2006-11-29 08:48:39 · 8 answers · asked by BD M 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
what are you talking about?
did i miss something?
2006-11-29 08:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by Lexi 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are absolutly correct.
I have had this debate in former colonies when they complain, for example about the treatment of Indian nationals by the British Empire in India.
My answer was that the ruling class (aristocracy) used and abused their own British citizens in the same and often in a worse way. The British working class were press ganged by force (from pubs in most major cities) into the Army & Navy and their families never notified, most never to return.
The mines, the mills etc were a living death for millions of British citizens with aveage life spans of 30 years. Many of the mines were owned by the Royal Family (Bowes Lyon - the Queen Mother)
We talk about the heroic Nelson, most of the crews who died on the cannon decks were all press ganged into service and many were 12 to 15 years old, see the graveyard in Gibraltar for the battle of Trafalgar, it is shocking to see what was done to the British citizens in that time by thier own government.
The slave trade was done by the same "aristocracy" to provide labour for their colonial farms, not by the British people.
Many British were "transported" to the New World for the same reason.
So Mr. Bliar let your own people have an appology first ,for once.
2006-11-30 05:45:54 · answer #2 · answered by ian d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no apologies to make to anyone. My family came here as indentured servants. They worked as slaves their whole lives so that their children could have a better life. I am truely thankful that they made this sacrifice so that I could be born in the greatest country on earth!
2006-11-29 17:06:48 · answer #3 · answered by FabMom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Britain shouldn't apologize for slavery it was around for thousands of years(globally), and we were the first to abolish it, therefore we shouldn't apologize to ancestors of Brit slaves, rather they should be thanking us for leading a global revolution.
2006-12-02 09:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by jb 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should he say sorry?
He didn't do anything did he?
Or perhaps he is just following his bloodline of saying sorry for his ancestors. Seems just like a leader in this country though to say sorry on one hand and bomb the **** out of another country on the other.
2006-11-29 19:59:18 · answer #5 · answered by Tony G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never mind slavery he wants to apologise for the atrocities in the Middle East today... in his name. Slavery was wrong but so were many things in the past he is not responsible for it so why he's apologising I don't know.
2006-11-29 17:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by reggie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So what is he supposed to do appologise to every-one for everything. Would that make you feel better and any-way what's it got to do with you? Are you working class and are we living in that time. No
2006-11-29 16:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by matt30 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes I agree. My folks were miners and worked in dreadful conditions just to survive.
2006-11-29 16:54:04 · answer #8 · answered by MsCurious 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋