Richard Lea

Neurotypical able-bodied cishetero penis-having member of the patriarchy and the global minority (he/he/he)

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@IslingtonChap Starving?🤣

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@OldRoberts953 Yep, it was all going so swimmingly before she turned up!

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@GordonDimmack Yet another barefaced lie. Tom Hardy was not fired.

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@anonycitizen38 If they’d surrendered the hostages and taken proper measures to protect their citizens it would have been a different story. It’s all on Hamas.

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@GarethDavies007 Bit racist, Gareth?

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@liamcunningham1 Not a genocide by any definition.

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@TadhgHickey @MaryKenny4 There is no genocide. The Palestinian population continues to grow, with enormous amounts of food provided by Israel. Constantly repeating this idiocy doesn’t make it true.

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@Heccles94 How do you know they were drunk?

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@Dashytwo what’s so great about the uk food of the south coast?

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@BladeoftheS Nope, detained.

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@malonebarry You’re a very silly man.

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@Heccles94 Looks inspiring to me!

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@jeremycorbyn There’s a ceasefire if you haven’t noticed. Nevertheless, is there evidence that there was a genocide as opposed to just war? And what about Hamas’s not allowing civilians to use its hundreds of miles of tunnels and its deliberate placement of fighting units next to civilians?

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@Jade2000cute @MetroUK Most people don’t give a shit whether we have a gay PM or not. Don’t you think there are a zillion more important issues?

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@MaryKenny4 Mark Felton has made a very interesting youtube video about the history of Downing Street cats, including an account of the famous rivalry between Larry and Palmerston, the late Foreign Office cat.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta.

They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede.

They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty.

They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history.

They are not taught what came next.

They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern.

They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years.

They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year.

They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king.

They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords.

They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️

Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old.

If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago.

They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since.

Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe.
It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope.

✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England.

🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have.

This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇

Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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@Puppieslover @MaryKenny4 Wowser. One of my great-grandfathers was born in 1815 (true).

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept.

I can't fathom how people swallowed this idea wholesale.

- Endless supply of cheap labour helps capitalists, not workers

- Strip mining of talent from developing countries is a form of neocolonialism

- Endless pressure on the housing market inflates assets and prevents the poorest from having reasonably priced homes

- A refusal to train enough people here removes vocation paths that the working class used to follow

- The most negative social and cultural second order consequences are happening to working class, deindustrialised or neglected areas

So it's left wing how?

I can see how anti-immigrant sentiment can be seen as ethnonationalism and therefore right wing.

But I can't see how support for mass immigration is left wing.

And to be clear: it's not just a part of left wing thought. It's now so central to left wing thought, apparently, that any divergence from this immediately makes you 'far right'.

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@Heccles94 Makes as much sense as defining Reform as “fascism” I suppose.

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@Heccles94 Wow. The Green anti-growth anti-semitic utopian gibberish is now being redefined as “Socialism”.