"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Ian Bell" wrote in message

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
, Don
Pearce wrote:
It is all a result of their extreme parochialism. I
can't remember the numbers, but I do remember being
deeply shocked at how many of them have never owned a
passport, for example. It has become a culture in which
ignorance is lauded.

Especially how often the Hollywood myth of the US
winning WW2 for 'us' is trotted out.
Oh - and the vast amount of money they extracted from
the UK for their help is also conveniently forgotten.


IIRC we only finished paying off that debt in the 1990s.

Probably with zero interest and with highly devalued currency. ;-)
I think you will find that that was a deliberate attempt to try and bring
the British Empire to its financial knees - in fact almost bankruptcy - as
Roosevelt was almost paranoid about the British Empire and how it might
dominate after WW II.

Mike

fredbloggstwo wrote:
"Arny wrote in message

Probably with zero interest and with highly devalued currency. ;-)
I think you will find that that was a deliberate attempt to try and bring
the British Empire to its financial knees - in fact almost bankruptcy - as
Roosevelt was almost paranoid about the British Empire and how it might
dominate after WW II.

Next you'll be trying to tell us that Suez was an American plot...

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"David Kennedy"
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o.uk
fredbloggstwo wrote:
"Arny wrote in message

Probably with zero interest and with highly devalued
currency. ;-)
I think you will find that that was a deliberate attempt
to try and bring the British Empire to its financial
knees - in fact almost bankruptcy - as Roosevelt was
almost paranoid about the British Empire and how it
might dominate after WW II.

Next you'll be trying to tell us that Suez was an
American plot...

The CIA put something funny into the British drinking water that drove
parlament and the Prime Minister crazy like that, right? ;-)

"fredbloggstwo"
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Ian Bell" wrote in message

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
, Don
Pearce wrote:
It is all a result of their extreme parochialism. I
can't remember the numbers, but I do remember being
deeply shocked at how many of them have never owned a
passport, for example. It has become a culture in
which ignorance is lauded.

Especially how often the Hollywood myth of the US
winning WW2 for 'us' is trotted out.
Oh - and the vast amount of money they extracted from
the UK for their help is also conveniently forgotten.


IIRC we only finished paying off that debt in the 1990s.

Probably with zero interest and with highly devalued
currency. ;-)

I think you will find that that was a deliberate attempt
to try and bring the British Empire to its financial
knees - in fact almost bankruptcy - as Roosevelt was
almost paranoid about the British Empire and how it might
dominate after WW II.

Yeah, the US were malevolvent to not give the British Empire yet another
free ride at our expense. ;-)