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Listen to me!!!
Still waiting my money from Italy for what the Romans done to my ancestors
Not so long ago St Vincent had a massive volcanic eruption, We sent naval ship to help evacuate people at risk & wanted to use our overseas aid to help rebuilt communities. Seem to recall we were told we couldn't as it contravened some treaty or other.Maybe if some of the nations concerned got a better deal in world trade this might not come up as an issue. When I was a student I was friends with someone from Malawi who was studying something like forrestry. Most of the wood used in baseball bats (or something like that) at that time came from Milawi but they could only export raw material rather than finished bats because of tariffs. The USA wanted to keep the added value. It also stopped us and France subsidising former colonies in the Carribean as that breached WTO rules. Now most bananas come from South America.
He's a serial troll , his agenda is simply to cause division and arguments. Pretty sad individual.How far back are you willing to go?
There are do many nations that when powerful enslaved the conquered.
Why just blame Britain?
Or do you have an agenda?
Any sort of union of people of disparate views which provides a platform for them to speak has to be a good thing IMO. Does it do anything tremendously tangible , not sure but for that matter no does the UN.So let me get this right. Leaders from across the globe fly in to a small island in the Pacific to meet King Charles, Head of the Commonwealth, to suggest country of said King pay money for something that ended some 217 years ago with the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act.
Yet these 55 member are happy to continue to be members of the Commonwealth, presumably because there are ongoing benefits.
Presumably, once we've paid these reparations we'll then be sued for our part in global warming when half these colonies are flooded due to rising sea levels or dried up through temperature rises.
The emotional part of my brain thinks it's good that more than a quarter of the countries in the world belong to a benevolent global organisation, but the logical part of my brain thinks the Commonwealth is - like Jacob Rees-Mogg - an historical anachronism, which really should have ended after WW2, and certainly straight after Suez.
Glad the issue of reparations is being discussed again at the Commonwealth summit. I want Britain to formally apologise for it's part in the slave trade and reach agreement with the colonised countries for reparation payments
Global calls for reparations are only growing louder. Why is Britain still digging in its heels? | Hilary Beckles
The issue is on all our minds at this week’s Commonwealth summit in Samoa. Now is Keir Starmer’s chance to address it, says Caricom Reparations Commission chair Hilary Beckleswww.theguardian.com
I support the foreign aid budget and would welcome anything which helps support and develop other nations, especially lifting people out of poverty.How much of YOUR money are you willing to give?
and the bloody Norman'sStill waiting my money from Italy for what the Romans done to my ancestors
Unless you're Welsh or Cornish, you won't get much. Most of our ancestors were Angles, Saxons, and Vikings, and they were post-Roman.Still waiting my money from Italy for what the Romans done to my ancestors
I support the foreign aid budget and would welcome anything which helps support and develop other nations, especially lifting people out of poverty.
I'm also glad our politicians we can actually have grown up conversations about reaching out and helping those less privelegded in other countries whereas under the previous government it was about sending people off to Rwanda.
I'd rather my money was spent doing good like this than wasted on gimicks like Rwanda
100bn per year until paid.Much of the foreign aid budget has gone to cover those who are seeking asylum in the UK.
Of the reperations argument, how much do you want to give of your money? How much extra tax are you willing to pay?
100bn per year until paid.
Reverse Brexit, go back to where we were prior to June 2016 and instead of spaffing 4% of GDP up the wall - spend it on reparations
Don’t feed the troll 🧌But in terms of your own money, how much extra tax are you happy to pay?
£100 a month?
£200 a month?
More?