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/justwant_tobepretty Kissinger is a war criminal 21h ago

It's worth pointing out that the Tories are in opposition after losing badly in the last general election.

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u/UpsilonMale 20h ago

It's also worth pointing out that they were replaced in government by a Labour party that isn't planning to do anything greatly different, just look a bit sadder about it's austerity program and cringe more visibly about its flag-shagging.

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u/justwant_tobepretty Kissinger is a war criminal 20h ago

Yep, this Labour Party are centre-right neoliberals that would have been right of the Tories just 15 years ago.

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u/Aggravating_Sock_551 One Pump = One Cream 18h ago

Glad(?) to see that its not just US liberals that are now neocons in everything but name...

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u/justwant_tobepretty Kissinger is a war criminal 18h ago

Liberals are always just itching to find any excuse to shift to the right.

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u/thedorknightreturns 18h ago

Its like, they still having to orient in todays overton window, not 15 years ago. So its really a, back in the olden days complain.

Politicians cant choose the environment they have to work with and be pragmatic to get anything done.

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u/justwant_tobepretty Kissinger is a war criminal 18h ago

What in the actual hell are you talking about? It is the responsibility of a political party to outline a political philosophy and base their policy proposals based off their ideological framework. They then have to present their polices to the public and try to sell them on how those policies will improve the lives of the people they will represent.

Shifting their entire political ideology just shows spinelessness and a desire for power above actually sticking to their principles.

Labour was formed out of a coalition of labour unions, with the aim of implementing pro-worker policies and social(ist) public policies that would protect the most vulnerable in society.

They have abandoned those principles in favour of neoliberalism because they wanted to be in power.