Attorney General Suella Braverman has slammed the woke Left for being “ashamed” of Britain’s colonial past and said she was “proud” of the British Empire. MailOnline has more.
Suella Braverman, whose parents are from Mauritius and Kenya and emigrated to the U.K. in the 1960s, said people should honour “the ingenuity and the genius of the British people”.
Many people have railed against celebrating the British Empire, with a number of institutions set on decolonisation, which critics say is an attempt to censor history.
Last month the University of Salford even scrapped sonnet-writing from a creative writing course in a bid to remove itself from “white Western culture” amid its push to “decolonise the curriculum”.
At the height of its power in 1921 the British Empire was known as the ’empire on which the sun never set’ and was home to some 413 million people.
However, Mrs Braverman said she was “proud of the British Empire” in an interview with the Telegraph.
She said: “I am informed by the experience of my parents.”
“[They] were born under the British Empire in the 1940s, and they have nothing but good things to tell me about the mother country.”
“It was Britain that gave them opportunity and safety when they were young adults.”
She said Mauritius’s legal and educational system took inspiration from the British Empire, while in Kenya it was a “force for good” as it put in place infrastructure and roads.
She admitted “awful things” happened in the Empire because of the culture at that time but accused the Left of being apologetic for patriotism.
She said: “It’s born out of a left-wing apology for patriotism and for Britain. Ashamed of our history, fearful of our past, not the ingenuity and the genius of the British people.”
The Attorney General previously told the ConservativeHome blog there was no need to apologise for the British Empire.
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Overdue but welcome, so far as it goes.
I agree and her comments are much needed. Somehow I suspect the Davos Deviants will not appreciate this sort of off message – a sideways move may well be in the offing. On the other hand maybe this is just another false flag raised to give us an illusion of hope.
She has presided over grotesque illegality – I have no respect for her opinion.
“She said Mauritius’s legal and educational system took inspiration from the British Empire, while in Kenya it was a “force for good” as it put in place infrastructure and roads.”
I’m actually related to someone who designed the roundabouts in Nairobi!
Easy to speak about the faults of past governments and people, but for myself, I would like to hear more about current issues such as the (often malign) effects of the Brussels regime on African countries (Somalia?), Chinese neo-imperialism on the continent (and with former British colonies elsewhere for that matter) and the likes of Barack Obama travelling to Kenya to lecture them about their social policies (and indeed American cultural imperialism more broadly).
If governments really cared about issues such as slavery, they would make sure that goods which have been made through slavery or coercion were clearly labelled (a version, if you like, of Soil Association or Fair Trade schemes) instead of making it practically impossible to avoid funding the CCP.
Good comment. It seems to me that the myopic focus on British Empire ‘crimes’ is a huge game of distraction. China is a major source of funding for far too many U.K. universities- why was this ever tolerated? Other countries too that would rather the focus was kept on historical British ‘misdeeds’ rather than their own present nefarious activities to be brought into the light. Alas, far too many useful idiots are now running the show.
Unfortunately, she is part of Boris Johnson’s cabinet. Maybe she has sent the last two years fighting him from within, but probably not.
Maybe she is preparing for a leadership contest. How often have we heard Conservative politicians say something to make themselves popular with Conservative voters and then continue the globalist agenda?
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I was in Kenya on holiday in the late 1980s. The local, English language newspaper was called ‘The Nation’. One day it included an editorial which could be summarised as “Britain, please come back”. It listed out all the failures in various ex-British colonies in Africa since independence. Having visited Kenya previously in the early 1970s it was noticeable that the infrastructure was crumbling. It was said that Jomo Kenyatta siphoned off aid money to his own account but did use some of it to improve the country. When Daniel Arap Moi took over he just took all of the aid money for himself.
It demonstrated the old adage about foreign aid: “The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries”
The rationale behind decolonization is that we don’t really want anything from these people save cheap natural resources. Hence, it’s a waste of time and money to pay for decent administration (by our standards) there. It’s entirely sufficient to fund some local gang of thugs by providing them with money and weapons who are responsible for keeping enough order locally that said natural resources can extracted and exported. This is called foreign aid despite it’s anything but beneficial to most of the people living there.
It’s very noticeable that the only Government Ministers who are given authority to praise the UK, it’s history and culture are the Ministers who are from the ethnic minorities or were themselves refugees to the UK.
Wouldn’t it be nice if, say Ben Wallace or Liz Truss, said something like this. But it seems that white Brits aren’t allowed to.
It is all window-dressing. It would be helpful if any bloody elected politician concerned themselves with the welfare of British citizens.