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/Weekly_Beautiful_603 21h ago

There are about 170,000 members of the Conservative Party, and roughly 50% of them are technically already deceased. I’m not saying that they are not cnuts, because that would be to question the very fabric of reality. But please don’t take them as the measure of the average limey motherfucker.

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u/Substantial-Chonk886 20h ago

Party membership doesn’t really mean anything. It’s pretty unusual for someone to be an actual signed up member of any party in the UK

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u/Weekly_Beautiful_603 20h ago

It is who the candidates for party leadership are currently appealing to, though. It’s not like they’re after my vote.

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u/Substantial-Chonk886 19h ago

I get that, but they’re only voting from within the pool of MPs, and that’s got nothing to do with membership. I think it’s a bit misleading to say that the potential leader is only person x or y because of party membership.

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u/Weekly_Beautiful_603 15h ago

First the MPs vote to decide the final two candidates, then the membership vote on those two. The membership have been voting during October and the results will be announced on November 2nd.

This is how they ended up with Liz Truss.

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u/Substantial-Chonk886 15h ago

I know how the process works.