Tories vote against UN Resolution on Reparations for the slave trade. What price British history?
The Government has voted against a UN Resolution that called for Governments to make reparations for slavery and the slave trade.
The UK Human Rights Ambassador Rita French said in part:
We do not agree with claims made in this resolution that states are required to make reparations for the slave trade and colonialism, which caused great suffering to many but were not, at that time, violations of international law.
According to Ms French the UK doesn’t need to do anything about its imperial history and the profits that were made out of it by businessmen in the UK but it wasn’t illegal at the time.
It suggests that there are some parts of British history that at least the current Government doesn’t want to think about let alone act on
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