Reflecting on the recent offense taken by the Brits during Mitt Romney's British visit, Joshua Keating at foreignpolicy.com excerpts another dig at Britain from Mitt's book "No Apology":
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions. Yet only two lifetimes ago, Britain ruled the largest and wealthiest empire in the history of humankind. Britain controlled a quarter of the earth's land and a quarter of the earth's population.
I couldn't help but notice a political ad in the making. I thought the heroic citizenry and pilots of the RAF were the ones who won the Battle of Britain? It would have been lost but for water? You could have WWII vets up there, "water saved us? I guess I gave my right hand for nothing then."
Oh, wait, Brits can't vote... Never mind.