They didn't have the right material
It was less then an even money bet.
International Ministerial Council of Great Britain was created in 1968.
The RAF 'helped' by virtually defeating the attacking Luftwaffe and saving Britain from possible invasion.
In 1900 at Paris. Great Britain, France and Belgium were the only competitors with Great Britain defeating France for the gold medal.
During World War II, Hitler's early plan for defeating Great Britain relied on control of the air-space above the island-nation, as a precursor to an amphibious invasion by ground troops. After this plan was thwarted, he turned more resolutely to a submarine campaign which intended to starve Great Britain into submission.
Because they thought defeating Britain would help their cause for invading Canada and making it their own.
Britain was repeatedly attacked with German Zeppelins for much of the war, until the British found effective ways of defeating them.
Germany did not defeat great Britain the English channel kept them from invading and the british people would not surrender the Germans lost the battle of Britain and that was the end of the German attempt to invade England
France and Britain were both concern with nation security and they wanted to stip Germany of its war-making powers.
The Allies (including Britain) stopped the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust by invading and defeating Nazi Germany.
Defeating the greatest millitary power in the world.