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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.
Not only are @UKLabour not dealing with the current benefits crisis they are adding to it. As Maggie once said Socialists always run out of other people’s money.
Hi @HeathrowAirport! I didn’t think T4 could get much worse, but that was before I flew back in and had to go through passport control. Here’s an idea, get rid of the useless machines and actually employ some staff to check the passports.
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Britain’s coming financial disaster, explained in under two minutes. By @LiamHalligan
Link to full episode in replies 👇
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“We would have been jailed...”
In this week’s podcast, @HJoyceGender speaks to the mother of a detransitioner, who warns that proposed conversion-practices legislation could result in families like hers facing criminal charges.
Watch and share: youtube.com/watch?v=GiAXq5IU…
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Anyone who has been around Brixton station of late will be aware that the area is covered in litter. Bins are overflowing, there is a severe homelessness issue and it's crackhead/anti-social behaviour galore. So, shall we check in on what Lambeth Council will be spending time discussing at its meeting this evening?
Well! Tonight Lambeth Council, led by a Green-Lib Dem coalition is due to discuss Motion 3 (Green Group): Palestine – End the Genocide, Complicity and Impunity. "This motion condemns Israel's actions in Gaza, calls for an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages. It also calls on the UK Government to halt arms exports, impose economic sanctions, and provide evidence to the International Criminal Court. It further proposes that the Council review its contracts and investments to divest from companies complicit in violations of international law."
Note they haven't even been bothered to update the language still referencing hostages...
This is Lambeth Council's priority while some of the worst crime and antisocial behaviour in London is happening as we speak within its boundaries.
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The Britain the ‘97 Conservative manifesto describes is shockingly functional. World leading in fiscal prudence and economic success:
More exports per capita than America, more pension savings than the entire EU, an entire section called “the best place in the world to live”
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Every adult should not be forced to ingest Folic Acid in everyday food items, just to benefit a small minority who are trying to become pregnant.
Folic Acid supplements cost almost nothing, and can be taken by that group of people.
Stop MEDICATING the population through diet..
Absolutely sick!
NEW BORN INFANTS CAN BE TERMINATED (INFANTICIDE) AFTER A LIVE BIRTH IN MINNESOTA
MN Governor Tim Walz signing to REPEAL the Minnesota “Born Alive Infants Protection Act.”
Now a botched abortion (an infant born alive after a botched abortion) or a healthy new born infant, Can Now Be LEGALLY TERMINATED after a live birth. This is defined as INFANTICIDE. Keeping the new born drugged until it's death is been labled as " COMFORT CARE"
Look how elated the women around Waltz are behaving…
I think that this is a much better name for Ireland!
Really well done today @Se_Railway and @TfL. Knocking out both Charing X and the District Line takes some planning 👏👏👏
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The government admits they do not know the safe limit for consumption of this synthetic drug that puts the health of every single one of us at risk..
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HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF.
In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths.
That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower.
What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all.
Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing.
Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession.
No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency.
During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release.
The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy.
He hasn't.
Sources: @guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice
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People like @piersmorgan who don't know (or pretend not to understand) the proven facts about the war in Gaza and the number of civilian deaths are always quick to claim Israel's actions are "massively disproportionate" and that they should show more "restraint".
But they never answer this key question:
What would be the PROPORTIONATE response by Israel to the savage invasion by Hamas on October 7 to murder, rape, torture and kidnap hundreds of Israeli civilians?
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Oh wow. This is quite shocking. Put in your own postcode and find out how much is being spent on benefits of different kinds in your area ⬇️
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This is like Deja Vu all over again.
In 52 years we've come full circle...
Oohhhh… well done taxpayers!
The government is spending £81 MILLION on an early warning system for climate tipping points including changes in the Atlantic that MIGHT mean cold Canadian type winters…
At the same time as committing £BILLIONS of our money preparing for overwhelming heat!
Covering all bases hahaha 🤣
(that’s hysteria, not mirth)
