Pitt was more of a political realist (and less of a pain in the arse) than Wilberforce, and a thousand times funnier (I definitely cherish the "brandy sauce" crack about the rabbit) but the fact was that one of them was Against Slavery With The Fire of A Thousand Suns and the other was Against Slavery At Least When It Isn't Going To Cost Us A Parliamentary Majority For The Important Stuff, and obviously one of these things is more sympathetic than others*



*No fault of the man himself, though I gather people are trying to make it a problem for Dawkins, who's in a similar position, but I imagine the Cumberbatch family were also major W.I plantation owners back in the day, judging by the fact that the only other people I've ever heard of with the surname seem to come from Trinidad.