THE CONVERSATION – The recent debacle of David Cameron’s filmed condemnation of Nigerian and Afghan corruption and the Queen’s remark on Chinese officials’ rudeness highlights the persistence of imperial thinking in Britain. There seems to be a continuing assumption within the British establishment that it sets an example for others to follow and that the British are owed deference by others.
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“Even when we are encouraged to pay attention to empire’s costs as well as its benefits, these costs are imagined solely in terms of specific incidents of violence such as the Amritsar Massacre in India or the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. Britain has excused itself from that most structural injustice of empire – the slave trade itself – by the fact that it was Britain that pioneered its abolition.
Acknowledgement that cities such as Bristol, Liverpool and London were enriched by Britain’s dominance of the trade, that many stately homes were built on its wealth and that the compensation money paid to owners upon emancipation – rather than the enslaved – helped drive the industrial revolution and the growth of the City of London, tends to be confined to more critical quarters.
By contrast, runs the same argument, the benefits that empire brought to the world are universal. Everyone – Nigerians, Afghans and Chinese included – should be grateful for the rule of law, the English language, modern education, railways and free trade, all things that Britain provided in order to usher in the modern age.”
The world British Empire ran most of planet until going bankrupt fighting for the International Jews I. WW2.
That ” world government ” as Adolf Hitler properly described them was ” the new Israel ” to the Puritans until that Empire/Rothschild’s gave them Palestine .
British power declared war on Continental Europe Scotland ,Ireland , starved and stole from the Third world yet was ” just a humble democratic nation ” to the gullible .
Every sovereign nation has a right to control it’s borders ,and the so called refuge crises was created by overthrowing Arab Nationalists States ,and used by Jewish must Culturalists to destroy European ethnic cohesion
Unless the people’s of Euruoe understand who is the culprits they will continue loose .
Britain in particular and the west in general is tasting its products, its harvesting what it planted in third world. Enjoy the taste of your products.
This is what I always wrote on David Duke’s page when he complains about immigrants.
“Britain in particular and the west in general is tasting its products, its harvesting what it planted in third world. Enjoy the taste of your products.
This is what I always wrote on David Duke’s page when he complains about immigrants.”
That’s as maybe, Hassan. However, it is not the elites – those responsible for colonialism – who are suffering the effects of mass immigration, but ordinary Europeans.
Mary Louise, sure didn’t ordinary citizen in the west benefited from what its goverment did in other countries? sure they did and was happy with it and did not complain about his or her goverment did…only now that things got off hand, they point the finger at the immigrant.