SLAVERY campaigners are seeking to “destabilise democracy” by alleging links between state institutions and the slave trade going back 300 years, according to a Royal biographer.
Tom Bowyer was responding to questions about King Charles announcing an investigation to find if there are any historical connections between the Royal Family and the slave trade.
He told GB News: “The whole point of this inquiry investigation is it’s political, the people who are masterminding this investigation into the past want to use slavery 300 years ago, but not the Roman Empire slavery, not the Greek empire slavery, not the Arab kingdom slavery, but British slavery – as a political weapon to undermine our liberal democracy.
“They’re not doing it because they somehow want to discover historical facts. They’re doing it to destabilise democracy and the people who now rule Britain or influence Britain.
“I do think that it’s dangerous…and they mustn’t be allowed to use it to undermine our society today. They’ve got to be confronted with one particular, unfortunate truth that slavery is historic and it has nothing to do with how we live today.”
In a discussion with Esther McVey and Philip Davies, he continued: “The people who are pioneering this slavery [campaign], as on climate change, it is very often wokery.
“They want to somehow stage show trials, the same as was done in communist Europe and the Soviet Union before the collapse of communism, where people are paraded in court and have to admit to crimes which they didn’t commit.
“Slavery is not a crime which King Charles has committed, but the proponents of this investigation…want to somehow frame the Royal Family and all Britons as guilty.
“It’s an issue which in the end will be resolved to the advantage of the liberal democracy, but it is in the end, it is racist.
“We just must admit slavery was awful but it’s going back 300 years ago and it has really nothing to do with the reality today but we should discover the truth.”
He added: “The whole point about this issue is to put it into context and that is that 300 years ago, at that time, slavery was quite normal.
“The Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Empire, across the Middle East, was constantly raiding Europe and snatching Europeans and taking them off the Ottoman Empire as slaves.
“Pirates were raiding Cornwall, Cornwall in England, and kidnapping Englishmen and taking them to North Africa, especially to Tunisia. Slavery in Africa and across the Arab world was quite normal.”
