Burnham’s also said that, as well as being open to formally apologising for our role in the slave trade, he also hopes to restructure debt for the poorest Commonwealth countries.
Is he bloody joking? He can’t restructure or deal with Britain’s £3trillion debt, let alone anyone else’s.
“I want to express my sorrow and regret,” he said. Well, he can do that without exposing us to trillions in reparations, claims which could drag on for decades.
In saying he is open to an apology, he has conceded the principle and is making us liable for money we don’t have and certainly don’t owe.
And he couldn’t have said what he’s said at a worse time because his idiotic comments come just before he jets off to Antigua and Barbuda this week to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting where he will be asked to make good on his “sorrow and regret”. So, God only knows what he’ll promise under pressure. The man simply can’t be trusted and is way too dim to be a player on the world stage.
Yes, the slave trade was an abomination. Yes, it was wrong. But at the time it was a legal practice that almost every civilisation in the world engaged in.
But West Africa, Islamist countries and other Western nations with their own legacies of slavery are never subjected to the same level of moral scrutiny or demands for endless apologies. Why?
Because they’d tell those opportunist chancers bleating for reparations to do one.
Which is what Burnham should have done instead of laying bare his bleeding heart!