Do not complain about thread drift Jim.
You brought the 90 year old Irish Independance issue to this debate.
Serious or not, Dick's post needed to be challenged, and you did challenge it.

Britain did not involve itself in Spain's civil war. Only Germany did.
Britain was not at all ambivalent to the rise of Fascism, despite the diplomatic niceties.
We were just unable to do anything about it, and even in 1939 were still dangerously weak.

"Britain went into the war when it had no other alternative"
FALSE

"and when it did, it was as a defence measure"
FALSE

"You still refuse to comment on the presence of pro-Nazis in the British Establisment"
I have debated this before. I know a few barmy aristocrats and one pathetic ex king were fascist sympathisers. Every country had them.

"they have your blessing, and you still appear to regard anti-Semitism as little more than a sit-com -"
FILTHY LIE.