Statistically speaking, j, we're all descended from Charlemagne, but I'm not apologising to
the Saxons for the Massacre of Verden. You can if you like.
It does sound a bit like "well the romans did it" though
And Jamaica wasnt independent until the mid-60s, which is roughly a decade before either of us were born, so it's hardly the same is it?
Well it only sounds like that if you don't read anything I just wrote
And your other point seem to be confusing colonialism and slavery, j, which is shifting the goalposts rather a lot. But even so, colonialism had f**k all to do with me, so why should I apologise?
Nice try, though. :hehe:
Are they really that different, or indeed separate?
I dont think you should apologise, you arent representing our country on a diplomatic visit. Dave is and he should but instead he'll do that lovely walking out thing he does to look strong.
At least he feel at home with Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller
I've always liked the jamaican appropriation of posh names
I used to know two old jamaican brothers called kingsley and st john.
Indeed - always bizarre to think that Winston is probably more associated as a Jamaican name
as much as our beloved national icon Gary Winston Lineker
Well yes they are. Slavery in Jamaica ended in 1831, whereas it ceased to be a colony in 1962.
That's quite a significant difference, I'd have thought.
And since I am a British subject, Dave would be apologising (were he to do anything so f**kwitted) on behalf of everyone currently alive in the UK, not one of whom bears any responsibility for slavery or colonialism. How is that fair?
Oh well, I mean if you feel so hard done by over the whole business...
And, obviously our thoughts about colonialism differs, but we wer claiming dominion over them in most people's living memory, which was sort of the point.
So what? Canada was a dominion until 1947, Australia and New Zealand 1953. I don't hear them moaning
about it and I don't think they felt terribly oppressed by that status.
