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I could vote with my feet and withdraw my custom. I could simply stop going there. Or both. In all cases, the result was either mixed or equally divided, depending on your interpretation.

Exactly two years ago, six months before the Brexit referendum, there was a YouGov poll about attitudes towards the British Empire and colonialism. It found that 43 per cent of us thought it was a good thing and 19 per cent thought it was a bad thing, while 25 per cent said it was neither.

They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.

Far from balancing out the Churchillian theme of the Finsbury Park outlet with its neon portrait of Gandhi, Bollywood posters and India flags — not to mention its curry nights, yoga classes and a vegan breakfast called The Gandhi — this one has caused even greater offence.

Another local customer, Jaime Peschiera, believes that a colonial theme is inappropriate in an area with a large Afro-Caribbean population even though he does not seem to be one of them. The only goal appears to be to profit financially from a regressive, conservative 'nostalgia' that erases British colonial atrocity and the pain and oppression of those that suffered and continue to suffer from its enduring legacy. ES Money. The Escapist. The must-read London articles. The coolest London events from our partners.

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