British Military Invasion/Colonialization.

Speak for yourself, I cry everytime I look upon the paintings of Elizabeth Butler.

Truth be told what the Nazis did was more evil than what Britain did, the creation of India as British sovereign land happened by way of treaties and contracts rather than theft. If we had to send in the Redcoats it was because they broke their treaties.

Treaties made by, uh, us.

they agreed to them lol

Historically, there are only 22 countries in the world today where Britain has never attacked, invaded or achieved a military presence.

As a British, how do you feel about Britain’s past invansion to other countries?

mixed views on terms of how it benefitted us, but on the part of the colonised I think they should worship us instead of blame us for all their ills (which are almost entirely their own fault)


I’m glad the Romans Colonised the brits because just like the places the brits colonised, back then we were dumb savages. We brought civilisation to these places and they’ve got the cheek to moan to us about some things that didn’t even happen to them anyway.

The idea that they could have done anything of note without us is laughable.

The places Britain colonised generally love Britain and are our best allies who fought beside us in world war 2. It's only post-truth ideas in this country which says everyone hates us for it.

Historically, there are only 22 countries in the world today where Britain has never attacked, invaded or achieved a military presence.

As a British, how do you feel about Britain’s past invansion to other countries?

The people of India voted to become a colony?

Maybe your bigoted opinion was half-true for some of Britains more favourable colonies e.g. the 13 American colonies, Canada etc...

But to paint the entirety of colonisation with such a disgracefully unforgivably large brush, to say that India and places alike were better AFTER colonisation is honestly one of the most stupid opinions out there. It's one I would put in the same category as flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers. it simply is a testament to how ignorant you are about what colonisation involved in various parts of the world and is frankly disgusting.

So stupid of courses that you couldn’t possibly stoop to counter my argument.


I am well aware that colonialism involved a fair bit of murder, rape, slavery, cultural destruction and a bit of light genocide. And as I said before, Britain had experienced this under the Romans- and are objectively better for it.

The development gap between the celts and the Romans was much bigger than between the 19th century Britons and Indain 'savages' (even though they weren't, since India controlled 27% of the world's GDP at the time - which was reduced to 3% post-colonisation)....but yeh, you keep thinking that the Indians were better off. These views were the exact rationale that colonisation was undertaken with.

As a traditional conservative I would have kept out of empire building- that’s the preserve of liberals.

As to economics:

1: Blaming the UK entirely on its economic decline (which began prior to colonisation) is stupid. The real cause is the collapse of the Mughal Empire as well as technological changes that affected everywhere.

2: the real benefit of colonialism was the expansion of the rule of law and the suppression of barbaric Indian cultural practises (some of which survive today)

The people of India voted to become a colony?