As Keir Starmer has become entangled in calls for the UK to engage in reparatory justice, we ask whether reparations are a vital leveller? Or just another white saviour project...
I don't think the issue of reparations will go away now, and I think King Charles is much to blame. In his opening speech to the CHOGM 2022 in Rwanda, the Prince Of Wales as he then was, self-indulgently in my view, started to apologise and express his personal sorrow at Britain's past. No doubt that made him feel good inside, but it wedged open the door that is now being kicked wide open by others who see a weakness to be exploited - guilt. I doubt if Keir Starmer and David Lammy will have the strength or inclination to stand up to these demands, David Lammy's views on this topic are well known and most Labour Party members have a distorted and negative view of Britain's history where the bad is amplified and the good ignored or dismissed as cleverly disguised evil.
How much better it would be if Charles could bring himself to speak of all the good Britain has brought to the world - our campaign against slavery and the slave trade in the 19th century was a great and noble effort. But Charles seems to prefer to ally himself with the new 'woke' elite who are in the ascendant at this time - and they like to see the past, and in particular Britain's past, as evil and a source of shame.
Starmer needs to stop this madness NOW.
Not one citizen of this country has given him permission to waste our money by spaffing it up the wall on this nonsense.
No one on either side of the argument today was alive back then…obviously.
Maybe we should go knocking on Italys door for what the Romans did to us or maybe more recently like 1066….
Maybe they should concentrate on what they have now…
Another example of Starmer and his clowns out of touch with reality.
I don't think the issue of reparations will go away now, and I think King Charles is much to blame. In his opening speech to the CHOGM 2022 in Rwanda, the Prince Of Wales as he then was, self-indulgently in my view, started to apologise and express his personal sorrow at Britain's past. No doubt that made him feel good inside, but it wedged open the door that is now being kicked wide open by others who see a weakness to be exploited - guilt. I doubt if Keir Starmer and David Lammy will have the strength or inclination to stand up to these demands, David Lammy's views on this topic are well known and most Labour Party members have a distorted and negative view of Britain's history where the bad is amplified and the good ignored or dismissed as cleverly disguised evil.
How much better it would be if Charles could bring himself to speak of all the good Britain has brought to the world - our campaign against slavery and the slave trade in the 19th century was a great and noble effort. But Charles seems to prefer to ally himself with the new 'woke' elite who are in the ascendant at this time - and they like to see the past, and in particular Britain's past, as evil and a source of shame.
It won't stop with the carribean every colonised country will follow