1/4 Too many British people can’t come to terms with the fact that we’re becoming irrelevant - accelerated by our isolationist, xenophobic, and nationalistic government

The Empire is (largely) dead, and we’re no longer the most powerful country in the world

2/4 And our violent imperial history is increasingly being acknowledged internationally for what it was: evil

Slavery, genocides, massacres, exploitation, invasion - it’s getting harder to whitewash, and unpopular to boast about, now black and brown histories are being heard

3/4 That’s a reason why there’s so much anger about Churchill’s bust being removed - Churchill was an ardent imperialist that made Britain feel powerful and important as Empire did

Removing his bust is a reminder of how Britain is not longer like that, and is becoming irrelevant

4/4 It’s the same reason they hate people removing statues of slavers and putting them in museums - it’s erasing public commemoration Britain’s imperial past

I just worry, as history shows, that when a country feels humiliated like this it can easily fall into full fascism

+/ So much of British identity and education is rooted in celebrating how unstoppable Britain used to be - this fragility is the result

When anything goes near popping that bubble, or risks reminding Britain how evil Empire was, or how irrelevant we’ve become, there’s outrage