A rather large bill......

or break the economy entirely
To give an idea of how big a trillion is.
One million seconds is 11 hours.
One billion seconds is 32 years
One trillion seconds is 31,710 years
So yes, I think it would break the economy.

The past is a different country, and it’s inadvisable to travel there

But which black people?

A large number of black people in Britain come from African countries that were never involved in slavery. Do they qualify?

Those whose African ancestors profited from slavery and were never themselves enslaved? Would they be eligible? Who would look into what their ancestors did?

People with one black parent? One black grandparent? One black great grandparent? How far back would you go and how would you work out whether a persons forebears suffered more than they profited?

Only black people? Not those of other origins who suffered slavery? Would they have to campaign separately?

Would it be a separate ring-fenced tax? Otherwise black people who pay tax would be paying for their own reparations?

If a separate tax, would those of Asian descent ( say) have to pay, because they were not involved? if not who would be exempt?

Does he cover any of the details like this?

It would be good to acknowledge that the UK regrets how it behaved in the past.
As sunami says, the slaves didn't get any compensation.
Perhaps those families whose wealth is as a result of the slave trade could try and find a way to make some sort of reparation.

Maybe, then, the British government should pressure the Italian government for appropriate reparation for the thousands of Ancient Britons who were abducted and forced into slavery during the Roman Occupation 2000 years ago?

(Has Mr Lenny Henry got a project coming up which needs a bit of publicity? He's been out of the spotlight for quite a while.)

Lenny Henry + David Lammy.
Cut from the same cloth. Professional victims.

I was wondering the same grandMattie.

Will the African chiefs and Arab traders, who gleefully provided the slaves, contribute to the reparations? What about the other countries like France and the Netherlands?
And what about the Barbary pirates who went as far as Scandinavia for their white slaves - very many from Cornwall - provide us with money?

The Windrush workers were poorly served.

I think its one of those demands that ask for the impossible but there may be more realistic goals like "repairing" the damage that the hostility and "pushing into ghettos" that the Windrush Generation and their descendants suffered.

Inviting people over to fill jobs white workers would not do, and treating them like *hit on the whole: is never a wise move.

The £20 million in 1833 was paid to slave owners. The slaves didn't receive anything.