Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
"After all, declaring war on Germany twice in a century probably wasn't great for the economy either."

Er, so you think that your investments would have been safer under GB rule of law or Adolf and/or Willy?

Really, B?

(I'll look at the rest of your post now.)
The point was we didn't have to go to war either time. We could have cut a deal and carried on in prosperity and peace - at least in the short term. Instead we took the principled decisions - and they cost us dear.