Due to ridiculous haste the British managed the partition appallingly. They were in power. They had to do something, I agree, but what happened was a total disaster leaving a terrible legacy.

India wanted independence, it was not willing to wait for a slow safe process, it wanted the British out and that's what it got.....no one British person was allowed to remain, regardless of how many generations they had lived in India. (remember that readers when you hear leftists/neoliberals talk about deportation)

The level of violence was not expected and the British did not invent's India's ethnic tensions. The vast majority of India's administration was actually carried out by Indians themselves.....which was always the case in India as the British were always massively outnumbered there.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You will notice from a certain demographic that the British are blamed if they intervene overseas and they are blamed if they don't intervene overseas.

The one constant pattern is that they blame the same group.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Says the guy who admitted to looking to move aboard only a while ago. (you were right to think of moving because even the nicer parts of Croydon will downgrade)

I think your own posts reveal your attitudes.

I'm English, you aren't and I'll live and die here because it's at my core. That's a loyalty that you will never have.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

How do you get to that assumption from what he posted?

An absolutely crucial point here. Thank you for raising it.

What is happening in Leicester is a reality of 'modern Britain'. To oppose the very basics of why this is happening in the first place is actually, if you strip it down to its very core, 'anti-British'.

The reality of what is happening in Leicester is directly linked to very deliberate policies pursued by British elites. This is a top-down imposition of alien cultural influences/stresses on British streets. And cheered on by them. Celebrated.

I see lots of footage in Right-wing circles being bandied about concerning how the city of Leicester looked during the Queen's coronation. That world is lost to us. It's never coming back.

Nostalgia is wasted energy. What matters now is radical thinking about the future. Maple is right. He is far more 'British' now than I am.

Edited by Matov (19 Sep 2022 7.58am)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.