UK does start doing badly, I will be blaming it on the Bremoaners and the leeches who do nothing except criticize. Led by sasguru of course....

Quite a few people already had this view.

Which was why leave was popular.

[BrilloPad]

Very interesting watch. It has pointed out that for 5000 years the UK has punched well above its weight. Stonehenge was the marvel of Western Europe. There has been the odd invasion - though the UK was never fully conquered. The UK has had the largest Empire the globe has ever seen.

I am not quite sure why the UK should suddenly start doing badly after 5000 years just because of BrExit.

Though if the UK does start doing badly, I will be blaming it on the Bremoaners and the leeches who do nothing except criticize. Led by sasguru of course....