Geez, they should have. For a small island people they achieved an amazing progress of ideas worldwide, even though they obviously got a lot of things wrong.
Look at the Industrial Revolution and the development of parliamentary government.
There are a lot of proud milestones in their history that they.could hang a national day on - Magna Carta, the 1688 constitutional settlement following the defeat of King James,
their part in the defeat of Hitler wher e for 2 long years they stood alonet before the Americans found the balls to get involved. Lots of occasions to choose from.
As do we and I nominate the day - don't know what it was - when the the state colonies agreed & signed up for federation into one country, even though it doesn't quite look like that now.
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