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The British people who did that are dead now.
by discard124 3y ago
The British people who did that are dead now.
- jmprspret 3y agoBut the current British generations stand on the shoulders of their giants. The reap all the benefits
- Aloha 3y agoThe 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.
- defrost 3y agoIt 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 Britain took out a loan to repay British slaveowners for the cost of their slaves when slavery was revoked ..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.