Based Bretwalda

Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. 💡 Everyone is wrong. His name was Joseph Swan. Born in Pallion, Sunderland. Son of a failed entrepreneur. No university. No laboratory. No backing. Just a chemist's apprentice in his home town who couldn't stop thinking about light. He worked on it for twenty years. Along the way he invented bromide photographic paper. Artificial fibre, the process that led to rayon. Over seventy patents. And still nobody had made a lightbulb that worked. Then on the 18th of December 1878, in a lecture hall in Newcastle, he switched it on. It burned bright. Then it broke. But the idea was proven. ⚡ Six weeks later, 3rd February 1879, he demonstrated it again. This time it worked. Seven hundred people watched the room light up. Eight months before Thomas Edison. Edison heard about it. Filed a patent. Then sued Swan in America. The US Patent Office found against Edison. ✅ Edison sued Swan in Britain. The British courts found against Edison again. ✅✅ As part of the settlement, Edison was forced into a partnership with Swan. The company was called Ediswan. Swan's patents. Swan's filament design. Edison's name first. Eventually Edison bought him out. Swan was knighted in 1904. The Savoy Theatre, the first building in the world lit entirely by electricity, used his bulbs. Edison got the credit. Swan got a knighthood nobody remembers. And history forgot Sunderland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Did they teach you his name? Together we keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Bob pontificates about acceptance from his home in Beverley, Yorkshire, a white ethnic enclave. Why don't you live in a Muslim area, Bob?

@AeroTrewent @roseveniceallan If you have to deny reality, then you are admitting you have no argument. See how I also added no value to the reply with a stupid statement.

@BasedBretwalda @roseveniceallan no babies are involved if you have to use emotive terms you are admitting you have no argument

Nobody should be criminalised for doing something to their own body. Even in tragic circumstances when a woman is heavily pregnant, her body belongs to her, not her unborn baby or the state. Late term DIY abortions are traumatic and any woman choosing that needs help, not prison.

@nickchelsea01 @travelingflying We did not ask. So was it morally right for the British to colonise? If not, how is this morally right?

@travelingflying You guys forgot, British colonise half of the world and ask people to come over to build British. Today you’re moaning about other people. Shut up and get a job. Deal with it

British man: “Everywhere you look there is a foreigner. No more England. We might as well name it something else: hell. Because there are too many foreigners.”

@donmcgowan @DeeganTalkShow What kind of answer is this? So what? People like what they have and don't want it to change. Just because it changed in the past doesn't mean anything. People killed vikings to keep Christianity are you implying we should do that because historically they did? Utter tripe.

@DeeganTalkShow You understand that Chirsitanity was imported by immigrants? Right? It came from Palestine.

Nigel Farage wants to ban this. Alongside Easter celebrations, Diwali and Eid.

We have raging youth unemployment and general employment yet we need to bring in foreigners? What's the value proposition here? Which company is doing it?

@diaryofFacundo @JRFBoy Who are the companies doing it as it feels coordinated and at scale?

@JRFBoy They all sruve on student visas which are handed out like sweets. It’s a win win for everyone. Low quality Universities get lots of money with their student fees and we let these “students” work too. They use the student visa as immigration in reality.

Genuinely what visa are people like this here on? They’re not illegal immigrants, so our system actively imports people to do these jobs and I’d like to know the means by which we do it.

@JRFBoy Yeah, it's wild. I know why I'm here - skilled worker, software developer, paid a fortune for a visa, here paying tax, building a future. What's the value proposition for a guy to wander around a museum, or ride precariously through traffic on his delivery bike?

@HumzaYousaf Remind us why you and Anas Sarwar single out white people.

One thing that’s very noticeable in GB is that almost all security workers are now from the Subcontinent or Africa. They’ve been totally replaced: railway stations and airports, festivals, supermarkets, etc. Not a single white British person.

@Babygravy9 Holy shit. I noticed this the other day when 7 Indians boarded The Newcastle Metro as security. Who is doing it and why?

I am deeply disturbed by last night’s debate and vote to decriminalise abortion. The biggest change to abortion law in fifty years passes the Commons after a two hour debate. It is a profound change that leaves the unborn child and women themselves extraordinarily vulnerable. I worry intensely about the unintended consequences of this. The combination of rushed amendments on decriminalisation and pills by post is very dangerous. A woman will now be able to end her pregnancy herself - at any stage including up to birth - without legal consequence. She will also have the means to do it - with tablets that should only be taken before a baby in the womb is at ten weeks gestation, available after a phone or video call with a medic. Dr Caroline Johnson tabled a perfectly sensible amendment, which I supported, to say that abortion pills should only be prescribed after a woman has seen a medic at a clinic - to verify that she is pregnant, at the correct stage and not being coerced (none of which can be established online). She set out the medical reality of an abortion. We should not underplay how extraordinarily distressing a thing it is to lose a baby for a woman - whether wanted or not - and the amplified risk now of that happening at home, alone, with the delivery of a viable child, exposes her to serious medical complications and psychological trauma. The law does not exist simply to punish but to deter. And in deterring, it protects the vulnerable. It being a criminal act for a mother to abort her child at any stage has for decades protected the unborn child but also the woman herself. With that gone, the ability to prosecute coercive or abusive partners is also undermined because the termination being encouraged by them no longer amounts to a criminal offence. All this is aside from any moral duty to the unborn child - something that was skirted over yesterday. Only six people got to speak on our benches. I was lucky that I even got three minutes to have a say. Others did not get called at all. I am grateful that there were some on the Labour benches with the courage to express their worries. Abortion votes are unwhipped so each MP votes according to their conscience not party policy. But Labour MPs - with their huge majority - voted overwhelmingly to decriminalise (291 to 25). 92 Conservatives voted against, with 4 in favour. 2 Lib Dems voted against, 63 in favour. Reform were 4 against and their leader didn’t vote. It is now over to the House of Lords, where I hope this proposal receives the scrutiny it failed to get in the Commons.

@WilsonTball @mrdent34 @BBCPolitics Nah, I'm just french.

@BasedBretwalda @mrdent34 @BBCPolitics WOW! ableist as well racist

Ed Davey calls GB News the “Reform channel” and asks whether government rules “aren’t fit for purpose” or if they’re not being enforced by Ofcom It’s a “matter for Ofcom” to deal with, Keir Starmer responds #PMQs bbc.in/4sPZaqn

@3urovisionSam @jsinclair29 @thecourieruk @bellacaledonia When someone says something is too white how is it not racist?

@jsinclair29 @thecourieruk @bellacaledonia You have to be a particularly thick bigot with an axe to grind to believe this

EXCLUSIVE: Fife Reform election candidate called Humza Yousaf ‘Islamist moron’ and ‘not British’ dlvr.it/TRb7n5

@WilsonTball @mrdent34 @BBCPolitics

@mrdent34 @BasedBretwalda @BBCPolitics So by this are you condoning their overt racism? Not shocked tbh

Interesting to see the overlap between people who believe individual silent prayer near an abortion clinic is an act of deliberate intimidation, and people who believe mass ritual prayer taking over a public space is unworthy of comment.

@MrMoosey1 @JohnapIdris1 @MarkJLittlewood I will stoop to your level, I suggest you stop facilitating the murder of babies and repent.

@BasedBretwalda @JohnapIdris1 @MarkJLittlewood So they were bothering women then. I’d suggest you obey the law then.

Do you also agree that Christians should be able to peacefully pray outside of abortion clinics? Or is that too diverse and tolerant for you? 👇

@WilsonTball @mrdent34 @BBCPolitics Ahh I see. Very racist of me. 2 months in the gulag.

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An interesting take. It does beg the question that if we want to justify religions based on their contributions, could we not optimise for bigger contributing groups? Are Muslims the optimal? Would it be better for the economy if it were Christian? Silly if you ask me.