The Empire Strikes Back! ...against their former colonial overlords

[tibilicus]

Yes, the fun part being that the power has shifted - India is now the big brother and Britain is the one who needs India, not the other way around. What happened last century in the US is happening again, this time in India.



Ah, yes, I forgot that Britain is the only country in the world where nobody hates foreigners... And people vote BNP because of their enviromental stance.

@tibilicus: At what planet did I suggest that India was ruled by direct suppression....? I'm baffled at how you managed to draw that conclusion, quite frankly. Lay off the pot...

The BNP are a marginal political party who currently hold no seats in Westminster and probably never will. They only have seats in the European Parliament as people voted for them for a protest vote and due to the fact the turnout for the European elections are pitifully low and the European Parliament effectively does nothing, it doesn't mean anything.

Also I responded to your original point on the trail of thought that you were some how going to dig at Britain's colonial past, perhaps I was wrong about that. Seeming that isn't the case, I'm not quite sure what you are trying to propose with the topic. Are we meant to be surprised that India is a rising economy? Or am I meant to feel some humility that Britain's position has lessened in comparison to India? If that's the case then I feel no such humility as what's happening with India is the same as what's happening all over the east. The Asian economies are growing rapidly and in the near future China will be the world power, not the USA. We're seeing the shift from West to East and in the next couple of decades the world may look very different. This doesn't really bother me though, it's an inevitable fact.