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England Katılım Temmuz 2010
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Fantastic to see the 4 St Albans campaign groups, who are fighting to save their #greenbelt fields from development, take part in the #DayOfAction organised by @CommunityPlann1.
End the Grey Belt definition and call for sites @Keir_Starmer ..we want #GreenNotGrey.
@libdemdaisy @StAlbansCouncil @CHinchliffMP @TweetingCollins
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Today is St George's Day. 🏴
Your patron saint wasn't English. Your flag wasn't English either.
Here's why we claimed them both. 🏴🇬🇧
He was from Cappadocia. Modern Turkey.
A Roman soldier. The Praetorian Guard. Diocletian's personal bodyguard.
303 AD. The Emperor orders him to persecute Christians.
He refuses. Walks into the throne room. Tells the Emperor his order is cruel.
They offer him his life back. Gold. Land. His old command.
He refuses again.
23rd of April, 303. They behead him.
1,723 years ago today.
The flag was Genoese. 1099. Their navy was so feared that Barbary pirates turned home at the sight of it.
In 1190, Richard the Lionheart signed a treaty. English ships could fly the cross for protection.
We flew it so long we forgot it wasn't ours.
In 2018, the Mayor of Genoa wrote to the Queen asking for 247 years of back rent.
She didn't reply.
Edward III makes George our patron saint.
Henry V cries his name at Agincourt.
A Roman soldier from Cappadocia became the name Englishmen died for.
We didn't inherit our patron saint. We chose him. And we chose a soldier who refused.
That is your history.
This is who we are. 🇬🇧
We find what Britain has forgotten. And we tell it properly.
proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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This is what campaign group Keep Chiswell Green are fighting..the green circle is now a solar farm planning application on #greenbelt ..the village will treble in size and no infrastructure to support all this development.
Will this land grab never end @UKLabour @StAlbansCouncil ?

Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃@SusieTa32510601
How is it possible that all this beautiful #greenbelt at Chiswell Green in south St Albans could be going to 1,500 new houses in total, a solar farm, a football stadium and a data centre, with no infrastructure to support it? Watford will effectively be joined to St Albans @StAlbansCouncil ?
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People fighting to save green belt land all over the country now. Countryside is under threat more than ever before.
Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃@SusieTa32510601
This is what campaign group Keep Chiswell Green are fighting..the green circle is now a solar farm planning application on #greenbelt ..the village will treble in size and no infrastructure to support all this development. Will this land grab never end @UKLabour @StAlbansCouncil ?
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Today is the feast day of St George of Lydda, patron saint of England. Happy #StGeorgesDay!🌹🏴🏴🌹

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Our beautiful Devon countryside going under concrete… @UKLabour aren’t listening to the majority of the electorate who don’t want to see our green and pleasant land destroyed for 1.5m unnecessary new homes when there’s enough empty properties and brownfield to build what’s needed, truly affordable and social housing…@mhclg we didn’t vote for this.
#LabourOut #LabourLies
EmilyJP@FelineUnit
@ClaudiaBryan01 Same across Devon. 2300 homes going here
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Great news: @WomensWheelz, the Milton Keynes women-only taxi service is planning to expand into Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and other parts of the Chilterns. Only employing female drivers, this is a great option for women and vulnerable people to feel safe.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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If you watch on thing today, make it this 👇
The fighting Irish WILL NOT be silenced 🇮🇪
What a passionate speech from this lady 👏
@EsmerOreilly
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Could everyone please repost and share this tweet. I don’t normally ask, but this corner of Norfolk is going to be covered by solar panels and infrastructure the equivalent of 43,200 tennis courts. This insanity must be stopped. Thank you
blockeastpyesolar.co.uk
@AllisonPearson @TiceRichard @KayMasonBillig

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Before England. Before Britain. Before the Romans. 🌿
There was a class of people in this island who held everything in their heads.
The Romans called them Druids. 🌳
They were the doctors. The lawyers. The judges. The astronomers. The philosophers. The poets.
All in one. In one lifetime.
They could walk between two armies about to fight and stop the battle. With a raised hand. ✋
Caesar recorded this. Strabo recorded this. Diodorus Siculus recorded this.
Three independent sources.
Caesar himself wrote that Britain was the origin of Druidism 🇬🇧
Training took up to twenty years. Medicine. Law. Astronomy. Philosophy. History. The size of the cosmos. ⭐
All of it memorised. Not one word written down.
On the sixth day of the moon a Druid in white climbed an oak tree with a golden sickle and cut the mistletoe. Others caught it in white cloth below. It must never touch the ground.
They called it the all-healing. 🌿
They believed the soul was immortal.
After death it passed from one body to the next.
The fear of death was cast aside. 💀
Once a year they marked the barrier between the living and the dead.
October the thirty-first. 🎃
Every fire across Britain was extinguished. The Arch-Druid climbed a sacred hill in gold robes and lit a single new fire.
They burned the bones of animals in it.
The bone-fire. 🔥
We call it a bonfire now.
People dressed as monsters to hide from the spirits of the dead.
We call it Halloween.
The Druids invented Halloween. 👻
In 60AD Rome came for them. Flat-bottomed boats crossed the Menai Strait. The cavalry swam alongside their horses.
On the opposite shore women in black robes brandished torches. Druids with their hands raised to heaven. Screaming curses.
Tacitus wrote that the Roman soldiers, hardened legionaries, were frozen with terror. 😨
They stood motionless. Shields not raised. Exposed to wounds.
Their commanders had to shout at them to remember they were soldiers.
They crossed. They massacred. They cut down the sacred groves.
And Britain went silent. 🌑
No buildings. No inscriptions. No graves. Their temples were forest clearings.
Everything we know about them comes from the people who destroyed them.
And yet. 🌳
Halloween. The word bonfire. The oak groves they called sacred still stand.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
Your support goes straight into educating fellow Britons on the history they were never taught.
Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk/support
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