Ian Rigg

Sixty something country loving Electrician

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

4 steps to freedom in the UK
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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

No, it is getting harder and harder to indulge countries that demand reparations from the nation that stamped out the slave trade. We should treat such demands as an unfriendly act, and set our aid and visa policies accordingly.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

We need a land value tax to cause a massive housing crash, push homeowners into negative equity, create a sharp rise in mortgage defaults, destroy the value of the banking sector’s mortgage portfolios, threaten the solvency of banks, raise interest rates, freeze first time buyers out of the market, collapse the construction industry, and cause a massive recession by making everyone poorer and killing any discretionary spending. And we need it now.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

This is Linton-on-Ouse in England.
Population 1200.

The British state is planning to dump 3,750 migrants into this village and essentially replace them overnight.

Millennia of traditional rural life are about to be wiped out at the altar of open borders.

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

We stopped disciplining children and started diagnosing them.

Now we have a country full of adults who think everything is someone else's fault.

Tell me I’m wrong.

[The Black Opinion @opinion_black]

Image for a moment that you are one of the 411 MP’s sitting on the Labour parliamentary benches. You have an enormous majority of 172 seats. Effectively your party is in a powerful position from a political perspective.

Unfortunately the party leader fails to connect to the wider public and it is deemed necessary to move him on. Ordinarily what would then occur is a search to find a successor amongst the other 410 MP’s.

That did not occur. Someone decided that a mayor in Manchester should be parachuted into parliament to become leader of this nuclear armed 7th richest country on Earth. Who was it that decided that? Who greenlighted this WEF stooge? What have they instructed him to do? Why is this being allowed to take place?

If Andy Burnham wants to become PM it should be done by way of calling an immediate election. Coronations are for the Royal Families.

Meanwhile, those 410 MP’s should be ashamed that this has been allowed to happen. What is now clear is that the concept of a parliamentary democracy is well and truly busted.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Restore Britain has released detailed policy papers on mass deportations, abolishing inheritance tax, restoring the British pub, strengthening self-defence laws and our incredible plan to make energy cheap and reliable.

Separately to that, the rape gang inquiry report with its many recommendations.

More papers are to come soon - on the immigration red list, policing, economics, national security and plenty of others.

We are outlining our blueprint on how to Restore Britain.

Hundreds of pages.

It takes time and effort to put this together, and I want to thank our policy team for their work.

But we are producing the most detailed policy papers released by any political party.

We are doing our homework.

[Adam Day FRAgS @lakesauctioneer]

@ThrimbyFarms £Millions coming into Cumbria every year as shepherds from Cornwall to Caithness come to buy these hill-bred sheep. Cumbrian farmers then invest £millions back into the rural economy through local businesses. This is the circular rural economy and no one outside farming gets it!

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Imagine locking everyone in their homes for 2 years, censoring the internet, flooding the country with the third world and still thinking you're the good guy

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Banning X in Britain won't stop the beheadings.

It will only stop you from knowing about the beheadings.

And that is the reason the radical leftist govt of Keir Starmer wants to ban X in Britain.

[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

After the horrific attempted beheading in Belfast, Labour’s answer is to amend the Online Safety Act and force social media platforms to remove content faster during “times of crisis”.

Not fix the border. Not answer the public. Not restore trust. But instead censor the reaction. They do not want answers, they want total control.

[Ian Rigg @Riggy0]

@BaldyDavitt Free School Breakfasts mate, are you not listening?

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

It’s not social media that’s “inflaming tensions”.

It’s not Elon Musk.
It’s not Nigel Farage.
It’s not the ‘far-right’.

It is the very deliberate policy of mass uncontrolled immigration & open borders.

This policy has to end or it will destroy Western nations.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My letter to the Director-General of the BBC over their scandalous decision to deliberately exclude Restore Britain from tonight's Makerfield Question Time.

[The Heartlands Tribune @Labourheartland]

Policing Minister Sarah Jones needs to get ahead of this, because the public are not asking for a holding statement. They are asking whether the minister responsible for policing understands the scale of the anger.

Henry Nowak was dying in the street. Stabbed, dragged, and pleading, “I can’t breathe.” Yet the police put him in handcuffs after his killer falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist attack.

That alone demands answers.

But instead of clarity, we got evasion and a lack of understanding about the murder.

Susanna Reid asked a simple question about the blade used to kill Henry: was an eight-inch knife covered by any religious exemption?

It is the question newspapers, broadcasters, social media users and ordinary people have all been asking, because people are trying to understand how carrying a knife like that was not treated as a crime in itself.

Jones replied that there is a potential defence if a blade is carried for the purposes of religion. When Reid pressed her directly on an “eight-inch blade”, Jones still answered: “Yes.”

That is not good enough.

A Policing Minister should know the difference between a ceremonial religious article and the weapon used to kill a young man. This was not a technical footnote. It goes to the heart of public confidence in policing, the law, and whether, not just the police, but ministers actually understand the cases they are sent out to defend.

Then came the question of the officers involved in handcuffing Henry as he bled to death. Are they still serving on frontline duties?

First, Jones could not answer. Then she said she knew the answer, but was not going to say because of the ongoing IOPC investigation.

That will not calm public anger. It will deepen it.

The public have seen too many failures, too many scandals, too many cases of police misconduct, misogyny, violence and contempt for ordinary people to be fobbed off with “wait for the inquiry”.

Nobody is asking ministers to prejudice an investigation. But the people of Southampton have a right to know whether officers involved in this case are still dealing with the public while that investigation takes place.

Kicking this into the long grass will not bury it. It will set the long grass ablaze.

Henry Nowak’s father has asked people not to make this political. That dignity deserves respect. But policing is political when public trust is broken, when accountability is unclear, and when a dying boy ends up in handcuffs because a killer told a lie.

Justice must not only be done. It must be seen to be done.

And it must be done professionally, competently, accurately and without the air of casual indifference we saw from Policing Minister Sarah Jones.

Because when a young man dies in the street, when the police response is under public scrutiny, and when confidence in policing is already hanging by a thread, the public do not need ministerial fog.

They need clarity. They need accountability. They need someone at the top who looks as though they understands the gravity of what has happened.

On this showing, #SarahJones did not.

#HenryNowak

[Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ @calvinrobinson]

Ask the National White Police Association whether they think there is two-tier policing.

Oh, there is no such association? That would be racist? Interesting.

[Ian Rigg @Riggy0]

Hi @ZanoControls I emailed your sales team about a problem with a dimmer module a week ago, not had a response. Is there a better way to make contact?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

I’ve just read this opinion piece written by a man. I am compelled to reply. Not because he doesn’t have a right to his own opinion but that he forgot the most important part of the problem.

He seems to assert that more migration is the answer because women want working lives more than they want children. Yet he never once explores the position of women themselves.

What if large numbers of women would actually like children, sometimes more children than they have, but modern society has made family life economically, socially and culturally harder?

For decades, women have been told that being a stay at home mother is less valuable than having a job, As a result, it is now often presumed that women’s ambitions are the same as men’s.

For some women that may be true, but for many others the cost of living and societal expectations mean they cannot stay at home and be the one thing they may truly want to be … a mother raising her own children.

Pieces such as this let women down. They do not support women by asking what they actually want! instead they begin with assumptions about what women SHOULD want. The possibility that many women are suppressing their desire for a larger family because of economic pressures, social expectations and cultural attitudes is barely considered.

It is incredibly sad that while labels such as “toxic masculinity” have hurt many young men, we largely see women made to feel that traditional aspirations are somehow regressive or shameful. The words “trad wife” used disparaging.

There is nothing toxic about wanting babies and wanting to look after them yourself. It is natural, it is beautiful, and it deserves respect rather than dismissal.

And what’s more, it actually is the answer to falling birth rates in this country! A society that truly values itself, would value the huge importance of women who want to have babies but can’t!

You’re welcome.

[Ian Rigg @Riggy0]

@thesundaysport The difference is you know you’re taking the piss!