To an earlier tweet by others, I wasn't aware we had some WW2 veterans posting???

The defeat of Nazi Germany could hardly have been achieved without liberating Europe in general....that list misses out the then Soviet Union

We never forget the help the polish troops & pilots played in the defence of the UK both on the ground and in the air, because we are so welcoming to them today 

That view of growth is very limited & essentially wrong

If people & companies hadn't borrowed, ours & others economies would be tiny

As stated earlier Europe incl the UK have a long history of wars, which have cost millions of lives and missed growth, allowing the US after two world wars to dominate 

We are not formerly linked to the US anymore, but when they told us to stop re Suez, we stopped. A new world power had emerged

Independence is an illusion in political terms in those circumstances 

'another try' ....its a bit comicon