Andy Burnham is today meeting the PM of Barbados, Mia Mottley, who is leading the campaign to get Britain to bankrupt itself by handing out reparations for slavery. Just look at Mia’s maths and you will see what a dishonest grift it is.
Mia reckons that 13 Caribbean nations deserve $24 trillion and that Barbados alone deserves $4.9 trillion or £3.9 trillion. The population of Barbados is 282,849. So were the UK to pony up that would:
a) more than double the UK’s national debt so instantly bankrupting the UK, causing a run on the pound and creating an economic catastrophe
b) Hand each citizen of Barbados, every man woman and child, £13,788, 275 making them all multi millionaires and the richest folks on this planet by eons.
Anyone can see that this is utter nonsense and Burnham should just tell Mottley that she is a grifter who can fuck off. The UK already sends cash to Barbados each year via the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund (UKCIF), which pools £350 million (2016–2026) to build climate-resilient water systems, ports, and roads across eight Caribbean nations, including Barbados while it also gets a slug from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) which manages broader regional allocations—such as the £430 million regional Caribbean framework—targeting economic growth, disaster recovery, and climate adaptation.
And that is despite the World Bank stating that Barbados is deemed relatively prosperous with a GDP per capita of $28,365.
When will the UK grow a spine, cut off all aid to the ungrateful wretches of Barbados who clearly can show no link between historic slaving and current poverty as there is no poverty, and tell Ms. Muttley to foxtrot oscar?