Dominic Sandbrook
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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that it's a modernizing project.
The parliament sits there and it says, okay, we've basically got these 17th century colonies.
It's all a bit of a mess.
We're going to sort it out.
It's mad that they're not paying the same taxes that people pay in Britain, the stamp tax on documents and so on.
We should extend, you know, ah, the British gentry have paid for the cost of this war.
They are very heavily taxed by historic standards.
We will make the Americans pay.
The colonists, we'll ask the colonists to pay a little bit towards their own defense.
And I think that's perfectly reasonable.
No one could really disagree with that.
And so there's that element to it.
As Tom, I think, absolutely rightly says, there is an element of it being a successor to the religious conflicts of the 17th century.
So conflicts about the church, parliament, king, and so on, that we associate with Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.
There's also, of course, the element that the British basically don't really want the colonists to keep expanding westwards.
So in 1763, they said, hold on, this far and no further.
because they don't want to provoke expensive conflict with the kind of native tribes.
And a lot of the colonists, George Washington is a brilliant example of this.
They've got a lot of investment in land speculation and stuff, and they want to keep expanding westwards, and they're annoyed.
Right.
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