>1945: Germany is completely flattened and Britain is receiving

>>2148640
Hard work and ingenuity while the Britbongs went to the pub at 3 in the afternoon and went on strikes.
Also their children weren't weakened by being forced feed milk at public schools.

>>2148640
Adenauer and Erhard dismantled many of the regulations on business imposed upon by the Nazis that along with Marshall Aid rebuilt the country over seven years with so much work avaliable in the reconstruction effort.

Meanwhile Atlee and Cripps had to deal with a declining and costly empire and set up a welfare state in line with the Labour Party's philosophy that emphasised Kenyesian inspired economic planning, social security through organisations such as the National Health Service, and the encouragement of strong trade unions which is why so much industrial strife came about in Britain during the 70s and 80s.

>>2148640

Britain had been industrialised longer, and the British working classes collectively couldn't be bothered anymore

They wanted "their share" after the victory in 1945

It goes in cycles, people with a longer memory recall that Germany was the "sick man of Europe" in the late 90s prior to the Euro

>>2148682
Hey, look, a smart person giving an actual answer. I'm sure they have loads of replies wanting to discuss the topic at hand. Oh wait.

>>2150604
Germany just got luck that social media in the internet got a thing after ~2005. Otherwise we would use other meme in relation to Germany.

>>2148649
>strikes and milk are bad
spotted the anarcho-capitalist-primitivist

>>2151738
he puts rather too heavy a emphasis on the welfare state, the larger issue was that much of the british marshall aid was used to deal with things like the spread of communism in greece and various other bush fires in the post war world before america decided to play 'world police' for a while.

germany spent all its aid on rebuilding, britain spent much of its aid on trying to stabilise the world

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>>2151905
And France spent all its aid managing its colonies. Only to lose them shortly afterwards. Hon Hon Hon What cucks