On Reparation Claims

 

How can we fight against the madness of these thieving reparations ?

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What nonsense concerning events that were ended two hundred and fifty years ago! Where is intelligence and wisdom - particularly within the Church of England.

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Our friends from the Caribbean seem to have a serious hangup bordering on the racial spectrum. 

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Slavery was abhorrent, there is no question, but we must remember that although we were guilty along with others on the purchase side, their own people were guilty of rounding up and supplying. Why are they not being targeted?

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There is little doubt that this situation has been sparked by the Windrush generation (some of whom were treated badly by our government). As this is the case then I want to claim reparation for my Grandfather who died in 1951 from Silicosis at a young age through digging coal to keep the Windrush brethren warm! I was a very young boy when I saw him fighting for breath just before he died.

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Whilst many of our freed Caribbean friends were living in conditions often described as paradise in view of what was available to them, many of my own countrymen were living and working in extremely unpleasant conditions particularly in the north of England in factories which supplied the world with textiles, steels etc. Children as young as six worked in these industries in order to earn enough money for the families to survive. Children were also down the mines and there was the terrible accident when a mine explosion took the lives of approximately twenty children. Just one example.

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The English working class were treated far worse than slaves on many occasions. Life in those days was not fair for anyone. You just cannot get anything for nothing which seems to not be the idea for our Caribbean friends. This I have witnessed first hand in Trinidad.

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As someone who has worked extremely hard all my life, and paid into all the state requirements, I will no longer be giving any support to the Church!

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