Some brits are unbelievable. If your country had been occupied by a foreign army and your people persecuted for centuries, not only would you be having red, white and blue street parties to celebrate the end of the occupation, but you would be singing twenty verse songs about the whole debacle for the next few centuries.

And you would also justify any means used to achieve that end, martyr those who died defending your country and decorate the living.

Get over yourselves. Move on. Empire builders sometimes have to watch the bulldozers move in and put right what you have spent so much money, life and time trying to destroy.

Meanwhile we will gloat for the next few centuries. Sounds fair to me.