Yeah, I don’t mean EXPOSE offshore banks – I mean wipe the servers. Empty the memory. Format commands.
If exposure doesn’t remove cockroaches, I recommend fire.
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Empire IS a crime.
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Henry George land-value taxes can help. The economic value derived from land (including natural resources like petroleum and minerals) should belong equally to all members of society.
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Or how about erasing some bullshit warrants for people who don’t deserve them?
It’s impressive just how terrible the British Empire managed to be, though. I mean, you’re stacking it up against things like the Belgian Congo, so it takes some real flamboyance to manage to be worse. Getting a whole country hooked on opium and then using that as a stereotype against them? Masterful.
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I can guarantee that the safeguards around offshore tax havens etc are low, slow and old.
It’s pork. No need to keep pace.
[citation needed]. It is the British Empire, after all.
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Such a terrible shame, isn’t it?
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I’m clutching my pearls right now.
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If they weren’t fished up by half-drowned street urchins then they don’t count.
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How very Victorian of you. Rees-Mogg himself might approve.
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These are pearls we’re talking about.
I think you meant:
Hand gathered by plucky natives in the far-off parts of our Empire, grateful for the benefits of our benelovent oversight…
which is as it happens a quite interesting memoir from one of the knockabout adventurers who ended up doing the practical bits of ruling our far-flung dominions for us.
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I was looking for a polite way to refer to those delightfully opportunistic foreign children of days-gone-by but couldn’t think of anything inoffensive off the cuff.
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here is my 2016 list of GREAT British things
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We definitely need more Sneakers GIFs in here.
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