It was most likely intentional.

On the height of the British empire spectacularly by just starving people and shooting those who didn't.

In the decline it's more a question of what they did right, other then keeping control of the isles and producing eventually the late Queen, rest her soul?

the British are the Nazi's that won.....its nice to see they are losing it all do to being colonized....the irony is thick and the karma is over 1500 years coming......

People try so hard to make it seem like the winners of history were the ones bad at civilization.

The first step in their mishandling was conquering whoever you are talking about. So please tell us which natives and which famine...

Well because handling famines was boring and they wanted to do more fun things like drinking gin and shooting endangered species.

引用自 smokerob79：

the British are the Nazi's that won.....its nice to see they are losing it all do to being colonized....the irony is thick and the karma is over 1500 years coming......

I wonder how the British will call their reconquista?
2nd 100 year war?
War of the roses 2nd edition?

Probably something self deprivation and dark humored.
But, I'm not British so I'm open fir suggestions.

Source?

引用自 MinionJoe：

Did those "local empires" rely upon slave labor or undocumented migrants to pick their crops?

Mughal Empire would be a good example of what the locals were before Britain came eventually to rule over India, make the British look rather pleasant in comparison.

引用自 Сааребас：

I wonder how the British will call their reconquista?
2nd 100 year war?
War of the roses 2nd edition?

Probably something self deprivation and dark humored.
But, I'm not British so I'm open fir suggestions.

The Indigenous Reparations Act, or the IRA for short.

(Did no one get it? Was it too dry? Too dark? Do people just not know anything about the British Empire in a discussion about the British Empire?)

its a shame that people still try to justify what english did even to this day. As if they want to rewrite history, Yes local empires had slaves(everyone had slavery in their nations and it was considered normal) and had their faults. doesn't justify crappy colonial policies.


And the british often slandered the mughals to make themselves look good and mughals as demonic.

The colonial administrations were set up to extract wealth, not respond to agricultural crises. Or prevent them. So on top of that not having any reason to care, they were also rigid, inflexible, and glacially slow to enact any policies. As that kept them stable.

Despite all the gin they were drinking.

What makes you think it was, "Mis" handled?

let me know when they admit Victoria Falls had a name for 2000 years before a twit set foot on the land.....

引用自 a haunted VHS tape：

The colonial administrations were set up to extract wealth, not respond to agricultural crises. Or prevent them. So on top of that not having any reason to care, they were also rigid, inflexible, and glacially slow to enact any policies. As that kept them stable.

Despite all the gin they were drinking.

whats with the gin jokes? what do they refer to?

引用自 Courier 6：

引用自 a haunted VHS tape：

The colonial administrations were set up to extract wealth, not respond to agricultural crises. Or prevent them. So on top of that not having any reason to care, they were also rigid, inflexible, and glacially slow to enact any policies. As that kept them stable.

Despite all the gin they were drinking.

whats with the gin jokes? what do they refer to?

The Gin Genie
He lives on his back??


I'm just guessing, I don't know