Corbyn’s Controversial Pledge To Teach Children About British Empire’s Injustice

Corbyn’s Controversial Pledge To Teach Children About British Empire’s Injustice

By Ben Kerrigan-

Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to  teach children  in British schools  about injustice and the role of the British Empire as part of the national curriculum under Labour, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

At the launch of his race and faith manifesto at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham on Tuesday, the Labour leader said his government will set up a trust to educate on how to address the legacy of slavery. He also pledged  policies on how to combat anti-Semitism in Britain. He said:

‘Labour is the party of equality and human rights. Our ‘race and faith manifesto’ presents our unshakable commitment to challenge the inequalities and discrimination that has faced to many communities.’

Home Secretary Priti Patel attacked his manifesto saying: ‘It’s staggering that Corbyn’s Labour lecture people about race and faith while they are being investigated for rampant anti-Semitism.’

She said the race manifesto’s plan not to charge immigrants for visas would cost taxpayers huge amounts. ‘Not charging people who want to come to the country for visa and immigration services means UK taxpayers will have to pay instead. The bill will be more than £1.5billion.’

But National Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted welcomed Labour’s “set of joined-up proposals to proactively tackle racism”. His radical proposal comes after  a letter to the Times,  in which Ephraim Mirvis, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland attacked the Corbyn’s suitability for prime minister.

He said there was anxiety in the Jewish community over a Labour government and he called on the public to “vote with their conscience”. Speaking at an event in Tottenham, north London, Mr Corbyn said: “Anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong, it is an evil within our society”.

“There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern Britain and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever,” he added.

INJUSTICE

If Labour wins the 12 December election, the party says an “emancipation educational trust” would be formed “to ensure historical injustice, colonialism and role of the British Empire is taught in the national curriculum”.

Mr Corbyn said the history of colonialism – including the “unbelievable levels of brutality” of the slave trade – should be “part and parcel of what our children learn all year round” and “not just in Black History Month”.

 

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