Meet the Tory MP living off the profits of a slave plantation

Richard Drax is the MP for South Dorset, and a modern day feudal lord.
Reporter: Ed Campbell
Camera: Harry Ainsworth
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[@PoliticsJOE]

There's a car chase in here btw lads so hang around

[@SkepticalTeacher]

And lasses...?

[@garycameron1]

@@SkepticalTeacher I didn't know women watched political videos.

[@benjibeal1]

The woman who mentioned counting votes raised something really interesting. It sounds like He was orally campaigning in a polling station, which could potentially be an offense depending on what he talks about!

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@garycameron1 I do! I was surprised to see his audience described as “predominantly men” on the BBC lol

[@eddjordan2399]

that was possibly the best low sped car chase iv ever seen. that grounds keeper came across well. lol.

[@njharper1983]

My wife has traced her family's lineage to slaves owned by Drax. When we visited Barbados we snuck on to the Drax estate, to stand where countless of her ancestors toiled, died and were buried, in un-marked graves. The place feels cursed by the blood its built on. The current Drax won't even allow access to the land for archeology to be done. Doesn't want the litteral bodies to be uncovered. Makes me sick.

[@slartibartfast2649]

What can I say...power stays in the same hands for a long time. Beneath the surface the same old faces are still very much running the show. I know that what has happened in the past is awful and worth talking about and learning from, but what about all those with money invested in Apple, Nike etc. who are actually supporting semi-slavery to this day?

[@equaliser2265]

Oh that's a shame.

[@nojamieleedonttouchmyyoutube]

He needs to give it back free of charge with an apology. Nasty tiny little hard hearted man will go straight to hell.

[@Paul-rm9ev]

@@slartibartfast2649 Leaving aside the sheer evil of of slavery, what also concerns me is that Drax is clearly still supported by the electorate. With his family history and vested interests how can he represent ordinary people and why in God's name do they vote for him?

[@highdefinitionstanleytm9614]

Awwwww poor you. Stop being a victim.

[@bobshuwab1988]

Just imagine if the BBC were to pursue stories like these...

[@davidsmith5523]

The tories won't allow it. Imagine blaming the BBC.

[@kaitlyn__L]

They’re so scared of being accused of being “anti right wing” they literally refuse to touch any stories or vocabulary first broached by progressive publications. Only the Mail and the Times are suitable places for the BBC to pick up a story from 🙄 They even scrapped internal plans to say “climate crisis” after the Guardian started doing it!

[@starling86]

Here, here

[@danielcrafter9349]

​@@starling86- "hear, hear!" As in "now hear this!"

[@oneoflokis]

Would be interesting...

[@jacobb7379]

I was born in this constituency. Some of my earliest memories are driving past it and the wall of his estate is virtually never ending

[@LambsyLamb]

The people of this constituency haven't exactly benefitted from Drax's good fortune, have they?

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Apparently it's the longest brick wall in the country.

[@dylanwilson7544]

me too! It was always a wonder to me but now it just fills me with disgust

[@oneoflokis]

Sounds sinister!

[@Trebor74]

Sounds like an impressive building. Be interesting to see

[@caroltodd6691]

strange how you never get a poor Tory MP

[@MrPatch25]

Grow up

[@TristanBanks]

@MrPatch25 part of growing up is realising the tories are literally the opposite of everything they and their media says they are.

[@alanbest9328]

Or liebor for that matter

[@keithpanton7486]

@@alanbest9328 Labour have MPs who refuse to take the full salary, because they feel it's immoral to take so much more than their constituents. Tory MPs complain that a quarter million is chickenfeed.

[@alanbest9328]

@@keithpanton7486 name them,

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

A family so vile Ian Fleming named a bond villain after them

[@92RedRevolver]

Tbf, Blofeld is named after Henry 'Blowers' Blofeld, the cricket commentator, who has never seemed so bad...

[@AndySV25]

And Goldfinger after the architect Erno Goldfinger because of one building he didn't like

[@georgedonaldson1516]

Drax was the villain in Moonraker

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

@@92RedRevolver not true actually. Blofeld was based on Henry Blofeld’s father, Thomas Blofeld. He and Iain Fleming went to school together.

[@zanytwinmagnet2681]

😂 That was my first thought. Didn't realise there were real Draxes too.

[@Pobotrol]

People love a bit of evil as long as it's confident and wears a nice suit.

[@cheekyboy5000]

They love a privately educated posh white man. It's like catnip to some people.

[@leonhenry4861]

Facts

[@oneoflokis]

Worse luck! 😏

[@eileencorcoran3057]

Unbelievable

[@jamesgravil9162]

"People love a bit of evil as long as it's confident and wears a nice suit." And has the right accent. Upper-class English accent: okay. German, Italian or Russian (especially if it has a moustache): not okay.

[@robertlock6041]

He's my MP. You can imagine how I feel about this... The rumour is that he won't stand at the next election, thankfully.

[@bobbiecapewell5333]

I hope he doesn't, Dorset has really fallen. The neglect is very noticeable and it's becoming far too expensive to live in a place with very little work.

[@bobblue_west]

Do you feel the same way about the antisemitic and white hating Labour MPs?

[@robertlock6041]

@@bobblue_west If your comment is intended for me, I would not support any member of Parliament who voted for or who supports Brexit.

[@anne-mariemarshall]

​@@bobblue_west Spot the deluded Tory 😂😂😂

[@Le_Petomane]

@@bobblue_west You want some gammon with those chips on your shoulder?

[@eyesopen7946]

People voted for him much the same as they did for Boris Johnson , I would never vote for a Tory and especially one with 3 mile wall around there estate

[@JimmothyGibbons]

People don't vote for mp like this. They've already won with donations and money.

[@petermilburn1214]

Can you let me know any political party you can vote for and trust because I don't know any. They will bring in CBDC which will give the government total control over every individual person. Don't believe me it's modeled on the system used in China but this will be world wide!

[@AndrewHawkes-uj5ux]

Gangsters in suits

[@TheRealDeal130]

Demons in human form.

[@PerryUK]

I guarantee he believes he has worked hard & deserves to own & earn what he does. These people are as inherently callous & deluded as they are wealthy

[@JamesBrown-ob9mh]

That is very well said. Also as he has benefitted from Black slaves trafficked from the carribean, he might like to take migrants out of hotels at the huge cost to the tax payer and house them there. But hey not in my backyard isnt that right Drax. I wonder if his wealth was made from the Holocaust would he still be so arrogant and shameless.

[@martinmcgowan4591]

I thought the prossess of crime can be sized by the law

[@wolfganghendery8298]

I bet he moans about single mothers on benefits being 'parasites'

[@PerryUK]

@@martinmcgowan4591 One rule for them, one for the rest of us

[@Goady1000]

​@Martin Mc Gowan it wasn't a crime at the time, that's not how that law works

[@peacehope7365]

I recently heard the expression - 'behind every great fortune is a great crime' So true.

[@FAMEROB]

what crime did Elon Musk commit?

[@myce-liam]

@@FAMEROB Not neccessarily commited crimes, just an immoral serial liar and vaporware salesman. He loves taking credit for other peoples work too. He doesn't pay any taxes either. He's full of shit basically.

[@bostocked]

Beautiful beautiful bit of journalism here guys ❤🔥

[@mrdaveythebaby]

If you're not responsible for the actions of your ancestors, you also shouldn't derive any benefit from their actions.

[@holdtightadele8017]

What do you mean “if”. How possibly can one be responsible for something that we out of their control and happened centuries before one’s birth. And how does being distantly related to someone make you responsible for what they did.

[@Trebor74]

Yeah,your not responsible for your parents so have no right to inherit any money earned by them by activities that were legal when they did them

[@irrationalreasoning6368]

​@@holdtightadele8017 because he continues to financially benefit from it. If he wished to distance himself from the actions of his ancestors then he'll need to stop accepting this money.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

Yes but you are forgetting one key issue. He has fucking HUGE house and loads of cash. So he isn’t going to give that up over an issue of conscience. Only Germans are expected to do that.

[@mrdaveythebaby]

@HoldTight Adele by continuing to reap the benefits of those actions, you become complicit in them. Imagine you rob a house and take everything they own. You give that money to me. I know it's been stolen, and I can see the suffering of the people who lost everything. I still decide to keep all the money for myself and ignore the suffering family who funded my life. That makes me responsible. Now imagine you stole so much from that house that the family was cast j to poverty for 4 generations, and I live in a palace and a life of total luxury. So I don't even need the money to survive because I've got a very well paid job but I like being incredibly rich. That's Drax.

[@RumblyGrumpkin]

Not enough people know about Drax and family - it's really important and I'm glad you've taken the time to put this video together. If only the larger media would report on this sort of thing.

[@chavzone]

Who do you think owns the mass media? His bestie mates like Rupert Murdoch

[@piked261]

Known about him for years..we should consider treating him the same way the Bolsheviks treated their tsar Nicholas 😁

[@eugenenoonan1886]

All part of your glorious empire.

[@hareecionelson5875]

Everyone agrees that slavery is bad. Everyone agrees that profiteering from slavery is bad. But. You are talking about multi-generational guilt. Multi-generational reparations. The way to achieve these 'reparations' is through tax. Can you catch Drax on tax evasion? if so, please do. Some people on the left wing care more about the oppression of the people in the past than they do about the oppression of people living now. They care more about historical oppression than class division, with some people it's a cult. The focus should be on current sleaze, being done by the conservatives now. Some Black communities in UK are still not on a level playing field. That means we have a broken class system with poor social mobility. I feel bad for the slaves. I feel worse for people suffering now, living people. for Christ sake, the left is supposed to be gaining support from the working class, but it's doing history documentaries.

[@piked261]

@@hareecionelson5875 you cannot fully understand the present without knowing about the past.

[@ShiftyGeeza]

As much as it pains me to say this, but his constituents thoroughly deserve him when all he has to do is point to the coast and very politely say "The Boats are coming" and they end up voting for him. And this is happening on a national scale.

[@cugal1613]

Yep 😮

[@oneoflokis]

🤮

[@ollie1317]

Ofcourse many of his constituents don't and never would vote Tory and most certainly don't deserve it!

[@matamare-zs7ui]

Stop the invasion.

[@lenwilkinson672]

@@cugal1613 And they will all vote Labour next time round.

[@ryanmurphy7976]

Like that lady said he will probably get voted in again haha majority of the British public are thick as mince that's why we are in still in this mess 13 years on

[@Le_Petomane]

Its an aging population. Meaning too late to change in their eyes.

[@InTheRhettRow]

The two strains I see are thick and easily swindled by the Daily Mail, and sinister, closet racist upper middle class that do the swindling (blame refugees for the economic downturn and get the working class to vote against their own interests)

[@david-no6xl]

keep up the good work hopefully he will give back to the people of Barbados, but won't hold my breath.

[@bingbongbingbongbingbongbi4384]

Ahahaha cry harder

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

@@bingbongbingbongbingbongbi4384supporting slavery, you sick twisted individual.

[@leehenry5764]

Doesn't own them a penny

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Lord Drax the Enslaver … sounds like a frickin supervillain …

[@queenvagabond8787]

Just what I was thinking.... 'Drax' is just an unequivocally evil name!

[@PerryUK]

He is

[@robertlock6041]

Hey Dad, who do you think the Bond villain in Moonraker was modelled on?😅

[@Barefoot_Joe]

I mean, he literally is, he's done worse things than any Bond or John Wick villain

[@kjaerdian7864]

Sounds like time for a graphic novel. Can you imagine how well that could do online if it was done well?

[@garyt.8745]

Both towns, under millionaire Tory councillors, have suffered abrupt, drastic, declines? Really? And is that somehow a surprise to _anybody whatsoever?_

[@matamare-zs7ui]

Both sides are controlled by the same puppet masters.

[@chorleycc]

Right, why has the the vast majority of the red wall "suffered abrupt, drastic, declines"? Tory bad ... Labour Good. When will we the people realise there is no difference between the two. We have a corrupt uni-party working for the interests of the elite whilst ignoring the interests of the majority.

[@wilfredsterling2124]

That activist hit the nail on the head when he said that Drax has everything to say about immigrants, welfare ect, and nothing to say about the welfare of his constituents. I should think this typifies the majority of the Tory MP's.

[@scoates9910]

Slaver is the definition of Tory

[@vincain5273]

The image of Drax and Mogg eating ice cream is strangely emblematic of the peculiar childishness that coddled upper class people embody lol.

[@PaulNigelWarner]

My mother's family were born on Draxhall in Barbados and worked on the plantation in St George.

[@matamare-zs7ui]

Have you thanked him for giving your family work, yet? And securing a place for you in this country?

[@naveedakhtar634]

@@matamare-zs7uithats like thanking isis for lee rigby

[@alanlangshaw318]

The question is, WHO VOTES FOR THIS MAN??

[@Levenstone132]

Are they voting for him or just turning up to tug their forelocks?

[@adamlee3772]

Forelock tugging. That’s all it is.

[@Levenstone132]

@@adamlee3772 Exactly. Just spotted my typo too. Cheers!

[@adamlee3772]

@@Levenstone132 not really. My phone did autocorrect on my spelling. I usually miss the “E” too 😂

[@stephenjon3502]

Not many ethnics in South Dorset. Lovely people on Portland - 🖖🏻

[@chrisyarnold6205]

You dont need Photo ID in Dorset to vote, a tug of the forelock counts as a Tory vote there!

[@VictorCharlesEvans]

If the people of his constituency SOUTH DORSET ARE DECENT PEOPLE, THEY WOULD VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE!!

[@stevenbaker3593]

Ian Fleming named one of his villains after his father.

[@Barefoot_Joe]

Interesting, I never knew there was a Bond Villain called Evil C**T

[@oneoflokis]

​@@Barefoot_Joe 😂

[@markrogers6601]

​@@Barefoot_Joe 😂😂😂😂😂. You win best comment as far as I'm concerned.

[@guyforceuk]

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

[@guyforceuk]

@@theotherone8036 Ridiculous? what i said is a fact. Are you a half human who just finished school? this is adult stuff. scram kid.

[@guyforceuk]

@@theotherone8036 I am Banksy. I have to hide my face.

[@eatshtanddie4168]

Unfortunately it's human nature to ignore or forget history. We will see much of history repeated.

[@guyforceuk]

@@eatshtanddie4168 Ignorance is only bliss until it affects your life, like lower wages, everything costing more, less rights, less employment rights. Private companies having more control over countries than people who vote do. Ignorance has worked out great.

[@eatshtanddie4168]

​​@@theotherone8036 aww, how are you sweety, did someone hurt your little feeling's with facts, so sad. 😭

[@Notalloldpeople]

I’d be interested to know how much compensation the Drax family received from the taxpayer when they were forced to give up (badly) treating human beings as property

[@cafesociety8525]

My brother is a builder and did a bit of work at the drax estate in Dorset. As you enter through the front door there is a large picture depicting the way slaves were packed into the ships. Like some architectural plan.

[@belln700]

Shocking 😮

[@grizcuz]

Ironic that he's against migrants. His family have a long history of supporting economic migration, but with all the cash they made went into his family's pockets. I bet if he could legally import slaves into the UK today, he'd be following in his ancestors footsteps once again.

[@benowen8321]

Ironic you think that as you have family members that existed that don't think that. HOW IRONIC.

[@grizcuz]

@@benowen8321 How do you know what my family members think or don't think? I'm honestly struggling to comprehend whatever it is that you're attempting to opine. Perhaps you could try and add a well placed comma or two next time, to hopefully improve the clarity of whatever your point is.

[@benowen8321]

@@grizcuz I am sure someone with a brain the size of yours will be able to decipher the meaning of my reply.

[@zk1479]

Justice may be slow but it never fails. Drax your time has come.

[@PpPp-ku4sy]

What's he done ?

[@oneoflokis]

​@@PpPp-ku4sy Lots of evil.

[@TransformerMusic]

Just fails a lot. I have more faith in guillotines.

[@shtarpark7938]

'Justice' is a human concept. If we want to have a just society, we have to act as a just society, not console ourselves with fairy tales. There's no external force magically balancing things out...or at least, if there is, it's demonstrably ineffective. Injustice thrives when people assume that 'somehow, some day' there'll be a reckoning, instead of actually holding people to proper account.

[@jonbell3020]

I wish I was as idealistic as you my friend.

[@robinmcara8456]

This is dreadful. What a disgusting history we have. This is a moment of great shame for Britain. Reparations are the least Drax can do. Shameful stuff.

[@BusyBrittain]

The history of the earth until very recently is either dominate or be dominated. Its human nature, theres nothing especially worse about Britain apart from they benefitted geographically for this.

[@framethis]

and your national anthem that ye all sing out loud Rule Britania ,Britania rules the waves......Such hypocrisy.

[@r8chlletters]

Why didn’t anyone shine a light on his family history when he ran for mp?

[@vadusnisky]

I remember a channel 4 documentary about someone who was researching the history of slavery in Britain, He discovered that 80% of the current sitting house of lords were the descendants of people who had made their fortunes from the use of slavery.fact.

[@user-SubvurzIV]

If you can dig that documentary up on KZbin or remember the name of it that would be really appreciated! Have a good night man.

[@incognito96]

Lord Coe is one of them.

[@user-SubvurzIV]

After doing a bit of digging: Viscount Douglas Hogg Lord Carrington Lord Fairfax of Cameron Francis Baring Viscount Combermere Simon Douglas-Pennant Lord Gage of Firle Place All have ancestors that directly profited and we're compensated when the transatlantic slave trade was abolished too. UCL has a database on them and there are plenty more names on that list.

[@makslargu5799]

@@user-SubvurzIV you made that last name up I’m sure

[@user-SubvurzIV]

@@makslargu5799 lol nah its legit, as weird as it is!

[@grahamkerswell6706]

Well done! should win a journalism award. Shameful.

[@benowen8321]

For what?. He is not a slave owner.

[@googane7755]

Imagine having an ancestor that literally wrote the manual on using slave labour for sugar plantations. That's insane, and now to think that there's people who think he shouldn't pay reparations for the luxurious lifestyle he now lives off the suffering of slaves...

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Googane....yes that is shocking in itself! He is still acquiring money up until recent times from Barbados. Inheritance I think! Land etc. Was in the news.

[@celestecanyon]

The net worths of some of the biggest criminal "landed gentry" is vastly and deliberately underestimated. A small fraction of an acre of residential land goes for hundreds of thousands; and some of them still have 20 thousand acres plus - much of it in prime locations. Criminal assets should be seized by the state...

[@kobinho1917]

If their was any justice in this world people like Drax would be spending their lives absolutely terrified of retribution

[@Goady1000]

Why?

[@kobinho1917]

@@Goady1000 ???

[@iamjosh7290]

So are you willing to pay if you found out your family did something bad?

[@kobinho1917]

@@iamjosh7290 if my ancestors were some of the worst and most successful slavers of the entire British empire I’m sure my opinion on the issue would be slightly different

[@kaitlyn__L]

This guy calling it a “family matter” in correspondence is doubly disgusting. What a horrible way to deny the impact of his ancestors’ actions, as if it’s some niche argument between two old clans or something. Or as if his ill-gotten wealth is just a “personal” thing for him rather than a systemic one. Ugh.

[@matamare-zs7ui]

You're brainwashed. He has nothing to do with what his ancestors did. Not that it's a bad thing to save blak people from Africa. Actually, I take that back, it's bad for us, now to be rep laced in our own country by these ingrates.

[@emdiar6588]

By hiding behind the mantle of family, he implicitly aligns himself and his wealth with his ancestors. It really IS a family matter - from the first Drax to set foot in Barbados to the current owner of the estate.

[@nhoyle8609]

Lol this was over 200 years ago - by your definition half the people on this planet will have acquired wealth illegitimately because borders and land allocations have only really been fixed since 1945 in most of the world - before that it was literal conquest

[@aligee7903]

He cannot be held accountable for the history of slavery in his family, however, he can be held accountable for benefiting from their I'll gotten gains and doing nothing to repair the damage

[@matamare-zs7ui]

Why don't you leave this country if you hate it so much?

[@iannoble404]

100% of the people who live in Britain benefit from the profits of the slave trade. Some more than others, but everyone benefits. So where are you drawing the line? How much do you have had to benefit before you need to start paying it back?

[@edwardtheodore1427]

Rubbish, let's start pulling up each and everyone's family member and putting you responsible for their ills and profits? How is that done?' Im black Caribbean and I am tired of the repatriation hoax. The conversation goes deeper than that. Black kings and queens sold their people to the Europeans but you won't see them lining up in Africa to collect. Yet they know who they are. They need to stop harassing the man. Who is supposed to decide what he pays? Who is to decide that he should? What is the figure he should be charged? How shall anyone arrive at this? Which court? Which judge? His peers? People need to think about these things properly and stop running with the crowd. Journalism is about truth, not ratings. Yes, it's true his ancestor dabble deep in slavery. He didn't, whether he's a good MP or a bad man unless someone has something to charge this man for then I say let him be. Slavery happened, time for people to GET OVER IT! Move on That's the only freedom we all can gain, not cash.

[@matamare-zs7ui]

@@iannoble404 Don't let communist school teachers indoctrinate you. Nobody benefits from nothing that happened hundreds of years ago. That's so dumb. UK is good because of its hard working people, which is changing now with the rep lace mint of wh!tes.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Although the estate is massive, it's only a small part of the land he has in that area, along with a bunch of rental houses, iirc all his properties have doors painted the same colour.

[@muirislandjim453]

30,000 humans murdered in his families plantation yet Drax is out here getting fat from the profits.

[@nealwailing3870]

Genocide!

[@colingregson8653]

Just like all the African Slave Masters who co-operated with the Colonial Powers. Black lives didn't matter then even between Blacks !!. Get over it !!.

[@PpPp-ku4sy]

He wasn't there was he. Why should he take responsibility?

[@joejjj4378]

@@PpPp-ku4sy because if I rob a bank and give it to my son they dont get to keep it

[@russ4557]

@@PpPp-ku4sy so why is he reaping the profits?

[@trevfindley5704]

Another thing about this story, is that at the time that he inherited the estate in Barbados, he failed to declare it on his register of interests. Luckily the matter was dealt with appropriately, and he received a stern reminder to do it, and even had to make a mildly apologetic public statement. Apparently it caused shockwaves of fear amongst fellow MPs...

[@benjohnson4038]

1627 that's the way it was back then...

[@emdiar6588]

@@benjohnson4038 What 1627? It was 2021. The current Drax inherited the Drax estate in Barbados and ''forgot'' to mention it. Anyone else would have done serious time for fraud and tax evasion, but he just got a reminder, like he'd forgotten to return a library book. ''Dear Richard, sorry to trouble you, old bean, but I thought you should know, those dreadful chaps at the Inland Revenue have found out about the Barbados thing. Frightfully embarrassing, I know, and I'm sure it was just an oversight on your part, but could you please register it. You know what they're like. Sorry, sorry, love and kisses, the Tory Party xx.'' It's not what you know, it's who you know.

[@susangavaghan]

Obviously Drax doesn't want to speak about how he got the huge house and land. A man with a nice suit and a polie demeanour but of little subsance.

[@graememckay9972]

Why would someone with that wealth want a job as an MP? Certainly isn't to serve for the benefit of the general public.

[@keithpanton7486]

Tax rules, and crushing the poor.

[@LL-vk9zc]

He's not the only one whose time is up. Doubtful that a privileged person such as Drax will ever see the wrongs that his family caused.

[@csmith2942]

This is one of the most horrific stories I've heard regarding a British citizen. I felt nautious after watching, and I beg the people of the constituencies to please vote against him, as even though you may think your vote won't make a difference, the majority following the tory mess means that it could be won with a difference of just hundreds of votes. That's power. Now please use your magic to put this possibly cursed man into retirement. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ❤❤❤.

[@Torthrodhel]

When I think of landowners causing all the problems by hogging all the land, this is an almost cartoonish example. Nobody should be allowed to own that much land, it ought to be illegal.

[@sultanusmanalikhan2301]

Justice for the victims of exploitation ✊🏽

[@qetoun]

but they're all dead! You're 190 years too late!

[@sultanusmanalikhan2301]

@ketoun 190 years of excess wealth, could go towards bringing equity 🌸

[@God_is_love_believe]

Why doesn't Barbados just confiscate the estate? Crazy!

[@TristanBanks]

Because its in the UK...

[@Damomasts]

​@@TristanBanks i think they are referring to the plantation estate in Barbados. My response is that the government in Barbados is probably bribed to make sure that doesn't happen....

[@92belisarius]

Understand your point, but imagine the precedent that would set. If a government could just seize your property? You surely wouldn’t want a government to have that sort of power? That would effectively be a totalitarian state. Totally understand your sentiment of course

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Tristan Banks....a lot is still in Barbados....he acquired more wealth fairly recently...it was in the news...

[@joeg46Highlands]

This has taken the media, including PoliticsJOE too long. The estate was founded not only on the institution of slavery but also the compensation paid over two centuries by British taxpayers while the family kept the Barbadian estates AND the unwaged "liberated" slaves.

[@adamlee3772]

Drax family still involved with sugar. Supported Brexit. Tate and Lyle as a company supported Brexit. Why? Because they want caccess to cheaper sugar cane in the Caribbean rather than having to buy sugar beet in EU. When it comes to Brexit, follow the money, often tainted money, every single time. Also his attitude to the constituency reminds me of Alan B’Stard in the New Statesman. Total contempt. Went there only rarely, usually for the horse racing.

[@benowen8321]

Ye it really bad when people pursue there own interests.

[@keithpanton7486]

@@benowen8321 At the expense of everything and everyone, when they already have enough money to live in opulent luxury for a dozen lifetimes, yes, it's morally wrong.

[@benowen8321]

@@keithpanton7486 I hate it when people create new things for profit as well. All that medicine, computers, trains ect that lead to less poverty, less hardship and longer, better quality life for the average human, we would be better off if people had no incentive to create new things. Instead we will use the imaginary alternative system that only you know about and understand. Down with new things. Like the example you gave, how is it better if the price of sugar goes down? I mean, ye it is cheaper for the avg person, but if rich people profit from it that is bad for reasons. And we can't have people making money. I hate the rich to by the way. And by rich I just mean people with more money than me, otherwise technically all of us that live in these first world countries are actually rich relatively.

[@granddad1954]

Illegal to park your car and leave the engine running.

[@Talkathon408]

I mean yes but only if the person leaves the vehicle. You can be fined for parking and remaining in the vehicle but if it's necessary to keep the engine running then it's not illegal.

[@Barefoot_Joe]

incorrect, there's many reasons to leave your engine running, cold weather etc. You can't LEAVE the car running without an operator in the seat, that's obvious and different to what you claim

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@Barefoot_Joe TIL my neighbour growing up, who always went and got his car idling to warm up the inside while he had breakfast, was breaking the law

[@alerojas2952]

​@@Barefoot_Joe Leaving your engine running because it is cold is a myth. Get your act together.

[@LowestofheDead]

His ancestors weren't just slave-traders, they were active _innovators_ of slave-trading.

[@redsocialist5474]

This is the MOST Tory of Tory things ever…

[@oneoflokis]

#ToriesOut

[@ZaynShah871]

@@oneoflokis #toriesremain

[@nicholasglanfield9221]

It’s the vast wealth and money, that gives the establishment and Rich Tory’s confidence.

[@MultiMattRogers]

I'd be really interested to know what percentage of our MPs have direct familial connections to the slave trade. That information will be out there, but will be difficult to collate

[@peterjones596]

David Cameron's family were slavers, and received over £1m as compensation when slavery was ended. That's not £1m in today's money, but £1m then. These repayments bankrupted the country, and the loan was not paid off until very recently...

[@MrWhodini22]

@@salimyusufji5736 Hell it was only recently that the UK finished paying off the £20m loan it took out in 1840 to pay off the slave owners to free their slaves. Think it was 2015 when the loan and interest was finally paid off.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@MrWhodini22 jfc

[@PpPp-ku4sy]

Who cares . Stop living in the past looking for handouts .

[@seantaylor6154]

Not just politicians normal public as well.

[@billysastard8779]

Real evil almost always wear an expensive suit nowadays.

[@Jeru185]

The 'Forgotten Towns' report is spot-on. Weymouth and Portland was abandoned by the MoD and the Royal Navy in the mid-90s and utterly devastated the local economy. Nothing much has been done about it ever since. It was akin to a major coal mine or steelworks closing down. One thing that could be done to arrest the decline is for a maritime-based university to be set-up and to get the area moving forward once more. At the moment the brightest and best just leave the area, once they are old enough.

[@JustinHH22]

Out of interest, are you from their?

[@kincaidwolf5184]

"Abandoned by the MoD and the Royal Navy in the mid-90" you mean the Conservatives and Labour Party cut their funding so they had to close. Our Navy is 1/5 the size it was in the 70s. You long for the return of heavy manufacturing such as mining or steelworks? Good luck getting the working-population to join them industries. The Labour Party oppose them on environmental grounds and the Tories oppose them on free market grounds. Labour local councils block the development of new mines and industry areas.

[@isabellewhite3505]

Despicable MP who refuses to listen to his constituents.

[@oneoflokis]

#ToriesOut

[@Kevin-lf4xx]

The clowns will vote for him again I suppose.

[@isabellewhite3505]

@@oneoflokis . I couldn't tolerate another 4-yrs of corruption, ineptitude and lies. #ToriesOut

[@annenunney9907]

Well done politics joe

[@chrisyarnold6205]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the British sugar indudtry is still very well connected to the Conservative party today, with all three manufacturers being major donors to the Tory party. This bought them the death of the proposed traffic light scheme on food packaging, whereby high sugar foods would have a red traffic light symbol on them. A very sensible health policy to me. Nothing has really changed in this country, since corruption has replaced slavery, and now we are the slaves to their unhealthy business interests.

[@user-tz8tg5xy6p]

The Drax family should be ashamed of themselves 😮

[@garyg1705]

thats quite incredible. presumably he’d argue that he provides employment to people in barbados who need it. i’d suggest he should go above and beyond to fund some reparations from profits over there.

[@matamare-zs7ui]

You're right. He should let those people starve. Helping africans has turned out really bad for us. Our stupid altruism will be the end of us.

[@user-mm1xp4sh8r]

Wow driven past this estate a bunch of times and never new the history associated with it

[@robertwilliams4084]

🤯🤯🤯🤯......This is the UK in 2023...omg. Thanks JOE, but that was depressing.

[@tomsimpson5449]

Where is the shame this man should be feeling? A key example of the dehumanising quality of wealth.

[@TristanBanks]

He doesn't care as long as he never has to see a single prole

[@tomsimpson5449]

@@TristanBanks True.

[@andreashofmeyr9583]

Everyday the puzzle pieces start to fit together to reveal a bigger draconian picture of a deliberate move towards a country tightly controlled by a well connected institutionalised elite. Breaking away from the ECHR to allow more unhindered human rights violations, Brexit, cutting of funding to public services that benefit normal people, austerity enforced on the working classes, etc, etc, etc. This is just another piece in the puzzle.

[@DanielJKoubleRenegadeNation]

He's even got a cartoon supervillian style name...Dick Drax lol

[@clovenbullet]

I half expected his estate to be a volcano top lair

[@JimiB33]

Dick Draxtardly?😂

[@sheepsky]

His properties and assets need to be immediately seized.

[@sanidadeelogica4979]

The fact that these people of unfathomable wealth want to be in politics at such (relatively for them) low wages should really have us all questioning what politics is all about

[@toni5431]

It's worth it for them just to get the electric and gas bills paid. Let alone the salary and extra perks they get.

[@Azzie_S]

I think it's a game of defense, by being in politics the people with unbelievable familial wealth like Drax, Mogg, Sunak can protect it. They take a spot in parliament away from someone who might want to actually help the constituencies. And make sure Tory PMs from more modest backgrounds like Teresa May won't act in the publics interest.

[@sanidadeelogica4979]

@@Azzie_S nah- has to be MUCH more than that. They need a large income to maintain such vast lands. What is he voting on and why?

[@belln700]

Is politics about control?

[@JournoMode]

A really good video summing up the matter. Sadly his local newspaper doesn't seem to be too interested in this story.

[@LemonTofu]

The production of the horror film at the end was truly outstanding

[@heathcliffearnshaw1403]

Expropriate them! The clock is now ticking for this!

[@proteus4301]

It's the people that vote for him that worry me most.

[@rollosinternet1853]

Yes, if living people benefited from what now is considered criminal wealth from their ancestors, they are equally guilty of those crimes. That is blood money.

[@kaimalino528]

The fact that this man was voted to represent his constituents says a lot about this people. It would be an amazing Justice if the entire feudal property is sold and the proceeds distributed as reparations. Yes, I know that crime was centuries ago but should the same excuse apply to perpetrators of the Holocaust? Unlike Holocaust villains, the Drax family continues to benefit from historical offences.

[@SajidHussain-lj5mr]

Absolutely Disgusting !

[@maxxidle]

Didn't the British citizens just finally finish paying off the reparations for the slave owners? I think I read that somewhere. Along with how the Duchy of York got a huge citizen funded payout from the same reparations fund. It was in the billion in todays money if I recall correctly.

[@euanparker2534]

Yeah, we should take it back from the slave owner families.

[@christopherjohnson8896]

Last payments made in 2015 in this country. Professor David Olusogu did an amazing series in 2021 I think, for the BBC. Payments were made for each slave based on their skills, ie dressmaker, field hand, house keeper, wheel maker, the owners, or owners ancestors were recompensed accordingly. My people were enslaved on orange plantations in Florida. It simply needs to be part of our childrens education, certainly in this country, the way that things are heading at the present. @Michelle Norris

[@LambsyLamb]

He sounds like a Bond villain! Why are people from questionable backgrounds allowed to be MPs? We know they're ONLY there to serve their own needs!

[@oneoflokis]

#ToriesOut

[@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow]

It's because they can be Blackmailed and controlled. This is why many MPs have a history of being peados et. They can be manipulated by secret services etc. Votes are rigged to get them into power and they press the war machine buttons for their controllers.

[@Le_Petomane]

Didn't you listen! He has a nice suit! What has become of education in this country? I will never know, maybe my tory MP will?

[@LambsyLamb]

@@Le_Petomane I have a nice suit and speak with an RP accent, unfortunately I come from a working class background and don't have slave trading ancestors and I'm not an MP yet!

[@Mercs_Beamers]

This is what most Tories would be today if it was still legal, instead they find other ways to exploit the common man.

[@santanaheskey3854]

The Codringtons are up there with the Drax's and the Lascelles (royal connections with one family member being heavily portrayed in The Crown, Netflix series). They all recieved compensation when chattel slavery was finally ended, the slaves recieved, nothing. The Codringtons who ran Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda like a Nazi concentration camp (through a caste coloured system), sold their Capability Brown designed house to the Dyson owner, requite recently and when Barbuda was hit with a major hurricane, they refused to pull a dime out of their vast pockets. Hamlet quote of ' the sins of the father are laid upon their children' does come to mind.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

He very definitely needs to address this😢 Like deployed 👍

[@pinxtonstation7823]

What a disgrace this man is 😢

[@tomato6460]

Richard Drax does not gaf about fairness or equality. Asking these people to “look in the mirror” and reflect is not going to work. You need to take the money through politics and law.

[@recruitmentch]

09:30. He doesn't seem to actually do anything but he is polite and that exudes confidence....! So to be an MP, you don't really need to do anything bar appear well dressed and polite! Makes sense.

[@rachelmatthews3070]

One of the first times I've seen a police car in months in that area... Can't think why...

[@humansnotai4912]

I've driven past that wall so many times since I was a young lad, never knew about this story. Wow. Thank you for reporting on it. Namaste x

[@WilliamAhlert]

Stalking is illegal. This is a form of intimidation which is absolutely vital to have gotten filmed.

[@noddynoddy.8822]

This is of no surprise to many of us. We have been talking about this for years and years only to be called cpnspiricy theorists. Keep digging, Joe. Thank you for exposing this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@alvindimes4729]

Just another example of why the structure of society in this country needs a massive shake up. And whilst this Drake bloke cannot be held responsible for the actions of his ancestors, because he is a beneficiary , it is morally right that his wealth should be used to make amends. But why is he being elected to parliament, are the people that vote for him just stupid or what. 😢

[@oneoflokis]

💯👍

[@BENTWOONEZERO]

Amends to who ?

[@toni5431]

@@BENTWOONEZERO Barbados was unpopulated until Drax moved in. He populated the island with slaves to work his sugar plantation. Every man woman and child descended from families who resided in Barbados prior to the slave ban should have reparation given. Even if it is just to improve schools and build social housing. The sugar plantation and estate should be confiscated from the Drax family and utilised as a legitimate and legal business of employment for the people of Barbados. All profits and money built in the business should then be reinvested back into the social infrastructure to improve the lives of the people of Barbados.

[@alvindimes4729]

@@BENTWOONEZERO Hi Ben, me auld mate, 👍 I well I don't know really, I think I mean maybe to those poor communities in Barbados, that are apparently still there. The descendants of those people who were enslaved to produce the Drake's historic and current wealth, yes I think those communities would be a deserving morally worthy recipient.

[@BENTWOONEZERO]

@@alvindimes4729 And if their ancestors had not been moved there they would be in East Africa and much poorer.

[@Lewie_G]

Thank you for this.

[@2000dibbz]

This is brilliant! Please make a series, there are plenty more dodgy conservative MP's that deserve their own episode!

[@JK-hr6py]

How could you live there knowing that???? I'd be so ashamed and embarrassed that I'd donate all the land, move far away and change my name

[@BOZ_11]

yeah, i'd turn the estate into a Peabody style low-rent housing complex and get the council to stick a leisure centre and library in there. Then redevelop the surrounding area into a forest/park

[@Slaeowulf]

No you wouldn't

[@dragosbelar]

I very much doubt that as your upbringing would be completely different.

[@seanfaherty]

There is a better than average chance somebody in your family owned slaves. You better start divesting for the sake of your morality

[@cycleinthesun]

Of course you wouldn't. If you'd have grown up with a silver spoon in your mouth, waited on by butlers, been afforded the best you can get, you wouldn't think anything of it. Much like anyone in aristoricacy. You think any of the royal family give a shit? You think Jacob Rees Mogg cares how his family got money?

[@fnutboy]

Vehicle idling is an offence against the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002. The law states that is an offence to idle your engine unnecessarily when stationary. If you fail to turn your engine off after being spoken to you may be issued with a fixed penalty notice.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

What if it’s cold

[@keithpanton7486]

@@Kodakcompactdisc Put a coat on, instead of lurking around trying to intimidate people on behalf of your boss, I guess.

[@graham.a.phillips2811]

The estate employees in the 4x4's are breaking the law. But I'm not surprised the police were not called. What the employees were doing is an intimidation technique, not a way of wanting to end the protest.

[@olih27]

Wtf are you talking about, it's not illegal to park your van in the gateway to your employers property.

[@graham.a.phillips2811]

@@olih27 engine's running while stationary. Get your facts right. The engine's were running and being reved to intimate and block sound on the recording as well.

[@olih27]

@@graham.a.phillips2811 Thankfully the police did arrive, I'm sure he was issued with a £20 penalty and justice was restored.

[@normasarsby1350]

Thank you for posting a little part of my history.

[@nicholasglanfield9221]

Used too drive past this place on a daily basis, many years ago . Aways wondered who owned the estate. Looks like it’s time to pay up. Typical Tory.