Quote Originally Posted by Jezleeds View Post
Blimey we're quoting Ben Franklin the slave owner who said all people are created equal....


In this country we get the government we deserve, and the one the majority chooses - with all its faults (and there's an argument for a version of proportional representation to allow more voices into government), we're a country that hasn't descended into anarchy ever, and fought alone with the great help of the then Empire nations for 3 years in the world's major war on its behalf against the greatest evil in the history of mankind.

I'm afraid that, for me, the great French contribution to modern history founders on the Vichy regime and the opportunistic and collaborative deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews and other 'undesirables' from its towns and cities, alongside a strangely comfortable wartime existence for those left behind, on the whole. It's a beautiful place with great food and wine, and some lovely people, but please don't make France any kind of template or guide as to how Britain should be or what we should learn from. Ethnic minority groups in Paris, Marseille and Lille would, i'm sure, have a lot to say about liberty, equality and fraternity in the modern France.
Fought alone with the great help of the then Empire Nations for 3 years against the greatest evil ever????? Bit of a simplistic view. Exactly how did Britain build an Empire in the first place? Have you ever checked the nationalities of those who served and died for the British Army? What about resistance fighters and exiled governments... including the Free French Forces....anyway back to football soon hopefully