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Originally Posted by Damien
No it doesn't. Where is it written that he will rollover? I think he is saying that Britain needs to be more realistic about it's place in the world.
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I agree. While I mean no disrespect to anyone who has fought in a war (after all, without the efforts of the armed forces in WWII, we would be speaking german now), the war finished 60 odd years ago. Before most of the current population of both the UK and Germany were born. In a lot of cases, before their parents were born. It's also worth pointing out that the Germans I have met have been extremely polite, friendly people and are (if anything) more horrified by what the Nazis did than we are.
Germany now is NOT the same country it was then. We bang on about what a great country we are, and how bad the Germans are, but who is better off? We have mass unemployment and a debt that is greater than the GDP of a lot of countries. The Germans were similarly affected by the world wide recession, but were able to turn their economy around far quicker than we have been. We also have failing public transport systems, and while they are certainly not underfunded, thanks to privatisation, a lot of the money we give to the companies running them isn't actually being spent on improving or maintaining the networks. From what I have seen, German public transport is an order of magnitude better.
As Nick Clegg notes, the average German is also 6% better off than the average Brit. Why? Could it be that they actually worked to improve their lot rather than just bitch about how everyone else made it worse for them?
The war was 60 years ago. We do need to get over it, and work to improve things.
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Oh, and if anyone wants to find the Mail's origins, it was founded by (amongst others) the then Lord Rothermere, who was a friend of Adolf Hitler. It also apparently published articles criticising the repatriation of "stateless Jews" in Britain (no change there, then)..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
Also, if that article is correct, then it seems that Lord Rothermere wrote to Hitler congratulating him on annexing Czechoslovakia, and urging him to invade Romania.