Mark Reckless

Politics, lawyer, economist, husband and father. Reform Wales

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

Is @AnnCoulter campaigning for @DouglasCarswell to replace Nicholas Rowland and start handing out some proper sentences?

[Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 @DouglasCarswell]

Any idea why @AnnCoulter is showing an image of me as a liberal British judge?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 In 1670, 12 Englishmen REFUSED. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❌

To convict an innocent man.

A London judge tried to break them. He locked them in a Newgate cell for 3 weeks. No food. No water. No light. No fire.

They held the line.

This is the story of Bushel's Case.

On 14 August 1670, soldiers raided a Quaker meeting on Gracechurch Street, London. The Conventicle Act of 1664 had banned non-Anglican worship. The soldiers arrested William Penn, a young Quaker preacher, and his older companion William Mead. The charge: unlawful assembly.

They were taken to the Old Bailey.

12 London merchants were sworn to judge them. The foreman was a merchant named Edward Bushel.

The judge demanded guilty.

The jury returned NOT GUILTY.

The judge refused the verdict. He sent them back.

They returned the same.

And again. Three times.

The judge fined each juror 40 marks in British pound sterling, or imprisonment. They refused to pay. He sent all 12 to Newgate.

3 weeks. No meat. No drink. No fire. No tobacco.

They held the line.

Edward Bushel applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The case came before Chief Justice Sir John Vaughan in the Court of Common Pleas.

In November 1670, Vaughan ruled:

No jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever.

The 12 walked free.

And every jury after them carried the line that 12 London merchants held in 1670.

At the Old Bailey today, their names are carved into the wall.

The stones remember.

They were Englishmen. They held the line in spite of every opposing force.

The British spirit.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

We built the world's freedoms.

Charter by charter. Jury by jury.

12 held the line for us.

Will you help hold the line for the next generation? 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

@policy_uk @Ameer_Kotecha George Osborne was a cheerleader

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

RT @DouglasCarswell: "Clacton-on-Sea is going nowhere" wrote Matthew Parris in the Times 12 year ago. "Its voters are going nowhere, .... i…

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

2 hours left to Vote Reform UK!

Let’s Get Starmer Out. ⚠️

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

Thank you to @RUKWales supporters with a lovely garden who have put up more posters since I hammered in one on a stake two weeks ago

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Welsh nurseries told to report ‘racist' toddlers to POLICE under Labour-backed guidance
https://t.co/Mfkhj0TayO

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

Let’s do this.

[Cllr David Thomas @cllr_thomas]

Polls are OPEN.

Today is the day Wales decides whether we carry on with more of the same, or finally demand real change.

Get out and vote. Bring your friends, your family, your neighbours. Every single vote matters.

If you want a government that puts the people of Wales first, vote Reform UK Wales today.

Let’s make history for our families our communities and our country. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Iain McIntosh MS @IainCMcIntosh]

Polls open tomorrow from 7am until 10pm. 🗳️

This election is Wales’ opportunity to finally say enough is enough after 27 years of @UKLabour decline and failure.

But do not be fooled into thinking @Plaid_Cymru offers something different. They have worked hand in hand with the Labour Party and the @LibDems on budgets and policies that have helped create the problems Wales now faces.

If you want real change, there is another option.

@reformparty_uk will:
✅Reform the Welsh NHS and cut waste.
✅ Scrap the blanket 20mph policy.
✅ Back Welsh farmers and rural communities.
✅ Cut income tax by 1p.
✅ Support businesses and bring jobs back to Wales.
✅ Protect our countryside from wind farm overdevelopment.
✅ Improve education standards and support school staff.
✅ Put Welsh residents and communities first.

More and more people across Wales are now backing Reform because they know the old parties have failed.

Tomorrow, your vote can help deliver a new direction for Wales.

Vote Reform UK. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🗳️💙

[DOGE Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💰 @SeneddWaste]

Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood suggests seizing people’s homes in places where Reform wins.

[Cllr George Finch @_GeorgeFinch]

Absolutely disgusting 🤢

Keith Kondakor I understand she is your wife but will you condemn these abhorrent comments?

On May 7th vote Reform UK to ensure we keep out the radical left.

https://t.co/eZ6pRFUv3W

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Plaid Cymru and Labour have suffocated Wales.

Vote Reform UK on Thursday. ✅

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Perhaps Brexit undermined the German economy?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain's Gifts To The World 🇬🇧

They taught you to be ashamed of this country. ⛓️

Here's what they left out.

The steam engine. The telephone. The television. The world wide web. The computer you're reading this on. All of it Britain.

Vaccination, given to the world for free. Over an estimated 200 million lives saved. 🇬🇧

Britain abolished the slave trad4e. Then spent sixty years on the open ocean making sure the rest of the world agreed.

Over 800,000 people freed at once. Countless more saved from a life of slavery.

The NHS. Free at the point of need.

This is not a perfect country. No country is.

But this is a country that looked at what was wrong with the world and tried to fix it. Repeatedly. For centuries.

Britain's greatness didn't happen by accident. It happened because ordinary people worked together. That's what we're doing again. First it starts with us working together once more.

Proud Of Us is a community of people who love Britain and want to help bring it back. Story by story. Name by name.

If you want to be part of it: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🇬🇧

Be Part Of Us.

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Dan Thomas MS @DanWalesReform]

The only way to stop an establishment stitch up is to make the Reform result on May 7 too big to ignore.

[Dan Thomas MS @DanWalesReform]

Here’s five reasons you should vote Reform on May 7.

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

@AndrewB5sully More will vote because Reform standing

[Mark Reckless @MarkReckless]

Out and about in Ely and Caerau in Cardiff today with Reform bus

[Laura Anne Jones MS @LauraJ4SWEast]

❗️Stop another stitch-up.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Only Reform can deliver real change here in Wales.