Commonwealth leaders are set to elect a new head of the organisation who favours demanding that Britain be made to pay slavery and climate reparations. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Keir Starmer will have to face down calls for the U.K. to hand billions of pounds to former colonies when he attends the group’s bi-annual summit in Samoa this week.
The club’s 56 member countries will choose its next Secretary General at the gathering as Baroness Scotland, a Labour peer, stands down.
They are set to pick from three candidates, all from African nations, who have all voiced support for the U.K. paying some form of reparations.
Downing Street has ruled out discussing their demands for cash at this week’s summit, insisting that they are “not on the agenda”. …
One of the three will be elected to replace Lady Scotland, a former Attorney General, who has come to the end of her eight-year term in office.
Sir Keir can expect to face a barrage of demands for reparations from Commonwealth leaders whom he meets during the six-day summit.
Island nations including the Bahamas and Barbados are also pressing for multi-billion pound payouts linked to Western countries’ impact on climate change.
Worth reading in full.
Any excuse to demand money, it seems. Completely shameless. If a country is struggling economically, it has nothing to do with something that ceased 200 years ago, even less with some future projected ‘climate catastrophe’. Sounds like they need to stop blaming others for whatever misfortunes they are experiencing and work out some actual solutions.
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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – CHOGM.
It is said Mrs Thatcher used to call this Come Hands Outstretched to Grab Money.
Failed, loser Countries begging.
It’s very odd indeed that only whites are to be punished for
abolishingonce having a hand in slavery. Why aren’t the saintly non-whites also to be punished? What could possibly be the reason for this double-standard? It’s a puzzle. It’s such a puzzling puzzle.I guess if we come up with a figure for reparations, it must take into account the ‘redress’ we have already made over the centuries, up to the present time e.g. ending the slave trade and policing the seas, foreign aid, the benefits conferred from vaccines and medicines, the introduction of the rule of law etc. etc. A balance sheet approach.
“A balance sheet approach.”
Which will comfortably show that the former colonials owe us billions.
And damages for lost descendents, due to the Middle Eastern tradition of catrating slaves.
It’s about time the UK removed itself from this remnant of Empire.
Arkell vs pressdram.
Tell the Commonwealth nations to F O.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/10-reasons-why-we-must-leave-the-echr-and-take-back-control-of-our-borders/
And here is Matt Goodwin with a blistering ten reasons why we need to leave the ECHR.
“BRITAIN may have voted for Brexit but don’t believe the hype — we are still not a sovereign, self-governing, independent nation. Why? Because we cannot control who comes in and out of the country. We cannot deport foreign national criminals. Because of this, we cannot keep the British people and our children safe.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. A state that cannot control its borders is not a serious state, and a nation that cannot keep its own people safe is not a serious nation.
This is why I’ve gone against the grain by advocating that we leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), reform if not replace Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act (HRA), and pass new laws that put the interests and rights of the British people ahead of international conventions and courts.”
Nailed it—Excellent
The English People, including their descendants in Canada, Australia & New Zealand, have never benefitted in any way from the Commonwealth, which has never served any useful purpose at all.
Get rid!
Abolish England’s “membership” of the Commonwealth, and the EU, and the United Nations, and NATO, and the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, and the United Kingdom, and all these supra-national clubs designed to drain money away from the West and fill the pockets of Third World politicians.
Interesting historical fact:
“Commonwealth” is an entirely Jewish concept, like Communism.
We don’t need either.
And any money extorted from Britain would be used the same way as the BLM donations.
If there are reparations to be made then all that make such demands must be repatriated to where their ancestors came from and the islands that they currently live in must be returned to UK ownership and cleared of all slave descendants. Of course descendants of black slave owners will have to pay those that they owned out of their reparation money.
Climate Reparations——Simply another wealth stealing scam. —–There is no increase in the frequency or intensity of weather events so what are these reparations for exactly?
At what point can you legitimately withhold tax payments?
Time to cut this bunch of scroungers loose.
We didn’t finish paying slave owning people reparations from the 19th Century till 2015 that’s how much the Government borrowed, they ought to study history rather than try and grift more money.