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3 Mar 2021
The city council of Bristol has approved a motion calling for reparations for slavery as an act of “atonement” for the British port city’s role in the slave trade.
The Labour Party-run council passed the motion by a margin of 47 votes to 12 on Tuesday following a zoom meeting of the councillors. The council agreed to implement “community wealth creation strategies” and to write to the British Parliament demanding the establishment of a commission to determine “how reparations may be delivered”.
In a peculiar act of so-called cultural appropriation, Cleo Lake the Green Party councillor who led the motion called upon the other members to support reparations by “representing” as US civil rights leader Rosa Parks in a mock American accent.
| UPDATED: 17:20, Mon, Feb 22, 2021
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Mr Bailey said if he becomes mayor, he will instead focus his efforts on waging a war on criminals . The news comes after London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of planning to tear down historic statues in London that have controversial links to the historic slave trade. This led Conservative Housing minister Christopher Pincher to write to Mr Khan to say he is concerned the mayor is using £250,000 of taxpayers money on a new statues commission.
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Housing minister Christopher Pincher has written to Mr Khan to express concern that he is using £250,000 of taxpayers money on a statues commission made up of 15 mainly leftwing activists at a time when he claims he is putting up Londoners’ council tax bills. He pointed out that Labour has backed the destruction of British history and heritage with the party leader Sir Keir Starmer backing the removal of Sir Edward Colston’s statue by a mob of leftwing Black Lives Matter activists in Bristol and the Labour group on the Local Government Associ
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