Signage put up in my home town by #ExtinctionRebellion Purbeck celebrating the sterling work by 2 of our local Tory MPs and Wessex Water in polluting the sea and rivers in one of the most biodiverse habitats in Europe
#RichardDrax #MichaelTomlinson #WessexWater #sewage #waterpollution

A British MP is targeted by a reparations demand over Caribbean slavery.

Barbados wants to nationalise a sugar plantation owned by Richard Drax, a wealthy member of parliament for the Conservative Party and descendant of a family of colonists enriched by the slave trade on the island.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/12/30/british-mp-targeted-by-reparations-demand-over-caribbean-slavery_6009757_4.html

#UK #Slavery #Reparations #RichardDrax

Barbados plans to make Tory MP Richard Drax the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestors' significant role in slavery.

Drax, MP for South Dorset since 2010, still owns the sugar plantation in Barbados that was established by his slave-owning ancestors.

#barbados #reparations #slavery #richarddrax #tory

Barbados plans to make Tory MP Richard Drax the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestors' significant role in slavery.

Drax, MP for South Dorset since 2010, still owns the sugar plantation in Barbados that was established by his slave-owning ancestors.

#barbados #reparations #slavery #richarddrax #tory

(3/3) I can't put into word the level of abject disgust I feel towards this man, #RichardDrax and the #BritishConservativeParty I have included a photo here in case you happen to come across this bourgeois piece of human skin. If he was on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put out.
#SocialismOrBarbarism #EatTheRich

(2/3) Present day: Enter stage right, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset. #RichardDrax inherited the 250-hectare (617 acres) Drax Hall plantation in Barbados (worth £5.25m) from his farther in 2017 and failed to declare it to parliament. He lives at his family’s mansion in Charborough Park, Dorset and he is the largest single landowner in Dorset (owning 23.5 square miles) and 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and a £4.5m holiday villa on nearby Sandbanks. Richard Drax's wealth today, and the property he inherited, is a direct continuation of that made from slavery. Not only that, he has consistently used his privilege to maintain that wealth, almost always voting for reducing capital gains tax amongst other things, just look at his disgraceful voting record https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24903/richard_drax/south_dorset/votes

In the 17 CE the Drax family under Sir James Drax, was the part owner of (at least) two slave ships, the Samuel and the Hope. The Family owned the largest sugar plantation in Barbados and is credited as being the architects of slavery-based sugar production. The Caricom Reparations Commission has also noted that they had agents in the African continent to kidnap people to work on their plantations in Barbados and Jamaica. When slavery was abolished in 1833 the Drax family was compensated £4,293 12s 6d, a massive sum for 1836.
#slavery #reparations #RichardDrax #Conservatives #MiaMottley
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/barbados-tory-mp-pay-reparations-family-slave-richard-drax-caribbean-sugar-plantation

@nealcurtis Richard Drax is my local MP an awful man , fox hunter, tax avoider, climate change denier. Owns half the county and sits on his family pile of slave trade money and has some the highest expense claims of any MP. I hope they take him to the cleaners it's long, long over due #RichardDrax #Barbados # Reparations

About bloody time. My horrible Tory MP Richard Drax who has spent a lifetime living in luxury off his family millions made from the slave trade may finally have pay some of it back.

Constantly tried to dismiss it as being " in the past" but still owns huge areas of sugar plantation land his family stolen from the people of Barbados.
Please boost to expose this as much as possible
#RichardDrax #Reparations #SlaveTrade #Barbados #ToryMP

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/barbados-tory-mp-pay-reparations-family-slave-richard-drax-caribbean-sugar-plantation

#RichardDrax

Barbados plans to make Tory MP pay reparations for family’s slave past | #Slavery | #Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/barbados-tory-mp-pay-reparations-family-slave-richard-drax-caribbean-sugar-plantation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter