Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.
Closer ties to the continent have clearly addled their brains.
On the other hand, the way Britain has declined in military power and given its slow surrender to the European Union's dead grip, perhaps it is a pschological defense to pretend a man such as Churchill never existed.
UPDATE: The tangible sign of decline. One thing that annoys me about the story is that it essentially blames the decline in British readiness to "react to any new contingent operations" on ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is common "logic" here, too. While it it surely fitting to consider how you will react to new operations while engaged in operations, it is silly to think that it is wise to fail to expend the effort to win the current actual operations in order to prepare for a new hypothetical operation. It's as if Churchill in 1942 (if he, in fact, existed?) had argued that Britain was too strained by war against Germany, Italy, and Japan to react to any new contingent operations, and so should get out of the actual World War II.
