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Mister James
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PostPosted: 19:44 - 27 Feb 2007    Post subject: British Reparations! Excellent site for a giggle! Reply with quote

https://britishreparations.org/index.php

Enjoy!

(surely it must be a hoax?!)
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PostPosted: 23:37 - 27 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can sympathise with the idea that the British empire hurt alot of people. But if you endorse the reperation idea then where should we stop? Perhaps i should sue the French for the Norman invasion.
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PostPosted: 00:18 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

sandino wrote:
I can sympathise with the idea that the British empire hurt alot of people.


Helped a fair few as well, but I forget. Revisionist history is fine as long as it doesn't mention the holocaust Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 01:19 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm englsih and i'm feeling repressed by that...

can i have some money please?


reminds me of the Monty Python sketch..'what did the romans ever do for us?...'

i agree we did some pretty nasty things...the amritsar massacre springs to mind...but as a global power, i'm glad it was us and not the Germans, or the Japanese...
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PostPosted: 01:26 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

danzai66 wrote:
reminds me of the Monty Python sketch..'what did the romans ever do for us?...'


hmm ... roads? latrines? viaducts? iced dormouse? Wink

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PostPosted: 08:22 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are actually some valid cases , maybe put a limit ie people who are still alive,

remember election day what was it 2005? ,

Blair exiled an entire people from their home land, the Diego Garcians , using an ancient dictatorial rule ,

namely as we had built a gigantic airbase on their Island, to add insult to injury we said they couldn't live on any of the outlaying Islands either, and that they could NEVER ever ever ever ever return,

the high court overturned it end of 2006,
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PostPosted: 08:55 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have only recently finished paying America reparations for the money they "donated" to us during World War 2.

I think the only colonies we probably really hurt were those of Africa, there are loads of Colonies that are doing well for themselves. India, Australia etc.
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PostPosted: 09:11 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jon B wrote:
We have only recently finished paying America reparations for the money they "donated" to us during World War 2.

I think the only colonies we probably really hurt were those of Africa, there are loads of Colonies that are doing well for themselves. India, Australia etc.


We did cause harm in the middle east, but the US have done and are doing a LOT worse!
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PostPosted: 10:54 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure we should pay them a load of money as compensaion for any harm they believe (and can prove) they have suffered at the hands of the empire.
Of course this works both ways, and we should expect to be able to bill the same people for the infrastructure we created in their countries including buildings, road systems, communications, water and sewage handling systems, business infrastructure, banks, housing, schools, hospitals etc. Plus several decades of defence and government of course!
The proceeds from that little lot should see us all fairly comfortable for some time to come Smile
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PostPosted: 11:00 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jon B wrote:

I think the only colonies we probably really hurt were those of Africa, there are loads of Colonies that are doing well for themselves. India, Australia etc.


I disagree, all African economies were handed over to self rule with well established infrastructures and in fairly sound state, economically and financially. They've f*cked it up all for themselves and we shouldn't be held in any way responsible for that.
I speak as an African colonialist, born and bred, spent 18 years in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe and all my immediate family still live in Zambia.
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PostPosted: 17:17 - 28 Feb 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
Jon B wrote:
We have only recently finished paying America reparations for the money they "donated" to us during World War 2.

I think the only colonies we probably really hurt were those of Africa, there are loads of Colonies that are doing well for themselves. India, Australia etc.


We did cause harm in the middle east, but the US have done and are doing a LOT worse!


Actually, I'd say that native muslims have got us all licked on the "causing harm to the Middle East" front, seeing as the majority of casualties in Iraq are Muslim-on-Muslim.
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