Whenever a politician apologizes to his voters for the actions of individuals long dead towards other individuals long dead, I somehow fail to be impressed.
I suppose it is sort of interesting in a National Geographic, watch the natives with their bizarre religious customs, type of way.
Now if the perpetrators apologized I would be more impressed. But even if those folks did, it still wouldn't bring him back. If the laws in Britain today are already such that they couldn't do that sort of thing again legally, then, this is even more of an irrelevant event. Just one particular unfortunate situation that happened to one particular person a long time ago.
Of course, I hear there was this one guy who got literally nailed to a cross for just talking to people, 2000 years ago, and people are still talking about that today. That really blows me away.
I suppose it is sort of interesting in a National Geographic, watch the natives with their bizarre religious customs, type of way.