The Benefits and Drawbacks of Empire

There is this assumption the if empire benefited the uk, more an inverted commets than a benefit to the rest of the world. And there are these no brillian am er economis peple like eric williams who come in and say, well, you have to understand empire, and slavery is part of this much broader system. We also want to talk about what they're trying to move away from, this kind of identity politics competition around the history of empire. Also worth while speaking about the herrific treatment that happened to working class people in the united kingdom as part of the imperial project. I don't think this is something that is, is a benefit of