What if I told you 137 years ago the UK borrowing £20m, the highest loan ever, to end the slave trade?
This loan was paid off in 2015 eventually.
I’m today’s money runs into billions.
Reparations ? We’ve done it. Ram it up your arse.
Maybe putting foreigners in positions of power and influence is something we shouldn't do. Lammy identifies as Caribbean and has talked repeatedly about his people, by which he means black people, being transported across the Atlantic against their will, so don't start.
So it turns out career criminal Chris Kaba's parents are Congolese. Why are we importing people from the Congo? Did they migrate to Belgium then find out that UK welfare handouts are more generous and use EU free movement loopholes to get into the UK? https://t.co/js2pTBkExw
In French, the expression for "hiring someone under the table" is "travail au noir" which translates to "working in the black."
A black left-wing MP has called for banning the expression, arguing that it is racist.
The expression dates from the Middle Ages, and refers to laws banning work after sunset. It has nothing to do with race.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
So step over them.
Don’t play the dialectical game of people who hate us. Instead, laugh in their faces.
Don’t try to defend your record against people who you will never win over.
Forget them. The future belongs to us.
Our enemies live among us.
They teach our kids to hate themselves
And to hate our country.
He wasn't prosecuted for this.
The calls for deportations will grow louder
Who's the most criminally unknown adventurer and gentleman in Western history?
James Brooke, the first "White Rajah of Sarawak," the man who cleansed Borneo of pirates with his own hands and then created a dynasty that ruled the former pirate kingdom for a century
A fun 🧵👇
The hilarious thing is that this is true: Reagan was awful
He did everything from turning California blue with illegal immigrant amnesty to destroying marriage as an institution. He did some good as well but much of what he did was awful
A 🧵 on Reagan's 5 worst policies below
This has been the default state of humanity for the vast majority of its history. No higher ideals, no beauty, no striving.
Only a few peoples have ever risen out of this morass, and now they are being dragged back in through moral exhaustion and sheer weight of numbers.