When politicians need to apologise(which is about every day) you won't get a peep out of them. What they like doing is apologising for things that had nothing to do with them. Preferably things that happened centuries ago.This serves a dual purpose: A) it makes them feel omnipotent apologising for momentous events they had no hand in, and more importantly for them: b) it detracts from the things they really should be apologising for in the here and now.
This gesture politics has bedevilled the political scene for too long and now it is taking on surreal dimensions. The added irony is that in the case of slavery we have a very modern version of it whereby we are slaves to the State which takes from those who work and gives to those who do not (less a deduction for itself in the poverty industry.) That is the very definition of slavery in any dictionary you care to read. One group of people extracting tribute from another by force.
Where is the latter day Wilberforce who will free us from the shackles of the overmighty State?
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