Still, we are going cap in hand to the former colonies for favours now with a few quid in export guarantees and BOGOFFs on offer to buy our limited range of shoddy goods. Do Africa need horrendous landrovers? outside cozy happy valley outposts, toyota is king for a reason. This is what it has come to - the UK is on the back foot and will not get an easy ride on the coattails of empire and up against a wall of chinese free cash.The mawkish gladhanding by the UKG in the continent is a perfect PR oppertunity to be taken advantage of by the African nations involved- and quite rightly so. The favours owing balance is firmly on the side of the former colonies and it is insulting and patronising that we think we have an angle to adopt here, based of a couple of centuries of rapacious exploitation. The massed ranks of gammonati will be more than pleased that visa and access opportunities that will invariably result from this will potentially massively change the immigration profile of the UK over the next decade or two. yeah but