“We don’t want the British to hand of palace we built” – Guyana president, Irfaan Ali, tells Richard Madeley on GB News live show.
He continued: “You should be concerned and you should pay because you today still benefit from the greatest indignity to the human being, and that is the slave trade. And not only did you benefit during the slave trade, and your country develop, but look at what it cost the developing world.
Richard Madeley is being criticised for his “vile” and “patronising” treatment of Guyana president Irfaan Ali on Wednesday’s (20 September) episode of Good Morning Britain.
Ali is set to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York today about his belief that the UK needs to realise it “still benefits” from its historical role in slavery.
Hours before his address, the Guyana leader appeared on GMB via video link where Madeley appeared to grow angry with his guest over the suggestion that the royal family should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations.
When Madeley questioned why “someone who maybe had an ancestor seven or eight generations ago should… carry the burden” of past actions, Ali replied: “Oh, it’s not a burden at all. You are one of the beneficiaries of that slave trade, so this is not a burden.”
Another viewer added their two cents, stating: “When Madeley gets handed his a*** he bottles it because he can’t cope #gmb.” Meanwhile, one viewer described the scene vividly: “Incandescent Madeley slams his hand down at a President as he gets roasted,” while one commented: “The president of Guyana put Richard Madeley in his place #gmb.”
However, not all viewers sided against Madeley. Some agreed with his stance that the demands of the Guyana president were unrealistic. A viewer posed a thought-provoking question: “Where does this argument end? What the Germans did to the Jews in the war? Do they owe compensation to the Jewish relatives? The list goes on this is [a] ridiculous argument.”
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