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Old 11-12-2018, 14:17   #4789
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
I don't think so. Colonial guilt prevails particularly when African countries play the colonial card.

As I said, we were first in abolition of slavery and we ran highly civilised administrations in our colonies especially when you view what many of them are like now.

I also remind that we took in the East African Asians in the 1970s when the post-colonial governments persecuted them and drove them out. India refused to take them. This is one of the great things that the UK has done in its history.
Read this book and it might enlighten your thinking.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inglorious-...lorious+Empire
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