British protest?
Let's face it - we're a nation for whom returning something to a shop is traumatic. We can't even look at each other on Tube trains and we only speak up in public if we're utterly wankered.

That's why the French set fire to themselves while we just sit at home and grumble. If communism had been introduced here, it would have flourished because we love nothing better than forming an orderly queue or maintaining the Blitz spirit while the lights go out and the politicians lie to us again.

I don't know why more people haven't invaded us. The last lot were the Normans and they made such a great job of it that 1066 is the only date most of us can remember.
(Brand name, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 19:05, 7 replies)

Speaking as a Norman
Have you ever visited Yorkshire? We tell it like it is up here. None of your namby pamby looking at your shoes on tubes for us lad.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 20:27, closed)

On the other hand, radical fascist and communist parties completely failed to gain any mass appeal in the 1930s, even with the Daily Mail openly backing the former.
Something to do with them being visibly rabid nutjobs.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 20:34, closed)

Because the same sentiments
that mean we don't bother with hysteria that doesn't really change very much has also preserved us from extreme views. We're one of the only countries in Europe that hasn't had a communist/facist government in the past century, and we're also one of the most irreligious.

I think that's a good enough benefit, for a bit of trauma in returning an item that doesn't fit.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 22:04, closed)

Hmmmm
I can't be bothered to write about the Peasant's Revolt, the English Civil War, Peterloo or the suffragettes here. Carry on.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 23:50, closed)

Or on the other hand..
"I don't know why more people haven't invaded us. The last lot were the Normans and they made such a great job of it that 1066 is the only date most of us can remember."

..you could say that no-one else has managed it for nearly a thousand years - and Harold was a bit unlucky, what with being a bit weary, having just hammered the vikings in York.
(BeatsWork, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 4:41, closed)

If we did get invaded
They couldn't do a lot worse than the current and previous lots of muppets who've been in charge in my living memory
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 12:16, closed)

William of Orange conquered Britain
The fact that he was invited in doesn't make it any less of a conquest...
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 13:49, closed)