I don't get it. America They said no taxation without

>>1938233
>We technically fulfilled your campaign slogan
>Implying anyone gives a damn about technicalities in politics.

>>1938233
I think the British gov't knew that giving a colony even a single MP would be the thin end of the wedge. Next their other colonies would want them. Soon enough you have orientals and savages being elected to public office. Then if they get outvoted they'd bitch all the time. Their messages to MPs in London would take forever to get there - remember this is the 18th century, no radio or telegraphs or anything. Not to mention it'd probably be unpopular among actual Britons if the gov't started treating colonists like citizens. It would be a big shitshow and I think they knew it wouldn't really help at all.

>>1938250
White settler colonies would perhaps be given a more favourable view at home compared to India and so on. There was quite a bit of popular discussion and opinion about the Revolution in Britain and it wasn't necessarily so pro-British as one might expect.

In any case when the white dominions gained self-governing status in the mid-19th century other areas of the empire went without, and by and large without much pressure for representation until post-WWI

>>1938309
Britons were racist towards colonials and thought them as irredeemable savage hicks.

>>1938233
The colony had a representative. They just didn't elect him.