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@PeterStefanovi2 @LucyMPowell Regicide. There needs to be a contest not a coronation. @YvetteCooperMP for leader.

@YvetteCooperMP please stand for leadership. We deserve a contest, not a regicide.

@paulmasonnews @AndyBurnhamGM Time for a strong Labour woman to challenge.

@paulmasonnews @AndyBurnhamGM Regicide. The King of the North has little appeal to me. I want pragmatic and dull stewardship, not some PR buzz. Why should someone would could not win the leadership before be crowned? Wes also did not stay and finish the job on the NHS, so he looks an opportunist to me.

So Keir Starmer is set to resign as PM. History reminding us again of the age old Socialist battle cry: “Are we winning? Yes! What do we do now? Attack! Who, the opposition? No, each other! There’s our glorious leader. GET HIM!”

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Struggling to recollect any legitimate concerns rioting after these abhorrent episodes. Maybe there's another agenda at play.

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I don’t know who this bloke is, but he looks like he’s stepped straight out of a different era. The suit. The hat. The broom. The confidence. A proper throwback to an England that valued character, individuality and a bit of class.

@gilarutrina @davidericstan @reformparty_uk Historians and history.

200,000 people in 8 years. That is only 0.29% of the UK population over 8 years. Yet it’s in the news every single day. In that same time 4,000,000 people have emigrated away from the UK (twenty times as many people). The news is in league with Farage. Sadly it’s working.

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

2 months ago

More than 200,000 migrants have crossed Channel in small boats since 2018 bbc.in/4uAbEmR

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@PolitlcsUK Idiots, personal political gain over the rise of borrowing (gilts) for a leadership change.

The cathedral in this video is only standing because of one man. In 1906, a deep-sea diver in a 200-pound suit climbed down into pitch-black water under the building and started laying bags of cement by hand. Six hours a day. In total darkness. For five years. His name was William Walker. By the early 1900s, the cathedral was sinking. It was built in 1079 on what used to be a riverbed. The medieval builders knew the ground was soft, so they laid the foundations on wooden logs. That worked for 800 years. Then the wood rotted. Cracks opened in the walls. Some were big enough for owls to roost in. Stones started falling from the ceiling. The architect's report said the east end was going to collapse. The fix was supposed to be simple. Dig out the rotted wood. Pour concrete. But every time workers dug a trench, it flooded with groundwater. Even powerful steam pumps couldn't keep up. So the engineer in charge, Francis Fox, suggested something nobody had tried. Send a diver down there. A man in a sealed suit, breathing through a hose from the surface, could lay sacks of cement at the bottom of the trench. Once the cement set, the water could be pumped out and bricklayers could finish the job. Walker took the contract. He worked 20 feet under the surface. The water was so muddy that even at noon he couldn't see his own hands. He worked by touch. By 1911 he had laid 25,800 bags of cement, 114,900 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks under the cathedral. All of it by himself, in the dark. Every weekend he cycled 70 miles home to South London to see his wife and kids. Every Monday he took the train back and got back in the suit. When the work was done, King George V handed him a silver bowl in front of a packed cathedral. Walker said the whole thing made him uncomfortable. He died six years later in the Spanish flu pandemic. His gravestone in London reads: 'The diver who with his own hands saved Winchester Cathedral.' The statues in those alcoves were also carved much later than the building. They went up in the 1880s and 1890s. The medieval originals had been smashed in the 1540s. One of the new statues is Queen Victoria. So that feeling of 'this is incredible for something 500 years old' is only half right. A lot of what's in that frame is from the 1880s. And the building holding it up is only still standing because of one man and a hose.

World Scholar @WorldScholar_

3 months ago

It's unbelievable how this level of detail is possible today, let alone 500 years ago. How do you even fathom building something like this? Winchester Cathedral, England. x.com/TodayinHistory…

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Trump, MAGA, Farage, Reform and GB News hate the UK and want us to believe the UK is a failing state compared to the USA. The facts disagree. On practically every measure of quality of life, health, safety, education, environment, the UK would rank as the best state in America. The land of the "free " (where people get yanked off the street by masked men) is also the land of half a million medical bankruptcies a year and the world’s largest prison population. This is the reality.

Dominic McGregor @DominicMcGregor

3 months ago

If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it

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The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

@AberconwyMS @hannahhjjarvis bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… lest you forgot.

@PeterFox61 @hbaldwin @WelshConserv History ifs.org.uk/publications/c… not good reading.

As Jeremy Hunt’s chatting shit again, a timely reminder… nobody mispronounced his name… ever

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