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Out come those rose tinted spectacles again... For peoples regaining their independence suddenly going it alone was a scary prospect. The Commonwealth offered a small level of reassurance and as the UK is discovering now, going it alone is a lonely next step.

Please refer back to the OP and my response, they both referred to British OCCUPATION, not Empire. And in a grown-up world it's not about hating your own country's history, it's about not wearing rose-tinted spectacles and accepting a pretend version of history in which our ancestors were always...

Really? Which countries in particular are you referring to?

I genuinely can't think of a single country which can be considered to have benefited from British occupation, and I'm happy to be challenged on that. One of my beloved grandads was in the army helping to destroy the Turkish Empire during WW1 in Iraq and Palestine and look at the mess that...