new meritocracy
perhaps Britain could regain
some of these nations
In the article, Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 by Guardian Senior political correspondent Peter Walker, Mr. Walker quotes Jack Anderton, who ran Nick Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account as posting on his personal blog that:
“Trillions of pounds of British taxes have been spent in foreign lands in the pursuit of ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’ and ‘doing what is right’,” the post said. “More than a million British lives have been lost since WW1 in wars and battles that have never once been fought by British men, on this island.”
Fighting in both the world wars ensured the UK was no longer a great power, he wrote: “We impoverished ourselves for decades, we didn’t finish paying the loans off to America until 2006. Our economy stagnated, we lost an empire, and we are pushed around by America. And Germany, a country we beat, has been richer than us since the 1970s.
“Alternative history is interesting; if Britain had not fought in WW1 and WW2, it would not have had to rely on America for economic support, and it would have had the independence to act accordingly. Britain could have developed India, Cyprus, Fiji, Malta, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, the Bahamas, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand. In the coming meritocracy, perhaps Britain could regain some of these nations.”
Admittedly, Nixon Speech Writer, Pat Buchannan made much the same point in his book, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War but it is still odd to see this argument a new.
That neither writer explained out a victorious Third Reich, beating the USSR and cleansing Europe of all its unwanted and unnecessary human life forms would have allowed the British Empire to thrive and survive does bring a huge question mark to their argument.
Then again, maybe the Third Reich and its aims were not unattractive to either Gentleman.
Not that it should matter, but Mr. Anderton is 23 years old.
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