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REPARATIONS OR MONEY LAUNDERING? Can we ask the proper question here? Is this reparations or money laundering? If this comes to pass... It takes money out of our tax system, but where does it actually go? Descendants of slaves aren't just the current underprivileged, they're also now professors, doctors, sportsmen, people with good jobs. It's at least 4 or 5 generations since anyone was a slave. So considering we now have an estimated 50 million people in modern day slavery (15.7 million of those in Commonwealth countries alone), does reparations just keep rolling on and on? We can't get timely healthcare as it is. By the time our taxes have gone on weapons to countries at war, foreign aid, and now reparations, there's nothing left to run the country. The benefits system gobbles up our PAYE as it is. The correct response in my view. Every nation had slaves, Britain began the dismantling of the Transatlantic Slave Trade . We had our own slaves in the depressing wool and cotton mills, the coal mines and foundries .kids worked barefoot , dressing in rags their entire lives and died young. Reparations ignores our suffering. The working class didn't choose this life. Do our forefathers get ignored because of their skin colour? Isn't it fashionable these days to reflect on their abuse.? They worked for a pittance , had malnutrition and a host of health conditions directly caused b their environment Reparations should start here!