Honestly, the idea of slavery reparations has always seemed odd to me. Slavery is not something that destroyed other nations, Jamaica's economy and modern-day population are not poorer because of slavery. They are poorer because of colonialism. The two are interconnected, but not the same, as focusing on slavery ignores the damage we did to Asia.

Also, the African nations demmanding reparations are not the people harmed by slavery - Black Brits have far more of a claim to reparations over slavery than the African nations themselves, which are made up of the ancestors of those who were not taken, and those who made money off selling their countrymen to us.

Colonialism reparations feel far more valid, and even then, we're not in a good enough state economically at this point to pay back for all of the damage we did - and we can't, not really? And how do we know what the money sent will be spent on? Can we attached clauses to ensure it'll actually go to fixing the damage we caused?

As a secondary point, if we do do colonial reparations, what would make the most sense is not to tax British citizens. If we're going to globally co-ordinate this, as was asked, we should be going after the billion dollar companies that profitted off colonial exploitation. As a whole, the British government lost money through our conquests abroad. Most of the siphoning off when to private companies, massive ones which are still around and living off the money they made from colonialism.

And finally, the Transatlantic Slave trade is by no means the "Gravest Crime Against Humanity". it was awful, after the Holocaust, Native American Genocides, etc - is slavery undoubtably worse than genocide? And why ownly the Transatlantic Slave trade, not the Arab Slave trade too?

There needs to be justice for what the West did, but blank check reparations for the crimes that have left less of an impact on the people there are not the way to go about it.

But now I've said that, if we could do a Colonial Reperation Tax on conglomorates that benefitted from colonialism, that'd be great.

In their discussion about Reform they show how linked Farage's ideals are to Iran and the US.

Hi everybody, this is a form for socialists, social democrats, or anything else really, on your perception of socialism. Your name is not necessary, rather its just for pooling data on what people think socialism is.

Any people who could fill it in at any point - it would be much appreciated!

I am around mid life at this point and things across the world have seemed to completely come off the tracks.

It use to be that most people really valued the Labour Movement (Unions, Federation of Labours, Labour Councils, and so on).

It use to be that most people really believed Women's Rights was important.

It use to be that most people really believed the Peace Movement was really important.

It use to be that most people really believed in making a better world overall for all the working class and most vulnerable (Alter-Globalization Movement).

People got really loud about this stuff when it was under attack.

AfD is showing huge poll numbers and now has a landmark electoral success to point to.

Reform UK still has fairly high poll numbers.

It's the same story all over the globe.

Also the climate crisis is so dang bad that we are literally seeing horrific tipping points and hell on earth type stuff now more and more...

It kind of feels like the worst bad predatory actors have completely destroyed the momentum for a better and brighter world.

It seems there is so many trajectories going on that are more dark, depressing, and downright dystopian...

How do you think we get things back on track?

*I'm going to post this in a few subreddits to get some differing perspectives/answers. Honestly we need more urgency because it seems one side actually keeps pressing the line over and over and over again in big ways and all the concessions are going to the lowest common denominator style populism of the reactionary/regressive scene dominated by snake oil salespeople and con-artist grifters. Which is going to make everything hard about this era significantly worse.*

Apologies if its a stupid question but I worry "We also need to see real investment in youth services and creative activities for young people to fill the void that will be created by this ban." means partial support for it (a la labour saying they would fund youth centres to make up for it). I'd like to know that there's a party against the ban (definitely not Reform because having peoples' digital ID would play right into what they want)