This site is not an argument that Britain owes nothing to its history. It is an argument that the reparations model is the wrong answer to a real question.
The real question is: given Britain’s genuine historical role in the slave trade and in the subsequent treatment of Caribbean people, including the Windrush Generation, what does honest acknowledgement and genuine remediation look like?
The answer is not a payment to Caribbean governments that may or may not reach ordinary people, funded by a racially problematic levy that would be illegal under existing equality law, justified by a legal case that does not exist. That is not justice. It is a political transaction that serves the interests of campaign organisations and Caribbean governments more than it serves the interests of Caribbean people.
Genuine acknowledgement would involve honest teaching of British colonial history, including the full picture set out in this site, in British schools. Genuine remediation would involve practical cooperation with Caribbean nations on trade, education, governance, and investment, in ways that actually help people rather than satisfying a political demand. Genuine respect for Caribbean people would involve treating them as adults who deserve honest engagement rather than carefully managed expressions of regret.
