Trojan Dolph

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

.. @TimesRadio Spent another morning scrutinising @Nigel_Farage because, we're told, the closer you get to power, the more scrutiny you deserve. Fair enough. But if that's really the principle, why does @andyburnham appear to be walking into No. 10 with nothing like the same level of challenge? Either greater proximity to power demands greater scrutiny, or it doesn't. The standard should be applied consistently, not selectively.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@campbellclaret Says Mr WMD

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

Aye it's cause union corner was an iconic tourist attraction.... right ye are then...

Is it aye ?

[Brian Spurrell @BrianSpanner1]

The World Cup is the perfect encapsulation of Scottish separatist life.

Getting angry at the English while pointing at other countries saying ‘we could be that.’

Two decades of this.

It’s so fucking boring.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

This is going to end so badly for Birmingham police.

They could've apologised after seeing the footage, but they *instinctively* lied in an attempt to save their own backsides.

And what I find absolutely disgusting is they're perfectly happy to punish an innocent victim and ruin his life in the process.

You are going to get sued.
And you're going to lose.

You absolutely disgust me.

Whoever decided to take this course of action should be sacked for corruption.

West Midlands police is completely broken.

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@RonDeSantis What an ignorant comment from a small man

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scottish taxpayers, against the vast majority’s will, funded an attempt by the government to keep men in women’s prisons. Never have I been so tempted to move to Monaco and give all the money I’ve been paying in tax to groups fighting the rank misogyny of Swinney’s government.

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@Ed_Miliband Bore off

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

This is wonderful. @CamillaTominey beautifully turns the screw on James Murray over Andy Burnham's coronation and directly calls out Labour's eye-watering hypocrisy.

Well worth a watch.
She doesn't give him an inch.

Absolute car crash.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

They're literally only doing this because thousands of accounts on X shared the footage and forced them to act. Imagine how many other incidents like this are quietly covered up.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: A message from YouTube to its content creators has been verified

It warns the UK government will force them to push legacy media outlets, like the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, over independent commentators and journalists

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

When a regime has to force its propaganda against a tide of popular realisation that it's just that - propaganda - the game's over in all but name.

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@JohnSwinney Did you pay for it yourself or did we?

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@ShabanaMahmood We don’t believe YOU

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Believing you're riding the crest of a wave of popularity and you get fewer than 1k likes for your vision for the future. And they're from Lucy Powell's sock accounts.

Over before it's begun.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Two Met police officers have tracked down to a pub a man who had criticised a local Green councillor over an outdoor drinking ban, sparking concerns that Britain is becoming a police state. https://t.co/5JyL080XwD

[Agent P @AgentP22]

The treatment of Kate Forbes raises an obvious question:

Why were her sincerely held Christian beliefs considered unacceptable by the SNP, whilst Humza Yousaf's Muslim religious beliefs were totally acceptable?

The SNP's definition of "tolerance" seems remarkably selective.

[Trojan Dolph @TrojanDolph]

@AgentP22 Because being a Christian is fair game…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

‘Neo-liberalism’ and ‘trickle down’ are just buzz words of know nothing pontificators. They use them because they think it makes them sound smart. It doesn’t. And they are unbecoming someone about to become prime minister. We deserve deeper, more considered analysis.