A fairly decent attempt by the Jamaicans to skim a few quid from HMRC I thought

Equally, plenty of captives from elsewhere ended up in Britain as slaves - the free movement of labour was a big part of the Roman Empire, too :-)

so like a battered child "we" were more likely to carry on that sort of behavior. Bascially the Normans should have put us in psychoanalysis sometime about 1136

And even says "thank you very much" a lot in the same indignant, jowley fashion too. The whole thing brings to mind that Galbraith quote.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

Just apologise, be the bigger man.

enslaved, subsumed or scattered to the Celtic fringe by the Saxon invaders, it all gets a bit complex deciding which 'we' is innocent and which 'we' is guilty imo.

And if you're using the behaviour of the romans as a moral yardstick I'm not sure anybody will come out of it well.

Cameron his self is the descendant of slave owners

slaves, I'm really not sure you want to get into the question of scale, to be honest. Equally, people tended to take slaves away from their home country to stop them running back to their homes, so transportation was very much part of the deal.

I'm not using any moral yardsticks, simply pointing out that everyone has something to whine about if you go back far enough, which makes special pleading such as that from the Jamaicans pretty redundant.