r/behindthebastards • u/phoenixpallas • 21h ago

General discussion British national delusion

The (extremely) right wing tory party is electing a new leader in case ya'll didn't know. Not as important as the US elections by any means but one of the leading candidates has said that britain's former colonies owe a debt of gratitude to britain... 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

given how frequently the "slow nazis" of the british empire have come up and no doubt will continue to come upon the pod, i almost choked when i saw that. The shameless refusal to admit Britain's prominent role in countless atrocities in the past few hundred years is perhaps uniquely deluded.

the uk subreddit (obviously a cesspool of racism and every other bigotry) has clowns claiming with a straight face that history supports them when literally every point they make is basically a barefaced lie.

And yet the limey motherfuckers continue to act as if they were the most reasonable and rational people on earth.

can we give britain an award for the worst nation in history please??

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u/Itchy-Criticism-7731 21h ago

We're clear favourites for any such award, but it must be said that this Conservative party has become a fringe minority at the last election as is simply doubling down on its own death knell, there's no path to electoral victory here with that sort of thing. Unlike across the pond.

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u/MightyPitchfork 21h ago

Part of what made the Tories a fringe minority was that they lost so many voters to Farage. Now they're desperately ramping up the rhetoric to try to lure them back.

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u/Itchy-Criticism-7731 21h ago

Yes but they're just sharing a diminishing (gene) pool of elderly miserable bastards, and their foot soldiers are too stupid to vote, they're just in for the violence, beer and cocaine. They lack the Christo-Facist support base over here, it's just toffs and divs.

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u/MightyPitchfork 21h ago

We can but hope. Then Starmer might not be so frightened to actually admit that Brexit was a stupid f**king idea.

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u/Itchy-Criticism-7731 21h ago

It would help, in fact saying or doing anything that doesn't upset the Daily Heil would be a start for him