Piers Morgan

Because there was a big center there, a lot of military service people living in San Antonio.

A lot of them also being treated for serious injuries and so on.

And they were just applauding and thanking them for their service as they came off these planes.

You'd never see that anywhere in the UK.

It just doesn't exist as a concept to do that.

I was very struck by that.

And I do think America generally is a lot more proudly patriotic than we've become.

We've become almost ashamed of being British in a way that I don't like.

I think we should be prouder of ourselves and prouder of what we've achieved and prouder of what we could be.

But one of the reasons why people don't feel that pride, I think, is because we've had a succession of what I would say are pretty hopeless politicians who drag this into a place where people don't like it.

I don't think we hate ourselves.

Really?

No, I think we've had a shockingly mediocre tier of politicians.

I don't know a Brit.

I mean, I wouldn't say it's been an incline since the war.

There was a lot of recovery after the war.

It was a devastating war.

I mean, you know, one of the most extraordinary aspects of that war is that Winston Churchill, who many people here to this day believe pretty well single-handedly rallied the morale of the people here to help us defeat the Nazis, albeit with obviously America's help.

that he in the end at the end of the war he got thrown out of office because so many people came back to a really bad lifestyle in a lot of import impoverishment a lot of you know homelessness and so on well maybe were there other reasons like it was that was why they took it did germany attack you first is that what happened what do you mean did germany attack britain is that how you got into war with germany

Well, not voluntarily.