RE: Proves the point.9 Mar 2023 14:32
chippyjo....you should read history. I mention India specifically; when us British went to India it was a first world country on measures applicable then, responsible for approx 25% of world GDP with immense wealth and thriving academia. When we left India in 1947, it was responsible for less than 4% of world gdp; we closed down education, built courts to put down descent and built railways to ship the loot out. We turned India from a 'developed' country to a third world country within 250 years and left it living in SQUALOR. Britain did benefit some countries like US, Canada, Australia cos they made these countries their home. Furthermore, lets not beat about the bush, did you know we no longer teach our children about the British empire in schools; it is as though it didn't exist. We teach them about life under the Nazis, but not life under British empire. Lastly, India was a colony when the current form of UN was set up in 1945, and Britain blocked India being allocated a seat at top table in the UN despite its large population.
Indian people do not lack enterprise as you may have witnessed around you, but we the British beat it out of them and made them subservient over 250 years. So careful when you use the words living in SQUALOR.