What did the British ever do for us? 

standing on the shoulders of giants

and building it! its just a shame about the current generation who just want to tell everyone what they are doing on facebook or whatever twatter is called these days.

And war! We were great at that.

South Africa, former British colony, that performed the first heart transplant and invented the CAT scan.

Like the concentration camp, for example?

The haters out there exist due to the Brits. In passing, only the other week I found out the Brits invented the first blood transfusion service. And are far the largest per capita donors of all demographics in Britain today.

What do you mean by that.

He means who gets the most criticism from people the man who builds a successful company or the man who picks up the litter in his carpark Thats us the Brits

That's pretty much everyone.

Interesting that you would recognise that there would be many haters.

Innit tho'? 😂

Yes!

Absolutely, hard rock and heavy metal were nurtured here and turned into global stadium-filling events known wolrdwide.

and punk rock!

Oh yes, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Elton John, David Bowie and loads more.

Emperor the British never ended slavery that is a lie

​@@mmcc5846 yes they did in all British ruled countries slavery was abolished. From 1850. Ended it in India,also ended the wife of an Indian being burnt with her dead husband. Which was the custom in India at that time the wife Alive and well would be burnt with her dead husband. Ships of the royal navy patrolled the African coast and stopped slave ships, releasing the ships occupants on to the next African port. I stead of relying on Hollywood to tell history go to a library and read about it.

@@mmcc5846 In our local church in Selworthy there’s a plaque on the wall (it’s also online) dedicated to a son of the abolitionist Acland family, who died on a British navy ship intercepting slavers. Buying and selling captured people of your enemy was the norm in many countries; the Brits systematically put an end to the slave trade endemic in many countries, costing a veritable fortune in the process. Read a history book about it and not woke propaganda.

@@mmcc5846 No, Britain did not end slavery since it is still a thing today in many countries. However Britain DID end the slave trade across the Atlantic and practically forced the other super powers at the time like France, Spain etc to abolish slavery also. So no need to be so pedantic about shit you see on youtube comments.

@@mmcc5846 Read a bit of history

And virtually bankrupted ourselves saving europe from themselves yet again (with the commonwealth and US of course)

No, they didn't bankrupt themselves. They handed out government money to themselves.

@@kennethrollo7891 In other words they taxed the British people to ensure that the freedom of the slaves was not challenged. In doing so, they avoided a civil war. British pragmatism supporting British morality.

@@kennethrollo7891In fact, the British government BORROWED that money in 1833 and every British citizen who paid tax up until 2014 contributed to paying off that debt. And that doesn’t include the Billions, by modern day standards that Britain and the USA spent to eradicate The Barbary Pirate slavers. You’re welcome.

The White British ended slavery between the black Africans and white Europeans.But slavery is still happening today in Africa and has been between African tribes forever.And don’t start me on other non European countries it’s only white people who are very naught isn’t it everyone 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Beautifully expressed 👏

Very well said mate.

English bloody literature????? You should have read some of the shit we had to do for O level exams!

Thanks 👍

@@markpitts5194Such as?

Substantially correct.

WE GAVE THE WORLD , DEMOCRACY, INTERNATIONAL LAW, POSTAL SERVICE. , CANALS, TELEPHONE SYSTEM. GOVERNMENT CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM, IYER HEDUKATSHUN

And in space😊

And English is also spoken in Space as any Star Trek fan has to accept And all the Superheroes Supervillains have to also accept that the first word they speak is English so they must of come from England even Krypton - Superman's home came from England originally all the heroes and villans originated from England.

And further refined by us Aussie’s

They should taught everything, 'the good, bad and ugly'. A balanced perspective...

Yes, they wouldn't be allowed to hear "baaaarstards" in British schools.

I'm happy to be one of the few teenagers watching this video, but I completely agree. We've never really been taught about what us British achieved, except the Industrial Revolution and some medical advancements. However, we have been taught more about how brutal we were as colonists, which is true, but we are never taught about the good things we brought to the colonies. We constantly go over how 'evil' we were throughout our history, and I'm yet to hear a bad thing about the Romans, or the Ancient Egyptians, and the many other civilizations that had enslaved hundreds of thousands, long before the British ever did, and we always seem to gloss over the fact that the British were the first to abolish the slave trade in 1807 and the fact that slaves were freed in British East India in 1838. Thankfully, I haven't 'learnt' about how evil we were and how terrible colonisation was for a while now, and instead we've been learning about medicine, the Cold War, etc. I find it unfortunate that so many people my age don't appreciate their country's colourful history and never really celebrate it (to my knowledge). However, I am happy to say that we do celebrate Remberance Day and have recently commemorated the D-Day anniversary at my school.

Indeed! God save the King!

Me too. No country should call themselves the greatest (USA try to) but Britain , (inc. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) are way up there.

I'm proud of being old British, I'm not proud of being that new invention that the Tories have pushed. This anti-constitutional perversity they call multicultural.

​@@benhodkinson6467 God save the King 🇬🇧

You are proud of being a colonialist. Jeez!

We are allowed there is just a minority of anti western anti British who try to destabilise us…..don’t let them x🇬🇧

Yes, yes I am.

We are allowed. And it's high time we speak them proudly.

Stand up for your culture or we will be Erased!

Speak for yourself. As an engineer in three distinct technologies, I am proud of the foundations created by my forebears. And, for our failings, who did more to iradicate slavery in the world? Or, through colonisation, created a new lingua franca that many are keen to learn and profit from today?

Er. First, we didn't end slavery. Slavery never stopped. Second, prohibiting slavery after 9 million were enslaved is too little, too late.

There are more slaves now than ever!!

We may have been amongst the first to end slavery, but by God we profited from it immensely before that time. It's also a little-known fact that when did finally abolish slavery, we gave out the equivalent of millions of pounds of compensation...to the slave OWNERS, not the slaves themselves.

Well, Britian did not end slavery. I will admit that they pretty much shut down the Atlantic Slave Trade in the early 19th Century. The Anti Slave Trade Squadron also had ships from the US Navy assigned to it. But the Brits carried the load. Still slaves were flowing North and East to other cultural areas. And in the 1830s Britain officially ended slavery in the Empire. But I'd be willing to bet it was still going on quietly in places. The other two major European derived countries with slavery abolished the practice in the 1860s. In one it took a Traumatic Civil War. In the other, Brazil, it was done fairly peacefully. Unfortunately the practice still exists in parts of the world. Even in so calledcivilized parts.

Slavery is alive and well bud. Even in Britain!

Now, that's a bit like saying we are the best in the world. Uncivilized at the moment.

Because of the way we did it, just like everyone else mind you but we were the best at it so everyone hates us

And never forgiven!

You know, telling people that suffered under colonialism that they should be grateful is probably the worst thing you can do when you want them to like you.

@@tokenspirit6140 Ah but that isn't the British, is it?

Well, do we all forget Francis Bacon? Practically invented the scientific method.

or Cromwell? wasn't M.C. more about the rights of Lords rather than peasants (and it was never honoured anyway).

Talking of Francis Bacon we also invented the sandwich 😂

@@Alfred5555 Which has nothing to do with imperialism, Freddy...

@@DeepakKumar-lv4te Magna Carta is more remembered for its reputation than its actual content, as it was only a glorified monetary agreement. Nothing to do with Democracy or human rights.

this is a good point and I can't help but think religion plays a part in holding societies back, we had a big window in the UK and Europe as a whole where religion became fairly toothless allowing for hypothesis, debate, experiments and inventions to flourish without interference from the state/groups.

Net zero is going to send us back there

Religion, homogeneity, pride and belonging was what kept Brit society stable. It created the thirst for knowledge and experimentation. No modern genuis is coming from a culture of Single Mothers, Gangsta Rap, Islam or Transgenders!! We are racing through the 'Mouse Utopia Experiment' societal collapse is imminent! (Tldr, the mice turn gay due to lack of female for sex, have civil wars, eat each other, starve and all die)

On the surface it may seem like a small elite of scientists and engineers are solely responsible. But that elite can't exist without tacit support for them running throughout society. What's often overlooked is the respect everybody has, or used to have, for education, learning, invention and ideas. There's a reason we have centuries old universities, there's a reason literature is held in such high regard, the thirst for knowledge in Britain ran throughout society. As an example, Various Lords spent years digging up their estates discovering what they could about Romans, the Stone Age and investigating the relics they had left behind. A working class local woman in Dorset collected fossils, and with little formal education is considered one of the most important pioneers in the study of fossils. See the contrast? Do you see what connects them? They were British and they were curious. No other country, without coercion, has replicated or supported that level of intellectual exploration and discovery.

@@GreatSageSunWukong Huh? The deindustrialisation complained of here has occurred as British religious observance declined.

We would've been a world power without Britain. Thanks to them, we are the only country to have a smaller population now than in the 19th century

it owes more than that, they stripped us of our empire as thanks for all that and now we must deal with incompitent people in parliment doing NOTHING and i mean NOTHING to help our situation

Just running down the list, Saudi Arabia did not abolish slavery until 1962.

1996 The last Magdalene Laundry closes in Ireland.

Yes, but we invented and ran the slave trade.

Good God you are soo right.😊

I doubt the teachers know this also.They've gone through the woke PC training and been told everything is our fault !

NETFLIX teach them that they all were blacks

And the most per head of population.

We men, it's said, think of the Romans at least once a day. When will it be the Brits I wonder? Is it already happening?

And Anglo-Saxons?

And the 1st highest number has so many from immigrants, Who grew up and were Educated in other Countries😁

An English Church Bell-Ringer enjoyed his job so much he carried on for hours at a time, day and night. The locals created an award for him - he was the first recipient of the 'No Peace Bell Prize' - which, of course, is still handed out occasionally.

Jolly good show

Here here!

Well said. I’m doing my best to counter the anti-British nonsense taught at my children’s school, but it’s relentless. Still, if we can remind younger generations of the great achievements of their forebears I’m sure it will inspire them in the future. 🇬🇧👍🏻

Nobody has to feel ashamed of where they're from. But if you're going to choose to be proud you'd better at least be honest with yourself about the good and the bad. Or else it's just another kind of narcissism.

@@malpreece5008me too….its clear to see from watching and this why so many would be bitterly jealous of our beautiful nation and people past and present. Keep shouting and defending our nation x

correction china is shaping the world in the 21st century, overpassing all the former british colonies and current commonwealth countries

*European inventions/ideas

Industrial Revolution, BRITISH! who else would have built cast iron ships, when the whole world was pissing about in wooden ships and canoes!🤣😂😅

@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont What are?

The only European ideas were from the Romans

In reality if he was to list everything the video would have been hours long.

Perhaps parliamentary proceedure?

Err thats because they were already an empire (and so had the wealth and power) when the industrial age happened, they also sat upon easily accessible coal deposits which powered it.

Thank you, You have a positive open mind!

I didn't invent anything on his list, but I thank you from Britain 😅

Agreed. Second that.

I think this would shock a lot of USA citizens as they usually believe they invented everything

Watched a documentary on the US invention of the Hovercraft. Mr Cockrell may have something to say about that.

@@Japan-in-N The things the yanks invented you could put on the back of a very small matchbox

​@@All_Good_Things I can't think of anything that America invented entirely on its own!

All the 'woke' should be shown this!

@@DianaMcFerranWhat if we, the colonised peoples, showed the British what they did? The biggest genocides in history, the invention of concentration camps, etc. etc. The Nazis copied the British, you know.

It's not sacrifice if you had no choice lol

@@keifer7813 You really are a prat aren't you? Just go to Arnhem.

@@keifer7813 we did...we could have just as easily said "screw the world - as long as our empire doesn't get attacked", plus we were bound by a treaty and honour to step in when Poland got invaded, H*tler didn't listen so he FAFO.

It was done for the WORLD.not Great Britain 🇬🇧 we all sacrifice.🌍

Not like they had any choice...

Yawn! Yes, very profound.

@@DerekLangdonSarcasm’s a British invention too. 😊

@@andylewis7360 Yes, and so is the Lowest form of wit. 😉

@@elainehumphrey2307Actually sarcasm is a highly developed form of wit which only certain people can master..

@@elainehumphrey2307 "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and the highest level of intelligence" probably why only brits get the british humour and sense of irony and masters of understatements lol (when a brit understates something - it means shit has hit the fan - but only brits understand that...ask our american cousins, canadian and aussie cousins..oh and our allies too about that especially during the second WW) example of british wit; Americans say "we are second to none"....the british respond with "we are none" hahahahaha

Which, of course, is why Greta Thunberg blames us for climate change!!

​@@lizbignell7813she's a just figure head for billionaires to make money off

@@lizbignell7813 she might not be wrong

@cossierob6143 She most certainly is wrong

Or mis-spelling everything, showing their total ignorance!

the America revolutionary war was a British civil war no matter how you cut it. We shouldn't compete with the Americans we should combine our tally

Thomas Edison was the pre-cursur to Donald Trump... He ALSO lied, stole and took credit for many things that he had NO hand in doing... Americans are VERY good at that...! 😂😂😂

I'd say it ruled most of the world through a combination of luck and good geography to be honest. It started before most of these inventions/discoveries were made.

And the world wide web, otherwise known as the internet. Though it was while an Englishman was working at CERN

Talking about modern computing without mentioning Alan Turing? Oh dear. That’s rather like talking about modern physics without talking about Einstein.

Except Babbage, konard zuse and tommy flowers most of computer development took place in America and internet was also invented by two Americans

Idiotic comment.

LOL...Good!

Oh Guardian????????? 👍😁

I'm a guardian reader. This is great.

Great comment Michael, don't forget "The Independent" as well.

😂😉🤣

I believe that it's a deliberate plan to raise our children in ignorance of their heritage and guilt trip them about Britain's rich historical past. Saps their spirit and guilt trips before the children are out of primary schools ! Thanks for reminding me. Sadly, I've been watching it happen for years unfortunately.😇

I recently learned that our game of rounders (now mainly played by children) was the source of American baseball. Rounders has been played since Tudor times.

Something for another video. PR

Gaelic football :P Ay, drink mead, rumble in the dirt and get your differences out of the way and move on and enjoy life :)

Cos it’s a science channel

And cards, according to Hoyle.

Nothing in return except 47 trillion from India, trillions from Ireland and Africa 😂😂😂 We gave you all that and we ask for nothing but yous to fǔck 0ff and mind your own business

We did get a LOT in return, but the funniest thing to me is Americans and Australians insulting the British... you know, the countries populated almost entirely by people of British decent.

@@blizzardgaming7070 They are just jealous because they moved.

Most Americans are German and Irish ​@@blizzardgaming7070

That's right ! Don't sit slagging us off on the Internet while eating a sandwich 🥪 (both of our inventions )

_Volcanoes_ Are somewhat undervalued for their exceptional waste disposal capabilities!

Very true, I had a volume argument with an invader today, as to why we need them, as we the British are lazy, stupid and incompetent at running the the country...

They can start by arresting anyone supporting terrorist organisations like hamas or waving a swastika on British streets. Then make it a jailable offence for any news organisation to purposely mislead or lie to the public, that takes care of much of the mainstream media, from the guardian to the bbc. Then withdraw funding from universities who are spreading marxist philosophy and had half the country on its knees on behalf of blm which is run by a bunch of thieving, racist swindlers. And to all the net zero climate change cult members, who want to close our farms down (which would cause instant starvation across Europe)..........piss off! If a cow farts in Holland the sun will not set the Earth on fire, however much you may want it to, not going to happen, sorry doom-mongers. No Western Democracy is inherently racist though you may come across the odd one here and there, I encountered one once, about twenty years ago and told him what he could go do to himself, problem solved. Scrap DEI, its enforced racism and deport anyone from any hr department.....................anywhere, maybe a lost island. Stop promoting folk because they're the right colour or sex because that is racist and sexist. Anyone mentioning micro aggressions or practising cancel culture(especially those who deny it exists) gets sent to live with the hr department, as do all illegal immigrants and those who are not identifying as one of two, and only two, genders. Any politician with links to WEF can go rule over the hr departments island utopia. While I'm at it, anyone using terms like 'un-alived' can go there too.

He never even touched on Common Law or Democracy,which without that those nobheads wouldn’t have a voice to hate us with!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧💪🏻

Just lower the temperature and the "others* will leave 😂

😁😇😇😃

Hear hear!

Yeah. England and Scotland are like Lennon/McCartney. Creative geniuses.

Scottish are British

And we fought the wars. But we have a harsh history, and it got worse in the union. Cultural & linguistic genocide and the clearances, which is a polite term for ethnic cleansing.

@@Rexkramer68no they’re Scottish, numpty

So true didn't see Indonesia join a Dutch Commonwealth when they became independent and for the Pacific South Seas territories they are still ruled over by a European power the French in 2024

correction china is shaping the world in the 21st century, overpassing all the former british colonies and current commonwealth countries

compare china's rise with the british empire's rise, The brits used their empire to conquer others that resulted in over 100 million of deaths, plundering india's wealth, stealing of native lands. While china's rise doesn't involve wars of conquest, stealing of lands, genocide of natives etc, they have a far superior economic system. When comparing the 2 countries china dwarfs britain in terms of accomplishments and gdp and growth and scientific advancements etc

Like the USA?

You're 💯% correct!

Don’t tell the liberals.

Don’t tell King Charles…. He will start apologising for all of the work the British have done.

In a few hundred years we'll get that TV programme! 😊

I think you can safely say you have British heritage 😁

Fun fact, the DNA test was invented by Sir Alec John Jeffreys, a Brit.

With that 33% you'll be just fine, fellow Scot.

Pretty much every "invention" named here was the result of centuries of intellectual achievement (mostly by non-Brits), and in fact the only British people who don't understand this are the ones who haven't accomplished anything. A DNA test isn't your "ethnicity" either, so maybe enroll yourself in some sociology courses.

Yes indeed, The Optical Time Domain Reflectometer was invented during a light shower over Grimsby (at the on the same day as Marmite) But not by the same bloke...though coincidently they were both called Jim and wore knitted top hats.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Like the wrong trousers lol. Only messing, cause here in Preston where nick park is from we have a bronze statue of Wallace and gromit from the wrong trousers

The guardian that profitted from slaving

Haha, truth hurts the lefty, especially historic truth. (Sticks work quite well also tho) 😂😂

@@Dilbert-o5k The Guardian also ran puff pieces praising Britain's very own wannabe fascist dictator - Oswald Moseley.

Oh, yes, Guardian readers wouldn’t be able to have a meltdown without the invention of newspapers!

good

Britain claims to have invented many things, which in fact they hadn’t.. one example the telephone! They claim the ‘phone because A.G Bell was Scottish born.

he didnt he shortened the list thats what he said at the begining or we would be here all night lol

I wonder what's happened to them?

​@DerekLangdon well let me see if you are born in Scotland doesn't that make them British !!!!

The telegraph was invented in britain by wheatstone, even if you wont acee;t bell was Scottish

Ooops, too late.

Beautifully put👍

Deport. To our former colonies.

Unfortunately, our government and its enablers (all UK police services) have emasculated and subjugated the British to the point of insignificance. Shame on them. I’ll be gone by then, but a leader will rise and drag these people to book. What a day that promises to be.

@@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb nah...i suggest the antarctic...it will make them reflect and then realise how good they did have it before!

Almost like there was some sort of 'unequal exchange' happening?

The Yanks do stand up better, in general I think..... they're an off shoot of us British though. 😅 Our sitcoms from the 70s through to the late 90s/very early 00s were mostly brilliant! Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Open All Hours, Red Dwarf, Yes Minister/Prime Minister.... there's many, many more. All brilliant! Now, our comedy is mostly shit.

The UK last week moved to the 4th largest exporter in the world. Much of our wholesale manufacturing is done abroad where either the resources are found or the labour is cheap, which is the price of globalisation. However, the UK still have a significant manufacturing industry, but mostly in highly skilled or specialised areas.

Genuinely love what I am assuming to be a typo, I am pretty sure you meant ' It was all left to fall apart, *shut* down and sold out' but what you have written is so much better

I found it pretty sad when the two RN carriers wee built in France.

Capitalism is about making profit! If Johnny Foreigner can make it cheaper than your own workforce, then this is what happens! Simple economics!!

UK manufacturing wasn't "all left to fall apart". Rather, it was systematically demolished by the Thatcher governments. Ostensibly with the aim of 'modernisation', but more accurately in order to smash workers' unions.

The problem is we are too modest.

Then, the w** is inevitable, because no one gonna take this nonsense story seriously all over the world except US, UK and probably EU !!...

We had Christianity, a more pure version, and the English spent 500 years trying to change it to their blasphemous form of Christianity. Murders, killing half the population, banning freedoms, doesn't really sound very Christian, does it?

The Bacon Butty? How amusing! It will never reach the dizzy heights of the Cheeseburger bud! It’s world renown, unlike your greasy piggy sandwhich.

The crunch question - with brown sauce or tomato sauce?

Tomato ketchup, or HP sauce though?

That and Victoris sponge cake, Eccles and Chorley cakes...

@@tinitus23 Brown..

Or Morons!

Or just I G N O R A N T.

Obviously! that's a given!

Most of the British haters are over here!!!🧐

of what how they screwed the world and still do, just look at how they treat NZers and ozzies even to this day

Welcome to the north of England. We created the modern world.

He also invented matches.

AND LONG BEFORE THE lying yanks DID, TOO

Steady on old bean............Jonny Walker from Teesside invented the match - Walkers 'friction Lights'

🇬🇧👍

Dr. David Faraday - a descendant of the Victorian scientist Sir Micheal Faraday has invented a super way of distilling whisky which is in use at penderyn distillery near hirwaun

Visit his home at the Royal Institution!

My girlfriend is Zambian, her uncles and grandfather fought for Zambia's independence but she says sometimes that the British left to quick

As affirmed by the wonderful Thomas Sowell.

@@paulgraham3901 "My girlfriend is Zambian, her uncles and grandfather fought for Zambia's independence but she says sometimes that the British left to quick" Well, leaving a country with no experience in governing itself was bound to end in disaster. It would probably have been better if the Brits had handed over power more gradually to the local populations, helping them to develop their own systems of governance in a genuine partnership.

​@@paulgraham3901the British left any country that wanted independence with nothing as soon as they held no monetary value to them anymore.

It makes me sad that there is such a huge disconnect between African people and Black British people, alot of the Black British population have the worst view of the UK imaginable and want to be a victim in every way possible, they don't see the opportunities that people from the motherland would wish to have and would appreciate greatly to be given.

Well said.

Countries...

Indeed we do, also non-commonwealth countries such as Poland, France, South Africa and others.

Debts of blood that can never be repaid especially (for me) the young men from other countries that fought and died in the Battle of Britain

it's all thanks to the Queensland and her dominions that we have a free world today

And as if the French, Dutch, Belgians and Spanish didn't have empires as well. And most of them were far more brutal, especially the Belgians in the Congo.

Mike'spike that is a brilliant point you have made . They all love to tell us how bad we are but yet benefit from all the science we gave them .

most don't know how the Muslims took slaves from Europe and Americas on the basis that everyone else are infidels !! Even today indentured labour is part of their societies not to mention oppression. Iran is currently taking over the middle east, Saudi were not pleased with the US leaving Iraq.

@@Anthony-vt6px and insult us on the brit invented www, on their brit invented touchscreens using our language. It's beyond irony, which I'm beginning to think was also a British invention, only one we kept to ourselves

The funniest part is when the Argentines, a nation of Italian Spanish speakers genocided the indigenous population, looted all their gold then call us pirates for liberating them of said gold using our superior navigational skills, bigger balls and a huge dose of their own medicine. Then call us for 'occupying' Ireland, which we don't, and then use the logic that they own the Falklands on account of them being the closest larger country. Words fail me. Well. Clearly they didn't. But I'm sure you'll get the point

Frank Whittle may have been the first to secure a patent. And Power Jets almost certainly did get the first aviation turbine running. But, there's always a but or buts isn't there. 1) Whittle was not the only one that had the idea. There were at least several other engineers looking at jet turbine aeroengines in the 30s in Europe. In the late 30s Lockheed was developing their own axial flow design. 2) Part of the issue Whittle had with his superiors was his boss was developing his own ideas for a turboprop design. 3) Resistance to the idea came from several factors. The first is the material science of the day simply was not up to the demands in terms of the needed high temperature alloys. Another factor with the alloys needed. Let's say you have a high strength, high temperature alloy. Do you have the cutting tools needed to shapeyhat alloy. And the machining techniques required. 4) Another was that the speeds being envisioned did not require jet engines. Also the piston aeroengine still had a lot of development left in it.

That should read " enter ze jermans"...😂

The Germans copied the British jet technology. During WW2 British jets were far more advanced than the crude German efforts.

It is suspected the germans got the idea from the patents. Given the lack of progress from the british authorities, the germans were able to push ahead.

Odd took so long as steam turbines had been around for a few years.

Is that nigel planer you're on about?

@@Howie57 Edgy.

I can't take this anymore , I love my old country, 😢

i beg to differ, they killed over 100 million to have their empire

Walked the plank?

That one would be penicilin, methinks

Not saved the most lives. But it was quickly copied around the major cities of the western world for the awesome quality of life improvements too.

Francis Jenner …..invented the vaccine …..how many millions of lives have been saved by vaccination

​@@johnnyboy-f6vwell we will never know for sure but a working sewer system its taken for granted.

Edward Jenner.

The state is now actively anti Christian.

And break for tea.

How to queue!

Hear, hear. It’s just a shame that not more people are proud of that heritage and to see respect and manners going down the drain.

And cricket, and football, and tennis (both kinds) and rugby (both kinds) and rounders, what the Americans call baseball.

Well said and quite agree , as an Englishwoman from the North it’s great to have such clever neighbours 👍😊

US? No thanks, ya Hoose Jock.

Thanks for giving the world Adam Smith

Did he mention TV. I’m Aussie. No we didn’t invent tv lol, Scottish John Logie Baird did. We all know that here in Aus. The Logies is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television. . Another ✔️ to the Brits 😊

What a load of white washing crap. The British Empire was never a force for good!! Never, Never, Never!

It is a myth that the British Empire grew wealthy through free trade: it was by _controlling_ trade and, when other countries objected, sending in the gun boats and forcing them to buy our opium. So, when right wing politicians and economists (the Tufton Street _Tufty Club_ ) argue that free trade generates wealth they are patently wrong. Mind you: UK left its Indians with its own country, free of the Moghul or any other empire,, railways, democracy and a decent civil service. US left its Indians with reservations and drink problems.

I bet people who lived in other empires didn’t have it as good

Efficient military machine? Must be why Brits celebrate the Fourth Of July.

@@alandyer1646 That was a civil war.

...and Putin despises Britain,that must be a badge of honour in anyone's book!

​@@busking6292You'd be pissed off too, if the SBS blew up your oil and gas pipeline

You’re, not your.

In India it should be remembered that there is the caste system at work too and no matter if anyone wanted to help there were those whom the native people themselves called the 'untouchables' and believed they should be left to themselves. It was next to impossible for in-comers even the British to help them.

@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey The British also established hospitals, judiciary system, clean water, sent people to England to train as doctors, etc.

But I reckon the invention and or legacy the indians loved the most that was bequeathed to em by the evil imperilists was none other than CRICKET.

Exactly!!

Indian population before British occupation: 170 million. Indian population when the British left: 420 million. We also ended the Hindu custom of "Sati", where a widow would be sacrificed on her husband's funeral pyre. Among a few other things.

As you should be. I am Canadian and I love my English cousins

Actually during the Crimean war she believed in bad hummours, there were many MALE doctors that promoted hygiene before her.

Good point

Yes, dear old Florence does deserve a mention.. in regards to a nursing career, no blacks need apply! Mary Seacole had to fund, and find her own way to the Crimea to take up nursing. And became much loved and respected by the British troops…She is the true lady with the lamp!

Good point Jeff but also remember Mary Seacole, she done much the same as Florence Nightingale .

She established the first nursing school.😂

Was'nt the "nicest of chaps", ms Louise. I think it was the "hand he was dealt" , in life.

He once stole a Razzle mag though.

These anti-colonialists will always happily accept and brag about their ranks in the Empire which is always most amusing. It is all just puff and wind when it comes down to it and and dangle a pointless nonsensical prestigious gong in front of them and they just come a running whatever.

Same here.

The only reason they can even 'bash' Colonialism is because of the British achievements that now enable this weak simpering generation to live in such comfort and safety.

with over 100 million deaths attributed to the british empire how can you bash them

You forgot most famous serial killer : Jack the Ripper 🙂

I have to beg to differ on the world's most famous bear. More people are probably aware of Winnie the Pooh than Paddington, though he is also the creation of a British author.

@@stup1299 Jack the ripper was real, the others were not.

Alice in Wonderland...Beatrix Potter...Hercule Poirot...Miss Marple - for goodness sake, there's no end to a very distinguished list. Effortlessly out in front.

and Poo bear

Yep many great things were invented in garden sheds

Not to mention the mother in-law

@@10wanderer including the garden shed😁

Around 2% of GDP was devoted to this cause

No the slaves did

Yes, the British have grabbed the moral high ground for themselves! And no bugger is gonna push them off!

Of course, Britain had to adopt slavery before they could abolish it...

Whilst its own working class were kept in abject poverty.

Not to mention the Harrier jump jet .

Not to mention the concentration camp, wasn't the Germans

Don't forget liberating the aborigines from having to wander all about their continent and helping all those Irish with their weight loss program.

@@maureenm8462 The concentration camps were first used by the Spanish in Cuba.

@@maureenm8462that’s a myth actually.

Preach your subjective crap to the Māori people, and tell them how lucky they are to have you living among them!!!

@@DerekLangdon if they would like to live in a primitive hunter-gather basic agricultural society - they're welcome. I wonder how many have turned their backs on NZ society and live in the woods....?

​@@DerekLangdonthe maori only turned up in NZ a couple of hundreds of years before the Europeans and they were fond of genocide themselves.

Remember the maori weren't indigenous to NZ

@@Dilbert-o5k They were the first humans to get there though.

Churchill got the Australians to agree to ship thousands of tonnes of wheat to the beleaguered Bengals. Britain's ships were tied up in the Atlantic at a heavy cost.

dont worry. we'll be blamed for it anyway

Indian speculators HOARDED FOOD until the price went up

Ive been banging on about this online for years. Even tho it has been debunked Churchill still gets the blame. All the BLM lot up in London in 2020 were continually going on about it.

@@johnbell-yn5xeso, like the Ukrainian kulaks in the USSR. Somehow, a famine which affected mostly Kazakhs and Russians, caused by Ukrainians, was blamed specifically on a Georgian, who sent aid to Ukraine. I don't get it either.

But slavery as a hyper efficient mega scale industry was invented by British (in a parallel with Portugal - which we ultimately surpassed) . It took almost 2 centuries of misery before it was closed down. What is worse blot on the record is that preceding our invention of industrial slavery the UK had no real history of it - at least back to Roman times. It arose from nothing. Not good.

Yes there's a diary from the 16th century in a UK museum, that names a sport called ''Baseball''. Most sports today are British.

So Effectively banned from 1066, as slave owners faced a large fine.

​@@bbbf09slavery existed around the world long before the Portuguese set sail, ,let alone the British . You are being very selective and ghus your srgument is on shaky ground.

@@bbbf09 portugal took twice as many slaves as britain also slavery was abolished in england in 1068 by william the conqueror we also used the royal navy to stop slavery

It's more like 25%, but still incredible for less than 1% of the world's population.

I'm pretty sure a Scottish Chemist just won a noble prize recently for chemistry.

And the fishing reel

@@ascot1049 Bit of barrel scrapeing going on here.

He's a brit 🇬🇧

We invented humour too 😂

Thermos sounds a bit Greek to me?

It's not all good. Britain gave refuge to Karl Marx

Add juries, right to bear arms, right to speak against the government to the list. British Bill of Rights preceded the American Bill of Righta.

@@alandyer1646 Bill of Rights and John Locke and your current parliamentary democracy were brought to you by the Dutch Republic's invasion, ordered and paid for by the Dutch parliament. Before that Britain was just another monarchy with an absolutist king claiming his divine right and telling people how to believe in god. The freedom of conscience, thought, religion and print didn't come from Britain. The idea of inalienable rights, government having to serve it's people and the right to stand up to a tyrant were copied from the Dutch DOI of 1581 too.

The Women and Children First protocol when abandoning ship is called the Birkenhead Drill from the 1840's. Look it up its interesting

And legal Aid brought to us by Richard lll ( and no he didn’t ..before the usual nephew killing shite comes up ) 👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Ireland 🇮🇪 is not British.

@@dean5828 But they were, once upon a time. Far longer than they've been Irish.

​@@dean5828 It was at the height of the Empire and the Irish punched well above their weight to sustain it. Part of Ireland still is ( as you know )

@@neil8675Ireland was British for a couple hundred years, and Irish centuries before that as well as 100 years ago to now. And what is you definition of English? Is it Anglo Saxon? Because they were replaced by Normans, who then mixed with the people to create a new kind of people. And the Anglo Saxons aren't native either, they invaded and kicked out the natives.

@@andym9571We did not try to sustain it. Yous forcefully took our food, even during famine times we created 2x the necessary amount to feed us. Yous just couldn't make enough food for yourselves out of incompetence. We fought for 800 years and we'll fight you for 800 more.

And Countess Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer.

@@williambavington5392 Daughter of Lord Byron, the great romantic poet.

Don't forget Alan Turing aswell

@@williambavington5392 I do think she is notable, but I think the claim of her being "the world's first programmer" as is often said is a bit dubious. It assumes that Babbage never wrote a program for his own machine (however small), before showing his plans / telling her about it. I'm not read up on the history, but I doubt it is the case that she actually was "the first programmer". I think it is far more likely that she was the second programmer. I mean how likely do you think it is for someone to invent the computer and not write a program for it, before someone else does?

@@williambavington5392 Even on the highly biased Wikipedia she it says that she was the first person to publish an algorithm for execution on a computer. It later says that she is often called "the first computer programmer for this reason". However it doesn't say she was the first person to program a computer. It's basically not true. It's just that "the first person to publish a computer program" doesn't sound as good. Sorry. I know it doesn't matter that much. It's just that I see people saying "she was the first programmer" everywhere and it's just not true. Just because you didn't publish a paper about something doesn't meaning you didn't do it.

Scottish, Welsh, Irish and British lol.....

@@Gisborne1990We aren't British. We're Irish

Marmite, obviously.

If your Australian Canadian or American we only formed the nation you're living in... You're welcome

Cricket

Reflecting telescope, seed drill, cement, steam engine, vaccines, football, rugby, stainless steel, telephones, televisions, hip replacement, decoded the structure of DNA, IVF, eradicated smallpox,

Alarm clocks preparing tea? Where do I get me one of those beauts?! 😂

... and Oliver Heaviside's subsequent contributions.

You watched this video and your first thought to comment was shitting on trans ppl? Yikes