Not sure that the comparison is all that favorable with France. You check Algeria and Egypt, or Uganda and Niger, and it’s not exactly a massive spread. The most positive comparison would be with Italian and Belgian colonialism, which managed to be incompetent and (even by colonial standards) gruesome, respectively.
Britain has its faults, but look at how former British colonies are doing today as compared to former French colonies, and other European countries.
I think you should read up on which countries are former British colonies, because there are definitely a lot of them not doing so well either.
Not sure that the comparison is all that favorable with France. You check Algeria and Egypt, or Uganda and Niger, and it’s not exactly a massive spread. The most positive comparison would be with Italian and Belgian colonialism, which managed to be incompetent and (even by colonial standards) gruesome, respectively.
Adding my two cents, major curses to humanity today…
There are million more reasons, but it’s just not worth arguing with UK now.