“No One Alive Is Responsible!” Commonwealth Heads ‘Could Agree Plans To Discuss Slavery Reparations’

[@cindyfaulkner5725]

Britain sends millions of pounds every year in aid to the Caribbean Islands

[@stevejam767]

And they send us cocaine.

[@deepgolu]

\lol....hogwash...show the proof from the buddget ....

[@carolewynn9407]

Absolutely ridiculous, paying for what ?? Perhaps we could ask for money for the descendants of the sailors who died bringing an end to slavery. Are the African nations being asked to pay for enslaving their own ?

[@gilbertwhytemcrobbie7719]

Spot on.

[@christinecraig7473]

Maybe we should look into the descendants of the Ottoman empire and go after them for reparations.

[@carolewynn9407]

@@christinecraig7473Don't forget the Romans, Normans, Vikings etc.

[@legionofrome2967]

Not only did we end slavery but a lot of people in the UK are not even full native descendants anyone and had no part in slavery. so why should they pay reparations when one of their parents were Nigerian for example.

[@deepgolu]

Dont' , but then don't complain of that people are not working with you for trade detail...Per capita income in UK is below mississippi...so stfu

[@markames6030]

Do we already give these countries money in aid?

[@deepgolu]

No you don't .....so cough up

[@imbonkers3629]

We pay them every year it’s called foreign aid 🙄

[@jaybiggs97]

That money doesn't go to any aid organisations. Thar money goes straight into the pocket of corrupt, African puppet "leaders" that take bribes from Britain in exchange for more resources from the continent. The whole "aid funding" is just a guise to continue to extract African resources.

[@philipwilkes2780]

Commonwealth 😂😂😂😂😂 I have NO guilt whatsoever!

[@stephennorris2524]

lazy people always want hand outs.

[@brundelfly1]

That's convenient, because nobody alive was subject to it either. The same can't be said of nations that still practice it.

[@whitehart11]

If it's common wealth they can pay themselves!

[@glennhopkins2643]

Keir Starmer is an absolute monster.

[@missgreeneyesx3512]

Can we get reparations from the Algiers? My ancestors were victims of barbary slavery when north africans stole and enslaved people from Europe going as far as the shores England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales..

[@David-mr8wi]

exactly the whole thing is a joke.

[@davidmorris9661]

Pay for something that happend 300 years ago,my family didn't own anyone so why should i have to pay,get over it

[@damianmorris2753]

You paid for compensation to the Slave owners up till 2015 in taxes. Where was the uproar about that?

[@tomjohnson9833]

​@@damianmorris2753 buying slaves' freedom in the way Britain did was the only way to guarantee their freedom.

[@damianmorris2753]

@@davidmorris9661 really? They couldn't have just made it illegal to own a slave in the UK and go around like some people claim Britain did in Africa to stop it and offer safe zones for the free Slaves?

[@damianmorris2753]

@davidmorris9661 my point is no one seemed angry that they had to pay it when it made the news. Why is that okay and understandable, but you can't understand the idea that Britain (and other European countries) not you or me but Britain owes countries that they exploited and used their people for free Labour for hundreds of years, carved up Africa, dehumanised and enslaved them. Why do you believe that Britain owes them nothing when they got rich of it and are still benefiting from that richness today? So Britain doesn't want to pay reparations, they don't want to take down statues of Slave Owners that are still up to this day, they don't want to give back all the items they stole and when anyone brings in up they are like how dare you talk about it and get over it. The sheer arrogance of Britain and some of its people are off the charts.

[@tomjohnson9833]

@damianmorris2753 you have a narrative where all the world was super-peaceful and morally just, with no conflict or oppression, no exploitation and no borders. Then the British came along, invented slavery, invented colonialism and oppression, and carved up the world into arbitrary states with borders. Needless to say this is an incredibly stupid narrative. Why you're singling the UK out specifically is anyone's guess, but you might stop to consider that the benefits the UK has brought to the world at least balance the costs, if not outweigh them significantly. The world has always been a brutal, unjust and unstable place. The fact you can hold the luxury beliefs you do is due in large part to social, technological, political and moral advancements that often began in the UK.

[@anuragsinha2013]

Now that he's gone from Kier starmer to Kier Stasi to Kier Al Thani. Sadiq Khan for PM. That is the natural trajectory of the labour party. From Tony Blair to Kier starmer to Sadiq Khan.

[@markscouler2534]

This is like blaming the germans today for what hitler did in the 1930s

[@christinecraig7473]

I'll have some cash if it's going. I'll have some for my people who worked down the pits. Men, women and children young as 7 years old. Living in tied cottages in poverty. If the pit didn't get you the ramifications of the dust did. Made landowners extremely wealthy in their statley homes and even now those that live in those are the descendants of such. Should I ask for money from them? See how stupid this sounds!

[@miggsmerc6658]

Me uncle got emphysema worked in the pits at 15.

[@christinecraig7473]

​@@miggsmerc6658 I'm so sorry to hear this. So many men suffered. My dad was 14 when he went down the pit but my grandad was 12. Terrible conditions and poverty wages.

[@keicbell]

Plus those who did keep slaves were the equivalent of today's million/billionaires.... So none of 'us'......

[@mchaplin66]

i assume france , dutch and spain are doing the same

[@ruthcollins2841]

And Portuguese as they bought & exported 6 million to Brazil; or the Netherlands who under Dutch West India company colonised many South American & Caribbean countries!

[@Pugwash-0]

Don't forget the Nigerians

[@whitehart11]

And all the African slavers

[@craighart9278]

🤦‍♂️ it's all quite pathetic really.

[@mrsm9974]

Two Tier, Free Gear, No Beer, Not here, ‘Let me be absolutely clear’ Kier 😂

[@zardadkhan6092]

I can tell you what we are paying for and yes those alive are responsible. We have MP'S, LAND OWNERS, TITLE HOLDERS, KINGS, QUEENS, LORDS, duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess, and baroness. All these are still benefiting from the land, property and businesses they own on the back of their great grand parents inheritance.

[@raymondhill8973]

thats normal , are you going to turn down your inheritance when it comes,

[@zardadkhan6092]

@@raymondhill8973 i will turn it down if its earnt via illegal means

[@alexb5815]

Please consider factoring in all the cumulative foreign aid into reputations and then a rebate may be due to the U.K.

[@davegoldsmith5751]

Should the UK approach Italy for reparations for 360 years of Roman occupation? Maybe the Danish for the Viking raids?

[@happyman1272]

Slavery to the black population was absolutely terrible, which was done mainly by the white population and the tribal chiefs selling their braves in mass to the white slave traders. BUT, what about the white slave trade, so do I get reparations for my family’s slavery and suffering? Slavery comes in many forms, i.e. forced to work hard labour all your life, in terrible conditions, with mass starvation and early death the only way out for millions. This happened throughout the world, especially during and before the queen victoria era in Britain. As an example, children worked in the coal mines from 8yrs old, but many would be young as five. These men and children, worked between 12 to 16 hours a day, with many having very short lives due to the coal dust and machine accidents, this was the same for the cotton mills and other industries. My own relatives, died in work houses, or simply starved to death if they couldn’t find work and some were even press-ganged off the streets, to be forced to sail ships, often dying of scurvy and malnutrition. Many were also forced to fight as soldiers in wars for the establishment, all over the world, or be shot for cowardice. So isn’t all this also slavery, slavery to a system, wherever it is done in the world!

[@imbonkers3629]

White people I think it was the black people , every slave sold was owned by black slave owners , so they were slaves if we bought them or not , plus Ottoman Empire was the worst plus it still going on in Africa we were a tiny part of it 🙄

[@ade3628]

Exactly, work houses etc.. just the other day 4 thousand graves found in Bristol from these workhouses

[@markbright684]

Ye sounds as though that's what labour plans are all about 2jobs each to make ends meet for very little return if any because of tax tax taxand more tax and then drop down dead at an early age yr just about sums up what labour has in mind for us eh.

[@Testchannels-z8j]

Are they asking every other nation or faith involved in slavery for reparation or is it just the U.K?

[@jenniferbarry5887]

Let the Chinese have them................then they will find out what slavery is all about.

[@vespa10ful]

As usual sitting with the begging bowl out

[@markbright684]

You could always sell windsor and give the Jamaicans the proceeds after all it is supposed to be owned by the natives of britain eh.

[@brianrobertson3941]

Where does it end?? US govt, South American Govts, French Govt responsible as well. Not to mention the Romans who enslaved just about everybody else. Oh..and poor Israel should get reparations from Egypt who enslaved them all....

[@Baconstraps]

What about reparations for those who were forced into building the Pyramids? 😂

[@nahmend6987]

APPROPRIATION OF HISTORICAL SUFFERING should be a crime!!! People demanding payments for something they didn't endure shows greed and a total DISRESPECT for THEIR OWN Ancestors!!! SHAME ON YOU! And Starmer is THE worst leader of a country I've ever seen, if He would Run a Company the way he runs the UK, ruín is all he would get of it!

[@colinwishbone4437]

Probably to pay for new ROLLS ROYCE AND YACHTS FOR BLACK DICTATORS???

[@ade3628]

We have to go green and pay for it so our PM can jet around the world and enjoy the sun

[@joetrigger5962]

We gave these descendants of slaves, sovereign nation states with Constitutions, working democratic institutions and the best legal model that's ever existed, in a paradise. There was no compensation for the surrendering of our territories won and protected with British life and money. i think that is compensation enough.

[@Scales_of_Life]

The entity of the common wealth government is alive now and was alive then. They are responsible and must pay

[@David-mr8wi]

joker

[@Andrew-tx9jy]

No one has to apologise for something they did not do. Take me to court and prove that over 190 years ago I was a slave owner and that you were a slave if you can...

[@iainrae6159]

The Church of England rightly feels ashamed of irs vast profits made from the trans Atlantic slave trade and has promised to pay out money However the ordinary man and woman should not bear any guilt.

[@craighart9278]

It should not be up to the people at the top of the church to virtue signal with other peoples money. I.E money they get from the churches congregation.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

Seriously how is the Church of England going to even raise that much money? they expecting it to come from the people? have you seen Church attendance figures for the UK today?

[@craighart9278]

@@ChrisCrossClash Exactly. Its virtue signalling by people at the top of the church with other peoples money who are more than likely to be less well off and have less privilege than they do. Its ridiculous.

[@drewmaurice5032]

Saying that no one's alive who's responsible is stating the obvious. Present governments apologising for the actions of previous governments is not a new thing, and the Dutch government apologised for the role the Netherlands role in slavery. The real reason the UK government is refusing to follow their example is because they know that saying sorry for slavery will make them legally vulnerable to being sued by slave descendants for reparations.

[@timlodge8267]

These countries have already been payed off.

[@DoFeedThePigeons]

I’m so glad I’m 38 and never paid a penny in tax to this island 😊

[@suplex8]

if no one alive is responsible, why were we still paying compensation to slave owners up to 2015 ?

[@paulroberts7561]

This will be the end of the commonwealth, Britain must leave if this is what they insist on. Without Britain there is no commonwealth.

[@mrgrumpy771]

Let’s just leave

[@xjay1234]

Britain gave away £500million+ to the WHO over the vaccination programme - £500million+ to the Ukraininan Leader. An extra £500million won't hurt.

[@lb8965]

It's the taxpayer that'll have to pay for this. I do not want a penny of my tax contribution going out of the UK. I'm not responsible for the slave trade and colonialism. So, why should I pay reparations?

[@DBS6567]

slavery was a global norm , why are we being singled out ? anyone would think that we were the only people in the world that used slaves, it's rediculous.

[@sh.4409]

How about compensation from the families of migrants born here in our prisons.

[@VeronicaMarriott-b6t]

They will milk it for all it’s worth

[@Adrian-jk4kx]

" Never confuse Education with Intelligence......You can have a Masters degree and still be an idiot."..........I'm looking at The Labour Front Bench.

[@1aatlas]

all of a sudden the commonwealth lost its shine.

[@goot-if4km]

The word's I'm thinking I of have got three F in it ?

[@markscouler2534]

Wait till they here what the ottomans did to slaves

[@raymondhill8973]

they all chose their independence, and now running out of money,,

[@2gioituoo]

U have to take your own responsibility of your act, of Slavery, United kingdom 🇬🇧

[@E_Rex_Sean]

*Who enslaved and sold their own people to Europeans in the first?* 🤔

[@richardrichards3604]

Starmer IS SICK AND SHOULD SEE A DOCTOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (TAX PAYER SHOULD NOT BE PAYING FOR THIS IN ANY WAY)

[@GrahamJackson-j2s]

Working class people did not profit from slavery but there are still a few upper class families living off the proceeds, these should pay. And let's be honest poor black people will not see a penny it will end up in the banks of a few corrupt officials.

[@mrsm9974]

How much CO2 did Starmer’s journey cause? 🤔

[@frankoneill5675]

The English love talking about the inglorious empire but get annoyed when the savagery, destruction, terrorism, theft and slavery that built it comes under discussion. Nothing to do with me, guv

[@samuelheart19]

Ignoring the ludicrous nature of this for a plethoria of reasons im sure others in the comments will highlight. Can i ask? - what bloody difference does it matter if random commonwealth countries decide the uk should pay reparations? They can agree all they want but it is absolutely meaningless

[@Thetruthhurts708]

I want reparations for my Irish ancestors taken to Africa during the Barbary slave trade. Cue crickets.

[@markbright684]

Nah surely not I don't think even 2tgk would even do that would he? If he did I think he would need drug testing.

[@kpnut59]

Slimer had to make additional stops to pick up brown envelopes of 'donations'..............😊 I wonder who is paying for his flights etc? As for the reparations, fine, but the person who was enslaved needs to appear in court as a claimant.

[@newworldforward1842]

Lammy was a slave. At least he says he was.

[@monty1864]

Slob ?

[@jonznuff]

THE GEWZ RAN THE SLVE TRADE !

[@Olly1987]

OOOOOOoooo yea they work their arses off......

[@timcoakley5498]

19 trillion pounds in reparations, we could send an invasion force and take the Caribbean Islands back for that.

[@brainjones1320]

When turkey is willing to pay them then we can chip in we stopped slavery got it

[@Takiya1-d5l]

You are enjoying all the tainted wealth you went to collect all over the world. Nobody asked you to invade India and take Indian slave labor and develop Caribbean countries and Fiji Islands. You have ended up leaving thousands of Indians in Fiji 🇫🇯 who have no rights at all. No land rights nor any political rights. Who asked Britain to conquer countries and want to rule them. You guys need to pay up.

[@carolewynn9407]

@@Takiya1-d5l Love your sarcasm. If it's not sarcasm then perhaps everything should be removed that improved lives in these countries, as for paying up , you're lucky you get foreign aid.

[@dannycarter3647]

F**k off you retard. Fiji is it's own nation. Deal with your own sh*t and quit blaming the UK. I know many Fijians who joined the British Army. Really good lads, sounds like you are a soyboy crybaby.