A lot of these things are behind a pay wall which is annoying. A lot of the things the left quote as being said years ago as unacceptable are in the Spectator -- which I subscribe to... and often have a chuckle about the stuff which appears in there.

tbh he's making a good point really on the narcissism that British leaders have in regards to the commonwealth

The point is there

But as a politician you should think a bit

Before saying some questionable Shit

Was he a politician then or just a jurno?

Both I think?

Not sure tbh

oh really

it was before my time

Yeah, Theresa May made a trip to India, and they basically said to her "why should we give a damn about your Brexit after all these years?"
...clearly not what she was expecting them to say to her face.

but yeah, it reads as mocking him as if he was narrating what was in someone elses head

Ya that is dumb

does anyone have an archive link? I'd love to read the full article

I mean, India has overtaken us

Good for them

We aren’t as important as we used to be

I'm genuinely happy for them

They do have over a billion people

Yea

They should have passed us a long time ago tbh

but as we all know, the wealth of a country means nothing if it's enhabitance are poor as fuck

however, I'm aware they're making strides

I don't think we'll ever become "not important"

by virtue that things stem out from us

we'll likely remain as admistrators and consultants

tbh I'm not too fussed about how big we are on the world stage

big is relative right

```In a column published in the Daily Telegraph six years ago, Johnson mocked Tony Blair's globetrotting: "What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," he wrote. It also mentioned "watermelon smiles".```

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jan/23/london.race

Guardian article from 2008, so Boris wrote article 20 years ago

the question on this one is when did piccaninnies become offensive

I never heard the word until it was brought up in the debates

It helps bring them out of poverty

sorry pep?

the word did?

So from what I can see here it's amerocentric for it to be offensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny

in which case, it can fuck off

tbh 90% of racial controversies are Americanisms

it does appear that mainly the originiate there, and then they try to apply the same standard to us here

which is not acceptable