[Cronos]

Duuh -- I was referring to your erroneous statement:

We did a good job spreading civilisation and prosperity without you.

To which I replied:
Oh really? Pray tell how? By pulling strings and looting nations that had highly developed city states when all good Britons were painting themselves blue and wearing animal skins?

Let's see, the places England colonised: India, China (well Hong Kong), Africa etc. For Africa, I'll grant you, the Brits did spread civilisation there as the native civilisations were way way primitive. However, CHina and India were civilised nations way before the Normans invaded, before the Saxons invaded, heck, even before the Celts moved in -- when they had their city states around 1700 B.C., all good Britons WERE wearing animal skins and living in caves.

[nopardons]

South Africa was civilized by the Boers.The Brits decided that they wanted what the Boers had and threw Afrikaner women,children,and old men in the first CONCENTRATION CAMPS,to get what they wanted.

[tjwmason]

China and India were civilised nations way before the Normans invaded

Indeed, and if you knew the slightest thing about British Imperialism you would know that the high level of Indian civilisation greatly affected the manner in which we engaged with the Indians. To take over was never our original plan (indeed most of the British Empire happened by accident), we (being the inventors of modern globalised capitalism) just wanted to trade and make ourselves rich.

Later on, I will admit, we did such ghastly things as suppressing suttee - I do hope that you will forgive us.