#england preventing the vast majority of her population from exercising the franchise and enslaving millions of foreigners

[wolfofansbach]

One of the funniest things I’ve ever read is in Alan Schom’s biography of Napoleon when he unironically says something along the lines of “Napoleon was a brutal tyrant who outlawed all criticism of his regime but in glorious liberty loving England people were free to criticize Napoleon as much as they liked”

It’s like that Cold War joke about how in the US and USSR you are equally free to criticize American foreign policy only it’s not a joke

Schom isn’t even English so he doesn’t actually have an excuse to be doing the “plucky England against the ogre Bonaparte” schtick