Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
A similar scheme in Winnipeg was flooded with applications from migrants looking to abuse the scheme to bring in family members.
This is the worst of all worlds: chain migration based on relationships rather than need, most of whom will not be able to support themselves.
When your getting up for work on this cold wet Friday morning, just think the labour government you muppets voted for are spending a further £150 million on sites for illegal immigrants to live.
Its clowns voting for clowns 🤡 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
These numbers are growing daily. Our memoriam list is nowhere near complete and almost has a thousand victims already added.
You can now check to see how many were killed by immigrants in your area.
A Pakistani man was squat-shitting on the pavement in downtown Frankfurt yesterday.
People were giving him dirty looks. One man muttered “Disgusting.”
“Leave him alone! It’s his culture!” I shouted as I ran over.
I felt sorry for all the racism he had suffered. So I pulled down my pants, locked eyes with him, and started squat-shitting right in front of him while holding his hands.
“You’re safe now,” I said.
It was a beautiful moment of cultural connection. This is what Europe needs more of.
Have a wonderful day,
Wolfgang
I have moved into a Somali neighborhood in Frankfurt to diversify my children.
My daughter is learning how to take a beating from her 74-year-old husband, and my son is learning how to squander foreign aid.
I have taken two more wives, and signed up for a course on how to escape Somalia in the luggage compartment of a Boeing 787.
Now we are heading out to harvest the pubic hairs of an albino dwarf to make a soup that will cure us of HIV, and tonight the elders and I will rip up the copper wiring in the electricity grid to sell as scrap metal.
This is the cultural exchange Europe needs to become a sophisticated and open society.
Have a wonderful day,
Wolfgang