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Oh, it's a completely bollocks argument for sure. Leavers don't seem to understand that we will have literally no special status in relation to the EU when we leave. The fact that we lost a lot of people during the last war is simply irrelevant to this negotiation, no matter how much we care about it as a country. If deaths in WW2 was a relevant factor then Russia/USSR should be given extra special treatment, since they lost roughly 20 times the number of military personnel that the UK did.
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Consider the Battle of Britain which we won by a small margin. 20% of the fighter pilots on the British side were not from Britain. 10% of them came from what are now EU countries. 5% of them were Polish fighter pilots with considerable combat experience. The "Polish" Squadron 303 had the highest success rate of any in the RAF. Actually the immigrants "won the war for us".