The Great Britain Appreciation Thread

RobertKK wrote: »

Churchill was a racist, ran concentration camps, had people tortured, threatened to invade Ireland in WW2, was responsible for the Black and Tans, the partition of Ireland, partition of the Indian sub continent, millions of deaths in India.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-finest-hour-the-dark-side-of-winston-churchill-2118317.html

Far from something good about Great Britain.

Surely Cornish Pasties and Eccles cake would make up for all that

Well you have to admire the Brits who can get away with certain stuff. Brexit for exaple, and a little bit of a conspiracy theory which may not be new to all - but it's really interesting nonetheless and shows how friends of the likes of Nigel Farage made a financial killing from insider trading whereby on referendum night, he released 2 concession statements (much to the bemusement of other leave campaigners).

The first was released within seconds of the polls closing, and the second 92 minutes later had Farage saying that his friends in the city were telling him that their private polling was showing 'Remain' had won.

These statements helped drive markets higher, Sterling surged to new highs and many firms who engaged in short selling made an enormous financial killing in the order of hundreds of millions when Sterling fell off a cliff at around 4 O'Clock the next morning.

Bloomberg consider it a fact that Farage knew, definitely before the second concession statement and probably before the first one also, that this wasn't true and that he had access to the results of private exit polling companies 'YouGov' and 'Survation' which had been commissioned by Hedgefunds and had been illegally streaming their polling results to their hedgefund clients throughout that day in real time - and their results were actually showing 'Leave' as the winners of course. Farage had a long standing relationship with Damien Lyons Lowe, the CEO of Survation. Furthermore, 'YouGov' and 'Survation' had previously told broadcasters who had tried to hire their services that exit polling methods wouldn't work on Brexit

Bloomberg have been investigating and their video here is less that 12 minutes long as is worth a watch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-03-15/how-hedge-funds-gamed-brexit-to-make-millions-video

Aegir wrote: »

It is typical of the myths and bull**** that rolled out about Churchill. For starters, he was a 25 year old war correspondent during the Boer war, who was captured two weeks after arriving in the country, yet apparently he was somehow responsible for the concentration camps.

Similarly with the use of gas quote that Francis used. The full quote is as follows:

It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected

Lachrymatory gas is the correct name for what is more commonly known as tear gas. What Churchill was advocating, was that rather than bombing and machine gunning the rebelling Arabs in what is now Iraq, they drop tear gas instead. I k now which option i would prefer if I was on the receiving end.

then there are the statements about partitioning India and Ireland.....

I am sure the 'uncivilised tribes' were grateful as we were supposed to be for the humanity of the great civiliser.

Aegir wrote: »

More bollocks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/23/heres-the-real-story-about-the-churchill-bust-in-the-oval-office/?utm_term=.4eafd90bf1da&noredirect=on

What is bollocks?

If you're gonna credit Britain it's either through comedy or music or arts. Official Britain is a wound that is now only a scab on the world and healing. When it comes down to individuals they are usually alright people.