Originally Posted by
KINDERSCOUT
Look at any map of the world up to the 1950's and large parts of it are coloured pink, representing the British Empire. Exploitation of those countries created the wealth of the UK.. Not only the slavery in Jamaica and parts of Africa but the natural resources of many countries.I don't know about anyone else but there was a deafening silence at school in histery lessons about our exploitation of other countries we just concentrated on studying Kings and Queens. Even today the mayhem we caused around the world is hardly ever mentioned. Jacob Reece Moggs family wealth also came from the slave trade, its probably the reason he and the other right wing loons in the Tory party have such a jaundiced view of the EU. As far as they are concerned we superior to other countries.