The world is changing fast. For the first time since the Cold War, the dynamic of power in the world is shifting. Since WWII, the United States and its Western and European allies have dominated world politics.
Now, with the emergence and strengthening of the BRICS economies, and with the false reasons for war in recent years fully exposed, this shift is set to continue, with Western hegemony being challenged, although not nearly quickly enough for nations still on the receiving end of the empire’s wrath.

Along with this changing power dynamic, in the United Kingdom, we are seeing more and more parts of Britain moving further away from the clutches of Westminster.

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But the changing perception of the role of Britain in the world, past and present, also extends to Britain’s former colonies overseas.  And why shouldn’t it?

Central to this debate is the call for the British state to face up to its past crimes and to stand accountable to former colonies, particularly those nations and peoples whom were brutalized under one of the most despicable crimes in human history, transatlantic slavery.

Not only has Britain yet to formally apologize for its role in perpetuating slavery, but there is a perfectly legitimate, moral, and legal argument to suggest that Britain ought to pay reparations to those peoples affected.

It makes sense, especially when we look at the current socioeconomic conditions in the countries Britain occupied.  While the countries which Britain got rich from were left devastated and impoverished, slave owners, including the relatives of British Prime Minister David Cameron, were compensated to the tune of millions of pounds following the abolition of slavery for loss of their “property.”

Following the “end” of slavery, Africans in the Caribbean were left poor, politically voiceless and uneducated. The British state, which contrary to Cameron’s claims in Jamaica last October, did not play a leading role in bringing about the end of slavery.  Rather, they had no choice but to back down as slaves demanded and took back their freedom.

Not only that, but once Africans in the colonies were “freed,” Britain then set about replacing the African labor force in order to keep the commercial trade in the Caribbean running and to make sure the sugar cane got chopped.

India, which at the turn of the 20th century was still occupied by Britain, provided the answer for the British state’s labor force void. Britain set about transporting, by trickery, manipulation and false promises of fortune and wealth, Indians from East India to the Caribbean to fill the shoes of the now “liberated” Africans.

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Last October, Prime Minister David Cameron, a direct beneficiary of slavery and commerce in the Caribbean, told Jamaica that they ought to “move on” from slavery and focus on the future.  Just consider that for a moment.  This is like Angela Merkel telling Jews to get over the Holocaust. It’s deeply hurtful, offers no remorse, and more significantly is a cheap way to avoid the question of reparations and the moral responsibility Britain has in giving back what is owed.

In Cameron’s same speech, he made clear that money for development in Jamaica is scant. But guess what?  Britain will happily invest money in Jamaica to build a prison to – wait for it – relocate Jamaicans currently in British prisons.

The call for reparations is not a call for a handout or charity.  Africans were forced to work for free for 400 years and when they finally demanded freedom and the British state departed, it was not before they had drained the life, liberty, and money from the Caribbean.

And this is of course not just the case for the Caribbean. There is a legal case and moral argument among all of the former colonies and communities which the British state used in order to build its vast empire at home and abroad.

People are coming around to this fact. If Britain has a limitless budget when it comes to war, decimating other people’s homelands, for oil and control, then surely the British government can cough up some money for the redevelopment of the countries which it used and abused and then left behind, having sucked all the life and prosperity from them like a vampire...

I think folks should stay away from looney websites...
especially ones that think throwing money at anything and everything solves every whiney whine...