Britain has long deluded itself into believing that the blood spilled in the pursuit of empire was part of a noble mission to fulfil the White Man’s burden and bring civilisation to the savages. Given this twisted logic it is no surprise that it if you remove the first letter from slaughter you can imagine the imperialists gleefully pillaging their way across the globe. But the joke is increasingly on the former mother country. Having spent centuries lecturing the world on how to manage their affairs it is now Britain that is becoming the corrupt, backwards plaything of the rich that they once so derisively dubbed a ‘Banana republic’.
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