36. British Obliviousness
Back in London, the British were oblivious to the mutual antipathy between Anguilla and St. Kitts, as they went about their plans to grant them independence in a united country that the Anguillians wanted no part of. It did not help that the more populous St. Kitts was dominated by a leader named Robert Bradshaw, who openly despised Anguillians.
Indeed, as Bradshaw once said of Anguilla: “I will not rest until I have reduced that place to a desert“. The Anguillians tried hard to let London know that they could not abide rule from St. Kitts, but nobody in the British government paid them any attention. In the meantime, things in the Caribbean descended into comedic farce.