Who did the gullible guilt-ridden Westerners get their money out of in the first place?
Reparations are about justice, not guilt.
You cannot put right injustices of the past. You cannot hold children responsible for what their parents have done, let alone more distant ancestors. 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge'.
The Namibians want reparations from Germany for a massacre that occurred before WW1. The perpetrators of this are long since dead - their grandchildren will soon all be pensioners. It cannot be undone.
I've read of Democrats in the States wanting reparations to be paid for the inheritance of slavery. I have an idea - if they really believe this is just, why not set up a fund and pay 5% of their salary into it? Why wait for the state to do something?
If, in the case of slavery, you want compensation to be paid, are you also going to include Muslims who traded in slaves, and are you going to include black Africans from west Africa who sold their fellow countrymen to slave traders for transportation to America or the Caribbean? If there is such a thing as guilt for the deeds of ancestors, then it at least remedies need to be applied consistently.
Can you offset the wicked deeds of ancestors by righteous deeds that may have been done a couple of hundred years ago?
It would be interesting to know just how much of Britain's current wealth actually stems from the empire. Even if you could quantify this, shouldn't the amount invested in developing colonies and the amount spent defending freedom especially in WW2 be taken into account? Britain was for all practical purposes bankrupt in 1945.