Thanks for this. I hadn't considered that the FPTP system might keep the loonies at bay. I concede that it is dangerous to make sweeping generalisations about a nation/race but there are certain characteristics that just stand out for me.
I do wholeheartedly agree that papers like the Mail...
Hang on. There's several different issues here. A newspaper's support for a dictator isn't necessarily reflective of the population and because a newspaper magnate admires Hitler ergo the British at large do is just too many extrapolations.
As for campaigning for Danzig and Alsace-Lorraine et...
Ironically, the attempt to recruit British people into the foreign divisions of the SS was a singular failure, Lord Haw-Haw apart. They scoured the POW camps and interviewed British officers who were sympathetic to the aims but even then got a firm two-fingers up.
I'd like to think that it's...