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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:45:45 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 30/08/2025 20:21, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:47:47 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>>     Saw recent news story - seems the Yanks know more about English
>>>     history than actual Brits these days
>> 
>> 'Brits' is flexible these days. I read an article this morning about
>> how one of UKIP's talking points about Brexit was decreasing
>> immigration. How did that work out?
> 
> We never got the brexit we voted for, which is why Nigel is now going
> back into politics

Funny how you never quite get what you voted for, isn't it? You get what 
the people who own the pols want. I've been rereading Spengler's 
'Prussianism and Socialism' from 1919 where he mentions the same problem 
with the Tories and Whigs of his day.