It's easy to say whatever about 9/11 now, but when it happened the whole country was singing a whole different story. So easy it is that people forget.
While the British can have fond memories of their once great Empire, it did little to improve the average British citizen who was living in the horrendous living conditions created by the Industrial Revolution.
This gave rise to political and economic theories of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - the later resided in London from 1849, until his death in 1883.