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Rockstar 07-25-15 08:43 AM

Indian PM demands Britain pay reparations
 
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another.

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We paid for our own oppression,” he said “It’s a bit rich to impress, maim, kill, torture and repress and then celebrate democracy at the end of it.”
Shashi Tharoor’s makes his speech at the Oxford Union
“India's share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23 per cent. By the time the British left it was down to below four per cent," Tharoor said in the May 28 debate.
"Why? Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...nial-rule.html

I voted yes, pay up. :arrgh!:

Harvs 07-25-15 08:47 AM

Don't the Indians own most of Britain anyway?

Oberon 07-25-15 09:01 AM

Well, they do have a point, and perhaps when we get an economy we'll be able to. Of course, with such a large empire we could be paying this for a while...probably cheaper to just recolonise everyone. :O:

Jimbuna 07-25-15 09:17 AM

They've probably more paid back more in overseas aid anyway.

Wolferz 07-25-15 09:52 AM

Blaming others for your own inadequacies just ain't cricket.:down:

If Britain paid reparations to all of it's former colonies it would cease to exist altogether.
An eye for an eye only leaves everyone blind.

Betonov 07-25-15 10:04 AM

If Britain pays reparation, they should also tear the railroads and roads out of the ground and forbid the use of western medicine, schooling and bring back the Rajas and the cast system.
At least the loudest politicians there will have to go back to shoveling dung like their ancestors did before the British came.

Oberon 07-25-15 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 2331168)
and the cast system.

Pretty sure that bit of Indian tradition never left.

Wolferz 07-25-15 02:38 PM

Cast system?
 
Why would throwing fishing lures be bad?

Oh, you meant the caste system.:O:

I concur. It's still an integral part of India's society.

Moonlight 07-25-15 03:01 PM

The cheeky sods, I'm not sure how much they've had over the years but I think they've had enough with out holding their hands out for more.
This Tory government is cutting services right left and centre and meanwhile they're sending billions of pounds overseas, bloody madness.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cket-moon.html

Fubar2Niner 07-25-15 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2331145)
They've probably more paid back more in overseas aid anyway.

Indeed mate and made all the more distastefull, when you think we are handing out aid to a country that has its own space and nuclear programmes.:doh:

Torplexed 07-25-15 03:13 PM

Just buy them off with concessions for glitzy casinos, tax-free cheap cigarettes, fireworks and gas.

Oh wait. I'm thinking of our Indians. :hmmm:

Fubar2Niner 07-25-15 03:16 PM

:har::har:

Schroeder 07-25-15 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 2331242)
Just buy them off with concessions for glitzy casinos, tax-free cheap cigarettes, fireworks and gas.

Oh wait. I'm thinking of our Indians. :hmmm:

They should pay them with Greek bonds.:yeah:

CCIP 07-25-15 05:41 PM

I mean hey, I think the point that "India was governed for the benefit of Britain" is pretty inarguable. Where I think one problem is... whose benefit is it governed for now? :hmm2:

I'm not really sure how giving a bunch of money to what's often rightly seen as a corrupt bureaucracy is going to actually solve the injustice.

Oberon 07-25-15 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CCIP (Post 2331259)
I'm not really sure how giving a bunch of money to what's often rightly seen as a corrupt bureaucracy is going to actually solve the injustice.

That's never stopped us paying our taxes before...


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