Who is the biggest threat to the UK ?

[GrannyMac]

He's right Muddy. 

[Scrumpy]

Do you honestly think either would actually use them? I don't because despite Starmer and Macron both are essentially sensible. 

I am not an aggressive person.. I do not look for trouble..

BUT.. I would protect my children from danger.. If someone threatened me with a weapon and I also had a weapon .. I would fight back.. to the death..

Starmer and Macron might feel the same way when it affects their family..

[klondike]

I think you are looking at our colonial past with rather rosy tinted spectacles. While it is true that many were better off with us in charge we didn't go to those places through altruism. Like for many of our own influx now we went for what we could get. The main difference is that im the main we improved the places we invaded

[Ashy]

I suppose mutual benefit is a possibility but we have to look at history in context, where all the great nations of Europe were fighting over anything they could think of, and grabbing land in the new world and Africa was one of those things.

[JBR]

I think you are looking at our colonial past with rather rosy tinted spectacles. While it is true that many were better off with us in charge we didn't go to those places through altruism. Like for many of our own influx now we went for what we could get. The main difference is that im the main we improved the places we invaded

This.
Yes, we expanded and gained control of a quarter of the world, no doubt for our own benefit: resources, influence, knowledge of other societies, etc., but we also benefited the countries of our empire with our technology, abilities, ideas and perhaps faith.  One example being India, which now possesses the greatest railway system in the world and a legal system not dissimilar to our own.