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[Ben Thompson @TheStoicEnglish]

On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.

Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.

Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.

Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.

Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.

In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.

Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.

So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.

#history #britishhistory #royalnavy #westafricasquadron

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@4ladshadadream Overrun in midfield again. When will McInnes learn

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@4ladshadadream Dan Neil still Iiving on his two goals against Celtic.

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@alexmassie @DSanderson_85 Mr Nobody but thinks he is billy big bawd but as a Scottish taxpayer I am paying him an amount of money he would never have seen in his lifetime. #abolish holyrood

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@SkyNews @AliFortescue Why do the media gives this ‘irrelevance’ a platform still? Biggest embarrassment to Scotland in any lifetime

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@BenGrahamUK Guy is a coward and should be sacked for not doing what he is paid to do and that is to represent his constituents however they have brought it on themselves

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@JohnSwinney Just more lies. Resign

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@RangersReview55 Great 1st half performance but a concerning second.
Overrun in midfield second half. McInnes didn’t react to McCann’s change and got away with it but for poor Kilmarnock finishing

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@andrewc44104127 And this from a guy who started out by making a mockery of his colour. Just so sick of all of this now

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@Rickall81 @RangersReview55 Is it the Clubs or the current entitled behaviour of the new generation of fans in both clubs? I remember the days getting the entire away end at the midden and very little trouble

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@largsthistle @JohnSwinney So sick of this nonsense

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 A FATAL WARNING TO BRITAIN: ANDY BURNHAM'S UPCOMING BUDGET IS ABOUT TO BREAK OUR COUNTRY'S BACK!

I do not think people truly understand just how dangerous Prime Minister Andy Burnham and this socialist Labour Government really are.

Leading economic analysts are warning that the upcoming October Budget is designed to pluck the British public until there is literally nothing left but bare skin.

Look at the terrifying hit list of tax raids Burnham is lining up for your household!

A brand new wealth tax on your property, a massive 28 percent hike on capital gains, a 40 percent inheritance tax raid, and a devastating 10 percent death tax to fund his social care schemes!

Entrepreneurs, investors, and family business owners are already fleeing Great Britain in record numbers, with claims for business relief collapsing by 25 percent.

Socialism always runs out of other people's money, but Burnham is accelerating our national bankruptcy at lightning speed. When you punish and destroy everyone who creates wealth, nobody is left to keep the lights on.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to sound the alarm before Labour breaks Britain for good! 🇬🇧🔥

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@HMRCcustomers if you have multiple chargeable events from disposal of investment bonds with different lengths of years how do you enter this on the online SA form when it only has one box for each?

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@WasAcop @UKLabour Never

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@OldRoberts953 And then there is Burnham himself. What a financial mess he has left Manchester in!!

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@MaximoffMcD @DavidGauke Like the new Prime Minister you mean. I wasn’t given the opportunity to have a say on his new policies