Again, in war, the coin of gratitude isn’t words, and definitely not insults - it’s human sacrifice of the kind we contributed towards Britain’s wars. And in those terms, the UK is a long way from repaying the debts incurred within living memory.
We lost 750,000 dead in WW1. Another 1.5m badly injured. Another 2.5m permanently disabled. Another 65000 from shell shock or gas. And thousands of British civilians killed by German bombing.
In ww2, we lost nearly 450000 men and women and children, 382000 military and 61000 civilians.
Our country was bombed and blockaded. Our cities reduced to rubble night after night. We bankrupted an Empire and a nation to fight the Nazis and Fascism, a fight we fought alone for a long time.
The British ‘owe’ nothing.
We have paid our dues in blood.
And then some.
Well over a million dead, millions maimed, injured, missing, made homeless.
And you think we owe the world?.