Indeed, even within Caesar's own recount there are hints as to the true nature of the politics of Britain at this time, but he is at some pains to describe Britain as a set of independent tribes - I'm just wondering how much this was the case prior to Caesar's involvement.
There are references within the Gallic Wars to previous Kingships among the tribes of Gaul, and indeed sovereignty by one tribe over others and that got me thinking about how these areas were manipulated politically by Rome. Why, for instance, after Bituitus was defeated by Quintus Fabius Maximus were the Arverni - unlike their allies the Allobroges - allowed their independence? It seems to me that they were utilised to undermine the Aedui, who were becoming a force within Gaul. What the Romans didn't want was to have a unified Gallic 'state' over the Alps, and without the Arverni interfering and warring with them, there was a possibility that the Aedui might gain suzerainty over all of Gaul (well, if one ignores the tribes known as the Belgae, of course).
The Romans recognised this by treating the Aedui (on the surface) as "friends and kinsmen of Rome", but they seemed quite happy, in fact, to let the Aedui be battered from all sides (making treaties with the Sweboz, for instance, instead of coming to their aid).
Its too easy to perceive the Aedui as pro-Roman, and the Arverni as anti-Roman because of these positions, and the rise to power later of the Arverni noble we know as Vercingetorix, but that ignores that Vercingetorix was, essentially, a renegade of the Arverni - he had to overthrow the 'legal' Arverni leadership in order to campaign against Caesar.
What is the point of all of this rambling? Well, that the Romans looked to use factional instability both between and within the Celtic tribes in order to strengthen their position (or rather, to weaken the opponent - divide and conquer), and that I don't believe that this is a policy that was designed around the Gauls/Celts simply because of some perceived ethno-cultural weakness on their part (though there was certainly an element of this), but rather that this displays the nature of the internal politics of Rome as much as it demonstrates their external policies.
So, back to the original missive; we see that consequent to Caesar's brief campaigns in Britain (military campaigns, at least) there was an attempt by the Catuvellauni to re-consolidate their sovereignty, rather than what is normally perceived as an attempt at sovereignty simply after the event.
In other words, without the political and brief military interventions of Caesar at this time, the later invasion of Britain might have been a very different prospect.
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