Reform UK Will Block Visas From All Countries Demanding Slavery Reparations From Britain
Reform UK will block visa requests from any country that demands reparations from the UK should the party win the next election, saying such claims “ignore that Britain made huge sacrifices to be the first major power to outlaw slavery”. The Mail has more.
Home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf claimed such nations ignore the “huge sacrifices” the UK had made to ban slavery.
Several African and Caribbean countries – such as Nigeria and Jamaica – have made requests, raising the prospect that their nationals could be barred from entering the UK.
Yusuf said: “A growing number of countries are demanding reparations from Britain. They ignore the fact that Britain made huge sacrifices to be the first major power to outlaw slavery and enforce this prohibition.
“Astonishingly, of the countries demanding reparations, Tory and Labour governments issued 3.8 million visas to their nationals and sent them a staggering £6.6 billion in foreign aid over the past two decades. Enough is enough.”
Those making demands also include Kenya, Haiti, Guyana, Barbados and the Bahamas, Reform said. It added that if it won the next election, the party would immediately halt visas for nationals from any country that formally demands reparations from Britain.
Reform’s vow comes weeks after the UN voted in favour of Britain and other former colonial powers paying reparations for slavery – possibly totalling trillions of pounds.
Britain was one of 52 countries that abstained from voting for a resolution which described the forced displacement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity”.
The African Union, a bloc of 55 member states, is seeking compensation for the harms inflicted by the slave trade.
It argues that countries such as Britain should now begin “good faith dialogue on reparatory justice, including a full and formal apology, measures of restitution and compensation”.
In 2023, a UN judge said Britain – which controlled a quarter of Africa at the height of empire – could owe more than £18 trillion.
Reform leader Nigel Farage last week told GB News: “It was a UN court that gave an advisory judgment to give away the Chagos Islands.
“And it is now the UN telling us we should go bankrupt, to apologise for what people did in 1775 or whatever it might have been. Forget it. The UN has no legitimacy over this country whatsoever.”
Reform has also vowed to cap foreign aid payments to £1 billion – a 90% cut.
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There is an even better response to demands for slavery reparations and that is that the descendants of slaves taken from Africa to the Americas are a million times better off than their cousins many times removed, languishing in African shitholes.
So actually, rather than asking for reparations, they should be saying thanks, show appreciation for the sacrifice of their ancestors, and – dare I say – maybe even pay a gratitude fee to Britain for having saved them from the almost certain misery they would otherwise have in Africa.
I’ll break all my principles and actually go out and vote for a party that takes that position loudly and publicly.
I recall Michele Obama gratefully admitting something similar about her background.
Maybe the compo should be paid by African Americans to the ‘family’ they left back home in Africa.
No visa and no foreign aid.
Needs to be extended to all countries not 100% cooperative in taking back deportees.
Yes, like PAKISTAN.
Hear, hear!
Those calling for reparations need to be slapped down, firmly but kindly. Throughout history things have happened that later generations regret. We have to learn the lessons and move on, not rekindle old bitternesses as a way of extracting money from others.
“Lammy had stated, “As Caribbean people WE are not going to forget our history, WE don’t just want to hear an apology — WE want reparations”. Thrice identifying as Caribbean, Lammy moved on to be: Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice and Deputy Prime Minister” in the current Labour Government.
This music video will be my abiding memory of Lammy:
“Wannabe Like Lammy” Crewkerne Gazette ft David Lammy – YouTube
Lammy is nowhere near clever enough to do these roles if he had been selected on merit only
There is nothing to regret. Compare GB Empire to all empires and nations at that time and previously and we were conforming to what every other nation was doing as those were the options. The Industriasl Revolution created prodigeous amounts of energy which translates into wealth. This wealth could not have been created using slavery otherwise Spain, Portugal and all the African nations, inlcuding North African Islamic nations, should be the richest on the planet and we should have seen great scientific and engineering advances coming out of Tripoli. Instead….
[The African Union]… “argues that countries such as Britain should now begin “good faith dialogue on reparatory justice, including a full and formal apology, measures of restitution and compensation”. “
And The African Union will studiously ignore the fact that African Kings and Chiefs sold their slaves to the Europeans, and The African Union will continue to claim that Europeans simply walked into Africa and thrust all the healthy, wealthy, happy, free Africans into boats.
And the idiot woke Europeans of today will continue to believe The African Union.
Indeed. Not only did Africans sell their neighbours to European traders, in a lot of cases they even bought Africans that the Europeans had purchased and shipped from another part of the African coast. For much of the era of the Atlantic slave trade the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana) was a net importer of African slaves. Their hypocrisy is off the scale.
Plenty of slavery still happening in Africa – but nobody cares about that.
But Reform also welcomed Nadim Zahawi into its ranks, one of the chief conductors of the scamdemic and someone who would have quite happily sent you to a local gulag for not submitting to their highly lucrative experimental drugs. I really want to believe in someone like Reform but to me they smell eggy.
So far Restore Britain seem to be the only party who walk the talk.
Nobody asking for power deserves to have it. Aim to lead a life an archos, it’s the only way, everything else is disappointment.
Zahawi stinks the place out.
I have no idea who Reform might put up as a candidate in my local area. I know this, if there is a Restore candidate they will get my vote, if a Reform candidate I will be very carefully assessing their background. No ex-Uniparty and no foreign or duel nationals and if no one fits the bill I will not be voting. By the way I have very little faith that voting for anyone will get us out of this mess.
When you reflect on how people have been bound, controlled, and exploited throughout all history, it is actually difficult to believe that grownups can be having this conversation. I’m sure I’m descended from an unfree knight or possibly a Roman or Egyptian slave or even a serf from the feudal system, I just need some liberal mug to convince I should be compensated. Looks like a nice little earner.
Very good idea.
Additional suggestion would be: At least suspend all payments to any UN organizations for as long as they’re basically just running rackets to extort money from present-day British taxpayers. I realize we have it. But this doesn’t mean you’re entitled to take it, messieurs.
These people are an extremely nice illustration of the fact that giving anything to beggars just makes them come back to ask for more. They’ve been on the European payroll ever since their pseudo-states became independent they got as present including everything on top of that. And the only thing this so-called development aid actually caused to develop is ever more obnoxious requests for yet more money.
[…] basically just running rackets to extort money from present-day British taxpayers.
Expanding on this a little: A sizable minority of present-day British taxpayers includes Europeans from countries which never partook in the transatlantic slave trade, immigrants from the former British colony of India, immigrants from former British colonies in Africa and immigrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean. Pray tell me, why do any these people owe present inhabitants of African and Caribbean countries anything?
In the special case of the latter, are these people really asking their own former fellow countrymen to subsidize them staying in the Carribbean? Something like Well, maybe you’re on minimum wage, bro, but I’m living in a heavily subsidized holiday resort and want your money!
NB: I realize this is heavily oversimplified but it highlights one aspect of it. The US-based NGOs behind this (likely conjecture) are seriously beyond shameless.
A good post, except your NB conjecture is wrong.
“The Africa Reparations Movement, also known as ARM (UK), was formed in 1993 following the Abuja Proclamation declared at the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations in Abuja, NIGERIA, in the same year. The conference was convened by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT.”
“In early 1993, British MP Bernie Grant [an Ethnic African] toured the country speaking about the need for reparations for slavery.”
Reparations for slavery – Wikipedia
It’s usually possible to uncover what must exist by looking for it:
Within the political sphere, a bill demanding slavery reparations has been proposed at the national level, the “Commission to Study and Devel Reparation Proporsal for African-Americans Act”, which former Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) reintroduced to the United States Congress every year from 1989 until his resignation in 2017.
That’s from the same Wikipedia article.
As an Ethnic African man, former Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) stood to gain a considerable amount of money from that. Here he is:
“Blocking visas” has also been proposed by yet another Muslim from the Indian Subcontinent like Yusuf: Shabby Mahmood. A rather lame measure.
It’s like putting a Fox in charge of the henhouse, and the Fox lightly slapping the paw of other Foxes demanding reparations while trying to get into the henhouse, and the Fox puts them in charge of other henhouses in the area, and continues to send foreign aid to all of them in their dens.
Didn’t these countries enslave their own people for the trade?
Blacks. Problem children. Tell them to go feck themselves. We’re not paying. And, in fact, here’s a bill for all the rapes and murders and assaults on white British people by black and other brown immigrants, that we never wanted or needed. And here’s a Bill for all the welfare we have paid and are paying to lazy black and brown immigrants who take the mickey out of us.
When the civil war breaks, they’ll be sent away really fast. Africa had better get ready.
I think we should start drawing up the bill for the use of and benefits from of all the inventions and expertise these nations have had from British inventors, scientists, civil engineers etc since the 17th century.
I think we’ll find out they owe us …..