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U.K. Foreign Office ‘to open talks on slavery reparations’
Telegraph (PayWall) ^ | Feb 7 | Craig Simpson

Posted on 02/07/2025 9:14:19 PM PST by RandFan

The Foreign Office is to open talks on slavery reparations with Caribbean officials demanding trillions of pounds from the UK, sources have claimed...

David Lammy’s department is understood to be looking at April to meet members of the Reparations Commission of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), a political grouping of 15 states that has long demanded compensation from former colonial powers.

According to Caribbean sources, the meeting has been planned as part of a Caricom delegation of officials and political leaders who will restate demands that Britain pay for its role in the slave trade.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: davidlammy; defundnato; defunduk; foreignoffice; nomoney4uk; reparations; uk
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They want $20 trillion! Crazy!
1 posted on 02/07/2025 9:14:19 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

You’ll be SORRY!!!
You will be inviting Buzzards, Hogs, Vampires and Piranhas over to your home for dinner.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 9:19:51 PM PST by lee martell
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The pioneers of slavery abolition are going to pay un-owed “reparations”? I’d say only Labour could think of that, if it were not for the Red Tories advancing it before them.


3 posted on 02/07/2025 9:20:42 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lee martell

Brits are cucks.


4 posted on 02/07/2025 9:22:20 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: RandFan

Can they throw in another $60 trillion to pay off the American reparationists?


5 posted on 02/07/2025 9:23:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: RandFan

Are any former slaves still alive?


6 posted on 02/07/2025 9:24:43 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: RandFan

I’m guessing the U.S. blacks will be suing the U.K. for the years prior to JANUARY 14, 1784.


7 posted on 02/07/2025 9:24:48 PM PST by stylin19a ( If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.)
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To: RandFan

I thought the British government already compensated slave owners for the slaves that were freed.


8 posted on 02/07/2025 9:27:58 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: RandFan

And it will never end once it starts.


9 posted on 02/07/2025 9:30:20 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: RandFan

The British Crown nearly bankrupted itself paying for the reparations they made for silvery. They owe nothing.


10 posted on 02/07/2025 9:31:32 PM PST by Jonty30 (Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
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To: RandFan
I asked AI.

The UK ended slavery in stages:

1. 1807 - The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: This law made it illegal to trade enslaved people within the British Empire but did not free those already enslaved.

2. 1833 - The Slavery Abolition Act: This act officially abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. However, enslaved people were forced into a period of "apprenticeship" (essentially continued forced labor) until 1838.

3. 1838 - Full Emancipation: The apprenticeship system was abolished, and enslaved people were fully freed.

There were still exceptions, as slavery remained legal in some territories like India until later reforms in the 19th century.

Nothing more than virtue signaling here.

11 posted on 02/07/2025 9:33:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: RandFan

From Statista website:

The estimated total number of slaves in the 1800s ——
Portugal / Brazil: 5,099,815.
Britain: 2,733,324.
France: 1,164,967.
Spain / Uruguay: 884,922.
Netherlands: 475,240.
U.S.A: 252,652.
Denmark/Baltics: 91,733.
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US had that small an amount? (although one slave was one too many and a blight on our history).

How are the reparations funding agreements going in Netherlands, Spain, Portugal & Brazil and so on.

Haven’t heard.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 9:34:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Petrosius

Do you count zombies and ghosts?

Otherwise: Zero.


13 posted on 02/07/2025 9:35:39 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: RandFan

You blokes can pick up the tab for the freeloader caribbeaners.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 9:37:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: stylin19a

Wikipedia summary:
“As part of the triangular trade-system, ship-owners transported enslaved West Africans to European possessions in the New World (especially to British colonies in the West Indies) to be sold there. The ships brought commodities back to Britain then exported goods to Africa. Some plantation owners brought slaves to Britain, where many of them ran away from their masters.”


15 posted on 02/07/2025 9:38:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And the Marshall Plan?


16 posted on 02/07/2025 9:38:41 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
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To: RandFan
It was Britain that forced African kings to end slavery. At least in British colonies.

The Caribbean nations should be paying Britain.

17 posted on 02/07/2025 9:39:43 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: RandFan

Hanno perso la testa!!! Idioti!! Imbecilli! Perdenti!! Piccole puttane!!

OK, now that my venting is done...

I dont have the words.

The WELFARE STATE was reparations...and it costs MANY Trillions.

Here and there.

Again, we don’t deserve the savior we have had sent to us in the form of Trump.

But thank you God for delivernig him to us...we should have fought our own battle YEARS, DECADES AGO...but we didn’t...we waited for a hero and he is here.

To make sure this INSANITY doesn’t happen here!!

Get a ####ING JOB and stop putting your hands out!!

Everyone associated with slavery is DEAD!!

They DEAD owners can pay the DEAD slaves.

Im good with that.


18 posted on 02/07/2025 9:40:08 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: frank ballenger
The estimated total number of slaves in the 1800s ——

U.S.A: 252,652.

Back in high school, I was taught the Confederacy had a population of 9 million. That included 5 million whites and 4 million slaves. The Union had a population of 21 million.

That was one reason given for the South's defeat. The Union had a larger population of fighting men. And the South couldn't even field all their fighting men because some had to stay home to guard the slaves.

19 posted on 02/07/2025 9:52:03 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: RandFan
The country that was the primary driver towards the elimination of the slave trade, based upon Christian opposition, is now open to talks on slavery reparations. That's just sad.

Down with weak kneed politicians.
20 posted on 02/07/2025 9:59:46 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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