The British Empire was so wicked and evil that a former colony of a 'rival' empire asks to be admitted to the Commonwealth.

Paul Kagame, the Rwandan President, says that his country will cement its bitter divorce from France and the French-speaking world, which he holds responsible for the 1994 slaughter of up to one million of his countrymen, by joining the Commonwealth later year.

“There are many benefits for us in joining the Commonwealth — cultural, economic, political,” he told The Times.

Mr Kagame has been invited to attend the next Commonwealth summit as an observer. “I hope they will then approve our membership. I am looking forward to it.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1392750.ece

On a serious note. If what Mr. Kagame says is true about our neighbours to the south, the EU should look closely into what the French have been up to.

“The French were obsessed by language,” he said. “I remember when I was invited to Paris in 1992 as part of a peace initiative they were angry I could not talk French.

“That night security agents burst into my hotel room and ‘detained me’, even though I was a guest invited by them.”
Give it up fellas. French stopped being the Lingua Franca hundreds of years ago.