Now that India can afford to send a rocket to Mars...can we stop giving them foreign aid???

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

the Empire.

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

world. Plus they were taught how barbaric practices such as sutttee and calling people Untouchables were. Honestly, they got a bargain.

[Ashberto]

otherwise Britain would still be sending reparations invoices to Rome, Normandy, Nogland etc.

Foreign aid seems somewhat patronising imo when the recipient has it's own space programme.

[Berni]

imperialists as us. Latterly, it belonged to various Maharajas and so forth.

So to whom, exactly, would you propose giving it? After all, it's no more the property of the people of India than it is the property of the people of Britain to give.

Complex business, history. ;-)

[The JBear]

[Classic Jorge]

And that we bought what the mughals were selling out was the main issue, it's not like a bloody trade ceases to be so.

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

stopping it anyway, so it was a bit of a pointless thread to start

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583



and they didn't want it anyway so there

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844 /India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html)

[Luis Anaconda]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

draw a line under the unpleasant business

[Luis Anaconda]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

Trade was always the favourite first weapon of british empire

[Luis Anaconda]

...what d'ya mean we did

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

you consider to be asian?

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360280/Johnny-Depp- wants-buy-site-Wounded-Knee-massacre-Native-Americans.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360280/Johnny-Depp-wants-buy-site-Wounded-Knee-massacre-Native-Americans.html)

[Berni]

of us? Or the Scandis to compensate us for all the stuff they nicked/smashed up? History is basically full of people half-inching stuff off everyone else. Why should some people give stuff back and not others? Where does the process end?

Let sleeping dogs lie imo.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Snin]

if i lived in india the indian kids would call my kids indian when i sent them to school imo

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

We've had the same lot since 1630

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Snin]

welcome to britain mohamud, you can stay

[Classic Jorge]

Well you did ask

[Luis Anaconda]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

'cept you're funny

[Berni]

Parliamentary Democracy?

Honestly, j. I sometimes think you must have been playing with yourself during history class.

[Pokster]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

so probably more like what, 1720 then?

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[R.C. Celebrating the return of Trophies]

Dalhousie arranged that the diamond be presented by Maharaja Ranjīt Singh's young successor, Dulīp Singh, to Queen Victoria in 1850. Dulīp Singh was the youngest son of Ranjīt Singh and his fifth wife Maharani Jind Kaur. Dulīp, aged 13, travelled to the United Kingdom to present the jewel. The presentation of the Koh-i-Noor and the Timur ruby to Queen Victoria was the latest in the long history of transfers of the stones as a spoil of war.


Spoils of war, :hehe: that's what I called my divorce settlement

[Snin]

normans anyway...they should pay EVERYONE back including my family..I'm sure we lost much land in wales in the 1200's when those feckers took over..most true brits can claim against these Norman cnuts tbh so why not africa too ?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

They have some rather lovely places around the station nowadays.

Also, if you want a nice place for a quiet pint try the Conservatory in Albion St

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]