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๐จ๐ช๐ธ EU BLOCKS CHEAPER FUEL IN SPAIN
Spain tried to slash fuel VAT from 21% to 10% to ease the crisis. Brussels said NO. EU rules forbid it. Fines could follow
You donโt control prices, Brussels does. Sovereignty? Gone
The EU is a dictatorship!
Britain's Gifts To The World ๐ฌ๐ง
They taught you to be ashamed of this country. โ๏ธ
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. ๐ฌ๐ง
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 ๐ฌ๐ง
Be Part Of Us.
Be Proud Of Us. ๐ฌ๐ง
How is Norway able to fund such a Defence budget when we arenโt? One factor is theyโre still drilling in the North Sea - we buy their fossil fuels from the same basin we deny ourselves the economic benefit from. Madness.
Starmer and Reeves promised not to put up tax. They've broken that promise again and again to pay for welfare.
This time it's fuel duty. Under their plan, families will pay nearly ยฃ40,000 over their lives.
As usual, the hardworking get punished; the non-working get rewarded.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง On the West African coast, there is a city called Freetown.
Its name tells you everything.
In 1787, British abolitionists founded it as a home for freed slaves and Black loyalists from Britain.
They called it the Province of Freedom.
When Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, Freetown became the base of the West Africa Squadron.
For sixty years, the Royal Navy patrolled 3,000 miles of coastline. 1,600 slave ships captured. Every person freed was brought here.
150,000 people.
The coast was deadly. Malaria. Yellow fever. Dysentery. Two thousand British sailors died on this station.
They knew the risk when they volunteered.
They went anyway.
Around the 150,000 people brought to Freetown, a city grew. Schools. Churches. Courts.
One of those rescued was a child pulled from a slave ship by the Royal Navy.
His name was Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
Educated in Freetown. Translated the Bible into Yoruba. Became the first African ordained as an Anglican bishop.
Then went back to West Africa to negotiate the treaties that ended the trade on land.
The trade that tried to take him, he helped close. ๐ฌ๐ง
One city. One story. Built entirely from conscience.
Ordinary British people built it.
Help us keep this history alive. ๐
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Be Proud Of Us. ๐ฌ๐ง