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Britain invented the world's first traffic lights. 🚦 1868. Britain introduced the world's first driving licences. 1903. And in 1931, when seven thousand people a year were dying on British roads, a man called Herbert Morrison decided enough was enough. 🇬🇧 No driving test existed. No drink-driving laws. No speed limits in towns. Roads that were absolute chaos. So Britain's Minister of Transport sat down and wrote twenty-one pages. For one penny. The first line was quintessentially British: "Always be careful and considerate towards others." It covered drivers. Cyclists. Pedestrians. Even horse-drawn vehicles. It sold out on the first day. It is now one of Britain's best-selling books. Ever. In 1931 there were 2.3 million vehicles on British roads. Today there are over forty million. Britain's roads are among the safest on earth. Twenty-one pages. One penny. One man who decided to fix it. Britain's roads were broken. Britain fixed them. That is your history. 🇬🇧 Every story on this channel is available at proudofus.co.uk If you want to help us keep them alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@BBCBreakfast Lacklustre Cooper dribbling her way through the interview round this morning is a prime example of why the talentless, vacuous Labour Party and government have become a fringe party and a laughing stock

'We want to see Lebanon urgently included in as part of a ceasefire' Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke to #BBCBreakfast after more than 100 Israeli air strikes killed 182 people and wounded 890 in Lebanon - according to the health ministry bbc.co.uk/news/live/clye…

@soniasodha Labour Party is now a fringe party. All by it's own making. Starmer et al and lacklustre, lazy personnel, some sailing very close to criminality, have ruined it and have shown they are unfit to govern. The Green islamofascist alliance is a clear and present danger not just wacky.

A bit depressing that the best pitch I can make for voting for one of the establishment parties (for me, Labour) is that the Greens and Reform are worse. But there we are. My column in today’s Times. 🔗 up next.

RT @ProudofusUK: In 1871 a man sat at a desk and wrote fifteen letters. ⚽🇬🇧 Nobody knew what those letters would become. His name was Cha…

@GroomB Fach or fawr?

Rhondda Valley, south Wales, 1957, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths.

When schoolgirls need a rape alarm there is something very wrong with the environment they are living in. In this Scottish town it is believed that the girls may be stalked by hotel migrants. This is not a civilised society. It is like a script from a horror movie. The residents deserve better and those who have put these young girls in danger need to take accountability.

There's a pub in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It's been open for over a thousand years. You can walk in tonight. The Porch House. Stow-on-the-Wold. The Cotswolds. As old as England itself. And when it opened... there was no united kingdom. No parliament. No Magna Carta. Vikings were still raiding the coast. And someone opened a pub. The fire's still going. You can walk in and sit by it tonight. The same space. The same warmth. A thousand years later. There are pubs in England older than the United States. Older than the printing press. Older than the Viking invasions. And they're not museums. No rope. No plaque. No ticket. You walk in. You sit down. You order a pint. Empires rose and fell. Wars started and ended. Kings came and went. And the pub stayed open. A room where anyone can sit. Rich or poor. Lord or labourer. No membership. No invitation. Just a door and a bar and a seat by the fire. A thousand years. And the door never closed. That's more than a building. That's England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The video you just watched was funded by people like you. Not a company. Not a sponsor. Our people: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Every country on Earth armed their police. Gave them military uniforms. Made them answer to the state. Except one. In 1829, Britain created the first police force in history that carried no weapons. Wore civilian clothes. And answered to the people, not the government. Before that, London had no police force at all. It was the largest city in the world. Over 1.5 million people. And the best they had was a handful of night watchmen who were famously old and frequently asleep. Then there were the thief-takers. Bounty hunters paid per conviction. Many of them were criminals themselves. The most notorious, Jonathan Wild, ran a criminal empire while claiming rewards for catching the very thieves he controlled. The Bow Street Runners were the closest thing London had to real law enforcement. Established in 1749 by the magistrate Henry Fielding. But there were never more than a few dozen of them. For a city of millions. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel proposed something no country had ever attempted. A civilian police force. Accountable to the public, not the state. Not soldiers. Unarmed. They wore dark blue tailcoats instead of military red. That was deliberate. The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 created the force. One thousand officers began their first patrols on 29 September 1829. People called them Bobbies. After Bobby Peel. The name stuck for 200 years. Two commissioners wrote the founding principles. Colonel Charles Rowan, a Waterloo veteran. And Richard Mayne, a barrister. Nine principles. The most radical idea in the history of policing. Principle Seven: "The police are the public and the public are the police. The police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen." Not above you. Not against you. One of you. No other country on Earth had ever said that. In France, the Gendarmerie nationale had existed since 1791. Military police. Armed. Uniformed as soldiers. Serving the government, not the people. Most of the world copied France. Colonial police forces across every empire were built on the same model. Britain chose consent. For nearly 200 years, British police officers carried no firearms. Just a wooden truncheon, a rattle, and the trust of the people they served. That model spread to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and became the foundation of democratic policing worldwide. Most people in this country have absolutely no idea how rare that is. Or that it started here. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@BBCr4today @hzeffman Even more than that, Starmer's relationship with the electorate has deteriorated completely. All his running off to the Middle East for photo opps won't save him or his future reputation

"Over the six weeks or so of this conflict... Keir Starmer's personal relationship with Donald Trump has deteriorated significantly." Chief Political Correspondent @hzeffman shares analysis of the state of the UK's relationship with the US and countries in the Gulf.

🇬🇧 Magna Carta had a twin. It was law for 754 years. You've never heard of it. After 1066, the Normans claimed the forests of England. Not just the trees... Villages, farmland, rivers. One third of the country. Land ordinary people had farmed for centuries. Taken. Hunt a deer to feed your family? They blinded you. Cut down a tree to heat your home? They took your hands. 1215. The barons forced King John to sign Magna Carta. The most famous document in English history. But Magna Carta was for the barons. Not for the people in the forests. Two years later. 1217. A second charter was sealed. The Charter of the Forest. This one was for everyone. The right to gather firewood. The right to graze your animals. The right to fish the streams. No more blinding. No more mutilation. For gathering wood. For the first time in English law, ordinary people had rights to the land. Not given by the king. Taken from him. 754 years. It was law until 1971. Every common in England. Every village green. Every right of way. The idea that land belongs to everyone... It started here. 🇬🇧 They taught you Magna Carta. They never taught you this. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@BBCBreakfast And if we needed a reminder of the abysmal calibre of Labour government personnel.....up pops Sarah Jones. Hopeless, useless and pathetic like most of them.

'Most of us woke up this morning with a real sense of relief to see that ceasefire announced' Government minister Sarah Jones spoke to #BBCBreakfast after the US and Iran agreed a two week ceasefire, if shipping is allowed to move through the Strait of Hormuz bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yw…

@BBCBreakfast Useless man Starmer will turn up to the opening of a set of curtains if he thinks it'll help him. The man is a complete waste of space and no credit whatsoever to our country.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed a two week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran. Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman told #BBCBreakfast the PM is travelling to the Middle East to meet leaders of Gulf countries bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yw…

Find him. Prosecute him. Make an example of him. (This is obviously worse than lucy connolly).

A chocolate maker bought 120 acres of Birmingham slums. 🍫 His name was George Cadbury. He didn’t build a factory. He built a world. Every house had a garden. By law. Every single one. 🌿 Schools. Parks. Swimming pools. Cricket pitches. Pensions. Education during working hours. Workers’ committees that ran the factory floor. Then in 1900 he put the entire estate into a trust. 🏛️ It could never be sold for profit. Never broken up. Never privatised. Protected forever. It still exists today. Still run by the trust. One man proved that if you treat people well, they don’t just survive. They flourish. 🙏 Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

@BBCr4today 🎯 Mr Streeting 👏👏👏👏

"Should he be headlining Wireless Festival? Absolutely not." Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemns Festival Republic for standing by its decision to have Kanye West perform, but refuses to comment on whether the rapper should be let into the country.

Last week, my post about Boomer life drew some ire from young people who feel we "destroyed the world and their future." (But lots of fellow Boomers liked it!) So for the young people. Here's a peek at life before the late 70s. The life you DON'T have because of us. 🔹Women were often stuck in secondary roles (you could be a nurse but not a doctor). 🔹Employers could deny a woman a job because “she might get pregnant,” and many had to quit when they did get pregnant. 🔹Birth control was restricted or illegal in many places under the Comstock Law. 🔹A husband couldn’t be arrested for beating his wife; it was a “civil matter.” Marital rape wasn’t even a crime. 🔹Women often needed a male relative to co-sign for a bank account or credit card. 🔹Black Americans in the South lived under Jim Crow. Even after it was outlawed, change was slow. 🔹Gay people could not be openly gay or get married. 🔹Information was scarce. You had to access a big library or buy expensive books. No pulling info up on your phone. 🔹Acquiring skills meant finding someone willing to teach you in person. No YouTube or no AI. 🔹Drive by a river and you’d see pipes dumping bright orange or green factory waste straight into the water. Some toxic landfills were so bad, nothing has ever grown there again. 🔹Heart attack? Often a death sentence. No stents. No pacemakers. 🔹Young men could be drafted and sent to war against their will, then come home to a country that called them baby killers and spit on them. Here's the thing. Every generation gets handed problems. We addressed these. Now it’s your turn to fix the ones you’re facing. Sincerely, Your Retired and Tired Boomer Grandma

They didn't wait for the government. They didn't wait for anyone. 🍺🇬🇧 Centuries before the NHS, ordinary British working people built their own system. In secret. In pubs. Every week they pooled their pennies. If you fell ill, they paid your rent. 🏠 If you died, they buried you. ⚰️ If your family starved, they fed them. 🍞 No government. No institution. Just British working people looking after each other. By 1800. Four million members. 🇬🇧 They called them Friendly Societies. The NHS. The trade unions. The co-operative movement. All of them started the same way. In rooms like this. With people like these. And almost nobody knows this happened. Britain lost its story. We're taking it back. Story by story. Name by name. Nobody is coming to do this for us. If you want to be part of making sure this country remembers who it is: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@soniasodha No don't be ridiculous It's time to stop paying ever increasing amounts in a variety of state benefits to those who won't work and yet have endless children and benefit from education, healthcare and housing paid for by those who work and pay tax. Including tax paying pensioners.

It's time to retire the triple lock. It's unfair to expect a generation who face much higher housing & education costs than their grandparents to indefinitely fund the state pension to outpace wage growth. comment.press/triple-lock

Please retweet, plea for donations towards vets bills, small Welsh charity #WALES #UK 6 April 2026 I should have written this weeks, if not months ago. But instead I’ve buried my head in the sand, hoping things would improve. Today, after really looking at our finances, the reality has hit me hard and honestly, I am scared for the future of WWP. @WWPdogs Like everyone, we’ve felt the impact of rising costs, utility bills, food and everything else that’s needed to run the rescue. But for us it’s even more devastating, because as costs rise, so does the need for our service. More and more owners are facing the reality that they can no longer afford to keep their pets, and that’s when they then end up being abandoned and needing us to save them. Right now, our biggest worry is that we owe over £12,526.76 in vet fees. This isn’t from anything unnecessary, this is from doing what every dog needs before they can leave us to start their new lives…neutering, vaccinations, basic care. But many of the dogs that come to us also need far more lifechanging procedures like BOAS surgeries to help them breathe, extensive dental work often from years of neglect and much more. With fundraising getting much harder and donations going down month after month, I genuinely don’t know how we can carry on. So today, I’m putting my pride aside and asking for help If we could just clear these vet bills, it would give us the breathing space we desperately need to steady ourselves and keep going for the dogs who rely on us. I know times are hard for everyone. I know people are struggling. But if you can spare even a few pounds, it would mean more than I can put into words. Every single donation, no matter how small, is a step towards keeping WWP alive. I also want to say this is not a criticism of our vets, they have been incredible. They continue to support us, allow us to bring in animals, and offer discounts on all we do. We simply couldn’t do what we do without them. If you’re able to help, donations can be made directly to Seren Vets by calling 01267 614400 or Gibson and Jones vets 01554 773943 Or By clicking the donate button at the bottom PayPal: savewwp@outlook.com Website: westwalespoundies.org.uk/donate Bank Transfer: Coop Bank – 08-92-99 – 65773754 Please, if you can’t donate, sharing this post could make all the difference. We just need a chance to breathe again. xx West Wales Poundies, registered British Charity ✅ westwalespoundies.org.uk Please retweet or give something small, even £1 will help. Original post on facebook 👇 facebook.com/lianne.marie.e… @RSPCA_official @KatieAmess @AndrewRosindell @APDAWG1 @DailyMirror @APDAWG1 @PeterEgan6 @BBCNews @itvnews @NickDixonITV @GBNEWS @PatrickChristys @GMB @clarebalding @ConservativeAWF @JaneFallon @rickygervais @thismorning @loosewomen @TheSun @domdyer70 @PeterEgan6 #dogs #England #Wales #Scotland @liamgallagher #dogs #Brecon #Swansea #Tenby #Pembroke @EamonnHolmes @BBCWales @WalesOnline

In 1978, a baby was born in Oldham, Lancashire.🇬🇧 They called it impossible. Ungodly. Playing God. Two men did it anyway. In a district hospital. With no funding. Robert Edwards. A physiologist from Batley, Yorkshire. He believed a human egg could be fertilised in a glass dish. Patrick Steptoe. A gynaecologist in Oldham. He'd pioneered keyhole surgery. Cambridge and Oldham. Two hundred miles apart. They started working together. The Medical Research Council rejected their funding. Religious leaders condemned them. The medical establishment thought they were mad. They kept going. For over a decade. A hundred and two failed attempts. Jean Purdy worked alongside them. The nurse who became their embryologist. She was the first person to see a human embryo dividing in a dish. Then in 1977, Lesley Brown walked into Steptoe's clinic. Blocked fallopian tubes. Nine years trying for a baby. Every doctor had told her the same thing. She said yes. At 11:47pm on the 25th of July, 1978, Louise Joy Brown was born. Five pounds, twelve ounces. Healthy. Perfect. Alive. Today, twelve million babies have been born through IVF. One every thirty-five seconds. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Steptoe had died in 1988. He never saw it. Jean Purdy died in 1985. She was thirty-nine. Her name was left off the plaque for thirty years. A hundred and two failures. And then Louise. Twelve million families. One hospital in Oldham. They left her name off the plaque. We won't. Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧