Of course not. That would shatter their illusion that only white people were involved in the slave trade. They conveniently forget those black tribes who captured and sold other black people into slavery.
Britain sends millions of pounds a year to fund the Caribbean countries, to help with Economics, Education, Infrastructure, to reduce Crime and much more so if with all the help they are getting in aid and support why is nothing any better.
They want more money from us despite all we have done for them. Ungrateful. We should cut all aid to countries that demand reparations off them. See how quickly they grovel for help again.
Wasn't the Caribbean Nations founded by pirates ? . Tortuga was a major centre and haven of Caribbean piracy. these was not white people by the way or Europeans ! .
They are bone idle and expect hand outs. What shameless opportunists. So the Caribbeans who are British citizens here will have to use THEIR tax money to fund the reparations to their own people??🤔
Ok, so the UK can then demand reparations from Germany for ww1 and ww2 and the millions of British people who died in those wars. We demand 200 trillion in cash please! THIS SITUATION IS RIDICULOUS.
60 million odd died in WW2 alone. Karl Marx and his kind are responsible for the loss of 100 million lives. More than 1.5 million were enslaved by North African Barbary pirates alone, taking whole villages of the south coast of England and Ireland alone. The biggest profiteers in this grisly trade were Africans themselves. They are the wealthy African families of today.
Why stop there, let’s ask for reparations from the French for the Norman invasion, the Scandinavian counties for the Viking invasions and the Italians for the Roman occupation. We could be quits in!
The idea of inherited debt or inherited guilt is insane. You cannot blame the now living for something their great great great great great ancestors did or maybe not do.
@@anubisofearth4018right. So those West Africans who sold their fellow enslaved Africans to Europeans, and on the east coast sold them to Arabs, became wealthy, whilst getting rid of their rival tribes. So, by logic, Africans also became wealthy. This assisted some tribes to become stronger and gain more territory. Reparations are also due from Africa!
When I was born in the UK the population was around 50 million. 50 years later it was a bit more. In the Caribbean the pop growth is massive. A doctor told us it was not uncommon for a woman to have 15 kids in Haiti. They want the Europeans to pay for it. It would be the equivalent of England having 250 to 300 million people today.
They need to stop asking as we were not responsible for stuff that happened in 1400 and something that started in Africa and continues in Africa as well as Carribbean countries. Why should we pay for what their government is doing to them now? If we paid it would not go to the families it will go to the government!! Funny how they ignore the fact the English abolished the slave trade!!
My father gave his life at the tender age of twenty nine defending this once great country in WW11, so can I claim for being without a father that had a full effect on my life as a child. Being treated as an outsider because I was poor. This nonsense of claiming for slavery hundreds of years ago is ridiculous. Lammy is a fool. No brain whatsoever
I thought we had No money, trillions of debt, no money for winter fuel allowance, more & more taxes coming, thousands of illegal migrants pouring in by the week! Now this!! We have an Idiot steering the ship🙄
The best bit is lammy is from Guyana, South America. Not the Caribbean. More slaves went to South America than went north via Spanish colonialism. Why are Spain not being asked for reparations! A history of slavery by Thomas sowell a black man, is well worth a read.
Or the vikings and normans and. Barbarbary pirates taking over a million Europeans into slavery. That's without mentioning the amount of slaves that went to Brazil more than all of that went to north America
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. In fact, slavery was an important part of the economy of the ancient world before industrialisation. The biggest proponents of slavery were the African kings and tribes and Muslims. In fact, Africans had to be forced or bribed to give up slavery. Britain made a small percentage of her GDP from slave-produced goods; Britain did very well after she abolished slavery. Of course, the British people of the time knew nothing about slavery, they were too busy working and surviving. Over the years Britain has given billions to these countries in aid. That is enough
Let's just tell them 'OK, we pay you once we the British get reperations from scandanavia for the viking invasion as well as Italy for the Roman invasion. 😂
Some of my not too distant past relatives were slaves in Britain, only they called it indentured servitude. Most of the rest of them worked for subsistence level pay in the cotton mills of Lancashire. The reparations grifters can do one. They don't deserve one red penny. Without slavery they wouldn't have a home to live in, a car to drive, or electricity to power everything. They should be thanking the Commonwealth and the Empire without whom they would be living in squalor in a mud hut.
And not forgetting the British children who were forced to climb up chimneys to clean them, from the age of 3 yrs old! And young children forced to work in coal mines and factories. 6 days a week and 12 hour shifts. That's what our ancestors were busy doing, not dealing in the slave trade, being slaves to the government themselves. 🤬
Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the people living in a coloinized land (Caribean, America, Australia etc) are descendants of the colonizers? They Caribean government have the means to strip them of their assets and give it to descendants of the indiginous people - no? The British (and Europeans) that stayed home to build their own country (our ancestors) aren't to blame. Just as the Africans in Africa aren't to blame for the hoards of criminals flocking illegally across our borders. Now for sure, it's possible the African governments are gaining in some way due to deals with our government to bring in a foreign army/workforce/whatever. That's on the corrupt individuals in government - not on the ordinary Africans working hard to build a good country for their children.
Our King is a constitutional monarch. We democratically elected this government. Now the country has buyers remorse its at our cancer stricken kings door to sort it out?
This is so depressing. Imagine if our wonderful queen Elizabeth was still around. They tried this when she was still alive and then it fizzled. Now charles is king and starmer pm. They are rubbing their hands
@@Asilis23 ..We will never have another monarch like QE2..now we have a weak king, a woke government, and a disgraceful BBC, with NATO hellbent on death and destruction in Europe....dark days ahead for sure.
Anyone who has read a novel by Charles Dickens or seen any of the numerous films set on his books, will know that slavery in some form, e.g. serfdom, bondage etc. was the normal way of life for 90% of the world's population, including the population of Britain, up to the end of the 19th Century. Can I have some reparations from the political elite for forcing my ancestors to toil on their farms and in their stately homes, please? Time to put slavery in perspective in it's historical context and begin addressing modern forms of slavery and human trafficking that are the issues of today.
We as a country have had to be be able to get our selfs above our own class system to survive over many hundreds of years. Yet they want us to pay them ridiculous. We never had anything to do with them
UK should indicate that it will cancel the £16bn Development Aid it currently pays annually to many of these countries.. My grandparents were born about 1895, now THEIR grandparents were born about 1835, the birth of the anti slavery laws. My antecedents before 1867 could not even VOTE for these empire ventures, NOR BENEFITTED from them - unless you consider the luxury of being "slaves" to land, factory and pit owners for annually 50 weeks of 6 days of 10 hours counts.
If they want compensation perhaps they should go after the descendants of those African tribes that captured them and sold them to the west? And the west should seek reparations from the descendants of the Barbary pirates who took an estimated 1.2 million slaves from Europe, or the Ottoman empire who took an estimated 5 million?
Agreed. It was always endemic in whichever society or tribe had control or took control. Spoils of war. They’re trying to mire us down in the past so we cannot progress to deal with current slavery.
I'll point out a bulk of those islands are descendants of freed slaves that Britain freed from international trade in her War Against Slavery around the 1800s.. lest we forget England had been fighting slavery at home since the 1500s & abolishing it. It was toward the end and after the Napoleonic conflict we really put our foot down, and went to war internationally against the trade. Arabic history however predates Weatern involvement in the trade by 2000 years, & theyre still doing it today.. where are demands for reparations from The Arabs ?! Or the african states, tribes, whom sold many of these ancestors into slavery; less we forget the continent had a thriving inter tribal slave trade generations before Westerners turned up. Why is it not only Britains burden to end the trade and free your ancestors, but too to pay for it many many generations later ?!!!
I totally agree with you mate. Funnily enough, nobody talks about all that, only some BS going on from these Caribbean nations, looking at this weak labor government it's no wonder they'll try to guilt trip the fool at Downing street into giving them handouts to drink more rum & play cricket!!! The mind boggles!
We have an alledged 22billion black hole in finances , now we want to send 200 billion in reparations ?? Didn’t know we had that much money in the country. lol
Fun fact: if they claim reparations for past slavery because their ancestors were slaves it means the old slaveowners *already paid* I'm italian. Romans enslaved their own, white europeans, middle eastern people, north africans by millions and for centuries. I'm ok with giving back reparations... but who ask for it has to give back everything romans brought to them in their colonization: running water, warm water, toilets, cement, postal service, lifejackets, bridges, cities, the entire military compartment, the law and even the concept of human rights (and much more things, habits, words). Send everything to Italy, well packed, leave your human rights behind and you can have your money and your tribal lifestyle.
We have given these commonwealth countries millions in foreign aid I suggest we tell them sod off if you don't like it leave the commonwealth and we will stop paying foreign aid
Norway has 1 trillion GBP in their sovereign fund. It is about time now with the struggling economy UK is asking Norway for reparations for the Viking taking slaves on the British isles. "Historical accounts make it clear that when they raided coastal towns from the British Isles to the Iberian Peninsula, the Vikings took thousands of men, women and children captive, and held or sold them as slaves-or thralls, as they were called in Old Norse."
Let those who feel guilt, who believe that some reparations must be paid, dig deep into their own pockets and fully fund it. They would be advisable to hold back a big chunk of their wealth though, time will come when we want reparations to pay for their ‘refugees welcome’ stance
Well, in apologising he is ignoring the never ending significant sums of dollars already paid since WWII, which went through Africa, where has this money gone?! We have paid and still pay through the World Bank/ IMF and every other supporting charitable structure. if they cant manage their economic wealth, that’s their problem. Not ours. We have our own problems currently magnified through housing most of African immigration in our sovereign nation! We need the money here to support this, not in another country!
All the money's been swallowed in the giant sinkhole of corruption, where Africa reigns supreme. Just take a look at oil rich Nigeria, what a bloody mess its in.
Time Britain left the Commonwealth and the King just became head of the UK. You cant be in partnership with someone who wants to fleece you! Even worse thaey have forgotten slaves were only released because the UK agreed to pay for it!
They owe Britain for the ending of the slave, trade. Pay up Caribbean nations, you are only free because we ended the entire Atlantic slave trade over a decade, at the tax payers cost, millions of pounds and dozens of our sailors’s lives. We demand compensation!
The UK spent approx. 1% of our annual budget to police and end the slave trade. That’s around GBP 10Billion per year for 50-60 years in today’s money! Yes, around 3000 British people directly benefited from the trade, but the country, and therefore the general population, paid to end it - again, in todays money, that’s around GBP 500-600 Billion we spent to end the trade, and also at the loss of many British sailors lives!
Unfortunately David lammy our foreign secretary is being put in charge of negotiations, a man who considers himself to be Caribbean and has demanded reparations for Caribbeans.. I'm not sure which genius thought he could be impartial in the matter.
do those in the Caribbean who are after reparations ever wonder where those wonderful tarmacadam roads came from? those railways,muti storied buildings the car,the jet engine,the tv and internet,medicine that actually work? do they ever thank the white man for all this magic stuff? sub saharan Africa hadn't even invented the wheel when Europeans colonised africa,so mabe they should be paying us,otherwise, it'll be cultural appropriation. 😅😅😅😅
Any agreement for reparations MUST include the clause that ALL descendents from those nations that are living in the UK, are repatriated to those nations. If the UK is paying another nation for their reparations, then they don't belong in the UK.
To think the US paid reparations to slave owners but not the slaves will indeed remain a smudge on the red white and blue until they do the right thing and pay what is owed.
I'm not guilt tripped, These people should start holding responsible the correct people for slave trading those being the North Africans and Muslims where slavery seemed to originate
At any other time I would not be worried about this. But I just can't trust Starmer and Lammy not to pander to this. I wouldn't give them a postage stamp
There were only a tiny amount of rich families that benefitted from the atrocious slavery. There were many british people at the time campaigning against the despicable trade.
Strange how they don’t want money from the ones who sold the slaves 🙄
That's because it was their own ancestors.
@met54 Correct. They were rounded up, shackled, marched, and sold. The Arabs were worst this, and it continues today.
There was no cure for any tropical disease before 1820. So how could there be mass enslavement by the English in Africa?
Yes I was wondering that one 🤔
Of course not. That would shatter their illusion that only white people were involved in the slave trade. They conveniently forget those black tribes who captured and sold other black people into slavery.
They should be giving us money, all the aid over the years, the cheeky stupids 😂
The UK has a madman at the helm and if the trajectory we are currently on is not soon corrected, we are well and truly lost!
think charles likes him
Starmer is a success at something, he has replaced Khan as the most hated person in Britain 👍
No there pretty much kneck and kneck🥱
Reparations for Manchester 2017 please 🙏
Yes, and the grooming gangs, the multiple attacks upon our people and 7/7. And 9/11, and on it goes. Funny these hideous crimes get buried.
And wales 🙏
And Scotland 🏴
@@KarenDyker I love Scotland, love from Liverpool ❤️
I didn't vote Labour, never did, never will. This is not my responsibility.
It's not the responsibility of 80% of us. We don't need to tell the world. The world knows.
@Isa712x The exceptionally dull among us appear not to have received the message, and seem to have an urge to destroy the country.
Britain sends millions of pounds a year to fund the Caribbean countries, to help with Economics, Education, Infrastructure, to reduce Crime and much more so if with all the help they are getting in aid and support why is nothing any better.
They want more money from us despite all we have done for them. Ungrateful. We should cut all aid to countries that demand reparations off them. See how quickly they grovel for help again.
Wasn't the Caribbean Nations founded by pirates ? .
Tortuga was a major centre and haven of Caribbean piracy.
these was not white people by the way or Europeans ! .
They are bone idle and expect hand outs. What shameless opportunists. So the Caribbeans who are British citizens here will have to use THEIR tax money to fund the reparations to their own people??🤔
@@cindyfaulkner5725 corruption greed their leaders like ours
Ok, so the UK can then demand reparations from Germany for ww1 and ww2 and the millions of British people who died in those wars.
We demand 200 trillion in cash please!
THIS SITUATION IS RIDICULOUS.
60 million odd died in WW2 alone. Karl Marx and his kind are responsible for the loss of 100 million lives. More than 1.5 million were enslaved by North African Barbary pirates alone, taking whole villages of the south coast of England and Ireland alone. The biggest profiteers in this grisly trade were Africans themselves. They are the wealthy African families of today.
Germany finished paying us reparations for the war in 2005
@@geoffshaw8053lol shhhh he's on a roll!
Why stop there, let’s ask for reparations from the French for the Norman invasion, the Scandinavian counties for the Viking invasions and the Italians for the Roman occupation. We could be quits in!
No from Denmark and italy
The idea of inherited debt or inherited guilt is insane.
You cannot blame the now living for something their great great great great great ancestors did or maybe not do.
But no problem with inherited wealth tho, right?🤷🏽♂️
@@anubisofearth4018right. So those West Africans who sold their fellow enslaved Africans to Europeans, and on the east coast sold them to Arabs, became wealthy, whilst getting rid of their rival tribes. So, by logic, Africans also became wealthy. This assisted some tribes to become stronger and gain more territory. Reparations are also due from Africa!
@@mannie7028 lol, and then the slavers enslaved THEM!!! Still on you, smh.
@@anubisofearth4018 But isn't it like a gift you pay the government to receive
@@sezcam79 Not sure what you mean?
I think we are all sick to death of pathetic whining and complaining about things that happened generations ago. A strong leader would just say no.
I thought he had
Can someone please take STARMER DOWN!!
We need our own Thomas Crooks
PM Spencer Percival was assassinated in 1812.
I agree but to be replaced by………. Nobody in the labour cabinet is any good. We’re doomed!
Or out....
That doesn't seem to happen in this country. Look at poor trump
People who've never owned slaves paying people who never where slaves.That"s defently a labour policy right there.
When I was born in the UK the population was around 50 million. 50 years later it was a bit more. In the Caribbean the pop growth is massive. A doctor told us it was not uncommon for a woman to have 15 kids in Haiti. They want the Europeans to pay for it. It would be the equivalent of England having 250 to 300 million people today.
The Caribbean is essentially Africa.
We should never have shared our knowledge to the World, just shut up shop and kept it to ourselves.
We should never have given you our resources either
We're done already my friend
@@trevormcdonald385you do know you wouldn't be posting that message if it wasn't for us Brits right
The funny thing about the Caribbean is now that the British have gone the Chinese have moved in....
Good luck with that 😉
They are already n massive debt with the Chinese
@@ehilton96: Ah, now we get to the nitty gritty! They’re after the UK paying their debts to China, eh?
The Chinese will show them what racism is all about
They need the money to pay off their debts to China! Boo hoo.
The Chinese are also doing likewise with Africa.
They need to stop asking as we were not responsible for stuff that happened in 1400 and something that started in Africa and continues in Africa as well as Carribbean countries. Why should we pay for what their government is doing to them now? If we paid it would not go to the families it will go to the government!! Funny how they ignore the fact the English abolished the slave trade!!
Spot on.
My father gave his life at the tender age of twenty nine defending this once great country in WW11, so can I claim for being without a father that had a full effect on my life as a child. Being treated as an outsider because I was poor. This nonsense of claiming for slavery hundreds of years ago is ridiculous. Lammy is a fool. No brain whatsoever
I thought we had No money, trillions of debt, no money for winter fuel allowance, more & more taxes coming,
thousands of illegal migrants pouring in by the week! Now this!!
We have an Idiot steering the ship🙄
Im betting that Lammy is a fan of reparations, my taxes and ive never owned a slave going to people in the Caribbean who were never slaves.
The best bit is lammy is from Guyana, South America. Not the Caribbean. More slaves went to South America than went north via Spanish colonialism. Why are Spain not being asked for reparations! A history of slavery by Thomas sowell a black man, is well worth a read.
So, the British taxpayers should pay? Does this include Black British people from African and Caribbean heritage, or are they exempt ?
Reparations for all the decendents of slaves in our prisons please
From Rome, the Barbary coast, the Ottoman Empire, the Normans, and the French.
I was astonished to hear that Libya, a predominantly Muslim country still has open slave markets.
Thry should pay us reparations for all the inventions we made including medical research that they now benefit from.
I'm astonished this ridiculous nonsense is even being discussed.
Ditto
No one alive has ever met these people why are we paying.
Where's Britain's reparations from Italy for the ancient Roman Empire occupation ?
Or the vikings and normans and. Barbarbary pirates taking over a million Europeans into slavery. That's without mentioning the amount of slaves that went to Brazil more than all of that went to north America
We have have already paid reparations in the 1800's when we stopped slavery.
We paid them repatriations right up to 1970s. So they can take a running jump! The wallet is empty to these grifters.
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. In fact, slavery was an important part of the economy of the ancient world before industrialisation. The biggest proponents of slavery were the African kings and tribes and Muslims. In fact, Africans had to be forced or bribed to give up slavery. Britain made a small percentage of her GDP from slave-produced goods; Britain did very well after she abolished slavery. Of course, the British people of the time knew nothing about slavery, they were too busy working and surviving. Over the years Britain has given billions to these countries in aid. That is enough
Let's just tell them 'OK, we pay you once we the British get reperations from scandanavia for the viking invasion as well as Italy for the Roman invasion. 😂
Some of my not too distant past relatives were slaves in Britain, only they called it indentured servitude. Most of the rest of them worked for subsistence level pay in the cotton mills of Lancashire. The reparations grifters can do one. They don't deserve one red penny. Without slavery they wouldn't have a home to live in, a car to drive, or electricity to power everything. They should be thanking the Commonwealth and the Empire without whom they would be living in squalor in a mud hut.
Well said.
Not slavery
@@trevormcdonald385 Unpaid work, can't leave, indentured as 'property', dependence on employer for housing, bare subsistence food = slavery
And not forgetting the British children who were forced to climb up chimneys to clean them, from the age of 3 yrs old! And young children forced to work in coal mines and factories. 6 days a week and 12 hour shifts. That's what our ancestors were busy doing, not dealing in the slave trade, being slaves to the government themselves. 🤬
@@trevormcdonald385 Unpaid work, can't leave, subsistence food, unregulated working hours = slavery.
I've put a picture of starmer above the log fire,it keeps the grandkids away from the fire
This "reparation thing " might be part as a new bs movement as Portugal is facing the same demands from some ex colonies.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the people living in a coloinized land (Caribean, America, Australia etc) are descendants of the colonizers? They Caribean government have the means to strip them of their assets and give it to descendants of the indiginous people - no?
The British (and Europeans) that stayed home to build their own country (our ancestors) aren't to blame.
Just as the Africans in Africa aren't to blame for the hoards of criminals flocking illegally across our borders. Now for sure, it's possible the African governments are gaining in some way due to deals with our government to bring in a foreign army/workforce/whatever. That's on the corrupt individuals in government - not on the ordinary Africans working hard to build a good country for their children.
Britain finished paying reparations for their participation in slavery in 2015.
Don't forget, Britain was active in the abolition of slavery.
Weak monarchy has no interest in the future of this country
Our King is a constitutional monarch.
We democratically elected this government. Now the country has buyers remorse its at our cancer stricken kings door to sort it out?
This is so depressing. Imagine if our wonderful queen Elizabeth was still around. They tried this when she was still alive and then it fizzled. Now charles is king and starmer pm. They are rubbing their hands
@@Asilis23 ..We will never have another monarch like QE2..now we have a weak king, a woke government, and a disgraceful BBC, with NATO hellbent on death and destruction in Europe....dark days ahead for sure.
FGS. Nothing to do with the monarchy!
Anyone who has read a novel by Charles Dickens or seen any of the numerous films set on his books, will know that slavery in some form, e.g. serfdom, bondage etc. was the normal way of life for 90% of the world's population, including the population of Britain, up to the end of the 19th Century. Can I have some reparations from the political elite for forcing my ancestors to toil on their farms and in their stately homes, please? Time to put slavery in perspective in it's historical context and begin addressing modern forms of slavery and human trafficking that are the issues of today.
We as a country have had to be be able to get our selfs above our own class system to survive over many hundreds of years. Yet they want us to pay them ridiculous. We never had anything to do with them
Try telling a pensioner whose about to freeze to death this winter that they benefited from slavery. 😂😂😂😂
UK should indicate that it will cancel the £16bn Development Aid it currently pays annually to many of these countries..
My grandparents were born about 1895, now THEIR grandparents were born about 1835, the birth of the anti slavery laws.
My antecedents before 1867 could not even VOTE for these empire ventures, NOR BENEFITTED from them - unless you consider the luxury of being "slaves" to land, factory and pit owners for annually 50 weeks of 6 days of 10 hours counts.
Starmer will end up giving Barbados money.
then change the wording of 'foreign Aid ' to Reparations'....there. fixed it.
We ask back for all the money we've given in foreign aid.
If they want compensation perhaps they should go after the descendants of those African tribes that captured them and sold them to the west? And the west should seek reparations from the descendants of the Barbary pirates who took an estimated 1.2 million slaves from Europe, or the Ottoman empire who took an estimated 5 million?
Slavery didn’t start with black people, so how far shall we go back?
Agreed. It was always endemic in whichever society or tribe had control or took control. Spoils of war. They’re trying to mire us down in the past so we cannot progress to deal with current slavery.
"Queen Elizabeth III" ???
My only concern is we've got Starmer in charge.
If I had a tool that was made by Sir Keir Starmer's dad and that now was faulty, I assume that Sir Keir should pay for the fix???
I’m thinking you’re being sarcastic? If so, agreed!
Is 'Queen Elizabeth the Third' the host's nickname for Charles? 0:22
I'll point out a bulk of those islands are descendants of freed slaves that Britain freed from international trade in her War Against Slavery around the 1800s.. lest we forget England had been fighting slavery at home since the 1500s & abolishing it. It was toward the end and after the Napoleonic conflict we really put our foot down, and went to war internationally against the trade. Arabic history however predates Weatern involvement in the trade by 2000 years, & theyre still doing it today.. where are demands for reparations from The Arabs ?! Or the african states, tribes, whom sold many of these ancestors into slavery; less we forget the continent had a thriving inter tribal slave trade generations before Westerners turned up. Why is it not only Britains burden to end the trade and free your ancestors, but too to pay for it many many generations later ?!!!
I totally agree with you mate. Funnily enough, nobody talks about all that, only some BS going on from these Caribbean nations, looking at this weak labor government it's no wonder they'll try to guilt trip the fool at Downing street into giving them handouts to drink more rum & play cricket!!! The mind boggles!
If any British Government would bow to this it'd be this one. It is weak and that is what the grifters sense.
Exactly. KS & cohorts have totally lost the script.
Britain dragged itself back from bankruptcy and debt after WWII. Why can't the Caribbean?
The Labour party or an absolute embarrassment. The whole world can see it.
If we do end up paying reparations to the Caribbean nations will that mean all their people who came over here since the 50's would go back?
No money will be paid, as that would bankrupt the UK, so end of.
No fella
If only!
We have an alledged 22billion black hole in finances , now we want to send 200 billion in reparations ?? Didn’t know we had that much money in the country. lol
Fun fact: if they claim reparations for past slavery because their ancestors were slaves it means the old slaveowners *already paid*
I'm italian. Romans enslaved their own, white europeans, middle eastern people, north africans by millions and for centuries. I'm ok with giving back reparations... but who ask for it has to give back everything romans brought to them in their colonization: running water, warm water, toilets, cement, postal service, lifejackets, bridges, cities, the entire military compartment, the law and even the concept of human rights (and much more things, habits, words).
Send everything to Italy, well packed, leave your human rights behind and you can have your money and your tribal lifestyle.
We have given these commonwealth countries millions in foreign aid I suggest we tell them sod off if you don't like it leave the commonwealth and we will stop paying foreign aid
THE GOVERNMENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE
Norway has 1 trillion GBP in their sovereign fund. It is about time now with the struggling economy UK is asking Norway for reparations for the Viking taking slaves on the British isles.
"Historical accounts make it clear that when they raided coastal towns from the British Isles to the Iberian Peninsula, the Vikings took thousands of men, women and children captive, and held or sold them as slaves-or thralls, as they were called in Old Norse."
What interest would we get from the Dane geld that was paid?
Someone make sense of all this, it makes me sick
Your not wrong Kevin.
Lazy people always demand money.
Let those who feel guilt, who believe that some reparations must be paid, dig deep into their own pockets and fully fund it. They would be advisable to hold back a big chunk of their wealth though, time will come when we want reparations to pay for their ‘refugees welcome’ stance
And the most disgraceful thing will be watching the King capitulate to this kind of garbage.
This may mark the end of the monarchy.
How do you know this? You don't, so be quiet!
Well, in apologising he is ignoring the never ending significant sums of dollars already paid since WWII, which went through Africa, where has this money gone?! We have paid and still pay through the World Bank/ IMF and every other supporting charitable structure. if they cant manage their economic wealth, that’s their problem. Not ours. We have our own problems currently magnified through housing most of African immigration in our sovereign nation! We need the money here to support this, not in another country!
All the money's been swallowed in the giant sinkhole of corruption, where Africa reigns supreme. Just take a look at oil rich Nigeria, what a bloody mess its in.
We want reparations from Rome from France from Vikings and Germanic tribes were do we stop jeez
Africa should pay reparations to black people. End of
Totally. Both from west and east Africa, where the Arabs took them.
Reparations for rap music please.
Time Britain left the Commonwealth and the King just became head of the UK. You cant be in partnership with someone who wants to fleece you! Even worse thaey have forgotten slaves were only released because the UK agreed to pay for it!
He needs asking if he got backstage at swifts concert....
Then that would explain him moving three pictures because he went three times
In the not too distant future, when community leaders are running downing street, all of the portraits and our history will be removed.
Can we get reparations for the loss of the UK right NOW! 😵
Spot on I agree with you answer is no!
Great to see all our global communities making their contribution towards international cultural enrichment.
They are more bothered about giving money to other countries, or for themselves, UNREAL
They owe Britain for the ending of the slave, trade. Pay up Caribbean nations, you are only free because we ended the entire Atlantic slave trade over a decade, at the tax payers cost, millions of pounds and dozens of our sailors’s lives. We demand compensation!
The UK spent approx. 1% of our annual budget to police and end the slave trade. That’s around GBP 10Billion per year for 50-60 years in today’s money! Yes, around 3000 British people directly benefited from the trade, but the country, and therefore the general population, paid to end it - again, in todays money, that’s around GBP 500-600 Billion we spent to end the trade, and also at the loss of many British sailors lives!
Unfortunately David lammy our foreign secretary is being put in charge of negotiations, a man who considers himself to be Caribbean and has demanded reparations for Caribbeans.. I'm not sure which genius thought he could be impartial in the matter.
Lammy is a fool, nothing of any sense comes out of his mouth.
do those in the Caribbean who are after reparations ever wonder where those wonderful tarmacadam roads came from? those railways,muti storied buildings the car,the jet engine,the tv and internet,medicine that actually work? do they ever thank the white man for all this magic stuff? sub saharan Africa hadn't even invented the wheel when Europeans colonised africa,so mabe they should be paying us,otherwise, it'll be cultural appropriation. 😅😅😅😅
Looks like the taxes are going through the roof. Why does everyone think the UK is responsible for everyone living in the Caribbean.
Any agreement for reparations MUST include the clause that ALL descendents from those nations that are living in the UK, are repatriated to those nations.
If the UK is paying another nation for their reparations, then they don't belong in the UK.
To think the US paid reparations to slave owners but not the slaves will indeed remain a smudge on the red white and blue until they do the right thing and pay what is owed.
We should be thanked by these nations for helping to eradicate slavery at great expense to our country
I'm not guilt tripped, These people should start holding responsible the correct people for slave trading those being the North Africans and Muslims where slavery seemed to originate
Starmer is stripping his own country without any shame, whilst he busy giving money out to other countries.
The only people who should pay reparations who have families who were directly involved.
Labour has no intention of sorting out the migration issues.
The migrants are KS's next huge vote bank, why would he kill that! Its as simple as that.
Queen Elizabeth 3rd?
Not zillions but trillions you can not make it up jeez
You elect idiots to office anywhere you get idiotic ideas. Its not difficult to fathom out?
Usual lot demanding more free stuff
What about Armenia getting reparations from Turkey and us getting reparations from Italy. It's crazy.
Does Britain get reparations from the Romans for their empire? The Normans for the 1066 brutality? *Nope.*
Don’t you mean Queen Elisabeth 2nd!!
At any other time I would not be worried about this. But I just can't trust Starmer and Lammy not to pander to this. I wouldn't give them a postage stamp
Surely that ship sailed long ago.
There were only a tiny amount of rich families that benefitted from the atrocious slavery. There were many british people at the time campaigning against the despicable trade.
shouldn't they be paying us for stopping the slave trade
I had my share ready but it was slowly reduced to nothing as I compensated myself for their net negative behaviour and influence in the U.K
Tell them where to go
I’ll stop paying tax the day this happens