Adam

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

i've banked with monzo since 2019. it's exactly what britain should be producing. built from nothing, forced every legacy bank to modernise, and now one of the biggest consumer banks in the country

and we're about to sell it to brazil

investors deserve a payout, fair enough. but the reason it's a sale and not an ipo is that our ipo market is dead. so our best companies get bought instead of listed

deepmind to google. arm to softbank. our car makers, our steel, our water, our airlines. now monzo

we build them and sell them. every. single. time.

[Wild Wasteland Memes @Wasteland_Memes]

One moment to leave my box then I'll get back in it.

If you're uneducated enough to have an issue with the British government rightly making this statement, lemme put it very simply:

-49,000 slave owners, approx 0.19% of the population at the time, were given money to buy them out of owning slaves. British taxpayers paid to free the slaves.

-For decades during the 19th century, Britain dedicated 1/6th of it's entire Navy specifically to seek and capture other nations' slave ships to free the slaves on board. The economic cost was bore by the taxpayer. 2,000 British sailors lost their lives.

-During the US Civil War, Pres Lincoln blockaded Cotton exports from the USA. This put more than half a million working Britons out of already very poorly paid work. After months, the mill owners worked a deal with the US govt to reopen trading. More than half a million working class Britons voted AGAINST the deal citing that they didn't ever want to work with goods produced from slavery again.

About half as many (24,000 ish) Brits died from malnourishment, disease etc in the affected cotton factory communities as a direct result of that action as ever owned slaves.

-Britain paid £400,000 to Spain to convince it to stop its slave trade. It also placed diplomatic pressure on France to stop them too.

Of every empire that ever took part in slavery, Britain is the ONLY ONE that grew a conscience, stopped its own, and then set out to stop everybody else without any outside encouragement.

And it is also the only one that has maintained a successful and genuinely beneficial diplomatic network to lift up and empower its former territories- the Commonwealth- which has helped ex-colonies outperform their peer nations in almost every way ever since.

Not to mention endless and unwavering humanitarian relief when a hurricane rips through their islands every season, or when an earthquake buries their brothers and sisters under their own houses.

The British taxpayer has bore the cost of all of that. Britons voted in favour of that responsibility in the 19th century, decades before anybody else grew a conscience of their own- even African Kingdoms such as the Asanti Empire who only stopped slaving when Britain took over Ghana and made it illegal.

You reparationsit types don't harass modern-day Turks over the 6-8 million slaves that passed through the Ottoman Slave trade, or modern-day Ghanaians for the millions that the Ghana and Asanti empires captured, abused, and traded in the Trans-Sharan and Transatlantic trades. You don't even get on at the Arab and African countries who still enable slavery today. Why?

There is no other demographic/nation/country for which people feel so empowered to blame the crimes of the most miniscule proportion of its ancestry, which were undone and atoned for by exponentially more of its ancestry, on an entire diaspora that has lived for generations with no direct culpability in said crimes.

Every population in the world has been a victim to another population at a given time. The following paragraph should be the one that sticks from this whole rant:

The working class, poor, destitute British man and woman who rotted in workhouses for centuries had more in common with their African slave counterparts than they ever did their compatriot masters. That's exactly why they bloody well did something about it. British people en masse stood WITH the slaves. Not with their feet on their necks.

Reparationism towards the British nation is just politics of division, meant to absolve commonwealth governments of their own failures towards their people at the expense of a population who have never committed the crime they are demanding reparations for, and whose ancestors paid the human and economic price for for the last 2 centuries.

This is the last post I'll make on the matter.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Harry Kane with one of the greatest post match interviews of all time

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Southgate: "Do you know what to do?"

Gallagher: "No."

Southgate: "Me neither. Tell Jude I said hi!”

[Andy Gordon @Andy_JGordon]

Just told a Scotland fan in the bogs it’d be good to see them get out the groups

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Three years ago. Three.

[Jonny @Jonny7Jonny7]

UK has the biggest ever working population

And the highest taxation levels since WW1

Yet we have collapsing services
Nothing is working properly
Roads are crumbling
NHS & schools are struggling

Where is all the money going?

🤷‍♂️🤔

[Chris Winterburn @cmwinterburn]

BT having all matches behind their paywall, state owned clubs, one team with a monumental advantage over the rest of the pack and being favourites every year and away goals taken away withdrawing the jeopardy/excitement that made KO stages great. Unless you’re interested in one of the teams, it’s simply not worth watching.

[beIN SPORTS @beINSPORTS_EN]

"How can you change the rules?"

@richardajkeys and Andy Gray discuss the FFP rules changing in August...

#beINPL #EFC #NFFC #MCFC

[Ell Bretland @EllBretland]

Everton face the most expensive squad in world football on Sunday. €1.15 billion it cost.

The same club's debt is more than €1bn.

Yet Everton, who went over £19m, go into the game with a -10 deduction.

Sustainability.

https://t.co/PM5OEqgXb7

https://t.co/YPRWisYUrQ

[Matt Ford @matt_4d]

"The #UCL tune doesn't merit admiration, but contempt"

1. FC Union Berlin ultras have criticised UEFA for the requirements which have forced Union into a move to the Olympiastadion home games, but also question their own club's commitment to the values of their own ground.

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

❤️👏 Fair play to Jack Grealish!

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

Forever remembered for 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 mesmerising spells, 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 Ashes battles, 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 602* wickets.

Take a bow, Stuart Broad 👏

#EnglandCricket | #Ashes

[Spinnin Backfist @SpinninBackfist]

uh ohhhh Izzy

[The Upshot podcast @UpshotTowers]

Wife-swapping players, sedated tiger cubs, and Ryan Giggs' erotic poetry: it's been a wild season.

From Qatar to Carlisle there have been some ludicrous stories.

As the season draws to a close, here's a rundown of the funniest moments...

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

John Smith nailed the @Conservatives & their grotesque ideology thirty years ago.

Nothing has changed.

[SPORTbible @sportbible]

Harry is a true inspiration 🥹💙

Absolute class from @JPickford1, @Everton and everyone involved 👏

[🅰🅽🅳🆈 @SpinarelloDogma]

Worth bearing in mind, this is what the BBC said to me in 2020 when Andrew Neil was being a shouty, right-wing pile on orchestrator on Twitter.

Compare and contrast.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is trying to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

So the eight biggest unions across the country called a massive wave of strikes and protests today, with over 200 actions across the country.

https://t.co/WiKOl69nQa