Timothy Birdnow

Great Briain is not so great now. In fact I would call it Mediocre Britain these days. Utterly determined to divest themselves of what they perceive in their liberal minds as the "sin" of colonialism, the British government has done a deal with the Chinese-allied Mauritus to hand over the Indian Ocean island chain The Chago Archipelago which includes the critical base at Diego Garcia.

The sun has finally set on the British empire. Britain owned this island group, for instance. They also own a few niggling Pacific islands, including primarily the Pitcairn group, of which only one is inhabited (by the mutineers of the Bounty). The British gave independence to all her other Pacific colonies and protectorates. Britain still owns (probably not for long) the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina ahs long coveted and will probably get in time. Other than that they own a few uninhabited islands (like South Georgia) in the south Atlantic, and they own a few other islands in the Atlantic, primarily the small colony of Tristan Da Cunha (the most isolated inhabited place on Earth) Also Ascension Island, an uninhabited rock, is British. Britain also owns St. Helena, and a number of Carribean islands, notably Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and of course Bermuda. Lastly they own Gibralter.

Now they have one less piece of empire. As empires go Britain has become a pathetic doddering old coot.

So now they are completely out of business in the Indian Ocean. The sun has truly set over the empire.

So if war breaks out the British aren't coming. They would prefer to sit on their drizzly little island chain and pretend men are women and Arab and Moorish Muslims are British.

Farewell old friend. We'll miss you.

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