I'm more and more puzzled by WAV's depiction of World War II as a defence of something called "a good home-way". In the real world, the war led directly to

- the disruption of centuries-old rural traditions of dance, song and ritual, some of which were only revived decades later while much was lost altogether
- a massive increase in the average Brit's exposure to American culture
- the decolonisation of the Empire, which in turn enabled former subjects of the Empire to move freely around the new Commonwealth, and in particular to come to Britain

If you define "English culture" as "English traditional culture as it was in the early part of the 20th century"*, then there's no two ways about it - the War was a disaster for English culture.

If Halifax had become Prime Minister and Britain had made peace with Germany, on the other hand, none of the things listed above would have happened. British traditions would not have been disrupted by the upheaval of war, and would have been encouraged and celebrated by a Fascist-sympathising government. There would have been no GIs in Britain, no Lend-Lease and no Americanisation of our own good British culture. The rulers of the great new Germano-British Empire wouldn't have dreamt of decolonisation, and its colonial subjects certainly wouldn't have been permitted to settle in the British homeland.

In short, World War II was fought for freedom, for democracy, for capitalism (in the West and Far East), for Communism (in Eastern Europe)... but definitely not for the preservation of English traditional culture. On the contrary, it promoted social mobility, the importation of American culture, racial equality and immigration. If WAV had been around at the time, I think he might have been happier on the other side - along with bucolic English dreamers like Henry Williamson and Rolf Gardiner.

*I don't.