Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "National Service to bring back 'what once made Britain GREAT?'" video.

  1.  @williamwilson8582  Why? Clearly, you haven't.
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  2. Please no. Whatever have the military done, that you would seek to saddle them with vast numbers of useless deadlegs? The real answer, albeit a long term one, would be to deal with the extremism which permeates out education system, from Nursery School to University.
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  3.  @williamwilson8582  It means that your concept of colonialism and empire is based on prejudice rather than impartiality. Take, for example, Australia. Without colonialism, it would still have been a sparsely populated place with a mesolithic or early neolithic level of development, and life expectancy of around 40-45 years.
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  4.  @williamwilson8582  'Some airy fairy comment about Australia,' A simple statement od actual fact. At what level of development was Australia or, come to that, New Zealand, Africa, or America, when westerners arrived? Your potted history seems to assume that only the British ever indulged in colonialism or in empire. Have you never heard of the phrase 'the flag followed trade?' Clearly not. 'you get the picture.' Indeed I do. I don't however usually bother with fiction. You appear to have convinced yourself the western exploration, trade, and settlement was entirely bad. I am sad for yo, that you are too disillusioned to see the wider picture, which was that colonialism and empire were complex issues, which brought good as well as bad things to the places colonised. In the British case, how many of the former colonies/ dominions would have had the rule of law, improved health, or democratic institutions, had the British not been there? Would the lattice of warring princely states that was the Indian sub-continent really have evolved into the world's largest democratic state? Oh, and the life expectancy of Indigenous has been estimated at around 40 years. Now it is around 75 years. Do you suggest that the average Aborigine would have preferred to die 35 years earlier, as seems to have been the case, if you vile and brutal Brits. had not settled there? Oh well. . 'Of course many would say it was an act of brotherly benevolence probably yourself included . I say this as a veteran .' Bullshit. Where have I ever suggested that? I simply am wise enough to understand that the effects of many cultures spreading around the world have been complex and have brought benefits as well as negatives. Being 'free' to live in squalor and die young is not my idea of a positive. You are a veteran? Why do you think that makes your opinion any more relevant than that of anyone else? .
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