If the UK has to pay reparations, will other countries?

[Controversialname]

If the UK is made to pay reparations where will that leave other nations who were or indeed still are involved in slavery?

@Danajune11

Already answered twice. I won't answer the same question more than twice.

'The government will decide' isn't an answer.

hang on......I need my popcorn.

Five examples will do.

Oh is it five now? I thought you said two or three.

Why not? Because you don't like it?

You can't insist on someone changing their answer just because you don't like it. Jesus. The people on here are unreal

I talked to two different posters if you go back and read.

So again I'm asking you. Why are the commonwealth leaders seeking reparations from the UK?

Give me some examples. Do you know?

Because they are greedy tow rags who think they can make a quick buck.

So again I'm asking you. Why are the commonwealth leaders seeking reparations from the UK?
Give me some examples. Do you know?

You go first. Answer my questions and I'll reciprocate. Or should I also just tell you google seeing as that's what you told me?

No.

Our government have apologised, nearly 20 years ago

I was showing how petty and ridiculous your question is. Because of course we can Google everything.

So I won't be providing any information that you can easily look up yourself.

You asked what damage the UK have done to other countries.

Why don't you look up why the Commonwealth leaders are seeking reparations, for a start.

There is something like 4x more slaves in the world today than were trafficked over the whole 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade. I'd rather we focus on helping them tbh rather than those that are long dead.

The top 10 countries currently involved in slavery are as follows. None are 'western' (unless you include Russia) and 9/10 are majority non-white. The whole Jim Crow stereotype is now extremely out of date.

1. North Korea
2. Eritrea
3. Mauritania
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Türkiye
6. Tajikistan
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Russia
9. Afghanistan
10. Kuwait

Actually Tony Blair was asked why he didn't apologise, and he responded with "well we are sorry". That was it. Four words

No one thinks that was much of an apology.

An apology would be a UK leader reading off a long statement of apology.

@Danajune11

Why not? Because you don't like it?

Because you haven't answered the question.

I want to know what you think we should cut.

If you don't have an answer, don't know what you think, don't care, don't want to tell us - that's fine.

But 'the government will decide' is answer to a different question. Not the one I asked.

This included India. There are small Black-descended enclaves in ports but I always wondered why there were so few descendants. This makes more sense now.

Why don't you look up why the Commonwealth leaders are seeking reparations, for a start.

letmegooglethat.com/?q=why+are+commonwealth+countries+asking+the+uk+for+reparations

What about when the UK stole land from other people.

We're they greedy toe rags?

Do we need to help them though? Danajune11 the pious is surely already in a leading role, demanding those governments pay reparations and all the wrongs of their slavery ways are righted ..

... right?

Multiple news reports have said that the Commonwealth leaders also want an apology.

I wonder will Keir Starmer give one

What would the reparations be for?

In recent-ish examples where reparations (not compensation) were paid, it was for something direct and tangible, like Jewish holocaust survivors and displaced people being repaid for loss of earnings, loss of property, loss of education... It's not that the German state now makes reparations to British descendants of Jewish refugees living in the UK on the basis that they might have a nicer life if Nazism had never happened and they had been born and brought up in Germany.

I don't see how anyone living in Barbados or anywhere can objectively say, "my life would be better if I'd been born in Ghana because my descendants hadn't been sold into slavery 200 years ago".

I'd rather be pious than a bully.

Try to grow and evolve @unrulyrabbit.

You insulted several people on here

The slave trade to Arabia etc was different in that the owners did not want to breed the slaves. Men were castrated to be guards, sometimes of the seraglio, or they worked as administrators dealing with financial matters etc. Sometimes they were soldiers. They weren't supposed to provide future slaves as more would be bought if required. The nature of the slavery and the work done was different.
Female slaves were always sexually abused wherever they were.

The commonwealth leaders are also seeking an applogy

I don't see how anyone living in Barbados or anywhere can objectively say, "my life would be better if I'd been born in Ghana because my descendants hadn't been sold into slavery 200 years ago".

Well quite. Admittedly, they could argue that a tiny percentage of British people enriched themselves at the expense of their ancestors but so could the millions in the UK who worked in mills and mines in often deadly conditions for very little money.

I wonder will they get an apology out of Keir?

The ruling classes who benefited from it should be the ones who pay,if anyone does pay, not the majority of us whose are ansestors were little more than slaves themselves.