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Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:36pm

Caribbean nations are calling for the UK to pay $240 billion and much more in slavery reparations.

"Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion."

Is this just the start of lawfare against past colonial empires?

India has already lodged claims against the UK for reparations for its crimes in India.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13955637/Barbados-UK-billions-slave-tra...

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Calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in slave trade reparations branded 'utterly ironic' given Caribbean country's links to China
By Harriet Line

Published: 22:47 BST, 13 October 2024 | Updated: 22:55 BST, 13 October 2024

Calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade were branded 'utterly ironic' last night over the country's links to China.

A group of Caribbean governments has agreed to put slavery reparations on the table at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next week.

The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, is leading demands from West Indies nations and she met King Charles earlier this month ahead of the 56-nation gathering.

She has said reparations for slavery and colonialism should be part of a new 'global reset'.

Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion.

Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly last month. She is leading demands from West Indies nations for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade

But last night Ms Mottley was criticised over her country's links to China where the UN has reported the forced labour of members of minority groups.

Church of England planning to set up £1bn fund to deal with 'the scale of the moral sin' of slavery
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Tory grandee and China hawk Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Mail: 'It is utterly ironic that countries that bend the knee to China and take the "belt and road" money turn a blind eye to the fact that China is now probably the biggest user of slavery in its production lines and its products.

'It is a country that is committing genocide in Xinjiang amongst the Uyghurs, and persecutes Christians and practises forced organ harvesting on organisations like Falun Gong and Christians.

'So how ironic that people should call on us to pay them, when they are busy cosying up on their knees to China in the hope of more money from an appalling, abusive nation that has one of the worst records in history in abuse and political execution.'

Barbados and China have close trading links and the island is part of Beijing's 'belt and road initiative', a global infrastructure programme.

The Mail on Sunday, which first reported that slavery reparations would be on the table at the Commonwealth meeting, also said Ms Mottley has described her country as 'the home of modern racism' thanks to British rule from 1625.

Tory grandee and China hawk Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade were 'utterly ironic'

She has said Barbados is owed $4.9trillion (£3.9trillion) by former slave-owning nations.

Sir Iain dismissed calls for reparations, saying the UK 'spent billions in ending the slave trade'.

He added: 'We have paid well over the asking price for anything to do with what happened because we were the ones who paid through the nose to stop it.'

Ms Mottley has praised previous comments by King Charles, who said acknowledging the wrongs of the past was a 'conversation whose time has come'.

A spokesman for the Commonwealth Secretariat told The Mail on Sunday: 'Commonwealth heads have always discussed challenges and aspirations constructively.'

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12482 Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #1 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:41pm The usual drivel from locals with bugs up their arse at the thought of free money. Who would be made whole by reparations? So many Jamaicans have built massively successful lives through their abilities and hard work... Should the Marley family be entitled to compensation?
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #2 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:58pm Kamala Harris has Jamaican slavery connection, isn't she?
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 84469 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #3 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 5:54pm
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17564 Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #4 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 6:42pm So how about those Portuguese and Spanish; or are they too poor?
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 104568 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #5 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 7:30pm Same as here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ChuDnICOdgI9
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 84469 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #6 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 7:33pm They should be paying royalties on the rum that Dark Pete showed them how to distill.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16587 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #7 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 8:08pm If the Brits didn't stop the slave trade, the Caribbean nations would probably be in no position to demand reparations. They'd be too busy cutting cane. Biting the hands that freed you?
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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 971 Gender:	Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations Reply #8 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 10:50pm A quick look around the world and I strongly suggest we as the human race has more than enough to deal with TODAY rather than worry about what happening in the past!
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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #9 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 11:28pm

The international lawyers are going to be tied up for a while litigating against Jewish Israelis after the IJC ruled that the occupation was illegal, the wall was illegal, settlements were illegal, and the Palestinians deserve compensation.

There will also be countless Israelis prosecuted for war crimes they recorded and posted on social media.

The the big one. Israeli Jews sued for genocide.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #10 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 12:50am

Laugh till you cry wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:36pm:

Caribbean nations are calling for the UK to pay $240 billion and much more in slavery reparations.

"Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion."

Is this just the start of lawfare against past colonial empires?

India has already lodged claims against the UK for reparations for its crimes in India.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13955637/Barbados-UK-billions-slave-tra...

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Calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in slave trade reparations branded 'utterly ironic' given Caribbean country's links to China
By Harriet Line

Published: 22:47 BST, 13 October 2024 | Updated: 22:55 BST, 13 October 2024

Calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade were branded 'utterly ironic' last night over the country's links to China.

A group of Caribbean governments has agreed to put slavery reparations on the table at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next week.

The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, is leading demands from West Indies nations and she met King Charles earlier this month ahead of the 56-nation gathering.

She has said reparations for slavery and colonialism should be part of a new 'global reset'.

Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion.

Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly last month. She is leading demands from West Indies nations for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade

But last night Ms Mottley was criticised over her country's links to China where the UN has reported the forced labour of members of minority groups.

Church of England planning to set up £1bn fund to deal with 'the scale of the moral sin' of slavery
article image

Tory grandee and China hawk Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Mail: 'It is utterly ironic that countries that bend the knee to China and take the "belt and road" money turn a blind eye to the fact that China is now probably the biggest user of slavery in its production lines and its products.

'It is a country that is committing genocide in Xinjiang amongst the Uyghurs, and persecutes Christians and practises forced organ harvesting on organisations like Falun Gong and Christians.

'So how ironic that people should call on us to pay them, when they are busy cosying up on their knees to China in the hope of more money from an appalling, abusive nation that has one of the worst records in history in abuse and political execution.'

Barbados and China have close trading links and the island is part of Beijing's 'belt and road initiative', a global infrastructure programme.

The Mail on Sunday, which first reported that slavery reparations would be on the table at the Commonwealth meeting, also said Ms Mottley has described her country as 'the home of modern racism' thanks to British rule from 1625.

Tory grandee and China hawk Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the calls from Barbados for the UK to pay billions in compensation for its role in the slave trade were 'utterly ironic'

She has said Barbados is owed $4.9trillion (£3.9trillion) by former slave-owning nations.

Sir Iain dismissed calls for reparations, saying the UK 'spent billions in ending the slave trade'.

He added: 'We have paid well over the asking price for anything to do with what happened because we were the ones who paid through the nose to stop it.'

Ms Mottley has praised previous comments by King Charles, who said acknowledging the wrongs of the past was a 'conversation whose time has come'.

A spokesman for the Commonwealth Secretariat told The Mail on Sunday: 'Commonwealth heads have always discussed challenges and aspirations constructively.'

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #11 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 12:53am

Setanta wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

If the Brits didn't stop the slave trade, the Caribbean nations would probably be in no position to demand reparations. They'd be too busy cutting cane.
Biting the hands that freed you?

Always.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #12 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 5:10am

go back and look at the ottomans ,

their whole method of paying their soldiers was to allow them to take slaves after a campaign or seige and then sell them on

this is still part of their culture.

calls for the british to be singled out?

only if they are being singled out for being the only ones to stop the practice Roll Eyes

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #13 - Oct 16^th, 2024 at 5:23am

In 1808, a fleet called the West Africa Squadron was formed to patrol the African coast and catch slave ships. In the following decades they seized an estimated 1,600 slave ships and freed a whopping 150,000 Africans slaves.

African kingdoms were also encouraged to sign anti-slavery treaties. Over 50 African rulers signed them, and for ones that didn't, “corrective action” was taken—sometimes fighting slavery meant using the full force of the British Navy.

One example was the deposition of Oba Kosoko of Lagos in 1851.

After refusing to sign an anti-slavery treaty, the HMS Bloodhound and HMS Tartar besieged Lagos and deposed Kosoko. He was quickly replaced with an anti-slavery rival named Akitoye.

While some illegal trade continued in far-off regions, by the middle of the 19th-century the Atlantic slave trade was almost completely eradicated.

Slavery outside the empire’s jurisdiction, however, would continue for hundreds of years in some places.

No nation on earth did more to eliminate slavery than Britain.

Though empires are often viewed as inherently tyrannical, Britain’s war on slavery shows that immense power can, in some cases, be channeled for good.
https://x.com/thinkingwest/status/1846162874680373359

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #14 - Oct 16^th, 2024 at 6:08am

What would Blair Cottrell say?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ChuDnICOdgI9

Such as when is it gunna be enough?
how much money do these people need?
how much blood do these people need?
how much sacrifice on our behalf is gunna be enough for them
for them to finally feel like they're satisfied? -
and the answer is it will never be enough
it's never gunna be enough -
if you support this Voice referendum thing -
that's not gunna be enough -
there's gunna be something after that
and then there's gunna be something after that -
as Joel explained they're gunna be pushing
and pushing and pushing as much as possible
so you have to say no from the beginning - yeah -
you have to say no to everything these people ask for
and everything they demand -
they have no right to demand anything.

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