It certainly puts slower updates here into perspective
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Not sure I will be able to go back to the expert panels now (though the ones the think tanks, committees, and the economist do are pretty good)
Hmm... I think you might be on to something. Not to mention that in this timeline it hardly has colonies to worry about. It's basically just this rump of India plus South Africa and Australia (on a good day) They could, in theory, pull a Chicago and resettle Canadian exiles there as experts while using cheap Indian labour in the home islands and Australia. By virtue of only having to swallow a limited portion of India as opposed to the huge challenge of the entire sub-continent, there is a lot less to account for not to mention that after being brutalized by their fellow free Indians I'd imagine even the most anti-colonial subject might stop and think.
I'd still say there will need to be a serious compromise not only with the Indian landlords but with the general population not to mention recognition of Russia's power over both Britain and India in this situation. Britain is done as a global power for the time being and possibly permanently. The best it can do is play its limited hand with the other players of the imperial alliance. Perhaps in time if it can build legitimacy in India and work on its relations with Australia and South Africa some sort of third power can emerge inside the imperial alliance but for the time being, I'd say Germany, Austria, and Japan are more potent then the Brits are.
All the Brits have left are some rusting battleships, Russian goodwill, and the prestige of once having been the world's greatest empire. Ironically, I'd say they can't afford to remain an island as in IRL either because that would really lock them into place as 2nd fiddle to Russia (just as IRL UK is to the US these days) They need to get what's left of the British Empire and somehow transform it into an enduring structure but accomplish it with practically no muscle and few carrots to offer. That would be a huge undertaking both in terms of economics and social terms and this Britain is even weaker than our IRL one so it seems doubtful.