[Margaret Pilkington]

The privations of the past are soon forgotten and those who are trumpeting how bad Britain was in the times of the Slave Traders do not realise that there were ancestors of theirs who were just as enslaved as those tribesmen sold in Africa.

That moves to end slave trading started here…and were followed by other nations a couple of years later.

Farm workers might have had a roof over their heads, but only if they continued to be employed by a farmer.

We have come a long way, yet there is still poverty, but it is the poverty of thought rather than financial poverty.