Ask a Brit!

[James_Gaff]

As in, historically, what are your thoughts on the way the British Empire worked, it's policies and the
different ways you think it may have positively or negatively affected the modern day UK.

That's what I was trying to say, basically.

I wanna answer one so here goes,

My stance on it is, the way the world used to work was some-what based on who has the biggest army. This lead to Britain being a major power, ruling over colonies thousands of miles away. However, this did cause the birth of the slave trade, which I personally find as something atrocious. Alternatively, our colonies brought about things like Tea and Sugar for Britain, which shaped today.

My personal opinion. For all the goof they brought, they caused a shot ton of bloodshed and slavery, all of which I don't see as "worth it" for a few colonies.