Albatross

It is natural that it is men rather than women who lead the way in the occupation of territory other than their own.
It is also natural that men want to defend their territory.
It would be natural if women supported their countrymen.
But the UK has an albatross around her neck. It is her history.
During the First World War, because of the energetic campaigning of (some) women, power in Britain was transferred from one sex to another (as expressed by Mrs. Humphry Ward in a letter to The Times, 23 May 1917).
The outcome is that (some) women vigorously campaigned to enable foreign and Commonwealth men to occupy the UK. (That is, they defeated the Conservative Party's 1979 election policy to end the concession whereby foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.)
This can be summed up by some graffiti that used to be in London's Covent Garden: "Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle."