[Misc] What was Britain’s single greatest achievement of the 20th century?

[Nottseagull]

On a current thread I was surprised to read this:

The NHS is Britain’s single greatest achievement of the 20th century in my opinion.

Welcome as it undoubtedly was to the majority of the population, I can think of several other things. I'll start in the pre-world war era and propose that the greatest achievement was the maintenance of the British Empire, which ruled a quarter of the World using a tiny fraction of that population.

 

[Stat Brother]

Putting up with the Welch, Scotchland & Yorkieshire.

 

[beorhthelm]

jet engine.

 

[The Clamp]

Overcoming the dark armies of the Nazi regime. I think people forget just how close we came to being crushed.







And Calippos. I love Calippos.

 

[MattBackHome]

Alexander Fleming by a mile.

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[blue-shifted]

Yeh, withstanding the Nazis in the first half of the war. That took a fair bit of resilience and collective self belief

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Abolishing the death penalty or establishing the welfare state.

 

[The Rattler]

Fawlty Towers

 

[whitelion]

Surely has to be WWll.....

 

[looney]

Alexander Fleming by a mile.

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This..
Peniciline or however its splet.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Surely has to be WWll.....

Britain did not do it alone, far from it.

 

[drew]

jet engine.

Surprised my brother hasn't been on here going on about R J Mitchell's plane!

 

[drew]

Britain did not do it alone, far from it.

You're right, if it wasn't for the Americans capturing that enigma thingamajig....................

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

Britain did not do it alone, far from it.

Tipical remoaner trying to give credit to the EU when we won it by areselves

We won they lost get over it

Three words

No more bendy bananas

Regards
DR

 

[vegster]

Jessica Ennis.

 

[El Presidente]

Universal suffrage.

 

[The Clamp]

Wrong thread

 

[jakarta]

Britain did not do it alone, far from it.

If we hadn't survived I doubt if anyone else would have defeated Germany.

If we had gone under the Yanks would have had no interest in getting involved in European affairs.

The whole of the German military would then have gone to work on the USSR without any distraction.

Even if Germany hadn't crushed them via normal warfare they would have done so around 1945/46 via their atomic weapons programme and ballistic missiles.

So yes our main achievement was saving the world from the Nazis. And little thanks did we get for it.

 

[spongy]

Tv, internet, engineering in general, we basically still own motorsport as well.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Discovery of DNA.