Kenneth Blakeley

born in STOKE to be a stokie now living in ELY cambs.schooled at blessed William southern

[Kenneth Blakeley @KennethBlakeley]

@ZubyMusic Northern Ireland is part of great Britain

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@JohnCleese He's taking the utter piss.
@MayorofLondon you Trojan donkey 🫏 🙄😬

[Stan Voice of Wales @StanVoWales]

AN OPEN LETTER TO LEWIS HAMILTON

Mr Hamilton,

You have recently spoken about Britain’s past and suggested that the country should consider returning land in Africa as some form of historical reckoning.

Before making such sweeping statements, it might be worth revisiting the full history — not just the fashionable fragments that circulate on social media.

Slavery was not invented by Britain. It existed for millennia across the ancient world — in empires from Rome to the Middle East and Africa. By the time Britain emerged as a maritime power, slave trading networks already stretched across continents.

The Atlantic trade itself involved multiple participants. African rulers and traders captured and sold prisoners to European merchants on the coast. It was an ugly system, but it was also an international one.

What is often omitted from modern lectures about history is that Britain became the first major power to turn against the trade. Parliament passed the 1807 Act abolishing the slave trade, and the Royal Navy then spent decades enforcing that decision.

The West Africa Squadron patrolled thousands of miles of coastline. Sailors died from disease and from gunfire while intercepting slave ships. In doing so they liberated tens of thousands of people who would otherwise have been carried into bondage.

Many of those liberated Africans were settled in Sierra Leone. The capital was named Freetown for a reason.

There are also chapters rarely mentioned today. When Napoleon restored slavery in French territories after it had been abolished, it was British power that ultimately helped end those systems again.

There is also the matter of the enormous compensation loan taken by the British state when slavery was abolished across the empire — a debt British taxpayers continued servicing for generations.

None of this erases the suffering of those enslaved. But it does mean the story is far more complex than the simple narrative often presented today.

So before condemning Britain wholesale, perhaps a moment might be taken to acknowledge the sailors who fought the slave traders and the role Britain played in shutting down the Atlantic system.

A fitting tribute would be support for a memorial to those men who served and died enforcing abolition.

History deserves honesty — not slogans.

Yours sincerely
Stan Robinson
Voice of Wales
@VoWalesWren @alanlester
#SouthAfricaSquadron #RoyalNavy #VoiceOfWales

[Kenneth Blakeley @KennethBlakeley]

@SamaHoole The problem with water shortage is we only have the same capacity to store water when the victorians stopped building reservoirs it can rain every day of the year if we have no storage capacity nothing will change simple really

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@LucyLeMostJuicy @ElContador2000 Wow how delusional are you

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@ArchRose90 @ElContador2000 Absolutely spot on

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@UU_Ess_Pee @max__young @GuidoFawkes You sure I know some that do nevertheless they earn a shit load of money

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@SkySportsWSL @SkySportsNews There as always been girl relationship's what's the big deal just asking maybe publicity

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@MMKUK1 @antmiddleton Wow just wow how stupid have people become

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@RupertLowe10 People choose to go to the countryside because they want to I didn't know there was a ban on ethnic minority groups their choice not to go simple really

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Just want to put it out there now 70yrs old grew up in stoke in that time we had absolutely no issues with colour or race if you were a knob no matter what colour you were a knob but today it is all about colour how the f##k has that happened load of bollocks

[Kenneth Blakeley @KennethBlakeley]

@stokecity Things within the club have got change get rid of loan players they don't give a shit about scfc or our city and tell sky to do one if financial posable our club our city

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@PeteSmith1983 Another game my granddaughter will miss absolutely fed up with the way sky dictate our games gutted

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Racism is people not qualified for a job they applied for and people who are told to join the que like the rest of us complaining that it is all about the colour of their skin not their inability to do the job whatsoever

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@robinsseason04 @weare_stoke Will do well in that league couldn't in championship

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@PeteSmith1983 The lad did well could have put us 2-0 up matured and confident since his loan nice to see

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@robin1302 Papering over crack's

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@stokecity So why are you playing million one hoof who only as a left foot on the right he may be able to cut in in dutch football but time after time looses the ball looks like a 10yrs old and plays like one

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@JackD_88 @RussellDutton He is telling players to do things they can't about time he understands that and plays to the strength of the players he has not to his football idolagy he is the coach after all