[basisword]

It's impossible to know. You would need to be able to predict how that country would have evolved over the last number of years without British involvement. Comparing it now to how it was when it was colonised by the British is pointless.

[postingawayonhn]

I don't think it is. I think comparing British freedom at the time to the freedom in the native society is totally fair.

And countries don't evolve in a vacuum. Many countries would have adopted British ideas of freedom just through observation.