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Commonwealth’s next chief will be ‘open to British slavery reparations’

The Commonwealth apparatus is exactly where you’d find that sort of politically trendy grifter.

They are set to pick from three candidates, all from African nations, who have all voiced support for the UK paying some form of reparations.

Tho’ how reprations get justified to the people who sold slaves to our traders is a little difficult….

34 thoughts on “Well, yes, obviously”

  1. jgh

    They already get that after a nicebride in a lifeboat to Dungeness or on a Border Force cutter to Dovet.

    Baroness Scotland will be a hard act to folow on the grifting front.

  2. Yes, they sold the slaves in the first place, so if they want to morally lecture our ancestors, they might first look at their own.

    But who cares about ancestors given the 40 million or so slaves in the world today?

  3. My descendent of slaves worked her way through 4 Pink Lady cocktails Saturday night at 15€ a go. After a meal at the best Italian restaurant in town. And the earlier frock shopping spree. How much reparations do they want?

  4. This is what happens when you have an international aid budget. People start to work out ways of accessing it. The original purpose of the budget was to improve the economies of developing nations (third world countries back in 1970 when the 0.7% GDP target was created) so that the people of said nations did not want to leave their own countries to live in the developed countries.

    These days there are more opportunities for private and institutional investors to make investments in the developing countries through mutual funds, investment trusts and ETFs. There are also more private charities that provide aid to developing countries as well.

    However, for some reason, the 0.7 GDP target cannot include private money, only tax payers money. Personally I think the UK should work out just how much charity money is raised and spent in the developing countries. Then work out how much private and institutional investment is raised. Add the two together and then see if the 0.7% GDP target is met. If so, then no tax payer money should be spent. This should be done using a rolling five year average with tax payer money only used as a top up if necessary.

  5. Fine

    Let’s just take the costs of the anti slavery patrols of the Royal Navy in the late 19th century out of the calculation

  6. “We need to elect someone who looks reasonably plausible in a suit, because they’ve just elected Starmer and Lammy. It’s our best chance ever!”

  7. I have an idea that might work. Slaves were ‘stolen from Africa’, so rather than trying to work out the value of all this, simply return an appropriate number of Africans to Africa.

    The UK has around 2.4 million people who are ‘black, black British, Caribbean or African’ so let’s start with them. There’s another 1.7 million mixed/black if that’s not enough but they may cause accounting difficulties. We should probably instead start removing black people from the Caribbean and returning them to Africa instead.

  8. They can be as open to it as they like, as long as they are told – and told firmly – that the purse strings are closed.

    Unfortunately we’ll have that cretin Lammy doing the telling, and that cunt Starmer doing the virtue signalling.

  9. The argument goes like this: the labour taken from Africa 200 years ago was so valuable that it impoverished Africa for centuries.
    The fact that poorer nations have become richer in spite of being victims for centuries is conveniently overlooked (Korea, for example).

  10. These things should be handled in historic order. Once we get our reparations for the Viking invasions (Norway has a few quid lying around) and the Arab trade (ditto) we can look at the Africans.

  11. Given the way the UK is giving Diego Garcia to Mauritius and then paying them rent for the place, it’s not surprising that these bastards think now’s the time to have a go!!

  12. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

    But teach a black man to whinge, and he’ll be aggressively demanding your money the rest of his life.

  13. Of course government should make no foreign aid payments. None, except maybe a bit of tidying up of existing projects. But probably not even that.

    Next, we should leave the UN. Probably we should disband the Commonwealth too, unless somebody knows of compelling reasons to keep it going. I doubt if there are any but I’m no expert.

    Then, on grounds of treason, we should agree to jail anyone who expresses returner sentiments about the EU and anyone who chunters about our “special relationship” with the USA.

    On top of all that we should seek friendly and business-like relations with any foreign country that seems likely to reciprocate in good faith and agrees to refrain from interference in our domestic politics.

    If a genuine free trade zone can be negotiated with like-minded countries, good. But no EU-like stuff. If military alliances seem wise, negotiate some. But limited, always limited.

  14. dearime @ 9.54 “If a genuine free trade zone can be negotiated with like-minded countries, good. But no EU-like stuff”.

    UK for BRICS+ it is then!

  15. dearieme

    If we did this, The UK would be turned into a non-aligned country that would be reduced to earning a living from honest trade (when possible) or by playing the USA and China off against each other for financial and political advantage (when honest trade is not possible).

    I’m in!

  16. Bboy – as a blackfella*, you’re welcome mate.

    *I am darker than most Australian “aborigines”. Where’s my money?

    Addolff – we should, and probably will eventually, join BRICs.

    Remember all that “global Britain” shite the Tories foisted on us instead of doing anything for British people? Joining the world’s fastest growing trade zone would help us kill inflation, lower the cost of living, and get back to economic growth. Globalism that actually works.

    BRICs also isn’t trying to set itself up as an unelected government.

  17. PS – forcing our “leaders” to sit down with Putin and Xi instead of going to Washington DC to sniff Kamala’s fetid crotch would just be – ow you say? – le chef’s kiss. x

  18. That numpty Lammy, allegedly, said that, as a black man, his ancestors experienced slavery. But from which side, David? Those ancestors are said to be Bantu, after the Zulus, the most prolific slavers in Africa. If he is in favour of reparations, perhaps he should be the first one to put his hands in his pockets?

  19. Steve

    Since I’m blacker than you, I should get the dosh. (Is this because I’m black Irish or something?? Or maybe because I just need a shower.)

  20. That numpty Lammy, allegedly, said that, as a black man, his ancestors experienced slavery

    Lol, imagine bragging that your ancestors were pathetic losers who probably took it up the bum.

    Bboy – Since I’m blacker than you, I should get the dosh. (Is this because I’m black Irish or something??

    The only way to solve this is with a blackoff.

    How many times can you blame wypipo for all of your life choices in 60 seconds?

    Mark – that’s the smell of Coconut Joy.

    (And also piss.)

  21. Although I identify as a HongKonger, and demand compensation for the unequal treaties, I also have one Jewish great-great-great-grandmother, so demand compensation for the Babylonian exile and the Egyptian slavery. GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE.

  22. In case the you sold slaves gets tricky they are also claiming climate change reparations as Brits were responsible for the industrial revolution

  23. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

    Give a man a poison fish and you feed him for the rest of his life

  24. UK for BRICS+ it is then!

    Lol, ffs. Whatever BRICS is trying to be it isn’t a free trade zone. It should tell you something that Milei wanted nowt to do with it.

  25. @dearieme – “…On top of all that we should seek friendly and business-like relations with any foreign country that seems likely to reciprocate in good faith and agrees to refrain from interference in our domestic politics.”

    So you want a policy more isolationist than North Korea? Remember that one of the huge advantages of capitalism is that it encourages trade involving parties that hate each other.

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