Hello and welcome back to the most amazing
channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we
are talking about the Top 10 Lies The UK told
the world.
I guess this could be seen as a bit of a contentious
video – we have made some similar videos
on places like China and North Korea, sooo
why not turn the lens on the mother land!
Some stats before we crack into this - an
article on the Daily Telegraph says that the
average Briton tells more than 10 lies a week,
with two fifths claiming lies are ''sometimes
necessary''.
SO my question to you is – how often do
you lie?
Do you think its okay to lie?
I personally try not to – because I feel
like lies are very stressful and it is better
people just know the facts – when lies are
eventually uncovered as they always are – it
is often worse than had they just been out
in the open in the first place.
10 – THE UFO Coverup.
It seems that Winston Churchill ordered a
coverup of UFO information in the 1950s.
There was a genuinely concerning incident
of an RAF aircraft encountering a mysterious
unidentified flying object.
It seems that a reconnaissance plane and its
crew were returning from a mission over Europe
when they were involved in a strange incident
on the English cost near Cumbria.
It is said that their aircraft was approached
noiselessly by a metallic UFO which shadowed
them.
It seems Churchill was so distressed by the
incident that he demanded it be kept secret
for 50 years to avoid mass panic and a destruction
of belief in the church!
WHAT!
SO…he held that information back from the
UK and the wider world, just to keep people
in line!
9 – World War I
While the allies did win World War I, if you
can say there is ever a winner in war, it
wasn’t as successful a win or a successful
a campaign as the British portrayed.
Propaganda was rife during World War I and
so was censorship.
Four days before war was officially declared,
the Defence of the Realm act was passed which
gave the government the power to outlaw criticism
of the war effort.
It literally stipulated No person shall by
word of mouth or in writing spread reports
likely to cause disaffection or alarm among
any of His Majesty’s forces or among the
civilian population.
Any British failings were totally erased from
all British supporting media and absolutely
no German successes were reported.
The British public and the wider world had
no idea how bad things were at the time.
Even after the war, details were omitted for
many many years.
The war was reported a success, despite the
value of the pound falling 61.2 percent and
a net loss of 250 million pounds, which back
then was a heck of a lot.
8 - The Strategic Bombing Campaign
Before Winston Churchill’s appointment as
Prime Minister, the UK and Germany had pledged
not to attack targets where civilians were
at risk.
It is largely believed that Hitler was the
first to take his gloves off by breaking this
promise, but actually it is a very grey area,
and it is considered by many that actually
the UK struck first after an accidental bomb
fell in London.
Regardless, the Royal Airforce showed no mercy
and the most morally debated attack was the
horrifying attack on Dresden in 1945.
The other strategic bombings could have been
considered tactical, but Dresden was undefended
and came at a time when Germany were already
on the cusp of losing.
While at the time the UK and the states defended
their actions in Dresden, which killed 25
thousand people, afterwards it seemed more
like a case of showboating and a warning to
Russia.
By and large the UK defends their actions
as necessary to the war effort today… but…like…they
even bombed air raid shelters…
7 - The Unsinkable Ship
The RMS Titanic was commissioned by the British
shipping Company, White Starline and was the
largest ship in the world at the time.
White Star Line’s chairman J Bruce Ismay
was a competitive man and wanted his ship
to make headlines and impress the world, making
his vessel stand out against German and American
competitors.
The people behind the Titanic claimed the
ship was unsinkable….
The media lapped it up and then the term was
applied to the ship ahead of its Maiden Voyage…
this was a lie many people believed and were
soothed by.
It turns out there is no such thing as an
unsinkable ship…obviously.
Over 1,500 people died when the Titanic sunk
to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
6 - The Loch Ness Monster Was Real
The Loch Ness Monster was a genuine concern
for the Scottish Government and the Police
department believed Nessie existed, but Scotland
kept their concern a secret, letting people
dismiss the legend as a myth.
Nessie was first reported in the 1930s by
the Inverness Courier and recently declassified
documents revealed that a former Scottish
police chief named William Fraser opined,
"That there is some strange creature in Loch
Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the
police have any power to protect it is very
doubtful."
It seems that there is a Scottish Government
body in place should Nessie Ever be found….which
is pretty revealing!
Maybe there is more truth to Nessie than we
think.
5 - Brexit
Okay, I get that this may be a sensitive topic
for a number of people watching this video….
So let me just hit you with this image from
the Brexit Campaigners – Ah it’s the 350
million pound bus!
So the bus says that the UK sends 350 million
to the EU per week and suggests using that
money on the National Health Service instead.
Interestinnnngs seeing as by and large Brexit
was favoured by the Conservatives and the
Conservatives seem to favour privatisation,
but cool.
Only…it was revealed that actually this
whole bus was a lie.
Let’s have a listen to farage…
It was also revealed that actually we don’t
send the EU 350 million a week.
What a mess.
Consider the bus saga a microcosm for the
whole Brexit campaign.
It was only a matter of time before tea became
the moral undoing of the UK … in fact the
British obsession with tea has been the undoing
of the UK on a number of occasions.
4 - Opium Wars
I am not sure if we could consider this a
lie so much as we can call this a dastardly
trick….
But Britain’s actions towards China were
deceptive and awful.
Basically in the very late 1970s, Britain
was buying a lot of tea.
Like…a lot a lot.
But the only problem was that china, who were
selling the tea, would only trade for silver.
So much so that Britain was losing silver
at an alarming rate.
To stop this, the East India Company came
up with a horrible scheme that involved importing
Opium and getting the Chinese hooked on the
drug.
When they became hooked, dealers demanded
payment in silver, then used the silver to
buy tea.
When the Chinese rulers found out that this
was what was happening, they tried to stop
it, which lead to a war which the British
won.
This was how the UK managed to control trade
with China….
By getting their people hooked on drugs then
fighting when China complained about it.
Was the UK honest with the rest of the world
about their methods?
Not nearly honest enough.
18th Century Britain was a scheming nation!
Why lie when you can just destroy evidence….
We have the Colonial crimes at number 3
By and large, we are aware that the British
were not good to indigenous people when we
were off colonizing half the world.
It emerged in 2012 that The British destroyed
records in documenting their horrifying crimes
and shameful acts in history in order to prevent
them from falling into the hands of post independence
governments.
It seems that Kenyan government is particularly
upset about the destruction of files.
The foreign office had promised to release
files on the 37 colonies, but they were destroyed
instead.
2 - The Royal Family and The Nazis
The Royal family lied to one another as much
as their lies were covered up to protect the
rest of the UK.
It seems we may have dodged a bullet as the
intended King of England – Edward the 7th
was a Nazi sympathizer.
When he abdicated, he visited Hitler in Germany
and the pair struck up a friendship.
It seems that this was known by the monarchy
by swept under the carpet.
Just after the war, American diplomats uncovered
400 tons of German diplomatic papers, at Marburg
Castle.
The files outlined a planned called operation
Willi in which Germans would gain control
of the UK and restore Edward to the throne.
Despite British efforts to continue to hide
the truth, Americans released the documents
in 1957.
I wanted to end on something….
I don’t know…slightly more fun…even
though it involves death and war!
1 - Operation Mincemeat
It wasn’t all terrible war time lies, this
lie was actually ingenious….
So this idea was thought up by Lieutenant
Ian Flemming.
Recognise the name?
He is best known for the James Bond novels.
SO I hope that gives you an indication of
how great this plan was.
So basically this was a huge decoy deception
to disguise the allied invasion of Sicily.
The British intelligence army found a dead
homeless person who sadly had died from eating
rat poison and they dressed him up as a member
of the Royal Marines.
They deployed the body in Spain and planted
fake documents and war plans on his body.
Spain were supposed to be neutral at the time
but the information in the documents was passed
on to the Germans – with Hitler then falsely
believing the allies were going to attack
the Bulkans, when actually the planned to
regain Sicily.
A beautiful deception.
So…
Great Britain….
Not as above board as we might like to think.
Which of these do you think is the most unforgivable.
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