Right Solutions

One of the many legitimate and understandable reasons why sensible and moderate people prefer the likes of the Farage Falange to the spectre of social democracy is the characteristic pragmatism and prudence which preclude such fripperies as colonial reparations. As befits a leader of uncivilised tribes in a country only the beastly Portuguese have heard of, the president of Cape Verde contrived to miss the point, claiming that the present ascendancy of the far right should not prevent secret talks on reparations by those governments which pander to the far right so as to ensure that such talks need never take place. The issue is especially fraught in the case of Portugal, which participated extensively in the Atlantic slave trade for over four hundred years; in contrast to the British Empire, whose only notable contribution to the slave trade was its abolition.