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Sunak didn’t come to power until 70 years after the British Empire had already officially been declared to be over, and ~50 years after the time by which the va
by skissane 4y ago
Sunak didn’t come to power until 70 years after the British Empire had already officially been declared to be over, and ~50 years after the time by which the vast majority of its colonies had already been let go. If his great grandfather had been UK PM a century earlier, it would have been a very different history. An Indian as UK PM in the 1920s could well have killed off the Indian independence movement - it would have made British claims that “every subject of the Empire is equal” far more believable. The contemporary UK is not the Empire - it is like early mediaeval Rome, the Empire gone for good (at least in the West) but a lot of impressive buildings still standing, many more than today