Actually, the Americas objected to 'taxation without representation', while the Brits had become resigned to the Pocket and Rotten Borough kleptocracy.
Britain narrowly staved off revolution at home post 1815, BL.
Nah. There was nowhere near a revolution in Britain in the early nineteenth century, apart from the odd little outburst of violence by left wing troublemakers like the Luddites. No violent political revolution has occurred in Britain since the civil wars of the 1640s and 1650s, which was an anti-absolute monarchy revolution which saw the execution of a monarch 150 years BEFORE the French Revolution.
There was no need to be a revolution in Britain. Unlike the Frenchies and their other continental neighbours, the British were a free people who, unlike the French, had long got rid of their feudal system and their Absolute Monarchy. In 1819 the British Bill of Rights was 130 years' old.
Britain was impervious to revolutionary change in the early 1800s. Though every other aspect of British life in the 19th century was transformed by industrial, social and cultural development, the country's rulers seemed somehow to avoid the mistakes of their continental counterparts. When Britain was at the peak of her imperial power at the end of the 19th century, historians charted the country's rise to greatness over the preceding hundred years or so. They were inclined to stress British genius for avoiding fundamental conflict between classes and social groups, and the country's ability to manage evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, political change.
LMAO. Who chooses the restaurant?
Well, it's equality, innit? It's halves on the bill nowadays, ladies.
I usually choose the restaurant, cos if I let the woman choose it'd be somewhere expensive, like the Ritz.
There's nothing wrong with the local Spudulike (unless she hates potatoes) or the delightful local kebab shop up in the Muslim-dominated Daubhill area of the town - the Kabul Kebab House - where they roast dead alsatians on spits (where we are usually the only people in there who don't look like Osama bin Laden).
