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Originally Posted by angus58
 The sheer hypocrisy is staggering from an American whose forebears decimated and brutalised the entire NATIVE Indian population, committed untold atrocities in Vietnam, dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, and is responsible for so much bloodshed and conflict throughout the world due to their arrogant, often unsolicited, interference in other nations' affairs. 
Oh, as regards the slave trade, your grasp of European history is pretty weak - it was actually the Portugese who started the slave trade in the mid 15th century, my dear, not the English, and in fact the whole of Europe quickly followed, as did the Americans since they are not native to the Americas, but originated from EUROPE. Britain abolished slavery in 1833, whereas America didn't follow suit until 1865. |
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Hypocrites people are. Slag off England for what happened in the past.. yet plenty of foreigners live here.
2 rights don't make a wrong. People need to get over with the past.
Excuse me lostalex.. we should give money to Canada and the USA? Err no. USA is a richer country than the UK. The UK is more generous than the USA and lets any old immigrant in!
Anyway... the Indian PM has even said they don't need financial aid anymore from the UK! So David Cameron needs to make the decision to stop giving it to them!! People bringing up the past is only going to make things worse. Didn't people from India steal the crown jewels or something from our English Queen? Anyway everyone needs to make a clean slate.