We're the soldiers of the Queen my lads,
And what they ask us what we've seen, my lads,
And they ask us why we've always won,
Its because we're the soldiers of the queen...
or something like that. This patriotic song started me thinking about the empire and how it was that we came to loose it. My own view is that we are better off without it, but how did it all go? Clearly it was something to do with the second world war when the countries of the empire came in on our side as we stood alone against Hitler who was then at the height of his power. (He achieved a much more successful European union than our so-called colleagues have managed to do. "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.") So I suppose that we must have promised them all independance as the colonists were fed up with us despising them.
In the colonies, dominions and protectorates,
It isn't true that everyone expectorates....
now that's more like it. The problem has been solved. No need to be worried about it any more. Sleep beckons.
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