Andy Schofield🇾🇪

[Stan Voice of Wales @StanVoWales]

AN OPEN LETTER TO LEWIS HAMILTON

Mr Hamilton,

You have recently spoken about Britain’s past and suggested that the country should consider returning land in Africa as some form of historical reckoning.

Before making such sweeping statements, it might be worth revisiting the full history — not just the fashionable fragments that circulate on social media.

Slavery was not invented by Britain. It existed for millennia across the ancient world — in empires from Rome to the Middle East and Africa. By the time Britain emerged as a maritime power, slave trading networks already stretched across continents.

The Atlantic trade itself involved multiple participants. African rulers and traders captured and sold prisoners to European merchants on the coast. It was an ugly system, but it was also an international one.

What is often omitted from modern lectures about history is that Britain became the first major power to turn against the trade. Parliament passed the 1807 Act abolishing the slave trade, and the Royal Navy then spent decades enforcing that decision.

The West Africa Squadron patrolled thousands of miles of coastline. Sailors died from disease and from gunfire while intercepting slave ships. In doing so they liberated tens of thousands of people who would otherwise have been carried into bondage.

Many of those liberated Africans were settled in Sierra Leone. The capital was named Freetown for a reason.

There are also chapters rarely mentioned today. When Napoleon restored slavery in French territories after it had been abolished, it was British power that ultimately helped end those systems again.

There is also the matter of the enormous compensation loan taken by the British state when slavery was abolished across the empire — a debt British taxpayers continued servicing for generations.

None of this erases the suffering of those enslaved. But it does mean the story is far more complex than the simple narrative often presented today.

So before condemning Britain wholesale, perhaps a moment might be taken to acknowledge the sailors who fought the slave traders and the role Britain played in shutting down the Atlantic system.

A fitting tribute would be support for a memorial to those men who served and died enforcing abolition.

History deserves honesty — not slogans.

Yours sincerely
Stan Robinson
Voice of Wales
@VoWalesWren @alanlester
#SouthAfricaSquadron #RoyalNavy #VoiceOfWales

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Remember this @DanSmith667

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@DanSmith667 Still piss myself at the high 5 leather glove moment 🖐🏿😂

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@MufcWonItAll2 @Oluchi_Utd Pricks

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@DanSmith667 Happy birthday mate , hope you had a good one !

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@samuelluckhurst Did you leak the team this week you wanker?

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

Up the fuckin reds !

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@DanSmith667 great day out today mate

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@AdamJoseph @mark_robinson_ Lads you were both brilliant in that 90’s Fergie era but to be honest you’ve both done fuck all in management so get behind Michael and stop being a pair or wankers

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@MufcWonItAll2 You ever played football ? In real time it was a yellow …

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@MarkOgden_ Fuck off

[The Football Tavern @TavernFootball]

Modern football I don't believe it....

Half n half scarves
VAR
Crap Owners
High Press/Low Press
XG
Starters + finishers (they're subs)
Low block.
Transition.
Pundits who co-com their old club
The Baller League
The word baller.....

What a load of old bollocks 🍺

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@1968Tv @BPete1970 My favourite team in the best Utd away kit , I had a long sleeved shirt , hand me down from my cousin , it was miles too big big but got loads of wear out of it 😂

[Reclaim The Stretford End @RTStretford_End]

This flag and others were taken after Brighton. If you 'accidentally' took one home, let us know & we'll arrange for it to be returned to The Stretford End. These are paid for and owned by fellow Reds, do the right thing ffs. RTs appreciated.

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@DanSmith667 Totally agree mate , we get over run and out played in midfield every game , 2 can’t compete against 3 , he needs to change the system or he’ll be gone

[Benonwine @benonwine]

If you want the council to remove something really quickly then paint an England flag on it and they will come straight away. 😂🤣👍👏🏼

[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@DanSmith667 @ManUtd To sell shirts mate , nothing changes with this Ineos lot

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[Andy Schofield🇾🇪 @AndySchofield24]

@DanSmith667 So was I 😂