| This could be interesting on 12:38 - Feb 8 with 535 views | Flashberryjack |
We could do the sensible thing, like borrow trillions of £ and give it to the reparations committee to disperse the money fairly.
Oh !! how I wish for a UK government that puts the UK first. |  |
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| This could be interesting on 13:07 - Feb 8 with 524 views | Boundy |
| This could be interesting on 12:38 - Feb 8 by Flashberryjack |
We could do the sensible thing, like borrow trillions of £ and give it to the reparations committee to disperse the money fairly.
Oh !! how I wish for a UK government that puts the UK first. |
First you say ,we're not even on the list You vote in a woke government and that's what you get ,woke policies with a capital W. |  |
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| This could be interesting on 13:33 - Feb 8 with 490 views | SullutaCreturned |
If reparations are made an international law then we should go back and claim rparations from Italy for Rome, from the Scandi countries becai=use of the Vikings and from the French because of William the conqueror.
Then tell them not to bother because it's clearly silly. Why should anybody alive today have to oay for the crimes of dead people, specially when back when it happened it wasn't considered a crime.
Hey Kilky, what do you say, should the UK pay 3.9 trillion? | | | |
| This could be interesting on 14:06 - Feb 8 with 474 views | union_jack |
| This could be interesting on 13:33 - Feb 8 by SullutaCreturned |
If reparations are made an international law then we should go back and claim rparations from Italy for Rome, from the Scandi countries becai=use of the Vikings and from the French because of William the conqueror.
Then tell them not to bother because it's clearly silly. Why should anybody alive today have to oay for the crimes of dead people, specially when back when it happened it wasn't considered a crime.
Hey Kilky, what do you say, should the UK pay 3.9 trillion? |
Indeed, I don’t think there’s a Statute of Limits so let’s go get what’s ours!😁 |  |
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| This could be interesting on 22:55 - Feb 8 with 379 views | Kilkennyjack |
| This could be interesting on 13:33 - Feb 8 by SullutaCreturned |
If reparations are made an international law then we should go back and claim rparations from Italy for Rome, from the Scandi countries becai=use of the Vikings and from the French because of William the conqueror.
Then tell them not to bother because it's clearly silly. Why should anybody alive today have to oay for the crimes of dead people, specially when back when it happened it wasn't considered a crime.
Hey Kilky, what do you say, should the UK pay 3.9 trillion? |
I am amazed you have picked a side.
Well done for getting off your fence for once.
I think i am pursuaded by the limitations due to time passed.
You make a valid point.
You left the treatment of Wales by the forces of the English Crown off your list.
Your sense of history is an Anglicised view of history.
Wales was not conquered in 1066, of course. |  |
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| This could be interesting on 11:27 - Feb 9 with 313 views | SullutaCreturned |
| This could be interesting on 22:55 - Feb 8 by Kilkennyjack |
I am amazed you have picked a side.
Well done for getting off your fence for once.
I think i am pursuaded by the limitations due to time passed.
You make a valid point.
You left the treatment of Wales by the forces of the English Crown off your list.
Your sense of history is an Anglicised view of history.
Wales was not conquered in 1066, of course. |
If not for the Romans there may never have been a Wales, if this country had stayed Celtic then the whole place would maybe be called Brittania, or Britannia, whatever.
Think on that. I didn't "leave off" anything, I only added two big ones from a long way back to highlight this happened all over the world to every known region (because countries were barely a thing back then, it was kingdoms and tribal areas mostly, Italy was considered to be"Rome" and I did so to emphasise how silly this idea is. It's not an anglicised view because England did not exist back then, nor did Wales.
Wales was not conquered in 1066 but then neither was most of the island, William the Bastard needed to be crowned so before he set off around the island he tried to find a suutable bishop or similar to crown him king of England. He got around to rest of the island soon enough though, 1067 til 1081 he made half hearted attemtpts but at 1081 he got serious and by 1094 Wales was mostly under his thrall. So you can't really blame the English, blame the Normans.
Irrelevant though, this thread isbn't about your hatred of the English, it's about reparations for slavery which is still being forced on people today, who gives modern slaves reparations? Who even cares? People claim to care about those who were wronged even though they are long dead, to me it's all about the money. It's nothing but greed again. Giving the descendants on slavery money won't wipe away what happened. | | | |
| This could be interesting on 17:10 - Feb 9 with 248 views | majorraglan |
I think there’s a lot of mischief making and people with agendas trying to make more out of this than there is, but anyone who thinks we can afford or should trouser up £18tn is mental. The fact that slave owners were compensated and the slavers had nothing was wrong, but what happened 200 years ago is long in the past and let’s be honest, as some have pointed out about the Roman’s, Norman’s etc where do you draw the line?
The original 10 point plan launched by the Caribbean nations back in 2013, contained a requirement for a full formal apology as well as support for development and education. Having been to a number of islands in the Caribbean and seen the poverty a lot of people live in, there may be scope to assist with education programmes etc and even an apology because slavery is abhorrent, but that would be it. | | | |
| This could be interesting on 17:45 - Feb 9 with 217 views | SullutaCreturned |
| This could be interesting on 17:10 - Feb 9 by majorraglan |
I think there’s a lot of mischief making and people with agendas trying to make more out of this than there is, but anyone who thinks we can afford or should trouser up £18tn is mental. The fact that slave owners were compensated and the slavers had nothing was wrong, but what happened 200 years ago is long in the past and let’s be honest, as some have pointed out about the Roman’s, Norman’s etc where do you draw the line?
The original 10 point plan launched by the Caribbean nations back in 2013, contained a requirement for a full formal apology as well as support for development and education. Having been to a number of islands in the Caribbean and seen the poverty a lot of people live in, there may be scope to assist with education programmes etc and even an apology because slavery is abhorrent, but that would be it. |
We could easily apologise and make it sufficiently gorvelling to satisfy whoever it's aiimed at BUT also inclusde some woording that totally refutes any culpability for modern day Britain.
Development and education, do we send any foreign aid donw there? Anything extra such as building schools and paying for teachers, that will cost us money and if we agreed to do it, how do they raise the extra money? Or do we accept further cuts in this country? There again, maybe take it out of the current foreign aid budget? | | | |
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