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  1. Better British Economy post 1979?

    Economic shocks like that of 1979-1981 are always best avoided, so I am not sure what you mean here. Do you believe that the UK needed such a shock ?

  2. Better British Economy post 1979?

    Yes, getting rid of Thatcher would have been the only way a different path could have been followed . But, even had the Falklands War not occurred, she still probably would have won against Michael Foot’s Labour .

  3. Better British Economy post 1979?

    A more balanced approach to managing the British economy would have helped . Firstly, reducing inflation became almost an end in itself, rather than a means to an end i.e. a stable economic environment for growth. Thus, inflation was reduced to 3.8 percent by the early 80s but at the cost of...

  4. Strictly Neutral USA in WW2

    The UK fought on against the Nazis because of the belief that Churchill would be able to bring the USA into the war at some point . Take this hope away, and the most likely outcome would be a peace deal, with or without Churchill.

  5. The Forge of Weyland

    Any Scot , in fact.

  6. USA fully neutral in ww2

    Churchill offered the UK the hope that he would be able to bring the USA in on the UK’s side. And so without this hope , the only option is for Haifax as PM and a White Peace. As for the USA, without the stimulus of UK war orders / US aid for the UK , a return to the economic doldrums beckons...

  7. AHC: Make A WW2 Navy Better

    Hey, what about the Scottish, Irish and Welsh sailors in the RN ?

  8. Best Prime Minister we never had

    Why did you include Eno Agreed. Powell was a racist and Mosley a Fascist.

  9. Best Prime Minister we never had

  10. Could the British Tories Have Possibly Won in 1945?

    But the election of 1945 took place after the war against Germany had been won and the bulk of the British voters did not believe the Tories would deliver the kind of society they thought they deserved because of the way the economy had been managed in the thirties.

  11. Could the British Tories Have Possibly Won in 1945?

    The Tories were too closely associated with the UK’s economic woes of the Thirties. You would need them to adopt polices designed to boost the economy when they came into power in the early part of that decade.

  12. WI: The British empire still existed

    Balfour was a Scot and so I hardly think he would hold such an opinion. And whoever did hold this opinion overlooked the Scots, Welsh and Irish , all of whom were involved in running the British ( not English) Empire.

  13. Rudolf Hess flys to Chamberlins Uk.

    Why would he fly to England and not Scotland like he actually did ? And why would he only want to make peace with England ? What has he got against the rest of the UK ?

  14. Best British battlefleet for ww1

    Preserving the wealth that Britain had accumulated over 1814-1914 would be more important. Yes, the Empire did contribute to this but it was doomed anyway as Britain moved closer to becoming a democracy.

  15. Monty's point about esinhower

    England hasn't existed as a separate country since 1707. It's Britain or the UK.

  16. Greater Post-War British Economy

    Rearmament acted as a brake on the UK’s recovery from WW2. The export drive was interrupted and investment in the industrial sector was reduced.

  17. Greater Post-War British Economy

    The Korean War derailed the UK economy. If this had not happened, then the UK’s subsequent economic performance would have been much better.

  18. Would a less greedy Hitler have won?

    Nah, it would have been a long war but I am sure Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would have won eventually.

  19. AHC/WI: Scottish Devolution fails

    I Until the Referendum I don't think Labour treated Scotland horribly in the way the Tories did. But they are about to suffer big time partly because of how they talked down Scotland during the debate about independence and partly because their economic polices are are too similar to the...

  20. AHC/WI: Scottish Devolution fails

    The Scottish economy was devastated by the economic policies pursued by the Tories in the 1980s .They then decided to use us Scots as guinea pigs for the Poll Tax. Now there is David Cameron with his aim of stirring up trouble between Scotland and England. Irrational ? I think not.
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