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John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Slavery is still happening

"The aftermath of the UK official, legal slave ownership lasted until 2015. "

Can you explain what you mean in a bit more detail please? The abolition of slavery in the UK back in about 1835 seemed pretty comprehensive and final. True, those laws have since been repealed but only because they were made redundant by the human rights act.

(On a lighter note, at the weekend a bunch of knuckle dragging far right agitators were "protecting" the statue to Earl Grey in Newcastle. Apart from the fact the statue is very high up in the air at the top of a column rather like Nelsons Column, but Earl Grey was the Prime Minister who got the Great Reform Bill passed, which got rid of "the Rotten Boroughs" which in turn got rid of much of the political powers of the pro-slavery lobby (they were buying the Rotten Boroughs parliamentary seats) and helped his government abolish slave ownership and freed the slaves. - there were caveats, as there always is in politics, but it finally happened - so it was very, very unlikely the BLM demonstrators were about to attack that particular statue, even if they could reach it!)

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