Should Britain fully colonise its overseas territories in order to combat over population and increase it’s dominance as a world power?
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The UK isn't an empire anymore, I'm sorry.
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I'm having a hard time, trying to figure whether you are serious or not. Well, here are two answers, Serious and Not: I'm sure that the time for all that is long gone. The better colonies for those goals have long since become independent, except for some trade agreements. ...unless...unless HM were to send a out a few Gunboats, and THRASH the beggars!
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I don't think you've seen just what the overseas territories consist of anymore. The present population of all of them combined is under 200,000 people. And if you ignore that Antarctic Territories, they take up under 8,000 square miles. Almost all of that is on the Falklands and the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. These areas (which I am sure are loved by their residents), make the Scottish highlands look like paradise itself. There is frankly no room for your emigrants.
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Britain is a world power? STOP THE PRESSES!
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Have you seen the trouble it caused in Ireland?
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Caio! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5x3zp1QL0&feature=related
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It has been precisely this desire for "colonization", "imperialism", world "dominance", "world power", etc, the combined elements that have caused so much pain and suffering all over the world throughout centuries. Are you asking for more of the same? You can't possibly be serious! You toss all those words around as if they were the name of candies in the stores!
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do none of you peolpe know that there are not native peolpe in the CURRENT territories which are a mixture of unihabited islands and military baces. The only things done with them now are military baces,nature reserves and future oil mines in antartica. And bermuda which is already develpted and yet no american torists complain. The purposes i sugested would have been housing estates, trading stations, more mines and so giving us more of a conexion to the nations arond them, so as to increse relations and trade, this would build up the economy and allow us to better defend our allies and settelments. I can understand why you jump to unrealistic conclusions given the history of colonisation, but think about what territoies we have and not the ones which we have not controlled for decades.
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The definition of insanity is to attempt the same thing and expect a different outcome.
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For sure Great Britain should do it. It would be very helpful for the rest of the world. Great Britain should remember of its immense power and re-start its successful carreer in the last 5 centuries. Many problems we have now in the world are a consequence of the lack of real Briritish dominance in the world and so I would like to see much more engagement by the British and their role a super-power.
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Maybe that'll just spread THEIR problems to the rest of the world. Britain is not perfect. No country is.
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Fully colonising overseas territories would possibly enable Britain to combat over population (although this is likely to envoke outrage by the international community, and result in multilateral action against Britain which would probably end up in armed resistance/collective security and it is almost inevitable that Britain would be brought down), and it would increase its dominance (for as long as it can last until brought down). The bigger question though, is why would it do that? Britain doesn't want to do it, only the smallest minority of the british population would want to do it, and it has nothing to gain from doing it. The way to get influence in the international community is not through imperialism. That is the way to become hated and targeted. It wouldn't work. Thank goodness.
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