Prime Minister David Cameron was propositioned for money by his Jamaican counterpart, Portia Simpson Miller, yesterday, and told to personally apologise because in 1833, his first cousin six times removed, General Sir James Duff, was paid £4,101 for the loss of his two hundred and two slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica. This is somehow, through disordered logic, David Cameron's fault.... Greater nonsense, I have never heard. Opportunistic hyenas among the echelons of Jamaican politicians see the chance not only to insult the UK Prime Minister and the first country to abolish slavery - the United Kingdom, but also to get their hands on UK Taxpayer's money. Of course they won't receive a penny, and neither should they. We, are not responsible for slavery in Jamaica or anywhere else. How could we be? None of us were alive at the time, and even if we had been, what chance would we have had to change anything? Even if we were inclined to agree to such compensation, where would we draw the line? Should I pursue a claim against the Italian government because my Celtic ancestors were dispossessed by Caesar's legions, or the French, because my Anglo-Saxon ancestors were enslaved and murdered by the Norman invaders, or the German's because my grandfather was maimed at the Battle of the Somme?
No comments:
Post a Comment