Raab Nails It

Dominic Raab on taking the knee:

”It feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination and not one of liberation and emancipation.”

”I’d take the knee for only two people. The Queen and the missus when I asked her to marry me.”

— Mason Mills (@MrMasonMills) June 18, 2020

The Cabinet - If They Were The Opposite Sex

The British Cabinet if they were the opposite sex (Thread)

Beatrice Johnson pic.twitter.com/MvBryLU0pV

— Defence Daily (@DefenceDailyUK) June 16, 2020

Petition To Shut Down Guardian - ROFLMAO

The Guardian is facing calls to “shut down” for hypocrisy after branding Abraham Lincoln “abhorrent” in the US Civil War.

Back in the 1860s, The Manchester Guardian gave unqualified support to the confederacy during the American civil war; even reprinting confederate propaganda against the slaves’ liberator Abraham Lincoln.

“it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States”

–  Manchester Guardian, 10^th October 1862

Upon the news of President Lincoln’s assassination, the Guardian described the president’s time in office as “abhorrent”, specifically the Proclamation of Emancipation – the act that declared “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Perhaps the opposition to emancipation of slaves was driven by the views of their founder, John Edward Taylor, who made his money in the cotton trade – an industry that prospered on the backs of cotton-picking slaves. After the death of their founder in 1844, the paper continued its relationship with its cotton merchant advertisers, going as far as demanding Manchester’s cotton workers, who refused to touch cotton picked by US slaves, should be forced back into work.

There is even a petition to have it shut down.

All Party Approval For Banning Protests Exceeding 6 People

MPs have approved the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2020 (S.I, 2020, No. 558) without a division.

— UK House of Commons (@HouseofCommons) June 15, 202

Not a single MP opposed this.

True Brit!

 

Sad to have just received this letter.

I will not be silenced by @UKLabour MPs who continue to dismiss the contributions of those who don't conform to their view of how ethnic minorities should behave. pic.twitter.com/gBhLvtKKwt

— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) June 11, 2020

Some Labour MPs (not the front bench noticeably) have sent Priti Patel a letter complaining about her recent statement in the House, in which she mentioned the racism that she has been subjected to.

The Labour MPs have castigated her for mentioning it.

For why?

It was the wrong sort of racism!

The Donkey Farmer's Hostage To Fortune

Let's see how this plays for him in four years time.

Priti Patel Nails It

Nailed it. pic.twitter.com/hSvcQwkXBV

— Emily Hewertson (@emilyhewertson) June 8, 2020