"Many thanks for this sensible post. There is chronic inequality and neglect here in Britain and when you add that people are fed up with very remote politicians pushing them around, not to mention bureaucrats in the EU who hold absolutely no elected office in the UK, the result of this referendum isn't very surprising".
How rich, Britain has been imposing its will on the Commonwealth for hundreds of years. One million people died and ten million were displaced because of British actions in India during the partition.
Cheers,
I was living there at the time.
What you must offer us, now - with the benefits of sixty-nine years of hindsight - is a solution (yours) of how better to have departed a country like that which the sub-continent was, stop hundreds of millions of adherents of two basically competitive and antagonistic religions, living cheek-by-jowel in mutual hatred, from launching one of the greatest religious wars on Earth. (Think Belfast magnified beyond comprehension.)
Considering where one of those religions finds itself today, in absolute mutal hatred with it's fellows with a slightly different point of view within the same faith, I think 1947 was sorted out in the best - if only way - possible. The aftermath of what followed wasn't brilliant for the departing powers, leading to the pressures that have built up in the UK ever since.
If anything, the problem has been, as now, that Britain is not self-centred enough to fight its corners strongly enough; that's a weakness that comes with being a 'gentleman'; the street fighter just kicks your balls whilst you square up. Within the EU, nobody was kicking Germany around... and it wasn't hoofing us in the testes either, despite what some of our misinformed zenos might think.
Rob
