They locked out countries too.

As if it mattered. They estimate millions being infected a day but were only reporting 5 or so deaths with overflowing crematoriums. You can just do some back of the napkin math, double it, and call it a day. More accurate than anything coming out of China.

Proposals to add representatives for North American colonies were discussed at various times but were politically very unpopular in Britain. They knew it was causing a division but they didn't want to share political power.

https://books.google.com/books?id=OBvNHl6UYKsC&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation

>The phrase had been used for more than a generation in Ireland.[8][9] By 1765, the term was in use in Boston, and local politician James Otis was most famously associated with the phrase, "taxation without representation is tyranny."[10] In the course of the Revolutionary era (1750–1783), many arguments were pursued that sought to resolve the dispute surrounding Parliamentary sovereignty, taxation, self-governance and representation
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>In the context of British taxation of its American colonies, the slogan"No taxation without representation" appeared for the first time in a headline of a February 1768 London Magazine printing of Lord Camden's "Speech on the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great Britain over the Colonies," which was given in parliament.[2] The British government argued for virtual representation, the idea that people were represented by members of Parliament even if they didn't get to vote for them.

And deeply ironic for a country that went to war over taxation with no representation.

It's a funny term. My dad would laugh about it too. "What do people think they do when the ambulance stops? Have a smoke break?"