Calls for UK to pay slavery reparations grown louder in recent years

[@MrLaking123]

we shouldn't need to pay it isn't our fault

[@theloniousm4337]

Not your fault but it is your money. Beats working.

[@jessieb7290]

It’s history. Paying for being human is insane. The whole world is woke

[@Minecrafthunt-r6t]

😂​@@theloniousm4337

[@SusanJackson-k4z]

@@MrLaking123 and what about there own people who sold people into slavery are they going to ask them for money l think not

[@steveworth56]

It is the English who abolished the slave trade. What about reparations from the Arab slave trade.

[@lilacer6841]

Yes that too

[@woodngames]

@@lilacer6841 don't forget the asian slave trade the where 100 times worse than a european slave trade ,by far.

[@Abby-yj9zh]

they also wanted slavery in the beginning.

[@garethkalum8297]

​@@Abby-yj9zh literally every nation on earth has had slaves.

[@Ollybus]

And the Portuguese, French, Germans, Spanish plus African tribes selling members of other African tribes to the Arabs. Let’s have the truth.

[@Orcbotbasher]

Funny that none of these people mentions that slavery is still very much alive & well in Africa. Long after Britain abolished it & made others follow suit.

[@neilw.3012]

It's international communism race grifting.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

We will need repatriation from the Barbary Slave Trade.

[@garethkalum8297]

Nobody mentions the slavery the British subjected to by the Barbary pirates.

[@pcg1276]

There’s a big difference between slavery, the buying and selling of human beings, and indentured labour.

[@1milliondogs]

​@@pcg1276 Not to the person that's being forced to work.

[@dmonty4354]

People that have never been slaves, wanting money from people that have never owned slaves. Moronic.

[@seangallagher8233]

Nah. It's the media presenting it as if it isn't moronic, that's the moronic part,..... but, that is their job, after all

[@Andrew-p8w]

Do I get reparations been slaved by various governments over my life.

[@apache7478]

Shut up. No nothings!

[@thedave7760]

@@seangallagher8233 The media have to prepare the public for what is coming so they will have more acceptance when it is implemented.

[@dmonty4354]

@@apache7478 I know how to spell the word Know. 🤡

[@mikehughes9836]

Can't believe the media are covering this, it's just a huge joke

[@wendyevans3272]

It’s to take the heat off Starmer.

[@mikescott2099]

Not real media, sky news

[@ieeba999]

Woke media have more power over the government than the people do.

[@guitarman704]

Not if your taxes are going to pay for it.

[@jackspring7709]

Its worse than that. These same media outlets aren't even covering the re-emergence of the slave trade in black Africans in Libya. It was reintroduced by ISIS after they took over the country. Captured Africans are sold in open markets for the equivalent of $400. Those who don't get a buyer are normally killed. Our media outlets were all over Libya pushing the case for the overthrow of Gaddafi: they got it - and now they don't want to know or care about the place.

[@jaybee7291]

Imagine wanting free money for never once being a slave.......wtf????

[@rewdwarf123]

Amazing how that trauma can be passed down several generations...

[@evgeniam685]

its collective karma catching up.

[@rewdwarf123]

@@evgeniam685 It's not catching up because they're not getting anything.

[@chrishateley5582]

​@@rewdwarf123I reckon they will. Our government is spineless. They'll cave.

[@martinjackman2943]

@@evgeniam685 Karma is not collective ...it concerns individual souls.

[@noisyneighbour3317]

So people who have never been slaves are demanding 'reparations' from people who have never owned slaves. What a nonsense. Move along.

[@johnbobson1557]

Don't say that as many Caucasians were slaves of Imperial Rome etc and the Tatars raided the Steppe for centuries! Clue in the group of people called Slavs. We can all jump on the cash cow...

[@JTV84]

@@johnbobson1557 but wanting something for nothing isn't part of our culture.

[@lavernelesznik6750]

@@noisyneighbour3317 then don’t stand for it! Stand up!

[@manoo422]

Starmer will agree on your behalf...

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

The madness of wokism.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

And the replies of F-OFF have grown even louder.

[@liontamer8961]

Rightfully so.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

and also 'go back home' . . . .

[@chrisc2116]

To hell with this nonsense.

[@TheChrisheath7]

Utter bollocks. Just part of the plot to tank western economies.

[@jessieb7290]

Right! This so disturbing and this is the fool we’re left with. Starmer has no balls!

[@hiramabiff225]

I bet Abraham Lincoln is turning in his grave. All those white people who lost their lives fighting for the abolition of slavery.

[@heudu7h3brudi]

Of course people want free money.

[@theloniousm4337]

Hey, it beats working. No harm in asking.

[@vall2633]

But Jewish people are still being paid for what happened to them in the holicast and other people, so why have black people still not being paid? but slave master ancestors like David Cameron's ancestors were paid for ending the slave traid and are still benefiting off of it now, so they need to pay up okay? It's not free money okay? It's compensation for the wickedness that our ancestors of slavery are still suffering from now.

[@veronicagomezdeemiliani4481]

Appalling comment.

[@EmpiricalMind]

​@@veronicagomezdeemiliani4481 But incredibly accurate, jog on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@rewdwarf123]

@@veronicagomezdeemiliani4481 How exactly is it earned money?

[@crazystarwarsguy1006]

Refer them to the 1833 Act of Parliament then direct them to the West African countries who exported slaves from their local markets.

[@foodofdasoul]

So, 300+ years of profiting from the trade should just be ignored, after compensating those who owned enslaved people, with payments ending in 2015. Let's not forget the Berlin Conference in the 1890s (after 1833) which Britain gladly took part in along with France, Belgium etc., to divide up and continue to extract from the African continent. Convenient...

[@crazystarwarsguy1006]

@@foodofdasoul Britain went to war with African tribes who had been slave trading for centuries .. Anglo-Ashanti Wars and stopped them exporting slaves . Check out "The West Africa Squadron.!

[@kierancaldwell3442]

​@foodofdasoul no, it shouldn't be ignored, but also shouldn't he revenged. Those behind the slave trade are dead, their victims are also dead

[@denisburgess2966]

They were slaves in their own countries before they came to the UK and it was England that abolished slavery and the government's of the countries they came from should pay reparations to any of their descendants and not the UK.

[@vall2633]

Uk started the slave trade and still living off the money their ancestors received for ending it okay? So they should pay up because they are still suffering from trauma because of what happened to their ancestors, just like they paid the jews for what happened to them during the holocaust.

[@ronmatthews1738]

Not only that, but they have been given countries with power, water, sanitation, health and transport infrastructure. Their incomes and standard of living is much higher than they could have expected in Africa. But rather than get on and work, they prefer to beg for money.

[@lavernelesznik6750]

@@denisburgess2966 There would have never been a slave trade if f the Tribal Chiefs hadn’t sold them! That is the truth

[@20chocsaday]

There are slaves queuing up to get a rubber boat so they can work to death in Britain. Or be worked.

[@vall2633]

​@@ronmatthews1738racist remark

[@domichall666]

Stop the foreign aid as well.

[@woodngames]

Hi 5 on that .

[@BrianWaugh-fy4wh]

Correct, we should stop all foreign aid completely and spend the money in the UK instead.....on British people for a change.

[@LMC5690]

We owe them NOTHING

[@lavernelesznik6750]

Ridiculous! We owe no one a thing

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

They owe us for nicking OUR Lands ....

[@eonitawhitfield5734]

If they want reparation go to the people who had them not the poor British tax payer, we didn't have any slaves and neither did we profit from them.

[@ChristineRead-ck1uq]

True. Just 3,000 British people had slaves - but outside this country. Around 0.015% of the then population. So 99.9% didn't have anything to do with the slave trade. Let the aristocratic families, who did own plantations in the West Indies, pay it off.

[@foodofdasoul]

I wonder why the British government compensated the owners of enslaved people, not those enslaved, with repayments of that debt ending in 2015 🤔 Didn't profit from it.... 🤣🤣🤣 hilarious

[@Marcthered]

Nice to see the appreciation for all the foreign aid paid over the years ..

[@lilacer6841]

What foreign aid? Lol 😂😂😂

[@englishciderlover7347]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[@Marcthered]

​@lilacer6841 history seems to leave the foreign aid out .

[@julian987r4]

@@lilacer6841 In 2023, the UK spent £15.4 billion on foreign aid, which was 0.58% of the country's gross national income (GNI). This included domestic spending on refugees, with £4.3 billion going towards supporting refugees in the UK.

[@julian987r4]

@@lilacer6841that foreign aid!

[@Dusty2feathers]

NOT HAPPENING. The UK abolished the trade first. What right have these countries got to reparations?

[@johnbobson1557]

Think it was the Dutch but the Brits did enforce it early on throughout their Empire.

[@astraeanova4280]

​@@johnbobson1557 The Brittish also paid a hearty sum to ending slavery.

[@socratesrocks1513]

@@johnbobson1557 Nope. The first country to abolish slavery was Haiti, but that was a former slave colony and had no power. England was the next and the first empire in the history of the world to say this stops now.

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

@@socratesrocks1513 England abolished slavery in 1102

[@foodofdasoul]

So why did they compensate the owners of enslaved people, with payments from that debt ending in 2015? 🤔

[@craigredmond2761]

Why dont they ask the Africans who rounded them up and then sold them to pay up. Who gets the reparation money anyway. All the slaves are dead.

[@davidpage4005]

The same ones who end up with much of the Foreign Aid money we spend. Most of it in Swiss bank accounts or Mercedes shareholders pockets.!

[@kierancaldwell3442]

They'll pocket it all

[@richieb6273]

No reparations ever.

[@Wintermute9366]

Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan have built themselves into powerhouses through 70 years good governance, rule of law and anti corruption policies. Try giving that a go!

[@lewis9388]

Difference is these countries made effort to achieve this. The people claiming reparations are required just want a quick buck

[@aclark903]

Well Japan had Korean slaves during the war. Just saying.

[@aclark903]

@beastfootball1782 Not so sure Thailand & Indonesia & HongKong are experiencing great governance but sure they have been on the way up. Global capital seeks low wages & easily exploitable Labour.

[@ifu138]

the average intelligence needed to do this seems exclusive to certain groups...

[@aclark903]

@@ifu138 Singapore 🇸🇬 is something of a special case. City states often do better…

[@stewartwallwork6505]

Starmer could stop this in its tracks by unequivocally saying it won’t happen.End of.

[@jessieb7290]

How, he has no backbone

[@T5Zplayer]

Will these comments stay open?

[@CazzieSaint]

They can jog on ! It was the British who fought for the abolishment of slavery and were killed trying to do this.

[@Jackel7]

Biggest joke ive ever heard, should we natives go to the italians for the roman empires 500 year stay here.....come on.

[@woodngames]

That's a great idea ,of course Scotland won't be getting reperations because they didn't let them in

[@labouraredangerous]

And vikings, Norman's, saxons and the african barbary slave traders who raided our island

[@thecoffeemainiak5400]

Technically speaking almost everyone has some ancestor who was a slave somewhere in their timeline whether your black, white, or any other race. In the past most people were slaves in one form or another so almost everyone in the world is owed reparations by these peoples logic.

[@dpstrial]

@@labouraredangerous That would mean I am in for a huge amount of compensation.

[@davidlove1944]

​@@dpstrialkerching don't piss it all up the wall

[@Bevrinton]

There’s nothing to talk about and no money to be paid get over it and move on

[@sueeaston6456]

They never say Thankyou for when uk found a vaccine for Ebola when thousands were dieing uk have done loads good things for other countries

[@BrianWaugh-fy4wh]

They also never thanked Western society for all the great inventions and discoveries that have lifted them out of the Stone Age.

[@foodofdasoul]

😂😂😂 I'm sure they'd rather take ebola than 400+ years of imperial, colonial rule

[@hourbee5535]

If we did pay, will they stop complaining and let it go? I don't think so.

[@vordman]

Exactly, the problem lies with them not us. We're just too polite to point out this very obvious truth.

[@joecater894]

if we did it would open a can of worm and set a precedent. Once they pay them.. then they might have to pay for all sorts of things that happened in the past with today's British tax payers money.

[@mccabessupplementsandgym3913]

No because they always want more, it will never be enough for greedy scroungers.

[@foodofdasoul]

So why did the British government compensate those who owned enslaved people and not those enslaved? 🤔

[@foodofdasoul]

​@@mccabessupplementsandgym3913 Britain scrounged from all the nations they went to... If they had enough they wouldn't have taken... 👀

[@SirHargreeves]

Reparations have been paid. The freed people were allowed to settle the Caribbean and create their own countries. That is an extraordinary outcome under the circumstances. Anyway, where are the calls for the West African nations who sold them to pay up too?

[@ALGERIENRéfractaire]

We must approach the question of independence for Commonwealth countries with clarity and unwavering determination. It is imperative that historically colonized nations claim their autonomy and put an end to any form of dependence on the United Kingdom. Colonialism and slavery have left deep scars in the very fabric of these societies, resulting in devastating economic, social, and cultural consequences that persist to this day. The atrocities committed during colonization are not mere memories of the past, but tangible realities that affect the lives of millions. The economies of Commonwealth countries, often reduced to remnants by centuries of exploitation, cannot be rebuilt without an explicit acknowledgment of the injustices suffered. Financial reparations, in the form of billions of dollars, are essential to enable a transition to genuine economic autonomy and lasting stability. These compensations should not be seen as charity, but as a necessary restitution of the resources and wealth that were plundered. It is time for the United Kingdom to recognize its historical responsibility and take action to rectify the wrongs of the past. The dignity of the peoples of the Commonwealth demands that concrete measures be taken to support their development. This can only happen through a candid acknowledgment of the crimes of colonialism and a commitment to invest in the future of these nations. Independence cannot be genuine unless it is accompanied by adequate resources to build just and prosperous societies. The path to decolonization is fraught with challenges, but it is also an opportunity to reinvent national identities and build economies that meet the needs of their citizens. By investing in sustainable development, strengthening education, and supporting infrastructure, Commonwealth countries can finally begin to heal and thrive. The time for independence has come, and it is the responsibility of former colonizers to participate in the renaissance of these nations as sovereign entities. The moment has arrived to transform the shame of the past into a future of dignity and justice.

[@toffy1952]

They have independence and autonomy. The Commonwealth is a voluntary membership which faliciates trade between small nations who don’t have the level of monetary power to make trade deals with much larger countries outside the commonwealth.

[@chrishateley5582]

People who were never slaves demanding compensation from people who never owned slaves.

[@foodofdasoul]

Britain compensated slave owners, with the debt paid in 2015, although they didn't compensate those who were actually enslaved 👀

[@keithdavies1395]

Always out with the begging bowl, despite all the years of aid. UK 🇬🇧

[@tomanderson8896]

Any British MP who pushes for reparations in this day and age should be sent for a detailed and long history lesson about slavery over the many centuries the practice occurred, and if they still push for financial reparations from the current british and Irish taxpayers when we are struggling to make ends meet, they should be fired. The past we cannot change only improve the future. British MPs should be looking after people in Britain first and foremost.

[@emmabrooker166]

🎯

[@astraeanova4280]

They should but never do.

[@MattersOfOpinion-x4d]

Oh they are looking after people in Britain first and foremost, it is just that those people are very specifically limited to them and their families.

[@astraeanova4280]

@@MattersOfOpinion-x4d It's the Brittish people who have been paying for this since it started and now most of the money brought into the government through tax gets sent to other countries around the world and the people of this country get next to nothing back.

[@lindacoventry5220]

What about reparations for the british who were little more than serfs and slaves under their own government for centuries

[@davidlove1944]

we are again with this shower of shery hit

[@Aiden-y9g]

GO HOME WE WILL PAY FOR THE FLIGHTS

[@toekneekerching9543]

All i see here is a load of the usual victims trying to shift the blame for their own failures onto someone else.

[@marvinhunt8276]

I live in the US. No person should be held responsible for something they did not do. No person should be paid money for a crime not committed against them. My wife is biracial. She doesn't want reparations. Neither do her parents. It is pathetic.

[@Cav-z1y]

0:52 no it does not 😂. How can reparations be paid by someone who didn’t do anything to someone who was not a victim of anything Can’t believe I’m going to be forced to vote Reform UK because of one nonsense after another

[@taniacastro3862]

No way in hell I would agree to pay for “reparations for the slave trade that happened centuries ago.

[@Ollybus]

We’ve already paid so FOFF

[@foodofdasoul]

Britain compensated the people who owned enslaved people, not those who were actually enslaved, with the debt being paid in 2015. So, how exactly was the debt paid?

[@SirHargreeves]

I’m sure it isn’t nice to read your people were victims in the history books, but to dredge it all up 200 years later to make a few quid is very much a grift.

[@CJ70-]

Starmer is the worst Prime Minister ever ,we owe them absolutely nothing.

[@chrisgilling543]

Every country and every race around the world has suffered from slavery. It is not unique to only one race.

[@rolandhynd4908]

What about reparations to the UK for the huge expense of ending slavery, a debt that every tax payer before 2012 helped pay off!

[@AlOh-2]

It ENDED almost 200 years ago! Get over it!

[@windwalker583]

No it did not... UAE was last country to ban slavery and it was 1985 ban come into place in UAE yes 1985...males slaves were castrated and UAE 1985

[@juliechristie277]

Why is it always the uk what about white slaves

[@guitarman704]

Yes, the word Slave comes from Slavic. The Slavics (Europeans) were white slaves!

[@astraeanova4280]

​@@guitarman704 and the English, Scottish, Irish, all taken by the Barbery slavers.

[@foodofdasoul]

A fair point, although I'm not sure that excuses the practice that Britain gladly took part in. Being accountable, Britain compensated the owners of enslaved people, only paying it off as recently as 2015, although they made no attempt to compensate those actually enslaved.

[@guitarman704]

@@foodofdasoul Nobody alive was a slave and nobody alive had any slaves. We really can't be held accountable for dead peoples behaviour. It's ridiculous!

[@mag9604]

@@guitarman704 More s1aves today than all of the slave trades combined

[@robertcreighton4635]

Ridiculous idea. Just say no. What are they gonna do, start a war? Get to feck

[@mikehughes9836]

Just like BLM nothing makes any sense, but we still talk about it, as if there is some merit in it, THE WORLDS GONE MAD

[@Alf-Garnish]

i want reps for the viking invasion, just a few million should see me right...

[@krisradjpaul278]

What about the Arabs biggest slave traders in history.

[@jeanneb7989]

The UK gives millions in foreign aid every year to commonwealth countries - isn't that assistance more than enough?

[@foodofdasoul]

Simply put - no. Britain compensated those who owned enslaved people, without compensating those actually enslaved. The payments for this ended in 2015.

[@bondsan]

I agree with reparations, so when does Africa pay for raiding English villages to sell on the barbary coast slave markets? I want my money.

[@foodofdasoul]

Discuss that with the Arabs, although that was over 200 years into the British involvement in the trading of enslaved people.

[@bondsan]

@@foodofdasoul they came from Africa, therefore they were Africans.

[@mag9604]

​@@foodofdasoul Guess who still sells sub Saharan Africans to this day: Arabs, Moors or Europeans (hint the Europeans abolished it 200 years ago).

[@christianjohnhill]

We owe nothing they owe us.

[@AlOh-2]

The Africans should pay reparations to the British for freeing the slaves 😂

[@windwalker583]

And for millions of white slaves in north Africa sold at marjets

[@kingkonho]

No just no. Jog on. Stop slavery in Libya that's happening today .

[@fredmercury1314]

And Pakistan. The Muslims in Pakistan have been committing genocide against the Hindus, and selling the women and girls into slavery. Weird that it's not more of an issue in the MSM.

[@namei8967]

Uk should reparate them a ship ticket back Africa.

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

Er, Repatriate.

[@namei8967]

@@malcolmmitchell6529 whatever

[@foodofdasoul]

Even when incorrect, the great British arrogance is on full display 😂

[@namei8967]

@@foodofdasoul what incorrect? Eradicating slave trading and slavery in its colonies and Africa?

[@smudge0161]

Please can we have the millions of pounds in aid we sent to Africa over the years returned.

[@zoon1543]

I pay tax for immigrants will i get reparations?

[@Durka-Durka01]

Illegal immigrants*

[@adilnizam2120]

why should the current British population who do not have connection with the slave trade take the burden for something that happened years ago???

[@foodofdasoul]

Easy answer to that one: the British government compensated those who owned enslaved people, only ending the payments of the debt in 2015, and never took the time to compensate those actually enslaved, so Britain had no problem accepting responsibility for the part played, only a problem compensating the victims when taking accountability.

[@ianjones9498]

2%of our gdp was spent for decades on the anti slavery patrols so i think we should have that back from every one of them

[@JH-ck1nr]

Britain abolished slave trade and every single country through history has been involved in slavery in one way or another, especially the Middle East and Africa. Ethiopia had an estimated 10 million slaves alone and nothing to do with Britain or Europeans. Complete BS.

[@callumhawkin7511]

A lot of people are quick to bring up the UK's role in slavery, but never seem to mention the UK was one of the first to abolish it too

[@foodofdasoul]

Why not deal with the first part of your statement before ignoring it and jumping to the second?

[@jaynepoland4615]

So people who didn’t enslave anyone pay money to people who were never slaves. That is absolute madness. If this happens I will take the government to court asking for my tax back.

[@foodofdasoul]

Up until 2015, British tax players were repaying the debt taken by the British government to compensate the owners of enslaved people, although none was paid to the victims of the trade.

[@mikehughes9836]

Its like the windrush story, no one mentions that we were asked to take those people, to solve a problem they had with unemployment, and unrest

[@grahamwalker5693]

also our country needed workers as there was a shortage

[@paulsawtell3991]

Not so; these people came of their own accord to take advantage of our system.

[@fredmercury1314]

@@grahamwalker5693 No there wasn't.

[@stevejones9290]

3 million demobilised service men looking for work after the end of the war but there was a shortage of workers 😂

[@shonabeggs4640]

Pay them enough for their passage home.

[@MrJimWinter]

The most stupid thing I’ve ever heard none of us were alive at that time none of us could’ve done anything about it because we weren’t there. I think there was much more slavery in the world apart from the UK.

[@foodofdasoul]

This is what a lack of accountability looks like.

[@That_Random_Bloke]

No reparations. Not a single penny. None. End of “conversation”

[@Greenockianx]

My family made nothing out of slavery. Dirt poor through history. Go for the church of England Tate and Lyle the Crown. They made loads of money out of slavery.

[@foodofdasoul]

Very fair point, and identifying some of those who could/should be held accountable.

[@SheenaStandring-qd4kr]

So bloody sick of this

[@dandlion7748]

This argument still going on ffs..just stop it.

[@jodytooke3938]

Cool, they should pay the 40000 sailers families that ended slavery

[@johnspartan3465]

It was Africans and Arabian’s who sold them to us in the first place so make them pay, absolutely hilarious that this is even being discussed. We shouldn’t give them a damn thing

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Can I get some money for what black communities have done during notting hill etc ?

[@andreakleeneze2992]

Shame on the blacks for looking for handouts😡. This is RIDICULOUS!

[@user-nb9px9cm4p]

Talk of reparations are ridiculous. We owe nobody anything in monetary terms.

[@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty]

Totally absurd that people who were never slaves wanna be paid reparations for by people that never own slaves.

[@stevemarshall4822]

Grifters ignorant of History.

[@Nigel-Webb]

Reparations from nobody who ever traded slaves to nobody who was ever a slave… Yeah, makes perfect sense. 🙄

[@JarvoTunes]

They are grifters of the most obvious kind.

[@andybud1983]

Its unbelievable this. Why would people who werent alive pay money to other people who werent alive over something that every culture has been a part of? Its madness

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

I wonder if the 'History not being ignored' will include the West Africa Squadron, 1808 - 1867, or the Slavery Abolition Act, of 1833 ? I suspect I already know the answer to that.

[@mrhbarker]

I strongly disagree with paying reparations.

[@someoldude7578]

There he is again, traitor Starmer.

[@marianac715]

How much financial aid have these people gotten from the UK ? Including from welfare.

[@Comfortzone99]

My ancestors were not involved in slavery and probably 99% of the UK population was not either .. The English living on the streets trying to get food would have probably jumped at the chance to go to the warm West Indies pick some sugar and get regular shelter and food with it.

[@fredmercury1314]

Arguably the English at the time _were_ slaves. A lot of them ended up joining the Navy and dying in huge numbers, just to be able to get something to eat. There were people of the time who claimed that slaves in the Caribbean had it way easier than the average Englishman, in England.

[@neils4886]

The UK should pay whatever the Caribbean countries want in reparations for slavery, provided that the Caribbean countries pay the same amount plus £1 for the UK abolishing slavery (which was happening for centuries before the UK was involved in it).

[@mikehughes9836]

I want to open talks with the Romans, what did the Romans do for us, (life of Brian)

[@grahamwalker5693]

and the angles , jutes ,saxons vikings

[@foodofdasoul]

Sounds like a fair point. Shouldn't be too difficult - it'll be Europeans conversing with Europeans to find a solution. Britain was happy to do this when they compensated the owners of enslaved people rather than those actually enslaved. Doesn't negate Britain being accountable to the Africans enslaved, does it?

[@DavidMurray-f2w]

Isn’t £billions of foreign aid paid by British taxpayers enough.

[@Yellow-yd6cz]

Wtf

[@guitarman704]

We need to draw a line under this nonsense!

[@MajorMinor1970]

Beggars belief or just plain beggars?

[@davehowe3900]

Have we not already paid compensation in the amount of £20M that nearly bantrupted the country in the 1800s and only finally got paid off in the last 20 years.

[@DFzonefd]

Repatriation > reparations

[@martinholt3608]

Insanity. No one race was responsible, all were.

[@asjamuir5534]

Who are we paying it to none of them were slaves

[@yorkshireako134]

No we don’t. None of owned or were slaves.

[@warren6891]

God stop playing the victim all the time. Should we go after money for when the vikings come to Uk also.

[@demoman5934]

What about viking slavery! What about Romans slavery! Complete rubbish

[@wotintheworld]

The UK famously stopped many slave trades, africa however contined on.

[@PaulHolland-zo6lw]

Instead of asking a country who stopped it, maybe they should those countries who wanted to continue slavery first for reparations then get back to us

[@labouraredangerous]

Repatriations not reparations

[@foodofdasoul]

And the removal of Europeans who colonised those places should also take place, right, for balance? It's not a coincidence that the national language in Australia, Ghana, the USA or Nigeria is English, rather a consequence.