>>85282
>what do you think was the tipping point where it all began to fall apart?
>>85284
It start earlier. The UK was more than a little unhinged since pic related, and it just got worse from there. There were ups and downs, for example they did a good job with domestic freedom for a while, but even their colonialism was meh. I am fairly sure that they were better than the Dutch, but worse than the French. The French had fewer wars with the Indians in America, from what I know, and didn't cause millions of deaths by famine in India. In general, I don't hear many bad things about them as colonists.
Then there was the whole insanity with Cromwell, but they got better from that. In fact, Britain was at least sane for much of its history. Then came the two world wars and they lost it. In WW1, there were public sermons about how the Kaiser of Germany should be executed with boiling oil. They started an illegal blockade that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, and then they participated in the insanity that was the Versailles Treaty. The US was worse in this regard, Woodrow Wilson didn't even speak German and gave Italy a town that had been Austrian for decades because the name sounded Italian, but the Brits weren't exactly innocent lambs either. Their blockade gave the Americans the leverage to do all this crap. Oh, and let's not forget the Bryce Report. The Germans did a lot of shit in Belgium, for which they are rightfully condemned, but they didn't cut the hands off of children. Not a single such incident was proven.
In WW2, the Brits put pacifists in concentration camps that were worse than the early Nazi camps (for the communists). They killed thousands through strategic bombardments but left the railways and other infrastructure alone. They of course teamed up with Stalin and other communists, brutally raped and murdered German civilians (also French and Poles, if I am not mistaken), gave a shit about the German resistance (because they weren't left-wing enough), and after the war, they left half of Germany with the commies and brainwashed a
Both times, they were on a crusade for democracy. The UK may style itself as a constitutional monarchy, but it's the most democratic democracy in Europe. In Germany, where I live, we hold that the people can't do whatever they want. We have checks on democracy. One of the first things I learned is that in Britain, this is not the case, and the parliament can really decide whatever it wants. Looking at the Anglosphere, it seems to me they are much more arbitrary in their policies and positivist in their outlook, but the US at least loves its constitution and had a strong libertarian spirit for a while. Here in Germany, the government feels much more bound by the idea of a natural law, at least since WW2. That was the one good development that came after it. Sadly, we didn't make much of it, and the whole thing was tainted by some "enlightened" bullshit, but still I am glad we had that spirit for a while. Germany also used to be fairly libertarian under Adenauer. Alas, that era is gone.
I digress. My point is, Britain didn't start being retarded just twenty years ago. I actually like the Brits as people, but politically, they suck. Too democratic, too isolated yet imperialist, anti-papist, legally positivist. They also started this whole eugenics-thing, then disavowed it after WW2, which further proves that something's not quite right with that island.