Graham Dickens

One half of the Wythenshawe push kart champions #MUFC

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card.

He could travel abroad or leave his country for ever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit.

He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter, a foreigner could spend his life in this country without permit and without informing the police.

Unlike the countries of the European continent, the state did not require its citizens to perform military service. An Englishman could enlist, if he chose, in the regular army, the navy, or the territorials. He could also ignore, if he chose, the demands of national defence.

Substantial householders were occasionally called on for jury service. Otherwise, only those helped the state, who wished to do so. The Englishman paid taxes on a modest scale: nearly £200 million in 1913-14, or rather less than 8 per cent of the national income.

The state intervened to prevent the citizen from eating adulterated food or contracting certain infectious diseases. It imposed safety rules in factories, and prevented women, and adult males in some industries, from working excessive hours.

The state saw to it that children received education up to the age of 13. Since 1 January 1909, it provided a meagre pension for the needy over the age of 70. Since 1911, it helped to insure certain classes of workers against sickness and unemployment.

This tendency towards more state action was increasing. Expenditure on the social services had roughly doubled since the Liberals took office in 1905. Still, broadly speaking, the state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.”

A. J. P. Taylor’s English History, 1914-1945.

With thanks to the @iealondon newsletter for highlighting this in yesterday's email.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The Reform UK-led Leicestershire County Council has paid off £26.9 million of debt inherited from the previous Conservative administration, reducing the council’s debt to its lowest recorded level in history

[@CharlieSimpsonA]

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

“We have taken the steps to ban your children from watching YouTube but if you would like to sign up for them to be chemically castrated, go right ahead.”

[BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 @BROKENBRITAIN0]

🚨BREAKING: The 30 year old man who was ARRESTED for throwing a random 3 year old child into a crocodile enclosure has been RELEASED 🇬🇧

HE WAS ALSO DEEMED UNFIT FOR POLICE INTERVIEW AND HAS BEEN BAILED SINCE SEPTEMBER❗️

HE TRIED TO KILL A RANDOM BABY AND HAS BEEN BAILED ⚠️

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Not sure who made this. (Please credit if you do). But this is how I see it… This is no accident.. The country is the way it is because the people really in charge. The money people and the power people have orchestrated and facilitated it.

[Ryan @offgriddesigner]

Any violence that happens at tomorrow’s protest was planned in this meeting 👇

[UtdDistrict @UtdDistrict]

JJ Gabriel has been named U18s #PL Player of the Season. He’s 15.

Superstar in the making ✨🌟💫

[☈ッ @TheFergusonWay]

In 1998/99, Manchester United became the first English side to win the TREBLE.

David Ginola, with 3 goals and 10 assists for a Spurs team that finished 11th in the PL won the PFA Player of the Year award.

Never let them tell you that the POTY is for the winner of the PL only.

[Marshall Lakes @Marshall_Lakes]

To everyone calling Reform voters Nazis, bigots and ugly…

We’re the ones waving good morning on your street. Making your coffee. Cheering your kids at sports day.

And this morning? We’re winning seats by the thousands across England.

Turns out there are rather a lot of us.

And we’re lovely, actually. 😊

[Man United News @ManUtdMEN]

'A disgrace' - Manchester United fan groups call for FA to step in over Youth Cup final

#MUFC

https://t.co/glOvC8eixl

[E @utd_Eman]

The amount of times they’ve robbed us this season is crazy man https://t.co/5gxQYqn5Fh

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Well knock me down with a feather.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram."
Farmer: "That's rainfall."
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not."
Activist: "It's still water consumption."
Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?"
Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient."
Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop."
Activist: "Technology..."
Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?"
Activist: "There must be a solution."
Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow."
Activist: [checks phone]

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

🚨STUDY INVOLVING OVER 1 MILLION CHILDREN FINDS MYOCARDITIS ONLY OCCURRED IN COVID-VACCINATED CHILDREN

There were ZERO myocarditis cases in unvaccinated kids.

Let that sink in.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starmer is no leader. He's a bureaucrat. An incredibly boring bureaucrat, and an incredibly ineffective bureaucrat. That poisonous mix of being utterly incompetent, but also blindingly arrogant. All with the personality of a doorknob. What a crap Prime Minister.

[OGi 🐐 @BCNOgi]

Cunha is a national hero for that. Can't let those satanists get away with that corner bullshit forever. Play football you pussies

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "You're using an obscene amount of water."
Farmer: "Am I?"
Activist: "Yes. Thousands of litres per cow."
Farmer: "That's rainfall."
Activist: "But they're drinking it."
Farmer: "It rains on my pasture. The grass absorbs it. The cows drink from the stream. Then they piss it back into the soil."
Activist: "It's still water consumption."
Farmer: "Should I... stop the rain?"
Activist: "You should use it for crops."
Farmer: "The rain?"
Activist: "Yes."
Farmer: "The rain that falls on the grass that cows eat?"
Activist: "Grow crops instead."
Farmer: "With what irrigation? I just told you it's rainfall."
Activist: "Find another way."
Farmer: "To make it rain on crops instead of grass?"

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

Never underestimate how crafty JK Rowling really is. She managed to shift all the way from progresive liberal to right wing fascist without changing a single one of her political views.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

The seedy history of seed oils.

"How do you hide 50 tonnes of industrial waste without anybody noticing it?"

"They put it in a clean white can and they called it Crisco."

"And by the 80s, we're all frying eggs in refined seed oils and wondering why suddenly we feel like s**t."

"It's pretty much the same playbook that Big Food and Big Ag have used to get us to eat their man-made, lab-produced chemicals instead of the real food from nature that we've thrived on for thousands of years."

[BruceUnfiltered @BruceUnfiltered]

Farage didn’t ruin Brexit, the Establishment did. Cameron called it, May stalled it, Starmer blocked it, Johnson sold it, and now Reform exists because they betrayed the people.

#Brexit #ReformUK #Farage #UKPolitics #BruceUnfiltered