Have you ever visited part of the ex-empire/commonwealth/whatever, ollaimh. I found not a single person of middle-age or over in Sierra Leone where I spent some time 20 years ago who didn't long for the pre-"independence" days back. & that was just before the gr8 hands·cut·off civil-war which turned the country into the hell-on-earth of sub-Saharan Africa for all those years - probably to this day...