Perhaps I should rephrase that; he wrote as though he was always the guy in the right.
Gallipoli was a disaster, and I believe he lost his position over that. He did certainly want to keep the Empire, “I did not become the King’s Prime Minister to oversee the dissolution of the British Empire”, or words to that effect. He did have a problem with the Indian (Hindu?) custom of burning wives alive at husband’s funerals. I don’t know enough about finance to defend or condemn him on the gold standard. I know little about Ireland save that the Irish were treated little better than slaves by some English, and Queen Elizabeth did not remove her gloves to shake hands with an IRA guy. He did however give us wonderful lines, “Yes, Madame, I am drunk, and you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober”, “Democracy is the worst form of government, save for all the others”, and concerning the battle of Britain, “Should the British Empire exist for a thousand years, it will still be said, This was their finest hour”. Regarding racism during the 1940s, I do not recall if it was FDR or Truman who integrated the US Army.
something else is Britain never made much of an effort to bring a sense of belonging or a reason to want to belong or even to be loyal to most of its colonies it was always a theres us and then theres the natives …
I mean even by the second century of rome dominating the world even if you were in gaul you thought of yourself as a part of the roman empire if not actually roman
India and other places never developed that thinking and weren’t encouraged to either