What I’m saying is that taxation as a tool has always been used by the landed/kulak class against the poor/colonised. I could also cite the Salt Taxes on India. The relationship between king and parliament is synergistic. They both want the same thing, in broad terms, and only quibble on details.
I’ll not deny there was synergy. But once parliament had passed laws it was too late for the king to do anything about it. We’d already beheaded one king and deposed another for not understanding that parliament was in charge. The Americans needed to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey.
Oh absolutely. The trouble is, plantation slave owners were buying up rotten boroughs so they could pack Parliament with younger sons who would vote on every anti-slavery measure and shut them down. They lost the Atlantic slave trade in 1827 regardless, and shifted ops to the Pacific instead.
Yeah I’ll not deny it was a corrupt, undemocratic parliament. I mean we were the bad guys here. Just saying that the Americans made a tactical mistake in trying to go behind Parliament’s back. Was just going to piss them off.
The bad Americans were already doing that. As usual, the fascists had a plan and pushed it through with remarkable acumen. The rotten boroughs were agricultural districts that had been depopulated by enclosure beginning in Shakespeare’s time. By the eighteenth century places like the+
Chiltern Hundreds had forty households sending two MPs to London. Along came a Musk-clone with a big check and a hogshead of ale, so off they went to vote for him. So when the likes of Benjamin Franklin show up, there’s already an entrenched American lobby ready to block him.
Google William Hogarth for some extra lolz.
Sorry, thought you were American 🤦🏿♀️
Nope. Londoner currently exiled to the North. :)
So I figured. Furthest north I’ve been is Sheffield. Which isn’t very North.
I’m in Manchester, which might not be that North, but is a lot further than Watford Gap. :)