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Ghana’s president wants Britain to pay compensation for the slave trade that ended 200 years ago. This is just fraud of the worst kind. Unfortunately, the confederation of confused, bewildered fools we call the United Nations today accepted John Dramani Mahama’s decision. The amount the UK must pay under the crazy “non-binding ruling” is £19 TRILLION, nearly five times all the money in circulation on planet earth.

If you factor in the other 31 former slave-holding states, including Spain, the US and France, the amount demanded quickly rises to $107.8 trillion (£87.1 trillion). That’s probably more money than there is in the known universe. It’s strange that what must be one of the most respected institutions on the planet is even considering this seriously. There is so much wrong with this.

The UN has declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans the “greatest crime against humanity”. It may be so, although it is a very uncomfortable and not very enlightening question.

Mao Zedong’s forced famine during the Great Leap Forward probably surpasses it in numbers; Three centuries of Roman slavery would get him his money’s worth, and the Holocaust was no picnic.

See what I mean by discomfort?

Isn’t this a very post-inner game? These are all disgusting examples of unimaginably cruel inhumanity and demonstrate the fundamental stupidity of playing the “my tragedy is worse than your tragedy” game.

And of course there is the trans-Saharan slave trade, which is strangely never mentioned; equally large, lasted longer, no Europeans involved.

And the fact that slavery existed in Ghana before the Europeans arrived and continued after they left. So, some people in the part of Africa we now call Ghana were clearly complicit in slavery.

So why should they take money? I thought about the whole point of the UN resolution, that some British people had great, great, great grandfathers who were slave traders. The same goes for Ghana (to be fair, this is not the case in Caribbean countries).

And isn’t that the point? Two centuries after Britain abolished slavery and patrolled the seas to prevent others continuing in this disgusting trade, he was trying to uncover who was doing a fool’s errand.

My best friend’s family comes from St Vincent. Why should he, whose great-great-great grandfather was a victim of slavery, have to cough up a penny? Surely he should receive compensation without paying compensation?

To be fair, even Ghanaian academics responded to the decision today, saying it may be a moral victory but no money will ever change hands. It is a “non-binding decision” and as Starmer collapses spinelessly over the non-binding decision in the Chagos Islands, even the old jelly spine can surely see that this is the policy of the asylum.

Professor of Human Rights at the University of Ghana’s Faculty of Law, Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atuah, said after the decision: “The great power voted against us or abstained, that’s how UN General Assembly resolutions work.

“This came to nothing because the great powers, the former colonial masters, voted against it.”

If all this fraud reminds us of the horrors of slavery, I guess that’s a positive; However, I think the UN’s time and money would be better spent fighting the real slavery that is happening now, rather than 200 years ago in places like China, India and Saudi Arabia.

The unpleasant truth is that some countries are using one of the darkest periods in human history as an ambulance chase in case of a payday.

But no one (okay, almost no one) in Britain today has anything to do with slavery, and never has. And don’t buy the “you all profited from slavery” view as if there was some trickle down effect from the cotton, tobacco and sugar plantations. No. It never happened. A small number of bad people made a large amount of money a long time ago and kept it for themselves.

I? I personally cannot be sorry for slavery. I didn’t. Not only because I was born 200 years after Britain abolished slavery, but also because I was destined to starve under the boots of the British crown in the west of Ireland at a time when slavery was a daily occurrence.

Wait… I think I have a claim for compensation!