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I'm not afraid of Virginia Woolf or wolves in general. Writer - Director - Gin drinker...in the gutter looking at the stars...
St. Mary Mead Katılım Aralık 2008
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Dear Iranian temporary Supreme leader.
Please don't fire another missile towards UK sovereign territory or I will be forced to hold another press conference talking about how wonderful Islam is.
Regards
@Keir_Starmer

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🏴🇬🇧 In 1921, thirty elected councillors walked calmly into a prison.
They chose to be there.
They did it to protect the poorest people in Britain.
Do you know their names?
Poplar. East London. One of the poorest boroughs in the country. 🏚️
High unemployment. Hunger. And a tax system designed to make it worse.
Poor boroughs like Poplar had to collect taxes not just for themselves but for London-wide authorities, the Metropolitan Police, the Asylums Board, the Water Board. ⚖️
The rich boroughs paid a low rate. Poplar paid a high rate. And got nothing back.
In March 1921, the Labour council, led by former mayor George Lansbury, decided to stop collecting those taxes. They'd use the money to feed the poor instead. 🥣
The High Court ordered them to pay.
They refused.
On the 29th of July, thirty councillors marched through the streets of Poplar with 2,000 supporters, led by the official mace-bearer, to the sound of a brass band. 🎺
Their banner read:
"Poplar Borough Council, marching to the High Court and possibly to prison."
They weren't possibly going to prison.
They were going to prison. ⛓️
Thirty councillors. Twenty-five men to Brixton. Five women to Holloway. One of them was pregnant.
One of the women was Minnie Lansbury. She was 32. She developed pneumonia in prison. She died two months after her release. She was still 32.
They held council meetings inside the prison. The women were brought from Holloway to Brixton by taxi. George Lansbury addressed thousands of supporters from his cell window. 🏴
After six weeks, the court ordered their release. Parliament rushed through a new law. The tax burden between rich and poor boroughs was equalised.
Thirty ordinary people went to prison. And changed the law. 🇬🇧
Did they teach you their names?
Thirty people went to prison so that others would be treated fairly.
Nobody remembered them.
Every time you support this channel,
more of them survive.
Be Part Of Us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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🏴🇬🇧 The last time a foreign army invaded Britain, a Welsh cobbler sent them home.
With a pitchfork. 🍴
Her name was Jemima Nicholas.
Born in Mathry, Pembrokeshire. 1755. A cobbler. Not a soldier. Not a general.
On the 22nd of February 1797, four French warships anchored off the Welsh coast. 🚢 1,400 soldiers came ashore at Carreg Wastad Point. Many of them were convicts and deserters. Their plan was to march on Bristol, start a revolution and inspire the British poor to rise up.
It did not go to plan.
A ship had recently wrecked nearby. Its cargo was Portuguese wine. 🍷 The French found it. Within hours, the invasion force was drunk.
Jemima heard what was happening.
She reached for her pitchfork. And walked out to meet them. 🏴
She found twelve French soldiers. They were drunk. She rounded them up, marched them to the church, and locked the door.
She wasn't the only one.
Hundreds of Welsh women came out of their homes in their traditional red shawls and tall black hats. 🟥 From a distance, after a glass or two of Portuguese wine, they looked exactly like British Redcoats.
On the 24th of February, two days after they landed, 1,400 French soldiers surrendered. ⚖️
Unconditionally.
The surrender was signed in a pub.
It was the last time a foreign army set foot on British soil. 🇬🇧
Jemima Nicholas was awarded a pension of £50 a year for the rest of her life. She died in 1832. Her gravestone reads:
"The Welsh heroine who boldly marched to meet the French invaders who landed on our shores."
Did they teach you her name? 🏴
Jemima Nicholas was almost forgotten forever.
So were thousands of others.
Every time you support this channel,
more of them survive.
Be Part Of Us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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ONE MAN CRUSHES COUNCIL IN POTHOLE WAR USING FORGOTTEN LAW!
Retired 68-year-old Derek Bennett took on lazy Hertfordshire County Council after they ignored dangerous potholes ruining roads in Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead.
Using obscure Section 56 of the Highways Act 1980, he served legal notices, then dragged them to court when they failed to act.
Judge at St Albans Crown Court ordered the council to fix THREE major roads within 20 days and awarded Bennett £1,650 costs.
“If everyone did this, we’d have lovely roads within six months,” he said.
Absolute legend just exposed how useless councils really are!
Derek Bennett, 68, pictured outside St Albans Crown Court, took action after becoming fed up with the potholes in streets in his home village of Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire and nearby Hemel Hempstead

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And this says it all about this appalling Labour government. They clearly have no focus on keeping us safe #NeverLabour
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
Fun fact: IRGC, the deadliest terrorist organization in the world, is still legal in Britain 🇬🇧. Everywhere else in Europe it is a designated terrorist organization.
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