I've been skittering through AH.com and researching about the possibility of Great Britain granting their thirteen colonies more autonomy in the 18th century as opposed to attempting to crush them like IOTL, and the vast majority of people seem to disagree. According to them:
-the concept of a colony breaking free of their metropole was completely alien for the time and, thus, unacceptable.
-the colonies were too far away from London to actually see heeding to Parliament's rules as something okay.
However, i digress. I still think Britain's decision not to give their colonies' autonomy and not to listen to them was just stupidity on Parliament's side. So, is there any, ANY way the United Kingdom can realize that their "intolerable laws" are costing them their colonies' loyalty, effectively making them shy away from such repression and grant more autonomy to their thirteen colonies?