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On 6/2/25 04:35, Borax Man wrote:On 2025-05-31, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:>On 31/05/2025 18:27, rbowman wrote:On Sat, 31 May 2025 11:07:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>Britain had an Empire once that dealt with all sorts of people. We>
aren't as insular as Americans.
Then the chickens came home to roost...
By which you mean that the former subjects of the Empire were free
to come to the UK if they knew their place and many of their children
are now participating in the governance of the UK and Commonweath.
Or am I wrong about that?
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No. We decided that Empires were Passé and too expensive to run so we
set up a common wealth trade bloc which has been much better.
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We leave empires to the EU, Putin and King Donald Le Grande Petomane...
No, you spent your capital on WWI and WWII and didn't have the will and
means to maintain the empire anymore.
The Commonwealth was cheaper to maintain than an empire on
which the Sun never set.
As for insular Americans the UK has lots of people who insist on
keeping hostility toward the nations of Europe a guiding principle of
their political paticipation or did you think Brexit won becuase they
felt they were dragging the EU down?
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