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🏴🇬🇧 Britain sent warships into a friendly country's harbours. 🔥
And burned its ships at anchor. ⚓
That country was Brazil 🇧🇷
More enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil than to any other country on earth. ⛓️
Not America 🇺🇸 Brazil 🇧🇷
Nearly half of everyone shipped across the Atlantic went there. Ten times more than the United States. 🌍
In 1826 Britain made Brazil sign a treaty. The trade would end by 1830. 📜
Brazil signed. Then ignored it. They even had a phrase for laws like that: "para inglês ver". For the English to see. 👀
Tens of thousands of people kept arriving every year. 😔
So Britain changed the law. Brazilian slave ships could now be tried in British courts as pirates. ⚖️
In 1850 the Royal Navy sailed into Brazil's ports, under the guns of the forts. They cut out the slave ships and burned them. 🚢
Emperor Pedro II's government had a choice. War with Britain. Or end the trade. ⚔️
That September, Brazil banned it. Within two years the trade was dead. 🕊️
Yet today only one country is asked to feel ashamed. 🤔
The one that stopped it. 🇬🇧
Be part of us. 🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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#OTD in 1805, the Royal Navy defeated the combined forces of France and Spain at Trafalgar.
The tactical brilliance, professionalism, technology and training which underpinned Adm Lord Nelson’s stunning victory have driven and shaped the Navy ever since.
#TrafalgarDay
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#OnThisDay 221 yrs ago in 1805 @RoyalNavy was successful in defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at #Trafalgar confirming British superiority of the seas. Lord Nelson died before the end, having done his duty, handing over Command to another great commander Admiral Collingwood.
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🚨 HERE IS WHAT LABOUR DID TO GREAT BRITAIN IN JUST ONE SINGLE WEEK
Take a look at the trail of absolute destruction Andy Burnham and his ministers inflicted on this country over the last seven days.
*Freed 700 convicted criminals onto British streets early, including violent domestic abusers and foreign offenders released into local communities on immigration bail.
*Andy Burnham confirmed on television that he could campaign to drag Britain back into the European Union, after his own aides admitted he ad libbed one third of his conference speech.
*Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy backed plans to force every household to pay a compulsory BBC levy on broadband and council tax bills, even if you do not own a television set.
*Financial Secretary James Murray imploded on live radio, unable to answer four times in a row how much his own Treasury energy policy will cost the taxpayer.
*Nature Minister Jenny Riddell Carpenter branded traditional British pubs, pints of ale, and pet black labradors a dangerous far right fantasy that never existed.
*Official figures revealed Shabana Mahmood is rubber stamping 1,100 permanent settlement applications every single working day, adding 200,000 people to welfare access in a single year.
Labour ministers do not have a clue how to run a sovereign nation.
They only know how to raise your taxes, police your online speech, empty the prisons, and surrender British borders to the rest of the world.
Retweet this immediately to make sure every voter in Britain sees the absolute carnage Labour caused in just seven days.
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In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.
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John Edwards, an Independent councillor for Sandhurst, is being punished and silenced for telling the truth about an Afghan resettlement hotel scheme in Bracknell.
Last April, Bracknell Forest Council started to house 300 Afghans in a four-star hotel. The scheme provided on-site healthcare and “move-on” support to help Afghans resettle in private rented properties, with deposits and upfront rent paid for.
All of this information was already in the public domain. But the council didn’t appear to like John asking questions about the impact of the scheme on local services and residents. It subsequently launched a year-long investigation into him, costing taxpayers £15,000.
During the process, key evidence was withheld from him, his accusers were granted anonymity, and fellow councillors accused him of racism and xenophobia. It was claimed he had been reported to the police, and he was even compared to the murderer of the late MP Jo Cox.
After a year, the independent investigator cleared him of all charges. Instead of accepting the finding, the council returned with a new, narrower charge.
John is now accused of bringing his office into disrepute for telling the truth and exposing aspects and consequences of the Afghan resettlement scheme that the council didn’t want the public to know.
Throughout all of this, John has not been allowed to put forward a defence. He now faces a hearing where the same councillors who branded him a racist will decide his fate.
The council is using taxpayers’ money to fund its action against John — to silence a political opponent.
The Free Speech Union is proud to support John. He now needs your help, because if the council succeeds, it will create a blueprint for other councils to silence elected representatives and set a precedent whereby unelected officials decide which policies may be scrutinised and what information the public is allowed to hear.
If you can, please donate to his crowdfunder to help pay for his legal defence.
Watch John below and check out the latest FSU Podcast👇
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📣🚨The Free Speech Union is mounting a legal challenge against the Government over its official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as 'anti-Muslim hatred' — and its appointment of a new 'tsar' to punish people who fall foul of it.
This amounts to a Muslim blasphemy law via the back door. The definition is vague and subjective, and will be weaponised to silence legitimate criticism and debate about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic practices and history.
The FSU’s General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, said: “This is the most serious threat to free speech the Government has come up with so far — the only area in which it’s achieving any success.
“If we don’t win this fight, tens of thousands of people a year could lose their jobs at the say-so of a Labour-appointed ‘tsar’. It’s dystopian.”
Public bodies will adopt this definition — despite it being non-statutory — with the same zeal the police have shown in investigating and recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). It is predicted by one of the drafters of the definition that it could lead to around 20,000 reports of 'anti-Muslim hostility' a year. At present, the number of recorded anti-Muslim hate crimes is around 4,000.
In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism. This proposal places one faith above the rest.
The Free Speech Union is bringing a legal challenge on two grounds.
First, the definition relies on nebulous, legally undefined terms such as “negative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims”, making it incoherent and irrational — and ripe for weaponisation.
Second, adopting such a definition cuts across legislation already enacted by Parliament and therefore breaches the public law principle known as “occupying the field”. Under this established public law doctrine, new regulations, put in place by ministers, must not replace existing legislation. It is constitutionally unlawful. In this case, the body responsible for protecting Muslims from discrimination is the Equality and Human Rights Commission, not an anti-Muslim hostility 'tsar'.
Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws 18 years ago. We can't let this Government resurrect them via the back door.
This is one of the biggest battles the Free Speech Union has ever taken on in its six years — and we need your help. Judicial reviews are expensive, but this is a fight we felt we had to take on.
Donate to our crowdfunder below👇
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The Wright Brothers? WRONG brothers 🇬🇧
In 1853, a man flew nine hundred feet across a valley in Yorkshire. Fifty years before Kitty Hawk.
His coachman climbed out and said: "I was hired to drive, not to fly."
But here's what they don't teach you.
Sir George Cayley. A young baronet from Yorkshire.
In 1799, he engraved a design on a small silver disc. On one side: an aeroplane. On the other: the four forces of flight. Lift. Drag. Thrust. Weight.
A hundred years before anyone flew, he understood exactly how it worked.
In 1804, he flew a model glider. In 1849, he put a ten-year-old boy in a full-size glider and launched him off a hill.
The FIRST time a human being had ever flown.
Then in 1853. The 'Triplane'. His coachman inside. Nine hundred feet across Brompton Dale.
Meanwhile in Somerset, a lace-maker called John Stringfellow had a different problem. Cayley proved you could glide.
But how do you add power?
He built a steam engine light enough to fly. In 1848, inside a disused lace factory, he launched it. Thirty yards under its own power.
Powered flight. In a LACE FACTORY. Fifty-five years before Kitty Hawk.
Wilbur Wright himself said: "An Englishman carried the science of flight to a point it had never reached before."
Cayley's silver disc is still in the Science Museum. Stringfellow's engine is in the Smithsonian. The first object America's national aviation museum ever collected.
A British engine. 🇬🇧
A baronet and a lace-maker. They figured out how to fly.
Then the world forgot 👇
Help us remind them: proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us.
Be Proud Of Us 🇬🇧
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Today marks the anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Polish history — the Katyn Massacre.🇷🇺vs🇵🇱
In 1940, Soviet communists executed 22,000 Polish officers, professors, doctors — the best minds of my nation — with a single bullet to the back of the head, then dumped them in mass graves like garbage.
Later, Soviet propaganda blamed the Nazis(Nazis weren’t better). For decades, we were forced to repeat that lie under communist rule. Only in the 1990s did Russia finally admit the truth — after the evidence was too overwhelming to hide.
This is what Russia does — lie, murder, cover up, repeat.
From Katyn 1940 to Bucha 2022 — same evil, different century.
Never forget. Never forgive. Never Give Up🇵🇱✊
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Today, March 5th, is the 80th anniversary of Stalin signing the order to murder 22 000 Polish military officers held as POWs after the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
Many were murdered & buried in secret mass graves in the Katyn Forest, giving it the name “The Katyn Massacre”
#UK How can I watch the cycling classics now that #GCN & #Eurosport have gone without paying a fortune for #TNT
#cycling #cyclingclassics 😡
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Don't forget, not only is Starmer intent on sending our troops into a war zone but he's also planning to impose inheritance tax on any death in service payments.
Yet he claims that he and @UKLabour are pro-military.
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Do I know Dr Carltland.
As you are aware of me being a victim in Pinderfields Hospital Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Thank you for putting this out.
What on earth is going on here???SICK! ‘Shocking' number of rapes at West Yorkshire Hospitals and too few prosecutions - Leeds Live examinerlive.co.uk/news/west…
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On this day in 1879, 20,000 Zulu warriors wipe out an 1,800-man British column at Isandlwana, South Africa. Less than 10 miles away, 150 troops defending an outpost at Rorke's Drift hold off 4,000 attackers. Victoria Crosses will be awarded to 11 of the survivors.
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#OnThisDay in 1922 HMS VICTORY was moved into No 2 Dock in @HMNBPortsmouth to be preserved for the nation. VICTORY is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and is located in the oldest Dry Dock still in use in the world which was commissioned by King Henry VII in 1495
WTF!! #BBC it should be about the properties not your feckin’ agenda
#homesunderthehammer
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In response to freedom of information requests, police forces across Britain have revealed that 'non-crime hate incidents' (NCHIs) are being logged against people in authority doing their jobs. Examples include:
❌ An NCHI recorded against a doctor in West Yorkshire after a patient alleged they were misdiagnosed "because they were bisexual".
❌ A journalist's article about his interview with a "deaf and dumb" scooterist being reported to the police as a hate incident.
❌ A social worker was also reported to the police in Lancashire over claims she had abused her position and racially discriminated against the victim by preventing her from seeing her children.
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In 2014, the College of Policing — a taxpayer-funded quango — came up with the concept of the NCHI in its 'Hate Crime Operational Guidance'. As defined in this document, an NCHI is any incident perceived by the victim or any bystanders to be motivated by hostility or prejudice to the victim based on a 'protected' characteristic (race or perceived race, religion or perceived religion, and so on).
For the avoidance of doubt, non-crime hate incidents really are as Orwellian as they sound. They aren't anonymised, and sit forever against the names of the alleged perpetrators without any real investigation or right of appeal. In addition, if one is recorded against your name it can show up on an enhanced criminal records check and prevent you from getting a job.
That's right, you might not get a job because someone 'perceives' you've committed a 'non-crime'.
Here's a short 🧵detailing some of the most egregious of the 250,000+ NCHIs we estimate the police in England and Wales have logged since 2014...
