The woman who mentioned counting votes raised something really interesting. It sounds like He was orally campaigning in a polling station, which could potentially be an offense depending on what he talks about!
@@RicardoFlores-nd9kc Probably the same reason people in Texas keep re-electing Ted Cruise, even though he's as useless as tits on a bull: Sheer ignorance to their representative's lack of work on their behalf and name recognition.
I’d be interested to know how much compensation the Drax family received from the taxpayer when they were forced to give up (badly) treating human beings as property
They added to that with £3,000,000 from selling the Drax Hall Estate to the government of Barbados in 2024. I doubt that any of that will be returned as reparations.
£80 per enslaved adult not sure how much exactly for children slightly less there was a queue around the block for slave owners getting their compensation it took our government and British tax payers until 2015 to finish paying this debt 😮 shocking 😳 really really shocking ashamed to say I’m British
Black people were handcuffed on ships, given salty foods to eat and packed Ike sardines on board boats for over 300; years. How can we forget this had history. They were beaten to work we inen were impregnated , still facing prejudice. 😢!
Hold the British monarch accountable for this too. I don’t see anyone going to the many houses they built with money from the slave trade. I don’t see anyone protesting yet they ALLOWED IT. It was done in the name of the monarch
They’re so scared of being accused of being “anti right wing” they literally refuse to touch any stories or vocabulary first broached by progressive publications. Only the Mail and the Times are suitable places for the BBC to pick up a story from 🙄 They even scrapped internal plans to say “climate crisis” after the Guardian started doing it!
My wife has traced her family's lineage to slaves owned by Drax. When we visited Barbados we snuck on to the Drax estate, to stand where countless of her ancestors toiled, died and were buried, in un-marked graves. The place feels cursed by the blood its built on. The current Drax won't even allow access to the land for archeology to be done. Doesn't want the litteral bodies to be uncovered. Makes me sick.
What can I say...power stays in the same hands for a long time. Beneath the surface the same old faces are still very much running the show. I know that what has happened in the past is awful and worth talking about and learning from, but what about all those with money invested in Apple, Nike etc. who are actually supporting semi-slavery to this day?
@@slartibartfast2649 Leaving aside the sheer evil of of slavery, what also concerns me is that Drax is clearly still supported by the electorate. With his family history and vested interests how can he represent ordinary people and why in God's name do they vote for him?
I saw a post just last month, June 2024, where the President of Barbados refused to send him £3 million for this year. I was so pleased to see this. Well done for posting this.
@user-wb8kc7kt1w The Drax family still have a huge site in Barbados. The government had initially planned to 'buy it back' from him for 3.2m+, however, after some outrage, they decided 'he will not get one cent more from us'. Drax visited in the past few years and was asked to hand it back as reparations. I can't find if he has made a statement on it since. The 21 hectare area was earmarked for redevelopment to housing.
@mehfes2 Good idea. If slaveowning families refuse to pay any compensation, then any assets they possess in those territories should be confiscated and nationalised.
"People love a bit of evil as long as it's confident and wears a nice suit." And has the right accent. Upper-class English accent: okay. German, Italian or Russian (especially if it has a moustache): not okay.
@@alanbest9328 Labour have MPs who refuse to take the full salary, because they feel it's immoral to take so much more than their constituents. Tory MPs complain that a quarter million is chickenfeed.
That activist hit the nail on the head when he said that Drax has everything to say about immigrants, welfare ect, and nothing to say about the welfare of his constituents. I should think this typifies the majority of the Tory MP's.
But still the peasants vote him in, hoping he may leave his crumbs on the dining room floor. You can only achieve this mindset by teaching your subjects, hierarchy and monarchy - brainwashing.
These Rich people always say things like “ we worked dam hard for what we achieved “ which actually means “ other people work Dam hard and suffered to make them rich”
Envy is not a good thing, if people work hard for their money they should be allowed the ability to spend it freely and as how they like, I'm not necessarily referring to this case either, and yet what about the rich people that do work hard for their wealth?
@@cjrecordsofficial3652 Depends on your definition of "rich". Someone with a few million, yeah sure he or she could have gathered that merely by working hard and working smart. Hundreds of millions to billions? In general, the only way such fortunes can be amassed is through exploitation. Because if you are someone who is in a position to make make that much money and you refuse to do it through exploitative means, you will be outcompeted by people who don't have those scrupules and you won't get to that level. You might find one or two exceptions to this (though I suspect if you dig deep enough, you'll still find exploitation) but the vast majority of people who are that wealthy, you'll find exploitation at the source of their wealth. But yes, in general I do agree that if people worked hard for their money and (most importantly) didn't gather it by exploiting others or through other nefarious shenanigans, they should be able to spend it as they see fit. I see no issue with that and as such am a proponent of equity but not equality
HE IS NOT RACIST BECOUSE HIS DISTANT FAMILY TRADED SLAVES, STOP FLOGGING PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEIR ANCESTORS DID. **SHAME ON YOU** For supporting the victim ideaolgy that is rife at the moment. Reparations relay, how does that work... REALLY. GROW UP & GO READ A BOOK.
That is very well said. Also as he has benefitted from Black slaves trafficked from the carribean, he might like to take migrants out of hotels at the huge cost to the tax payer and house them there. But hey not in my backyard isnt that right Drax. I wonder if his wealth was made from the Holocaust would he still be so arrogant and shameless.
@@eatshtanddie4168 Ignorance is only bliss until it affects your life, like lower wages, everything costing more, less rights, less employment rights. Private companies having more control over countries than people who vote do. Ignorance has worked out great.
What do you mean “if”. How possibly can one be responsible for something that we out of their control and happened centuries before one’s birth. And how does being distantly related to someone make you responsible for what they did.
@@holdtightadele8017 because he continues to financially benefit from it. If he wished to distance himself from the actions of his ancestors then he'll need to stop accepting this money.
Yes but you are forgetting one key issue. He has fucking HUGE house and loads of cash. So he isn’t going to give that up over an issue of conscience. Only Germans are expected to do that.
@HoldTight Adele by continuing to reap the benefits of those actions, you become complicit in them. Imagine you rob a house and take everything they own. You give that money to me. I know it's been stolen, and I can see the suffering of the people who lost everything. I still decide to keep all the money for myself and ignore the suffering family who funded my life. That makes me responsible. Now imagine you stole so much from that house that the family was cast j to poverty for 4 generations, and I live in a palace and a life of total luxury. So I don't even need the money to survive because I've got a very well paid job but I like being incredibly rich. That's Drax.
@@FAMEROB Not neccessarily commited crimes, just an immoral serial liar and vaporware salesman. He loves taking credit for other peoples work too. He doesn't pay any taxes either. He's full of shit basically.
The 'Forgotten Towns' report is spot-on. Weymouth and Portland was abandoned by the MoD and the Royal Navy in the mid-90s and utterly devastated the local economy. Nothing much has been done about it ever since. It was akin to a major coal mine or steelworks closing down. One thing that could be done to arrest the decline is for a maritime-based university to be set-up and to get the area moving forward once more. At the moment the brightest and best just leave the area, once they are old enough.
"Abandoned by the MoD and the Royal Navy in the mid-90" you mean the Conservatives and Labour Party cut their funding so they had to close. Our Navy is 1/5 the size it was in the 70s. You long for the return of heavy manufacturing such as mining or steelworks? Good luck getting the working-population to join them industries. The Labour Party oppose them on environmental grounds and the Tories oppose them on free market grounds. Labour local councils block the development of new mines and industry areas.
Not enough people know about Drax and family - it's really important and I'm glad you've taken the time to put this video together. If only the larger media would report on this sort of thing.
Everyone agrees that slavery is bad. Everyone agrees that profiteering from slavery is bad. But. You are talking about multi-generational guilt. Multi-generational reparations. The way to achieve these 'reparations' is through tax. Can you catch Drax on tax evasion? if so, please do. Some people on the left wing care more about the oppression of the people in the past than they do about the oppression of people living now. They care more about historical oppression than class division, with some people it's a cult. The focus should be on current sleaze, being done by the conservatives now. Some Black communities in UK are still not on a level playing field. That means we have a broken class system with poor social mobility. I feel bad for the slaves. I feel worse for people suffering now, living people. for Christ sake, the left is supposed to be gaining support from the working class, but it's doing history documentaries.
They like baby food. Sticky puddings and custard, that kind of thing. It reminds them of their public school, and being tucked up by nanny or matron. If they were naughty, nanny might spank them. After they "grow up", they can relive their schooldays, for a fee.. You get the idea. Tory MPs....😁
I hope he doesn't, Dorset has really fallen. The neglect is very noticeable and it's becoming far too expensive to live in a place with very little work.
@@protectwhatisours6895 your ancestors received a decent and humane send off . Mine worked tirelessly, were beaten, fed poor, unhealthy diets, never saw relatives ot friends in Africa again. Raped by colonizers . Forced to speak English and forced to accept English names. That's the difference. Crops were planted on their graves . No wages
This take doesn’t sit right with me. The MP was born hundreds of years after Slavery and can’t have been involved in it. He’s for sure received generational wealth from the family history, but can’t be responsible for it. My Grandfather fought in what was then called Burma during WW2 and had a very bad experience with the Japanese Imperial Army. When he was passing away he was very kind towards my Japanese partner who was born 30 years after all that pain. As for this Tory MP, he sounds like an entitled piece of crap; but let’s pick our arguments.
People voted for him much the same as they did for Boris Johnson , I would never vote for a Tory and especially one with 3 mile wall around there estate
Can you let me know any political party you can vote for and trust because I don't know any. They will bring in CBDC which will give the government total control over every individual person. Don't believe me it's modeled on the system used in China but this will be world wide!
As much as it pains me to say this, but his constituents thoroughly deserve him when all he has to do is point to the coast and very politely say "The Boats are coming" and they end up voting for him. And this is happening on a national scale.
Both towns, under millionaire Tory councillors, have suffered abrupt, drastic, declines? Really? And is that somehow a surprise to _anybody whatsoever?_
Right, why has the the vast majority of the red wall "suffered abrupt, drastic, declines"? Tory bad ... Labour Good. When will we the people realise there is no difference between the two. We have a corrupt uni-party working for the interests of the elite whilst ignoring the interests of the majority.
So what? How far back do you go with this stuff? I don't care about this guy but this is the usual morality crap that's infected left wing politics now. The problem with that is you better be fully confident in your own moral position. Don't use smart phones(slave trade), don't use skincare products, don't use timber(Slaves from N Korea via Siberia). See where this is going? Do you support reparations for victims of Communism in Eastern Europe?
@@Stabby_Dave He is happily reaping the benefits of slavery, death and destruction of thousands of black peoples lives that is why it has a lot to do with him. He is living off blood money .Have you been to Barbados recently to witness how poor blacks live? They live in tumble down wooden shacks and he has got a 3mile brick wall protecting his inheritance. So fuckingwhat about that then?
Actually the Africans that the europeans bought all the slaves from were the innovators. They were so good that they were raiding Britain 500 years before we ever set foot on the African continent. The empire also bankrupted itself buying freedom for all those slaves, now fuck off.
I remember a channel 4 documentary about someone who was researching the history of slavery in Britain, He discovered that 80% of the current sitting house of lords were the descendants of people who had made their fortunes from the use of slavery.fact.
Whereas 100% of the families of the current members of the Ghanian & Nigerian Parliaments sold their relatives and enemies into slavery for hundreds of years, including hundreds of years before the Europeans even came to West Africa. Oh and they still live off the profits today. Any words for them?
“It's hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished 'paying off' the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery.” Tax Justice.
Drax family still involved with sugar. Supported Brexit. Tate and Lyle as a company supported Brexit. Why? Because they want caccess to cheaper sugar cane in the Caribbean rather than having to buy sugar beet in EU. When it comes to Brexit, follow the money, often tainted money, every single time. Also his attitude to the constituency reminds me of Alan B’Stard in the New Statesman. Total contempt. Went there only rarely, usually for the horse racing.
@@benowen8321 At the expense of everything and everyone, when they already have enough money to live in opulent luxury for a dozen lifetimes, yes, it's morally wrong.
@@keithpanton7486 I hate it when people create new things for profit as well. All that medicine, computers, trains ect that lead to less poverty, less hardship and longer, better quality life for the average human, we would be better off if people had no incentive to create new things. Instead we will use the imaginary alternative system that only you know about and understand. Down with new things. Like the example you gave, how is it better if the price of sugar goes down? I mean, ye it is cheaper for the avg person, but if rich people profit from it that is bad for reasons. And we can't have people making money. I hate the rich to by the way. And by rich I just mean people with more money than me, otherwise technically all of us that live in these first world countries are actually rich relatively.
As far as I'm aware, there's no law in this country that says someone is guilty of the crimes of his forefathers and pre the abolition of slavery, was slavery actually on the books as a criminal offence. Four or five of my granda's brothers were killed in ww1, not even sure exactly how many as even my dad's generation weren't that interested-shit happens. It would be like my family hunting down the Kaiser's family and claiming they owed us 2 Bob. These people are just more race grifters!!
He still BENEFITS from the murderous deeds of his ancestors. If he showed contrition and at least handed over the estate in Barbados and stopped mouthing off his anti immigrant views then maybe he could be tolerated. You continue to be a Tory bootlicker.
No, but surely you can understand when someone has clearly benefitted from evil. Put it this way... If Hitler was successful in WW2 his descendants would have the blood of millions of people on their hands. Yes technically they're innocent - they didn't ask to be born Hitler's child. But they were, and by being that child they have access to money, power, privilege...etc. Drax is not guilty of slavery himself. But his life would be impossible, indeed he may not even exist, without the blood of the black slaves his ancestors tortured and exploited for profit. He's not guilty... But he is indebted.
'Justice' is a human concept. If we want to have a just society, we have to act as a just society, not console ourselves with fairy tales. There's no external force magically balancing things out...or at least, if there is, it's demonstrably ineffective. Injustice thrives when people assume that 'somehow, some day' there'll be a reckoning, instead of actually holding people to proper account.
& who would they be & if not UK based what could this channel do about it? I know thinking can be hard at times, but is nothing stopping you from giving it a try.
Exactly. They prefer to blame current members of a family thst hundreds of years ago had an interest in slavery. Concentrate on the slavery that has re-emerged in current years.
Some do. Look up the Anti Trafficking campaign, started, I think, by the Church of England. Also the campaign within the U.K. car wash industry to stop trafficking and modern day slavery,
Although the estate is massive, it's only a small part of the land he has in that area, along with a bunch of rental houses, iirc all his properties have doors painted the same colour.
Like that lady said he will probably get voted in again haha majority of the British public are thick as mince that's why we are in still in this mess 13 years on
The two strains I see are thick and easily swindled by the Daily Mail, and sinister, closet racist upper middle class that do the swindling (blame refugees for the economic downturn and get the working class to vote against their own interests)
Not a majority. I don't think we have ever had a government elected on a majority of votes, let alone a majority of the population. The highest percentages have been low 40's of votes cast. Our system doesn't need a majority of votes to get a majority of seats in parliament.
The Drax family also owned moonraker and built a French chateau in LA and tried to create a perfect race inside a space base whilst poisoning the world below.
Just like all the African Slave Masters who co-operated with the Colonial Powers. Black lives didn't matter then even between Blacks !!. Get over it !!.
My brother is a builder and did a bit of work at the drax estate in Dorset. As you enter through the front door there is a large picture depicting the way slaves were packed into the ships. Like some architectural plan.
Yes, that's the $ 64000 question, isn't it ? Do the people of Dorset secretly like the idea of their local squire and feudal master being wealthy on the blood and profits from chattel slavery ? Perhaps they do. In which case there's still a long way to go.
You imply the people who voted for him are not decent people. Yet you would willingly vote in a Political Party who would, through their policies, damage the UK beyond repair.
thats quite incredible. presumably he’d argue that he provides employment to people in barbados who need it. i’d suggest he should go above and beyond to fund some reparations from profits over there.
I mean yes but only if the person leaves the vehicle. You can be fined for parking and remaining in the vehicle but if it's necessary to keep the engine running then it's not illegal.
incorrect, there's many reasons to leave your engine running, cold weather etc. You can't LEAVE the car running without an operator in the seat, that's obvious and different to what you claim
Another thing about this story, is that at the time that he inherited the estate in Barbados, he failed to declare it on his register of interests. Luckily the matter was dealt with appropriately, and he received a stern reminder to do it, and even had to make a mildly apologetic public statement. Apparently it caused shockwaves of fear amongst fellow MPs...
@@benjohnson4038 What 1627? It was 2021. The current Drax inherited the Drax estate in Barbados and ''forgot'' to mention it. Anyone else would have done serious time for fraud and tax evasion, but he just got a reminder, like he'd forgotten to return a library book. ''Dear Richard, sorry to trouble you, old bean, but I thought you should know, those dreadful chaps at the Inland Revenue have found out about the Barbados thing. Frightfully embarrassing, I know, and I'm sure it was just an oversight on your part, but could you please register it. You know what they're like. Sorry, sorry, love and kisses, the Tory Party xx.'' It's not what you know, it's who you know.
Imagine having an ancestor that literally wrote the manual on using slave labour for sugar plantations. That's insane, and now to think that there's people who think he shouldn't pay reparations for the luxurious lifestyle he now lives off the suffering of slaves...
Googane....yes that is shocking in itself! He is still acquiring money up until recent times from Barbados. Inheritance I think! Land etc. Was in the news.
if the slaves were alive today, then yes he should pay reparations. If he has to pay reparations, then what about everyone else? Greeks enslaved other Greeks, arabs ensalved blacks and turks, the turks in turn enslaved eastern europeans etc. The reparations policy isn't wrong in principle; it's just not practical.
@@freedomwatch3991 It's practical in this case because we know who the slaves were, who their direct masters were, who they're descended from and what tangible assets can be directly linked to that slave plantation. The problem with all older slavery is that it's usually not clear who is responsible for what and what direct benefits can be linked to it. I'm all for reparations as long as there is a clear paper trail.
@@freedomwatch3991 I can go a long way in agreeing with this, especially because it turns the question from a moral one ("Should reparations be made?" being regarded as settled in the affirmative) to a practical one ("What is the most just, most pro-social way to carry out reparations?). The point where we disagree is the idea that this practical question is impossible to answer. In fact, the Barbadian activist in this video puts forward some very simple, practical ideas such as funding Barbadian schools.
I'd be really interested to know what percentage of our MPs have direct familial connections to the slave trade. That information will be out there, but will be difficult to collate
David Cameron's family were slavers, and received over £1m as compensation when slavery was ended. That's not £1m in today's money, but £1m then. These repayments bankrupted the country, and the loan was not paid off until very recently...
@@salimyusufji5736 Hell it was only recently that the UK finished paying off the £20m loan it took out in 1840 to pay off the slave owners to free their slaves. Think it was 2015 when the loan and interest was finally paid off.
Ironic that he's against migrants. His family have a long history of supporting economic migration, but with all the cash they made went into his family's pockets. I bet if he could legally import slaves into the UK today, he'd be following in his ancestors footsteps once again.
@@benowen8321 How do you know what my family members think or don't think? I'm honestly struggling to comprehend whatever it is that you're attempting to opine. Perhaps you could try and add a well placed comma or two next time, to hopefully improve the clarity of whatever your point is.
No Drax ever imported a slave into the UK. In fact after 1100 no Englishmen did. The keeping of slaves has been illegal in the UK for over 900 years. However, it was perfectly fine in West Africa and still is, as the modern day slave markets in Libya and Algeria attest. BTW the price for a good looking slave in Mauritania or Libya hasn't changed in 50 years as far as I can see.
@@rorykeegan1895 Where did I say that the Drax family imported slaves into the UK? His family's wealth was undoubtedly derived from slavery on his family's Barbadian sugar cane plantation, that was my point.
09:30. He doesn't seem to actually do anything but he is polite and that exudes confidence....! So to be an MP, you don't really need to do anything bar appear well dressed and polite! Makes sense.
This guy calling it a “family matter” in correspondence is doubly disgusting. What a horrible way to deny the impact of his ancestors’ actions, as if it’s some niche argument between two old clans or something. Or as if his ill-gotten wealth is just a “personal” thing for him rather than a systemic one. Ugh.
You're brainwashed. He has nothing to do with what his ancestors did. Not that it's a bad thing to save blak people from Africa. Actually, I take that back, it's bad for us, now to be rep laced in our own country by these ingrates.
By hiding behind the mantle of family, he implicitly aligns himself and his wealth with his ancestors. It really IS a family matter - from the first Drax to set foot in Barbados to the current owner of the estate.
Lol this was over 200 years ago - by your definition half the people on this planet will have acquired wealth illegitimately because borders and land allocations have only really been fixed since 1945 in most of the world - before that it was literal conquest
@@hulksmash6476 You seem a bit triggered? Not that your opinion matters much like mine. People will make their own opinions based on evidence. Most sensible thinking people are the opposite of you. 😂👍🏼
@@TristanBanks i think they are referring to the plantation estate in Barbados. My response is that the government in Barbados is probably bribed to make sure that doesn't happen....
Understand your point, but imagine the precedent that would set. If a government could just seize your property? You surely wouldn’t want a government to have that sort of power? That would effectively be a totalitarian state. Totally understand your sentiment of course
Because as public land it would no longer be taxed. He and his forbearers pay large property tax bills in both the UK and Barbados. Pretty sure that hasn’t always been spent well.
He cannot be held accountable for the history of slavery in his family, however, he can be held accountable for benefiting from their Ill gotten gains and doing nothing to repair the damage
100% of the people who live in Britain benefit from the profits of the slave trade. Some more than others, but everyone benefits. So where are you drawing the line? How much do you have had to benefit before you need to start paying it back?
Rubbish, let's start pulling up each and everyone's family member and putting you responsible for their ills and profits? How is that done?' Im black Caribbean and I am tired of the repatriation hoax. The conversation goes deeper than that. Black kings and queens sold their people to the Europeans but you won't see them lining up in Africa to collect. Yet they know who they are. They need to stop harassing the man. Who is supposed to decide what he pays? Who is to decide that he should? What is the figure he should be charged? How shall anyone arrive at this? Which court? Which judge? His peers? People need to think about these things properly and stop running with the crowd. Journalism is about truth, not ratings. Yes, it's true his ancestor dabble deep in slavery. He didn't, whether he's a good MP or a bad man unless someone has something to charge this man for then I say let him be. Slavery happened, time for people to GET OVER IT! Move on That's the only freedom we all can gain, not cash.
@@iannoble404 Don't let communist school teachers indoctrinate you. Nobody benefits from nothing that happened hundreds of years ago. That's so dumb. UK is good because of its hard working people, which is changing now with the rep lace mint of wh!tes.
@@iannoble404 Actually 100% of the people of Britain only stopped paying for reparations in 2015. "In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40% of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in the Empire. The amount of money borrowed for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it wasn't paid off until 2015. Which means that living British citizens helped pay to end the slave trade" How do like them apples? How much did the West Africans fork out for selling their mates to slave traders? A big fat zero is your answer ...
