‘Slave plantation’ MP Drax shamed over non-payment of minimum wage
Richard Drax.
Why do villains like this always get away with the harm they do?
Worse, why do they insult us by standing for Parliament – and why do we self-harm by voting them in?
It’s insanity.
So Richard Drax – allegedly the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons – is a director of the Morden Estates Company and signed off on the underpayment of 43 workers there.
This has put his firm on a list of 139 businesses … in a government press release headed “Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage”.
How did Drax’s family get so rich? From recent headlines it seems they profited from slavery:
He has recently been facing calls to pay reparations over the Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados. His ancestors had a slave workforce there for nearly 200 years.
Some people never change, it seems.
Drax himself has said
the “technical infringement” concerned “beaters” – people who drive game birds out of their cover at shooting events. He said they traditionally took part for enjoyment but had been paid a “modest sum”.
Nobody, it seems, has tracked down any of these beaters to ask if the MP’s information is correct. It seems that, because he is an MP, and a landowner, and an employer, he is automatically allotted the last word.
Note also that fellow Tory Richard Jenrick has recently launched a plan for legislation to protect monuments to historical slavers.
If those statues represent the ancestors of colleagues like Drax, the motivation seems clear.
Source: MP Richard Drax’s family business “shamed” over minimum wage | Bournemouth Echo
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What many people don’t know is that when slavery ended, all those who “owned” slaves were paid compensation by the government for all the slaves they had to give their freedom. With 200 slaves his family was probably paid a six figure sum, possibly seven figure.