[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Oh yeah, the Empire did definitely do a lot of good in some respects, something that is often ignored today. But we still took over their countries, killed and manipulated a lot of their people and built prosperity off the back of it.

You're making a bit of a generalisation when you say they come over here moaning though, most of them don't.

Yes, I see it looks like a generalisation. Obviously they don't all moan, but like everything, it's the ones that make the most fuss who get the most attention.

The prosperity benefited a minority of the British public. It's not like we're all living high on the hog because the century before last, we took India before France of Germany did.