Bongo Bongo land

[vetran]

Dunno, the people of Goa, the richest part of India, may disagree with that...The Portuguese seem to have been less rapacious than the British, there at least.

Yep they left peacefully and with good intentions just like the British

After India gained independence from the British in 1947, India requested that Portuguese territories on the Indian subcontinent be ceded to India. Portugal refused to negotiate on the sovereignty of their Indian enclaves. On 19 December 1961, the Indian Army began military operations with Operation Vijay resulting in the annexation of Goa, Daman, and Diu into the Indian union. Goa, along with Daman and Diu, was organized as a centrally administered union territory of India. On 30 May 1987, the union territory was split, and Goa was made India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining a union territory.

It seems the British are constantly blamed for India, it was conquered from a bunch of squabbling Muhgals running a brutal feudal society by private business bribing the tribal chiefs. Then when the other countries tried to take it over the British armies kept the peace (most brutally I will admit). You forget all the 'honourable' Indian challengers were subsidised by some other European country.

If the British Government hadn't fought back when it did we would have seen a French / Portuguese / Spanish speaking India not a free one.

[suityou01]

No I think it's fantastic.

If he can start calling foreigners Fuzzy Wuzzies then he has my vote.

I think I just shat myself.

[EternalOptimist]

So looks like the Portuguese colonies ended up better off than the British on average?
I think its instructive to compare places like Goa and Macau, which were next to British colonies.

That is actually a blooming brilliant observation. (therefore it must have been accidental)


definately worth further analysis and comment though. these sh!t hole basket cases around the world must have something in common

[AtW]

Having BoE rates linked to unemployment is by far much more important news item today than this stuff.

[EternalOptimist]

Having BoE rates linked to unemployment is by far much more important news item today than this stuff.

true
And the news promted 0 % of companies to make 0% of changes to 0% of their operations.



let us know when something actually changes AtW

[Mich the Tester]

Dunno, the people of Goa, the richest part of India, may disagree with that...The Portuguese seem to have been less rapacious than the British, there at least.

My knowledge of Asia isn't very strong; I know more about Africa, so I'll concede to you on this one. The British did some nasty things (Mau Mau uprising, Boer internment and so on) and some decent things in Africa, but on balance were probably nowhere near as nasty as the Germans, Belgians and the French. In fact, an interesting little factoid is that black soldiers from all over Africa went to Nigeria during WW2 to join the British-Nigerian army; they did that because it was only the British Army that promoted black soldiers to officer status, while the others kept them firmly down at the bottom of the pile. Not to say the British colonies were entirely free of racism; they certainly weren't but in most places there was at least some form of meritocracy that gave black people a chance to do well. Unfortunately lots of good intentions were snowed under by commercial vested interests.

[zoco]

Bigots like Ukip's Godfrey Bloom must not be tolerated

I repeat, THEY MUST NOT BE TOLERATED!!

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Most Ukip representatives are just trolls, throwing out the most unpleasant thing they can think of, with the specific and sole purpose of upsetting the people they like the least

[Doggy Styles]

I don't feel the slightest bit of guilt about British colonialism. The world is what it is.

[Mich the Tester]

Bigots like Ukip's Godfrey Bloom must not be tolerated

I repeat, THEY MUST NOT BE TOLERATED!!

She's just giving him fuel. We all have to 'tolerate' people holding different views to our own; that's part of the basis of a civilised society. We don't necessarily have to take their views seriously, and I think it's better to just laugh at someone like Godfrey Bloom with his rather silly view of the world, just like the Mash did yesterday; We don’t get any aid, says president of Bongobongoland

[sasguru]

I think I just shat myself.

Which says a lot about you.