The british really fucked up so many places around the world. Including Israel Palestine. Now they act all funny and clownish and the leader serves tea to reporters and so on but they really need to pay for their sins. They are slowly being bled and soon nothing akin to England will remain apart from the shell. It is being eaten from within and maybe that's their atonement.
The UK is no longer a wealthy country by European standards - its dead last in GDP per capita in northern Europe (The UK ranks Number 17 in GDP per capita in Europe) - basically whatever benefits the UK gained from Empire was consumed by two almost incalculably costly world wars - whatever was not blown up in Flanders Fields, was bombed flat by the Germans 25 years later.
Beyond that the costs of maintaining the few remaining trapping of empire today are a sizable drag on the UK economy.
It was the offical act of a country that still exists.
Britain took out a loan to repay British slaveowners for the cost of their slaves when slavery was revoked .. that loan was repaid for more than a century and only recently closed out.
The responsibilities of an institution outlive the lives of the people that staff it.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 31.3 ms ] threadBeyond that the costs of maintaining the few remaining trapping of empire today are a sizable drag on the UK economy.
Britain took out a loan to repay British slaveowners for the cost of their slaves when slavery was revoked .. that loan was repaid for more than a century and only recently closed out.
The responsibilities of an institution outlive the lives of the people that staff it.