re: #242 Nojay UK

Dinna fash yersel’, it’s no the first time some ignorant Yank has made that stupid mistake. Won’t be the last either.

By the mid-1700s the Crown had little political leverage and no power of taxation, it was all up to Parliament. The US has this weird creation myth that the oppression of George III had everything to do with the slave-owners revolt in 1776 whereas they actually rebelled against the democratically-elected British Parliament that was in charge of setting taxes and passing laws.

Britain did not have universal suffrage, even for males, in the 18th century, so it wasn’t exactly democratically elected.