Guest Ooh Aah 2 you seem to be missing some crucial points in this thread.
The fact of the matter is that while we are willing to debate this topic with prejudiced people , we really don't give a damn nowadays.
All you need to do, to find the modern evidence of what we assert, is , pick up any of your British Newspapers, almost any day, or listen, with a less prejudiced ear, to your broadcast media.
Why are you so unable to accept that we have thrived, after much approbrium and many mistakes on our part,as a sovreign nation and have now caught you up, in many spheres ?