[Politics] If you could 'reset' Britain, which historic point would you go back to?

[Wozza]

Inspired by this, which historic version of Britain would you reload so we might head in a more-positive direction? (Not to simply re-live a period)

Or maybe you think 2022 is as good as Britain has been?

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[Russconha]

and Smith must score ...

 

[Eeyore]

1970s, but without the prejudice and discrimination.

I look back over my Dad's diaries and we were always at relations at doing stuff locally. It seemed that folk got to know each other back then. Everything seemed less regimented.

Of course, that's a good time for an Albion fan as well.

Actually, a fusion of today's social enlightenment and the 70s simplicity would be pretty good.

 

[nwgull]

Either 1997 or 2012.

 

[Wozza]

Yeah, again, I don't mean re-living your past.

Maybe it's better to ask: when did Britain start going wrong? (If you believe it has)

I guess example checkpoints would be 1979 General Election, or 2013 (?) when Cameron promised an EU referendum.

Some might pick dates before the rise or fall of the British Empire...

 

[Swansman]

Interesting to pick 1913 when the British Empire was on its peak and had enslaved a quarter of the world.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Stonehenge construction times, where we all sat plaiting daisies into our neighbour's hair and didn't get all uncool and heavy.

 

[nwgull]

Interesting to pick 1913 when the British Empire was on its peak and had enslaved a quarter of the world.

That was Russia, dickhead.

 

[bhafc99]

978. Elthered the Unready becomes king.

I just can’t shake off the feeling we weren’t really ready for this.

 

[Swansman]

That was Russia, dickhead.

um no

 

[Bladders]

Not get involved in WW1

The war was in the east , the Germans only invaded France to stop them supplying the Russians .


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[The Clamp]

1993 - 2010

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Mid 1950s so we could all have another go and getting it right post WW2 and I could later refuse to allow my kids to take the packaging off their Star Wars toys!

 

[Si Gull]

Mesozoic era; give evolution another opportunity to get it right.

 

[studio150]

1095 - Don't get involved in the Crusades, and instead dump all religion

 

[nwgull]

um no

Where has anyone British picked 1913 as the year they'd like to reset their country's history to?

 

[Swansman]

Where has anyone British picked 1913 as the year they'd like to reset their country's history to?

Ahh my bad, I thought you meant Russia as in that the Russian Empire was of that size but now I read the first post again and realise what you mean.

For me, anywhere in the world, I'd go to the early 90s and rip the throats off from anyone suggesting digitalisation of society.

 

[smillie's garden]

Probably back to the 16th Century, and then have a good chat about colonization. If we didn't colonize Ireland, N. America/Caribbean, and then get started in the slave trade around that time, I would probably be more proud to be English. European imperialism is perhaps the most shameful epoch in human history, and we, of course, live with its ramifications today. Without imperialism we don't get capitalism, which is almost inevitably going to lead to mass extinction in a couple of decades.

This cheery thinking was sponsored, in part, by BHA not scoring at home since effing January.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Not get involved in WW1

The war was in the east , the Germans only invaded France to stop them supplying the Russians .


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That's an interesting take, complete rubbish, but definitely interesting

 

[monty uk]

The night that Stanley rolled into Mrs Johnson and begat Boris or Alexander or pffifell or whatever his stupid name is.