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General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: Scunner on August 18, 2013, 20:39:34 PM
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I wonder if anyone else is irritated by this ridiculous political act. Tony Blair apologising for slavery, or another politician apologising for something in WW2, or even the Japanese PM apologising for Pearl Harbour.
What a crock! Generally these people weren't even born at the time of the thing they are apologising for - could there be a more empty message of sorrow.
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Sorry.
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It's too late
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Why have you now gone red Scunner?
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Wasn't I red before?
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Felt like chucking something at the telly when they were apologising for Dresden. Never heard the Germans apologising for London, Coventry, Liverpool etc.
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No, you were green, I'm yellow, what does it all mean ?
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Must mean he's in charge
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For what it's worth I was in charge before any colour change :D
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Is it true you're only in charge cos Mrs Scunner says so?
:)
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There is an element of truth to that Martin. But in fairness, she only thinks that because I let her.
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Likewise
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typical politician always too late to change things that have happened
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Yes but they are sorry for that too. I am sorry we never kept the iron lady in power. >:(
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I think we should apologise to the Americans for losing the war of independence and saddling them with hundreds of years of rule by idiots and the construction of a mendacistic state of greed and cruelty
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mendacistic
You had Google stumped with that one ! ;)
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One of Bristol's great political campaigners, Paul Stevenson, who did great work representing our West Indian community, wanted Bristol to apologize for its role in the Africa to N. America/Caribbean slave trade. I never really understood whether he wanted all Bristolians to apologize - including the West Indian community - or whether it was just the formal representatives of the city (the mayor and corporation). No matter - what the city eventually did, via the boldly named "Imperial and Commonwealth Museum", was to put on a superb exhibition on transatlantic slavery which really showed the horror of that episode of history; a history which is still reflected in Bristol today in the grand houses of those profiting from the trade and in the legacy of their "philanthropic" donations to the city. In my opinion this was far better than some empty apology.
But many Bristolians would prefer not to mention this; to forget it completely. So perhaps Paul Stevenson had a point.
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mendacistic
You had Google stumped with that one ! ;)
Had a word at a séance with Dr. Johnson :)
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One of Bristol's great political campaigners, Paul Stevenson, who did great work representing our West Indian community, wanted Bristol to apologize for its role in the Africa to N. America/Caribbean slave trade. I never really understood whether he wanted all Bristolians to apologize - including the West Indian community - or whether it was just the formal representatives of the city (the mayor and corporation). No matter - what the city eventually did, via the boldly named "Imperial and Commonwealth Museum", was to put on a superb exhibition on transatlantic slavery which really showed the horror of that episode of history; a history which is still reflected in Bristol today in the grand houses of those profiting from the trade and in the legacy of their "philanthropic" donations to the city. In my opinion this was far better than some empty apology.
But many Bristolians would prefer not to mention this; to forget it completely. So perhaps Paul Stevenson had a point.
They were going to do something similar in Liverpool which of course was totally founded on Slavery, but someone had nicked everything :)