The Bank of England was advised by a market research consultancy to remove the image of war hero Winston Churchill from banknotes for being 'divisive and elitist'.
Wartime codebreaker genius, Alan Turing, who turned the tide of the war for Britain, was to be removed for being 'imperialistic'. The Bank also advised against the inclusion of novelist Jane Austen, the harmless White Cliffs of Dover and Victorian houses.
Who says the Brits are bonkers?
The Bank of England says British heros are too “divisive” and “elitist” for Britain’s banknotes?
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell
Reject this 💣
A thoughtful take by Tony Sewell. Most people just want fairness. The job of the police is to catch criminals and prevent crime not to address historic social harms
One of the things I think that's getting lost in the current "two tier" discussions is the growing perception that the police are more interested in culture than crime...
So five armed officers go to arrest a comedian getting off a plane (one of the few places you can be confident your "suspect" won't be armed)
Heavy handed responses to what people write on X rather than dealing with violent shoplifting
People getting shorter sentences for the worst crimes against children than for "hate" speech
Allowing pro Palestinian marches to go through Jewish communities but restricting Reform marches
Then we have politicians agitating about the "far right" when for the most part it's people saying r@pe gangs should be properly investigated and illegal immigrants shouldn't get a better standard of living with luxury hotels and same day dental care than British citizens do
Until @UKLabour recognises the real anger is because people increasingly feel the criminal justice system and so many aspects of the way the state interacts with them has become essentially unfair the anger will grow
It doesn't need stoking. People aren't angry because @Nigel_Farage told them to be. They are angry because the state isn't working and when they complain, the government essentially calls them Nazis
https://t.co/UygNEtjVSp
Claims of two-tier policing against white people are a complete inversion of reality. Like other forces, the Hampshire police have a clear racist bias against Black people.
Police accused of 'anti-white bias' are 5 times more likely to stop Black people
https://t.co/5gIqRK2N0l
@RabbiRomain Except that they were following Police Race Action Plan to the letter. So, it is entirely fair to attribute their actions to other police officers. Or are other police officers ignoring that Plan? I doubt it.
@JoStevensLabour@UKLabour Untrue of course.
The OECD has warned that the UK is facing the biggest surge in unemployment among G7 nations, with the rate projected to climb to 5.5% this year.
Henry Nowak's godmother, Kelly Hatchard, has slammed @HantsPolice for their anti-white bias.
"Shame on the monster who took him, shame on the officers who should've helped him & shame on the organisation that trained police to prioritise accusations of racism over a dying man."
🚨Piers Morgan gets it right sometimes, here criticizing the police and politicians for taking a knee after the George Floyd incident in America but not for Henry Nowak, a British citizen.
I was astonished this morning, the Solicitor General couldn’t answer simple questions about the wide-ranging changes their government are making to jury trials.
The Solicitor General couldn't explain what legal safeguards exist under Labour's plans to change jury trials.
If ministers can't answer basic questions about accountability and judicial review, Parliament is right to ask whether these reforms have been properly thought through.
I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping 'Don't politicise Henry Nowak's death'. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry.
'Don't stir up tensions', says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they'd just toppled.
Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts.
The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent?
The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute.
The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’.
✍️ Brendan O’Neill
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@donmcgowan Nonsense. The Henry Nowak murder highlights that you are palpably wrong.
The Police Action plan which Hampshire police followed "does not mean treating everyone 'the same' or being 'colour blind' Keir Starmer's officer rejected it , stating that the phrasing "is not right".
'If a black kid was stabbed by a white guy and the cops sided with the white dude, I don't think we'd saying 'let's not make this a race issue'..."
More on the stabbing of Henry Nowak👇
📺 https://t.co/4Phqtl3lA5
@piersmorgan | @ComicDaveSmith
Why are political leaders talking as if this is an isolated incident that is being "exploited" by the "far-right" and "pointless rioting" instead of the final fucking straw of anti-white ideology causing the dehumanisation and death of British people?
> The security guard at the Manchester Arena didn't stop the suicide bomber because he was afraid of being called racist. The bomber killed 22 people and injured over 1,000.
> Valdo Calocane was released because authorities feared they would be called "racist" due to the overrepresentation of young black men in mental health detention. He went on to kill 3 people.
> A head teacher who raised concerns about Axel Rudakubana's "very high risk" to others was accused of "racial stereotyping" by authorities. Rudakubana went on to kill 3 young girls and wound 10 others.
> Pakistani Muslim child rape gangs were allowed to operate across Britain, targeting thousands of white and Sikh girls, partly because authorities were afraid of being called racist if they interfered.
Brits have a tremendous capacity to absorb horrors against their own people, but there are only so many times you can order us to "don't look back in anger".
By ignoring people's concerns every time they're expressed democratically and peacefully, the establishment has driven people to engage in direct action. It's dangerous and undemocratic of the government to have done this. And doubly dangerous to give people examples such as Ballymena to follow if people want their concerns to be dealt with.