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Old 7th Mar 2018, 04:42
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neville_nobody
 
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Oh wake the hell up, over 200 years of the British Empire and they forced their way into most of the world, China, India, South East Asia, Australia, North America, Africa, the Middle East and they raped every place they went to and were unceremoniously kicked out in the end.
And how has it played out since they left most of those places?? Who do you think your average Hong Kong native wants to be ruled by given the choice? How well has Zimbabwe and South Africa gone? How the corruption going in India? Happy you're not a white farmer in Africa right now? Or airline pilot for that matter!!

You can say alot about the Brits but in terms of their colonies on whole they did more good than harm. Rule of law. Right to a fair trial. Freedom of movement, freedom of speech. And believe it or not they were actually reasonably successful in their recidivism rates.

Bash them if you want but when look you at the alternatives available with the benefit of hindsight personally I think they did a pretty damn good job all things considered.
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