Originally Posted by rogueteens

What a load of crap, according to that article, the countries in the empire only did badly from their occupation. so those countries didnt benefit from Britain's industrial revolution or (for the time) advanced social reform. the protection and internal trade the empire gave? Britain dragged most of those countries into a state where they were ready for world stage trading. If the empire was so bad, how come most of them still want to be in the commonwealth?

It's just another lefty BBC propoganda piece. Coming at a time when the British people are finally waking up to how the country has been irriversably destroyed in the last 25 years by the PC brigade and rampant immigration, the article is just another piece of "us brits are bastard and deserve to now be the dumping place of the world so suck on it."