Dear Our Friends in The Caribbean,
We've had a look at history and we can recommend that you ask for reparations from Benin, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Ghana and Mali, for capturing and selling slaves to Europeans
Meanwhile, given Britain led the way in ending slavery, spending an astonishing 40% of our entire national budget in 1833 to buy freedom for slaves, and a further 2% of our GDP on The West Africa Squadron which seized over 1600 slave ships and freed 150,000 (at a cost of 1600 Royal Navy sailors) - we would like you to thank us by offering to pay 40% of our annual budget this year and 2% of our GDP
That's £480 billion £11.4bn
We can settle for £450 billion if that's easier (we estimate this will be the size of Rachel Reeves 'blackhole' next week)
The invoice is in the post!
Love Britain 🇬🇧 ❤️ ✌️