"I am actually quite an Anglophile. The Brits are great folks most of the time, and even when they are enemies they are still interesting.",

"why you should hate the Brits F***ing colonialism" ...", etc....

"I can forgive the English .." Oh, how f***ing outrageously BIG of you!

Can I just point out that as a British woman (of very "mongrel" heritage - family interned as "enemy") I have never been an occupying force anywhere, I have never declared war, I have never been anyone's "Colonial Master", disagree with my taxes being used for arms exports, heinous environmental decisions (Balfour Beatty dams - flooding and displacing people and British tax payers money being used to fund it via tax breaks, etc.,) and basically take issue with unethical terrorist actions of Government regardless of its political persuasion. And neither has anyone else I know!

so, WHATEVER the nature of this thread

British Government does these things not the "Brits" or the "English". Discern the difference between British people and British Government - who, at least publicly since Thatcher's time, have been on some kind of war footing with its citizens as the enemy.

Enjoy your thread.

Hille