It is important from the start to remember that here in Britain we do not have a monopoly on integrity, morality, democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, fairness, civility, mutual respect and ‘tolerance’.
These values are civilised human values. They are enlightenment values and are spread across the world. Other cultures, nations, civilisations and people who are not British, claim, and hold and enact comparable values from their own positions, experiences and perspectives. Britain’s claim, to these values, should, in no way, negate the fact that other nations, cultures, civilisations, peoples, rightfully claim, hold and implement these values as their own also.
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