The Brutish Empire is the box of the most backward human mind-set from which we have been trying to extricate the human race this past couple of centuries - but its not working.

You have successfully infected the more feeble minded ones with all of that nostalgia of glory, race, power. Just look at where you have left your poor Yankee cousins with all of that baggage! Strange visions.

If you want to visit someplace, good luck and welcome...you dont have to plant a flag on the beach.

Should the Spanish (not Gibraltar) towns inhabited primarily by the British disaffected ex-pats (those who want to be British but not to the extent that they would actually want to live there) be governed from Westminster?

Are the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan really just tourists? Germans with towels.....?

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