I agree with Sir Kier Starmer! I am going for a lie-down.

Completely agree. What is done is done and we can only move forwards now. Someone should try telling Lammy that. Dreadful man.

It's ridiculous to be asked IMO.

Yes I agree on this too. Descendents of slaves should be asked if they would like to return, I think they would prefer to stay. Just need to ask the migrants who would love to be settled here

Some reparation, if any, should only come from families who benefitted from slavery in the distant past. There was one such in my last village, had an inherited farm and manor house. No individuals should be reaping housing/land/money rewards clearly from inherited slavery profits

I agree the money should be spent on charging and prosecuting for modern slavery rife in this country. More trained staff to watch for it too. I think it's part of Cooper's strategy.

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I agree too. What is done is done and we cannot turn the clock back. The ramifications of slavery are so immeasurably and globally vast that financial reparation makes no sense at all - where to start/where to stop? - who to target/who to leave out? - how to police how the money is spent? ............

And where to find the money in the first place?

I wish the amount of discussion and hand wringing about reparations for something that was admittedly truly appalling but nevertheless had the complicity of many foreign nationals involvement, was directed instead in stopping the considerable enslavement and trafficking of people in the right now!

I agree too. What is done is done and we cannot turn the clock back. The ramifications of slavery are so immeasurably and globally vast that financial reparation makes no sense at all - where to start/where to stop? - who to target/who to leave out? - how to police how the money is spent? ............

I agree too. I didn't expect this stance.