And what if the country said “fine, we’ll leave the commonwealth”?

Agreed!

It’s not even restitution - which is much harder in practice than people realize. (Study the “reparations” to the Japanese Americans).

Yes, but how does the UK force change in a non-colonial fashion?

I always wonder what E.M. might have done in a different world. It’s hard to say “full potential” because we can’t measure against the life that wasn’t lived!

This is why people who want to “take back america” or the make the “US/UK/insert country of choice” what it once was are idiots.

A pardon implies = guilty, but forgiven

This is because some pedos and rapists were convicted under the gay laws because it was easier. This is fact. It’s not disputable. How many? We simply don’t know. Maybe only a handful, maybe a lot.

The issue is this: if the men are still living, you could individually go back and say the prosecution was wrong an illegal.

We know this now, but it wasn’t accepted back then. 90% of the men convicted were just gay. But there were some men who were rapists or pedos who were convicted under the same laws because the “proof” was easier.