I don't no why people want to sing:

Rule Brittania etc. Britons never...... will be slaves, when Britons enslaved millions of people and became immensly rich and powerful as a consequence.

Nothing people have written above helps me to understand. I replied to the post because I clearly have nothing better to do, as has been implied above and I guess that goes for the impliers too.

I did not, and do not wish, to comment on most of the proms. The enslaving of millions of people and the economic expliotation of many more was not my responsibily. I have not suggested it is that of most people of recent generations. However we continue to benifit from it. The recent failures to create fairer systems of trade are part of the same problem.