The UK signed off on the Commonwealth summit statement which set out the need for “inclusive conversations” about reparations for slavery, and the need to address “chattel enslavement… dispossession of indigenous people, indentureship, colonialism” in order to move to a “future based on equity”.
So the black folk, the descendants of the slaves so cruelly transported, will have to pay repearations to the indigenous near wiped out for occupying, today, the indigenous ancestral lands.
Seems fair.
After they compensate the descendents of those poor slave owners whose property was so wickedly stolen, of course!!!!
I’ve just done a quick back of envelope calculation of the compensation owed by the descendants of slaves to the members of the Royal Navy and their families for those killed and wounded in the actions taken to end the slave trade. It’s probably a bit on the low side but it’s in the region of £327,804,692,228,101,552. I have used the inflation rates prevalent in the slave supplying countries in arriving at that figure…
When they say “Inclusive conversations”, will they include the downtrodden and oppressed buggers who’ll actually be forced to pay for this blatant theft?
If the descendants of the Africans, who started the whole thing off by enslaving other Africans, have to pay reparations, I would suggest that David Lammy may need to borrow a few quid.
Maro Itoje used to be quite vocal about this slavery malarkey.
Then someone pointed out that he, as a Nigerian…
Not heard him on the subject lately.
Millions of people were done wrong historically. Most more deserving than these.
INCLUSION:
How about all the people killed by the Inquisition?
What about the Iceni? Gamecock stands with Boudica!
If you want reparations you need to go after those who can afford to pay them. That rather lets the Mongolians off the hook for now. The best candidates might be the Norwegians – they’ve got that big sovereign wealth fund
I want compensation from the Norse and Normans for colonising my ancestors’ lands, and compensation from the Egyptians and Babylonians for enslaving my ancestors.
Whatabout that SOB James I who rounded up my Cumberland ancestors and sent them off to farm the Irish Chieftains lands?
How ’bout one Big Beautiful Check to Gamecock?
How ’bout one Big Beautiful Check to Ireland?
Again, there are vastly more people aggrieved by Albion than just black Africans, and most were more harshly aggrieved. The idea of reparations for slavery is stupid on its face. But Telegraph supports it.
What is Telegraph doing about slavery that EXISTS TODAY? Double-ought nothing.
We Neanderthals demand umpteen trillion from the homo sapiens who stole our land!
What was that you said? They are all dead because another group of hom sap killed them and stole the stolen land?
But there are still some Basques left? Can’t they pay us €1 billion each?
“Whatabout that SOB James I who rounded up my Cumberland ancestors and sent them off to farm the Irish Chieftains lands?”
That was the sissie government of the King of England. The more robust government of the King of Scotland rounded up most of the Armstrongs and hanged them.
My paternal family hailed from a small village near Hebden Bridge, my maternal ancestors were of Scandinavian stock. Who do I get reparations from for being born in The Islamic Republic of Bradistan?
Ryan, your maternal ancestors got here a bit over one millennium ago, sometime after your paternal ancestors who arrived less than two millennia ago displacing the Celts, who replaced the early hom sap who stole *my* land.
There aren’t any descendants of the mammoths to sue *us* for taking over the land from them even if the doctrine of “terra nullius” did not apply.
I can relate, dearieme.
‘The nativist idea of a rebellion is to dress up like Indians and dump tea in the ocean”the 18th-century version of frat boys pranking the archrival football team.
The redneck idea of a rebellion is to lie in wait with a shotgun for the guy who’s trying to tax your whiskey.
Rednecks are scary.’