dan driscoll

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

The rejoin EU activists really don't like that we found the Observer/Opinium polling this weekend, and like even less that we made it public.

It would be a terrible shame if you shared it with them some more. As it really does seem to upset them.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

She was a princess. 👑

Great-great-granddaughter of Tipu Sultan.

She grew up in Paris writing children's stories about animals and kindness. 📖

Then the war came. France fell. She escaped to England and volunteered.

Not as a nurse. Not as a clerk.

As a spy. 🕵️‍♀️

June 1943. She was flown into occupied France by moonlight.

Codename: Madeleine.

The first female wireless operator sent behind enemy lines. 📻

Within weeks, the entire network was captured. Every other agent gone.

Noor Inayat Khan was the last British agent in Paris.
London ordered her home.

She refused. ⚔️

For three months she operated alone. A different location every time she transmitted. The Gestapo tore the city apart looking for her.

She was betrayed. For money.

They interrogated her for weeks. She gave them nothing.

She escaped. Twice.

They chained her hands and feet. Classified her 'highly dangerous.'

A children's author. Highly dangerous.

13 September 1944. Dachau. 🕯️

Her last word: Liberté.

George Cross. Croix de Guerre. 🎖️

She never broke.

Did they teach you her name? 🇬🇧

Every video we make is funded by people who believe these stories matter. 👇
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Be part of us.

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

For a thousand years, the Bible existed in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️

But only in Latin.

Ordinary people weren't allowed to read it.

The Church said only the Church could speak to God.

William Tyndale thought that was wrong.

Oxford-educated. Spoke eight languages.

He told a clergyman: I will cause the boy that drives the plough to know more scripture than you.

He asked the Bishop of London for permission to translate.

Refused.

So he left England. He never came back.

In Germany, he translated alone. In hiding. Moving city to city.

In 1526, the first copies reached England. Smuggled in bales of cloth.

The Church burned every copy it could find.

He printed more.

The Bishop of London bought copies just to burn them.

Tyndale used the money to print better editions.

He was betrayed. Arrested in Antwerp. Imprisoned in Vilvoorde Castle for eighteen months.

In October 1536, they strangled him at the stake. Then burned his body.

His last words: Lord, open the King of England's eyes.
Within three years, Henry ordered an English Bible in every church.

It was largely Tyndale's translation.

When the King James Bible was published in 1611, eighty-four percent of the New Testament was Tyndale's work.

Let there be light. The salt of the earth. The spirit is willing. A moment in time. The powers that be.

Phrases you use every day.

Written by a man they killed for writing them.

They didn't teach you his name.

He wanted a ploughboy to read.

We want a nation to remember.

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Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

You've probably used this word as an insult your entire life.

Luddite.

Someone afraid of technology. Against progress. Stuck in the past.

That's not what it means.

The real Luddites were the most skilled textile workers in England. Seven years trained. Every cut precise. Every cloth perfect.

Then factory owners replaced them with children operating machines that produced inferior goods.

Wages halved. Then halved again.

They petitioned Parliament. Nothing. They couldn't vote. Couldn't strike. Unions were illegal.

So they smashed the machines. Not all machines. Only the ones replacing skilled men with child labour.

They called themselves Luddites. Followers of General Ned Ludd. A leader who lived in Sherwood Forest.

Same address as Robin Hood.

Except Ned Ludd didn't exist. They invented him.

A phantom general to lead an army of starving craftsmen.

The government sent 12,000 soldiers against them. More than Wellington took to fight Napoleon in 1808.

George Mellor. Twenty-two years old. Led the Yorkshire Luddites. Six foot tall. Seven years trained as a cropper.

Seventeen men were hanged at York. Twenty-five transported to Australia. Fifty-seven children left without fathers.

For smashing a machine.

The man who betrayed them was promised £2,000.
They never paid him. He died a beggar in London.

The word "Luddite" became an insult. Written by the people who won.

Next time someone calls you a Luddite... Remember what it actually means.

This time, the machines work for us. Help us break the version they wrote.

Be part of us.
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Be Proud Of Us.🇬🇧

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 They whipped him 1,500 times through the streets of London.

Then they gagged him in a pillory.

He still had pamphlets in his pockets. He threw every page into the crowd. Gagged, bleeding, locked in wood. He was still talking.

His name was John Lilburne. A twenty-three-year-old printer from Sunderland.

His crime: publishing books the government banned.

They threw him in the Tower of London. He wrote eighty pamphlets from his cell. His wife Elizabeth smuggled every one out. Walked through the prison gates with his words hidden under her cloak.

The more they punished him, the more people listened.
In 1640, one man in Parliament freed him. Oliver Cromwell.

Nine years later, Cromwell charged him with treason. The penalty was death.

October 1649. The London Guildhall, packed to the walls.

Twelve ordinary people heard the case.

Not guilty.

The crowd cheered for thirty minutes. Soldiers in the streets sounded their trumpets. They struck medals and put every juror's name on the back.

Cromwell banished him from England for life.

He came back.

Treason. Again. Twelve ordinary people. Not guilty. Again.

Cromwell interrogated every juror individually. Every single one held firm.

They imprisoned him anyway. On an island. Without trial. He died at forty-three.

But here's what Cromwell couldn't kill.

The word Lilburne gave us: freeborn. You are born with rights no government can take away.

Your right to silence? His refusal in the Star Chamber. Your right to a jury? His jury in the Guildhall.

A hundred and thirty years later, Americans wrote them into law.

A printer's apprentice. Whipped. Gagged. Imprisoned. Tried. Banished. Tried again.

They didn't teach you his name.

We aren't afraid to print it.

Be part of us.
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[Brexit Facts4EU.Org @Facts4euOrg]

2026 – The year you will be lied to on an epic scale, so we start with the truth.
Those who talk the UK down, blaming Brexit for non-existent falls, must explain themselves.

Read for free: https://t.co/mUzCmIMw1T

Please re-post!

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

In 30 years, the most devastating interview I have done. 🚨
Asylum whistleblower reveals the horrifying truth about danger to Brits’ safety.
Pls share:
“I think it is inevitable a man I grant asylum to will rape or murder a young girl’ https://t.co/BtoMZVRdBN

[BBC Sport London @BBCLondonSport]

Millwall are ⬆️ to 3rd in the Championship table! 🦁

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

From the Crown Court's judgement in the Hamit Coskun case:

"There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset. The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.

"We live in a liberal democracy. One of the precious rights that affords us is to express our own views and read, hear and consider ideas without the state intervening to stop us doing so. The price we pay for that is having to allow others to exercise the same rights, even if that upsets, offends or shocks us."

Mr Justice Bennathan
Ms T Guest JP
Mr D Graves JP
10 October 2025

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Our justice system does not exist to protect people from being offended.

It can’t do this, it shouldn’t do this, and it mustn’t try.

And yet Hamit Coskun was hauled through the courts for burning a Quran, while the man who tried to stab him will avoid jail.

End this madness.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

This decision sends a green light to any Muslim who wants to enforce an Islamic blasphemy by taking the law into their own hands. The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and you won't have to spend a day behind bars.

Moussa Kadri has been let off with a suspended sentence after repeatedly slashing Hamit Coskun with a knife while shouting that he was going to kill him. Kadri had been enraged that Coskun was protesting against Islam.

Hamit is still living in hiding having been convicted of a “hate crime” for burning his own copy of the Quran.

Read more below ⬇️

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

It’s getting harder and harder to tell uncomfortable truths in Britain.

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition will make this worse. It will stifle criticism of Islam and stop us from telling the truth about things like grooming gangs.

It must not happen. We must fight back.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I am good at my job, yet constantly overlooked for promotion as I'm not young. I'm about to hand in my notice and will take multiple clients with me, enough to put the current company in serious financial difficulty. Fuck 'em, should appreciate what they have.

[dan driscoll @bigdandrisc]

@AlanJLSmith I could get behind means testing this if my NI contributions became a social care insurance instead.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

I'm campaigning to stop Britain's Islamic blasphemy laws.

And I need your help.

Labour are trying to rig the consultation on "Islamophobia" - sending it only to favoured groups.

Don't let them silence you. Click here to save our free speech:
https://t.co/3dlgGkKadV

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

I’m campaigning to stop Britain’s Islamic blasphemy laws.

Thanks to the threat of mob violence, and the submission of many in power, our free speech has gone.

And Labour will do anything to avoid doing something about it.

[dan driscoll @bigdandrisc]

@richardpbacon Come now you're not comparing like for like...are those Brits in Spain acquiring free housing in Spain for example?

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

The criticisms of the India FTA are based on a series of misunderstandings.
🔴"Easier immigration". No. There is nothing in this deal about migration. Nothing. There is an extension of the CATEGORIES under which people can apply for work permits, but the total number can still be capped.
🔴"National Insurance Exemption". False. There is a general presumtion against double taxation. All employees of foreign companies get a 12-month exemption from paying NI. Britain has reciprocal treaties with several countries to extend that period, and India has now joined their company. Since foreign employees can't claim pensions or related benefits unless they have paid in for 10 years, it seems only fair.
🔴"Cheap competition". Tariff reduction is always good for both sides; but the main beneficiary is the country removing its tariffs. We are not cutting duties on Indian textiles or seafood as a favour to India; we are cutting them as a favour to ourselves. When prices fall, we have more to spend on other things, which drives growth.
🔴Even from a protectionist point of view, it is hard to see what we are losing from cheaper Indian garments. They are in competition, not with British products, but with imported garments from other Asian countries, especially China.
🔴Look at the big mutual gains in services - accounting, auditing, telecoms etc. India has not opened its vast market to anyone else on such terms.
🔴The tariff reductions are also significant, and cover 99 per cent of our traded goods.
🔴This is only the 16th FTA that India has signed, and is vastly more ambitious than the previous 15. We are now closely invested in one another's success. Given that India is the 4th largest economy in the world, about to overtake Germany to become the 3rd, this matters.
🔵In short, instead of carping, Conservatives should take credit for having initiated this important work, and congratulate @jreynoldsMP for completing it.
🇬🇧🤝🇮🇳

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

🤡This banter ban policy from Labour is ludicrous - @griffitha and @toadmeister are absolutely right to call it out

💡Find the @SpeechUnion template to email your MP, here:

https://t.co/SZCK6ynCIa

[dan driscoll @bigdandrisc]

@MillwallFC Championship safety secured for another year