Emotive as in any pretence that it was deliberate British policy to kill civilians in the numbers you suggest, which is a highly subjective and dubious claim unless you have a particularly one sided historical view.
The rest of the world should club together and pay a yearly thank you gift of around £100 billion to the UK for the wonderful legacy this great country bequeathed leading to modern liberal democratic civilisation. Without us no bastions of democratic common law nations such as USA, Canada...