Re: This what made Britain "great"..
Oh more of this sort of cobblers.
Should the USA shrink into a hole in the ground for invading several other countries and killing hundreds of thousands in bombing raids?
Should Germany hide its head in its hands and scuttle off into the hinterland of nowhere?
China (they claim that Ghengis was Chinese and look at how many he killed)
If you go through it I doubt there is a single country on the whole planet who hasn't at sometime killed, mained, tortured or oppressed someone from another country.
Now to the truth on slavery. A very large proportion of the African slaves sent to America were SOLD to the slave traders by other African tribes. The British navy put a massive effort into preventing the slave trade when parliament (finally) decided that it wasn't good. The slave trade had been going on for many hundreds of years before the British were at all involved with African slaves sold in the middle east. The British were certainly not the only, and probably not the largest traders in slaves. One thing, we traded them which in a lot of respects was better than Ghengis who rounded them up and used them and other prisoners as target practice, as training for his men and finally as human shields to absorb the bolts and arrows of his enemies.
People like you really make me sick to the bones. If you are that ashamed of being British change your nationality and move abroad. Perhaps it would however be better to read a fuller version of history and realise the good we have also done, and look at the balance sheets of other countries as well.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
