Rick Crawford

Legacy platinum ST red. #againstmodernfootball

[Plink2 @plinketyplink2]

Getting worse these things

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

Hydration break.

[DavidoPolice @DavidoPolice]

First person to loose aura driving a lambo😂

[Dan @leathergregory]

"Come and show your Nanna your new football kit!"

[Mike Stanley @mikestan87]

The burglar at 3am coming in the patio door to see you sat in your underpants watching South Korea v The Czech Republic:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Not everyone recalls that, if you placed 3 Nokia 1100s with the ringtone "waltz", the phones would dance

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

GP receptionists when you ask for an appointment after 8am.

[Rick Crawford @notyounannbread]

😂

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

[kramerica industries @hepimp]

you better not be strutting around topless pretending to be Freddie Mercury in front of some pensioners round the back where the bins are when I get home!!!!

me :

[Helen O’Nien @JustHelens]

£8.5

[Bert Afraid* @firesuite3007]

Berting in Moston en route to Wembley. #mcfc #paulcalf

[Muse @xmuse_]

Art Deco on rails ❤️

Duchess of Hamilton, the crimson queen of the Coronation Class.

1930s British brilliance.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏛️⚖️ For a thousand years, the British people governed themselves without the state.

This is how they did it.

A thousand years ago in England, there were no police. There were no prisons. There was no central state strong enough to reach every village.

And yet, somehow, England worked.

The reason was something the Anglo-Saxons had built into the foundations of their society.

They called it frankpledge.

Every man in every village belonged to a group of ten. They were called a tithing. ⚖️

And each man, by law, was responsible for the conduct of every other man in his tithing.

If one man committed a crime, his nine neighbours were responsible for bringing him to justice. If they failed, they paid the fine themselves.

The whole tithing answered for the crime of one man.

📜 The system was given the force of law by King Canute, the Anglo-Danish king who united England in peace. Between 1016 and 1035, Canute decreed that every man over the age of 12 must belong to a tithing.

When the Normans came in 1066, they could have abolished it.

They did the opposite.

William the Conqueror kept the Anglo-Saxon system. And he made it stronger.

⚔️ Twice every year, the Sheriff would arrive in the village. He would call the tithings together. He would check that every man was accounted for.

This was called the View of Frankpledge.

The system held England together for 300 years.

And when the king's courts eventually grew to replace it, two pieces of frankpledge stayed behind.

🔥 The first became the jury.

Twelve neighbours, called to judge another. The same idea, transplanted from the village to the courtroom.

The second became the constable.

The man chosen from among neighbours to keep the peace. Not imposed from above. Chosen from below.

Modern British policing began here. The jury system began here.

The principle that ordinary British people are responsible for ordinary British people began in an Anglo-Saxon village a thousand years ago.

✍️ For a thousand years, we have been responsible for each other.

We do not need the state to teach us how to belong.

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This channel has no ads. No sponsors. No state funding.

It is built the same way the tithing was built. By the people who choose to stand in it.

Be part of us 🇬🇧👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Ben Thatchers Elbow @BenThatchers]

I’m fucking dreading my turn to marry Katie Price.

[Rick Crawford @notyounannbread]

@DiscussingFilm Officially?