Comments by "Eddie Calderone " (@eddiecalderone) on "Financial Times"
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@userxyz64
Nope. We have left at the right time.
We’ve been able to pursue our own path regarding the vaccine research, development and eventual rollout.
We have also avoided the enormous cost of the contribution towards the eu covid recovery program that would be around £191 billion …
The U.K. must have had enough of shooting itself in the foot because of our moral compass of what has happened in continental Europe. The British empire could have not intervened when the imperial German army invaded Belgium 1914 and ravaged the country, but it was the right thing to do and honour our alliance with France,& Russia, and protect the neutrality of Belgium. A whole generation of men was sacrificed for the freedom of our Europe.
Non intervention was even more viable, easier and in reach twenty years later, when 1939 Nazi germany was rampaging through Europe. When the Soviet Union was in bed with Nazi germany as an ally in a non aggression pact, while sharing military intelligence and covertly dividing Poland and the Baltic states….
France surrendered, just a few days after Italy declared war June 1940,…..
The British empire, and here I mean all what will become the commonwealth, especially Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and Malta GC, was alone…. Poles, Dutch, Norwegian, free French and Danes after fighting Nazi occupation regrouped in the U.K. and continued the fight against dictatorship…
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@boutek
The usual lazy narrative.
There’s no other nation that has done more to end slavery than the U.K.
If Britain’s great imperial project was so terrible, then why did virtually all the former colonial lands voluntarily join the British Commonwealth after their independence, and remain members ever since?
Such belief that the British empire was some dishonest scheme and became wealthy thanks to abusing resources and slavery, is fallacious, and apart from that is dangerous because it implies that being rich depends on gathering and accumulating capital, instead of altering ones attitude, behaviour and values. What gave the advantage to the British empire was the embracing of Common Law, the sanctity of contract, the respect of patents, the joint stock company, which shared risk and allowed failure.
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