Britain’s latest Prime Minister Andy Burnham will soon have to contend with the reality that Britain is a feeble, third-rate power in an increasingly unstable, hostile word. With every pillar of its former strength eroded, British imperialism’s heyday lies long in the past.

War criminal and careerist Suella Braverman recently said that Britain’s ‘former colonies should pay the British back’ for the good that the Empire did. Meanwhile, these countries continue to be bled dry by imperialism.

In the 19th Century, British imperialists waged the Opium Wars and forcibly dragged the Chinese state into the world market. This began what is known in China as its ‘century of humiliation’, with British capitalism stoking the world’s first opiate epidemic to bleed the country dry.