David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems

Firstly, No I am not from an ex colony, I have met many people who are from ex British colonies and they bitterly regret the British leaving.

second, Ugandans masacaring homosexuals is their own problem, and their own fault, I find it pathetic, absolutly pathetic that you blame old British laws (that have never advocated the death penalty for homosexuality) for MAKING Ugandans kill gays, You are basically saying the British are rising from the dead through ancient laws and MAKING Ugandans kill, in 2011 no less.

Please **** off. If Ugandans are so infantile and child like that they are influenced in this manner, then the problem is with them psychologically.

p.s. Are you telling me before the British came that ugandans celebrated homosexuality and treated them as equals ?

go do anthropology, homosexuality was a celebrated class of people in the Ancient civilisations including in Africa and Latin America (Mayas, Aztec, Incas) before colonisation began.

you can find some self hating former colony residents, big whoop, i can find you Jews who love Hitler and blacks who like the klu Klux Klan , weak weak weak argument.

Your ignorance is showing, by your measure the UK did no wrong, invading and dividing and oppressing people was a great thing right? shipping millions of slaves and Indians to the Caribbean was good thing right? Legislating Christian laws into non Christian Society was a great thing right? and then leaving without fixing it was good too?

you're not very educated nor critical thinking are you?

Show me your eivdence that homosexualty was celebrated in what is now uganda ?

Many ex British colonies such as America, Australia, Hong Kong etc. prospered under British rule. Infact Ireland whom was colonised more brutally and for far longers than any other colony has prsospered to become one of the most prosperous economies (before the reccession) in the west, with one of the highest standards of living in the world

Rhodesia for instance was considered the breadbasket of Arica, as white farmers fed the whole sub saharan continent. Until the rhodesians got back their country and ****ed it up themselves. Ugandans are responsible for killing gays, not the British, I have nothing more to add here.

The fact is that today there are still cultures and societies that are extremely primitive, non-developing, backwards and non-progressive (all of sub saharan Africa for intance).

However, had Africa never experienced European colonisation they would be living in mudhuts eating termites and wearing leaves.

I am not guilty about my nations past, and if Africans hated colonisation they can hand back everything we gave them, science, engineering, agriculture (Sub saharans being entirely nomadic), economics, literature, medicine, infrastructure.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8430899/David-Cameron-Britain-caused-many-of-the-worlds-problems.html



****ing muppet. I'm a Tory and one time supporter of Cameron, I still support most of his domestic policy. But going abroad and saying things like this! Get the gallows out boys

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Or should've just kept his big mouth shut on the whole thing.

I think we could play a role in mediating the conflict, were better placed than any other nation to do it. While the French have no problem keeping an eye on there former colonies we shirk away from it, even when they want us to do more in there nations. Its a disgrace

then you hand us back the millions of tons of gold, diamonds, asphalt, timber, labour, sugar, cotton, iron etc. that you took to develop yourself, and give back agriculture to the Mesopotamians who developed it. IDIOT.

you do not think, science and maths originated in the middle east you ass, do you know where the world's oldest university is? i'm sure you don't.

i'm very glad you are continuing to speak, the more you speak is the more your ignorance shows, i'm actually glad people like you exist, hast off !

the UK did no wrong, artificially creating countries with people who hated each other was a great thing, looting and plundering was a great thing, shooting protesters who wanted independence was a good thing. dividing races was a good thing. it was perfect in every way.

poor you.

Yeah the British empire was so bad, yet where you you live. Oh you live in Britain, under the care and auspices of the British. Hypcrae much ?

Firstly, sugar, cotton, timber are renweable resources, and there is absolutly no shortage of Iron or Asohalt. Gold and diamond mining was in its infancy during the British occuption.

The ancient Britons weRE expert metallurgists and chemists so science always existed here, and yes maths did originate in the Middle East, something that they have contributed to knowledge unlike sub saharan Africans who have contributed NOTHING

i'm done educating you for the day.

It's shameful treachery - from the very man who is supposed to represent the Queen..

We did more to help the world progress than any other nation in this world.. Pakistan's problems come from islam and its social structure, not her colonial past.

If these colonies want our help (not specifically Pakistan, but Rhodesia, say), they should be prepared to suffer some loss of sovereignty. It is a documented fact that many in Africa would actually support the return of the colonial powers.

PLEASE tell me you are joking? You obviously have NO idea, please go study some post-colonialism. We didn't exactly leave a nice colonial legacy, many countries are still suffering the negative affects from our greed today. We didn't help world progress. We helped our own progress and extracted resources.

you stupidity is showing, the UK wrote the laws and engrained it into people, do you think laws are just unmade over night? those laws were psychologically engrained into the colonies. are you from a colony? were your people slaughtered and oppressed? were your natural resources raped?

We know it, Pakistan knows it, the rest of the world knows it. Admitting it helps everyone move forward - pretending that it didn't exist and ignoring that part of history helps noone, certainly not our international relations. I really don't get what the "he should keep his mouth shut" crowd are trying to achieve.

Okay so you're argument is, it was okay to subjugate and oppress those deemed "inferior cultures" in their lands because "somebody else would have done it anyway". Good one.






gtfo troll.

And of course some cultures are superior to others; if you had taken the time to even browse the links I showed you, you would have seen that I am far from alone in having realised this. Your ignorance is your own loss.

You want to give the British empire credit for stopping the slave trade? WHO STARTED THE SLAVE TRADE?

I'm not saying British imperialism is the source of all the worlds problems, but at least Cameron has the balls to admit it was the source of A LOT of the world's misery. Just pretending all that evil didn't happen would be a dick-head's move.