Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland should be granted full independence and England should be divided up in several smaller countries all under a peacekeeping force.
Just looking back on various photos and clips of life in the UK throughout the 20th century and god... what a wasteland of the soul.
A land of utterly miserable conformist dregs, living just to drink and smoke and drive cars along grey congested roads through grey congested towns under a grey congested sky. A land of boiled vegetables and beige plastic and black mold crawling up the ugly, ugly wallpaper. A land of paedophiles with knighthoods hosting charity TV specials to fight child poverty (now celebrating its Xth decade - still fighting child poverty). A land of prestige motor vehicles driven by ashen-faced, flabby-cheeked home county men who build model spitfires and write lists of names for fascist governments. A land of simpering desperation to join, that is, fuck your way into, the nobility - endless, breathless news rags and radio programs and television shows obsessed over and obsequious to the persons and paraphernalia of a class of horrid scum that any civilized society would have publically and brutally executed a long time ago. And all of it saturated in the smug, smirking, self-satisfied, delusional afterglow of the Empire, as if reflecting on its deeds should bring a twinkly-eyed smile to one's lips rather than a projectile spray of vomit - and all of it powered by not one single iota of """British""" muscle, but rather a ceaseless, thundering waterfall of blood and sweat from the third world. It sickens me.
God, it SICKENS ME, and there's so much more I can add to my LITANY OF HATE but for my own sake I'm going to stop. What an awful, awful, horrible place and time to have lived in and what awful, horrible people to have lived amongst - and this was supposed to be better than Soviet socialism? This was the "free world"? Disgusting.
Dude regains consciousness, looks around and found himself in the riding car. Driver is a huge muscled guy with red skin, horns, hooves and a tail.
"What happened, where am i, are you a devil?"
"Yes, i am a devil. You died and are going to hell"
Guy looks through window
"How ugly everything is, grey, drab, ruins everywhere, jarring noises, ragged human wretches shambling around for no purpose, thick smog everywhere... hell is indeed horrible"
"Hell? What hell?" devil was surprised "We're not out of London yet"
Stop giving Scotland absolution. Scotland wasn’t another dominated colony, Scotland was a somewhat equal and willing participant in England’s sins. Scotland should be given some level of independence under the oversight of Ireland
Scotland became part of the UK because a bunch of aristocrats wanted the same power england had. The average peasant scot had no say really in the matter.
Putting aside that bourgeois democracies are not democracies, term limits are the weirdest thing. If the people want someone to be leader, they should be leader. They get easily cast aside when somebody who really wants the reins of power gets it, so it's not an impediment to that. The only thing it does is stem radical change from taking charge for too long. It's a conservative concept.
Term limits were invented by ancient Greeks and Romans for the purpose of reducing infighting for the offices among the members of ruling class. Note how bourgeois historians are presenting ancient Athens in V century BCE as the classic example of democracy, while even if we ignore how classist that democracy was, it was explicitly a period when one person (Pericles) basically ruled as informal dictator and turned Delian League into actual empire.
It was actually more likely picts and scoti they were fleeing from and those are most likely the "barbarians" described in groans of the Britain's.
The anglos were invited over by briton ruling class to push the picts and scoti out.
And soon became the ruling class themselves.
Even the english have majority native British blood, because the germanic warriors intermarried with local women. It's why the english are sometimes referred to as 'germanized celts'.
Honestly the dark ages is my favorite era or history so I'm obsessed with this stuff.