Babsy from Jamaica wants your money

[jmn]

Apparently Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, a Jamaican Politician, is going to petition the Queen for 7 billion in reparations for slavery.

[austinsmirk]

It’ll get as far as my request to president putin for occupying my families land, stealing numerous properties, murdering many of them in the Stalin death camps and for those that survived, forcing them to flee to different continents.

And that’s in living memory of my parents: not many 100’s of years ago. We even have deeds to property.

Or how about some compo for my German family being locked up in WW1 by the British because they happened to be in Great Britain when the war broke out. Sent to the Isle of Man and also to work on farms as slave labour. Not just adults, even the children.

And then in ww2, not locked up as in valuable professions and needed for the war effort.


Good luck babsy.

I’m off to order myself a rolls on the strength of it.

Rant aside, we forget humankind has been bloody awful to everyone over time. And still is alas.

[FunkyNige]

Wouldn't shock me if it was China who put them up to this
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/world/americas/...
Another Caribbean country wanted to get rid of the Queen in the last few years, turned out that request came from China too.

[Biker 1]

I'm suing Denmark, Norway & Sweden for what the Vikings did in my part of the world.

[Puggit]

I've asked the Italians for the Euros silverware due to the atrocities the Romans committed around this part of England.

[LargeRed]

jmn said:

Apparently Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, a Jamaican Politician, is going to petition the Queen for 7 billion in reparations for slavery.

Is that £ sterling ?? or all the slaves exported from Jamaica ??

[mmm-five]

Puggit said:

I've asked the Italians for the Euros silverware due to the atrocities the Romans committed around this part of England.

Was that at Wembley on Sunday evening

[redrabbit]

Well after the £400bn that Boris and Matt from Westminster have rinsed me for lately, she'll have to wait until next payday. I'm a bit skint at the moment

[amusingduck]

redrabbit said:

Well after the £400bn that Boris and Matt from Westminster have rinsed me for lately, she'll have to wait until next payday. I'm a bit skint at the moment

worst "I'm a trillionaire' post ever

[A Winner Is You]

Will they be suing the African nations whose ancestors willingly participated in the slave trade?

[Newc]

As the legal representative of the descendants of the naturally evolved wildlife of Britain in 300,000 BCE, I hereby claim reparations from Africa for all the lads who popped over here from Ethiopia around that time, and roasted our ancestors.

[jimPH]

I presume Babsy will be happy to cash the cheque and distribute evenly amongst the inhabitants.

[austinsmirk]

A Winner Is You said:

Will they be suing the African nations whose ancestors willingly participated in the slave trade?

Can’t be arsed Googling it but wasn’t the “ king of Africa “ technically the worlds richest person ever, on the back of it back in the 16th C ?

Let’s be clear, aided and abetted by Europeans though.

[Biggy Stardust]

jmn said:

Apparently Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, a Jamaican Politician, is going to petition the Queen for 7 billion in reparations for slavery.

The technical term is 'trying it on'.

Chancer.

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Quite a few are asking Sturgeon for 600k she owes them.

[A Winner Is You]

austinsmirk said:

Let’s be clear, aided and abetted by Europeans though.

Oh absolutely. But slavery is as old as mankind and still continues today, including in this very country. But it's easier to just pretend it was the collective fault of white Europeans and ignore the more inconvenient examples.

[Dagnir]

Why do we even have to entertain these nutbars?

Laugh and move on should be the response every single time. As soon as you discuss it,it gives it legitimacy.

[Derek Smith]

A Winner Is You said:

austinsmirk said:

Let’s be clear, aided and abetted by Europeans though.

Oh absolutely. But slavery is as old as mankind and still continues today, including in this very country. But it's easier to just pretend it was the collective fault of white Europeans and ignore the more inconvenient examples.

The Barbery Coast priates transported more slaves, albeit over a much loger period of time. They,unlike the slave traders, enslaved most of them, some of whom were sourced from the coastal towns of theBritish Isles, togher with many other countries of course.

[blackrabbit]

Dagnir said:

Why do we even have to entertain these nutbars?

Laugh and move on should be the response every single time. As soon as you discuss it,it gives it legitimacy.

That's the trick the BBC have pulled for years.

[Sn1ckers]

Biker 1 said:

I'm suing Denmark, Norway & Sweden for what the Vikings did in my part of the world.

I’m going to sue the Irish Government for the slave trading that went on in Dublin. I’m sure some of my ancestors were taken there and sold…..