Rejected petition Pay reparations to countries (e.g. Jamaica) affected by British trade in slaves.

Rejected on 2 October 2015

The UK is (in world terms) a stable and infrastructurally well-developed country in which to live and be creative. These conditions and the opportunities that they allow us are not simply owed to luck; they have been enabled by invested wealth that was generated by the slave trade. We owe debts.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/109625

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