Grum - I agree with that totally - the slave trade made the UK rich
My arguement was with cakes statement "It’s no more offensive than saying white people may have ancestors complicit in slavery" which I took to mean owning slaves - and its one in tens of thousands at a guess so a fairly low probability. If it means " profited from" then the whole of the UK did and still does
*Checks back in on thread*
*backs away slowly*
I notice . I scoff cake has no response to the secret barristers blog on why the jury’s verdict is legot
Hes much keener on diverting the topic elsewhere
Well i did. Partly 😆
" If the jury rejected all of the other defence arguments, there was one final issue for the jury to decide. And, to put it in its simplest terms, it relates to the right to freedom of thought and conscience and the right to freedom of expression."
So if this is the basis for them not finding them guilty, then it goes to say that the insulate britain protestors have strong grounds for appealing their sentences, and in that case no property was damaged(even though the argument by the protestors was that it hadn't been damaged. It rests on the human rights freedoms, and of that the insulate britain protestors shouldnt also been found guilty.
