Apologies for being on meh soap box

[islaydarkblue]

And the people who did the wrong and the people who were wronged are long dead.

It's absolute nonsense....but it's being indulged.

Used to laugh at these things but in a country where we are being told to cut our cloth, expect to be taxed to the hilt for poor public services, don't expect to pass on wealth to our kids and freeze or pay thru the nose to save the planet I find these things obscene now......and we have a weak govt and a foreign secretary who are weak enough to indulge this.

This is typical of the Woke generation who want to re write history to suit their own agenda.

[BCram]

Maybe there is more to it? If you lived in a country that had large foreign landowners, bringing in their workforce, as a local you might, quite reasonably, be aggrieved.

[Deeranged]

Maybe there is more to it? If you lived in a country that had large foreign landowners, bringing in their workforce, as a local you might, quite reasonably, be aggrieved.

We do in fact live in that very country.

[BCram]

We do in fact live in that very country.

Now there's a thing! So if we get Independence do we start up demands for reparations?

I think we should give up Independence as a political process and try to influence politicians in ways that do not rely on us being bribed by them.

[Deebunked]

Now there's a thing! So if we get Independence do we start up demands for reparations?

I think we should give up Independence as a political process and try to influence politicians in ways that do not rely on us being bribed by them.

Reparations for what? And who from?

Scottish lords did as much bad to the country as anyone else, personally want to see us going after Norway's oil money for the Viking's behaviour.

On the main topic it's seems to be conveniently forgotten that leaders and kings of many African countries did very well out the (very wrong) slave trade