Any Chance of Britain Denying Political Rights/Self-Government to Settler Colonies in Later 1800s?

In the later 19th Century, after the American Revolution and the Rebellions of 1837, is there any chance of the British adopting a general policy of denying their settler colonies political rights and self-government, essentially making their colonial policy revert to the arrangement they had with America before the Revolution?
 
It was very hard to sell the idea of colonization to places as diverse as Australia, Canada, and South Africa without including in it the promise of something better than dirty, crowded, oppressive, 19th century Britain. The other part of the question is: how much effort do you, as the British Government, want to spend overseeing and controlling some bastard shepherd in New South Wales or some bastard lumberjack in British Columbia (hacking down the mighty larch, no doubt) or some bastard diamond miner in the Rand territory when WHAT YOU WANT is the STUFF they produce and to TAX it? Let them have any kind of damn government they want so long as the money heads to LONDON.
 
It was very hard to sell the idea of colonization to places as diverse as Australia, Canada, and South Africa without including in it the promise of something better than dirty, crowded, oppressive, 19th century Britain. The other part of the question is: how much effort do you, as the British Government, want to spend overseeing and controlling some bastard shepherd in New South Wales or some bastard lumberjack in British Columbia (hacking down the mighty larch, no doubt) or some bastard diamond miner in the Rand territory when WHAT YOU WANT is the STUFF they produce and to TAX it? Let them have any kind of damn government they want so long as the money heads to LONDON.

Also the American Revolution taught Great Britain one thing, that putting down rebellions was difficult, expensive and uncertain. Why go through all that when you don't have to?
 
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