Keir Starmer must continue to defy absurd slavery compensation demands – they would be death knell for our economy
Silly money
DEMANDS for vast compensation from Britain for the horrors of slavery are so obviously ridiculous no Prime Minister could ever give in to them.
The suggestion that Brits in 2024 should pay hundreds of billions for ancient wrongs committed centuries before they were born is madness.
Keir Starmer deserves credit so far for knocking it back.
Commonwealth leaders opportunistically seeking riches from Britain are certain it’s just “a matter of time” before he surrenders. He must never do so.
It would be the death knell for our economy and his Government.
Trans-Atlantic slavery, and Britain’s role in it, were of course abhorrent. But we did not invent slavery.
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We DID lead the charge 200 years ago to end it, at massive expense.
That aside, once one country can extract huge sums from another over some historic wrongdoing, where would anyone stop?
And would we conversely be entitled to a trillion-dollar reward for enriching human life globally via British inventions and medicines?
Starmer must continue to defy these absurd campaigns. But what if, say, the UN — whose legal rulings he apparently considers sacred — tells us to pay up?
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He will have to defy them too. Or prepare for a voter revolt like none he can currently imagine.
Unite or lose
THE West must not be caught napping as North Korea wades into the Ukraine war on Russia’s side.
Madman Kim Jong Un has reportedly sent in thousands of troops, possibly disguised as Russian citizens, to shore up Putin’s catastrophic daily losses.
It raises the terrifying prospect of this appalling conflict widening, even into a world war.
South Korea is limbering up to retaliate. Germany fears a domino effect, with China and India also dragged in.
Britain will not waver in our support for Ukraine. But nor must whoever wins the US Presidency, or the nations of Europe.
It was appalling, then, to watch UN chief Antonio Guterres bow and scrape before the imperialist monster Putin yesterday as he attended the BRICS summit in Russia.
Why was he there? Did he really think anyone was paying the slightest attention to his impotent pleas for peace?
Russia is a rotten pariah state led by a war criminal who invaded and butchered a neighbouring nation hoping to fold it into his new empire. His days posing as a statesman requiring anyone’s respect should be long over.
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Despite Labour’s apparently unshakable admiration for the UN it has proven — via its obscene anti-Israeli bias and now its cravenness towards the Kremlin tyrant — that it is utterly broken.
A ruin personified by the useless pipsqueak leading it.