What was the most shameful event in English history?

Answer 1

Letting 13 shabby little colonies run roughshod over them to independence.

Second? Supporting George W Bush

Answer 2

The claim that thje English invented concentration camps is Nazi propaganda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv-OUN0nOio

"of all the misleading Nazi propaganda, no lie was more successful than
the one which suggested that concentration camps were an invention of
the British and that the Germans had only developed and expanded a
concept which had its roots in the British Empire. The idea that the
British invented concentration camps had sedulously peddled during the
1930s by the leaders of the Third Reich. In February 1938, for example,
Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany, had a meeting
with Hermann Goering. In the course of their encounter in Berlin,
Henderson denouced the "loathsome and detestable" taking place in
concentration camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald. For answer,
Goering went to a bookshelf and took down the volume of a German
encyclopedia covering the letter K and showed the ambassador the
entry for 'Konzentrationslager', which began "First used by the British
in the South African War..."

"Throughout the 1930s, Minister for Propaganda Josef Goebbels had also
fostered the notion that concentration camps were a British invention.
Postcards purporting to the grim conditions in the camps run by the
British during the Boer War were circulated. A film, Om Paul, was
subsidised by the German government."

British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900-1975
By Simon Webb

Answer 3

Colonial and Imperial rule of hundreds of different countries and races. Making borders in countries that split nations apart, leading to modern day problems like Iraq. This also includes splitting Ireland up.
Taking much of the natural resources of the various lands (mainly Africa) and not given anything near what is owed to those countries back other than a little debt relief that many of them can't afford to pay back due to the World Bank and IMF interest rates. I also include the slave trade as resources too. Also, the invention of modern day concentration camps that saw the deaths of many women and children in South Africa during the Boer War. The list goes on and on, but it is all linked to our colonial past, and some would say continues in post-colonialism!

Answer 4

I want to say a couple of the most shamefull (prob not the most)
first off buring women claiming they are witches when really its just a way of control and nasty way to get anything they own.

You may not have heard of this but once there was a women who screamed when a man attacked her she was tsabed escaped screamed for help the neigbours closed her curtains half and hour later the man returned raped her and killed her- i think thats a pretty shameful event that we turn our backs on people like that ...
i think its shameful how women and kids are being kidnaped/raped/sold to the sex trade and everyone goes on as if nothigns happing as if everythings ok...

Answer 5

Bloody Sunday, Concentration Camps during Boer War, Massacring the Zulus during the Zulu Wars, Collaborating with Leopold I Genocide in Congo, 25 famines in India due to British stifling of industry, profiting from slavery and then, when it when it was no longer to their advantage, renouncing slavery and using abolition as an excuse to police the seas... yeah that one.
Oh, wait, I remember, when the UK hounded the rotting Ottoman Empire like a hungry vulture and eventually upon its death appropriating a lion's share of the land as if it was its own, breaking it down as it saw fit, fracturing kingdoms and nations in a way that best fit its plan to exploit the regions oil and never being shy to gas the Kurds (a century before Hussein, Churchill wondered why so many people were disgusted by this act) and NOW... we are all paying for the glory of their Britishness, having offered a nation state to jew and palestinian... now, we continue to pay the price for the imperialists to live their plush little lives.

I can think of a few more.
Yo! Americans are worst... just post the question and i will list their crimes.... thieves is what you are. A people with no honor.

Answer 6

The false grief that swept the nation when Princess Diana died.

Did people have no shame.

It was a tragic event and she was a great loss I do not deny it, I was a big fan of hers, but the state the nation got into was sickening.

(now i'll sit back and await the abuse )

Answer 7

The Amritzar Massacre was one of the worst days in British History.

Answer 8

Allowing a well organized country with the rule of law,the ability to govern themselves, feed themselves and the rest of Africa, educate themselves and improve their living standards to de-generate into another starving festering dictator state, just because some liberal minded woolly brained British M.P.s found the colour of Ian Smith's skin un-fashionable.

Answer 9

I think the most shameful event in English history was King Henry the Eighth putting to death the wives who could not bear him an heir. Second in line was the behavior of Tony Blair, the Howdy Doody puppet of George "Bushwhack" Bush.

Answer 10

The Civil War and the beheading of King Charles..

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Answer 11

Allowing do-gooders to spout out stupid politically correct sound bites without considering what the world would have been like without English / British history.