The problem with the left viewing the past through a persistently negative lens is that "we forget our own tradition". At our Downstream IRL event last month,Ash Sarkar argued that the Lancashire Cotton Famine shows how the left should own its history of class solidarity.

@themicdrops @AyoCaesar You don’t have a history or tradition here? You are a foreign invader. There is no “we” between English/British people and Ash Sarkar.

@AyoCaesar Remember when you celebrated London becoming less English?

@AyoCaesar Our traditions? You're not British

@AyoCaesar You are not included in 'us' because you already have your own ancestral homeland. You celebrated our minority status in our capital city you antiWhite witch. Go and be inclusive in your own homeland and push for open borders there.

@AyoCaesar Sickens in my down to my very soul when she says “our history” you’re a fucking Bengali mong talk about that

@AyoCaesar "our" history? Erm. What happened to your "I'm not British" stance? Or, are you and the lads not "winning" anymore so you're changing tack.

@AyoCaesar "our"? Who's the "us"? Ash Sarkar is an anti-white bengali communist.

@AyoCaesar Her family originate from India, which according to the UN has one of the highest slave populations right now or 11 million people. Not a word on that💁🏽

@AyoCaesar ‘Our tradition’ and it is literally just trannys, muslims and and another ragtag bunch of societies losers trying to destroy the quite obviously successful domination of the western man. You are literally anti-tradition, you people stand for nothing.

@AyoCaesar Why not talk about Britain fighting and losing many lives to stop the slave trade a much bigger event. Alternatively talk about who actually enslaved and sold these people

@AyoCaesar It isn’t your history. And if you consider yourself British, then who were the ‘we’, you mentioned were winning in London.

@AyoCaesar @AyoCaesar So these Lancashire folk have never seen a black man in your words. Yet you are usually telling us that we have always been diverse, immigrants built our country and we owe them everything? Which is it.

@AyoCaesar No one is buying it, Ash despises the White British working classes.

@AyoCaesar Ash now versus then

@AyoCaesar So after making a career of demonising Britain, imposing political denigration on "whites", and even denying she's a Brit, in the Lefts own terms, now she's decided to culturally appropriate Britain's white working class history? How cynical. As you were.

@AyoCaesar Slavery has been around since the dawn of time the English are the only ones to ever abolish it putting themselves and their country in debt for hundreds of years, the left are so messed up they have no idea of history they're like whiny children on a guilt trip.

@AyoCaesar Yes the left and far left hate Britain. Being British. Waving a flag. Being white. Being a white woman or man. And hates being straight. Because the position of Marxism and communism. The left hate all groups unless you are a minority.

@AyoCaesar “Didn’t know any black people”. Did they not build Stonehenge and the Cathedrals. Wasn’t Anne Boleyn and Shakespeare black?? Thought they’d always been here 🤷🏻‍♂️.

@AyoCaesar It’s not white working class, it’s English working class.

@AyoCaesar Even her answers shows the problem, rather than dealing with your hatred for the country in general; you'll treat history as pick n mix finding the aspects that are useful to your politics to extol. At the end of the day, you still hate the country and culture.

@AyoCaesar Interesting to see you changing your tune, Ash. Only a couple of years ago you were celebrating the collapse of white births, announcing that you were “winning”. Now you’re giving us all a British history lesson 💨

@AyoCaesar Isn't this just a Bangladeshi and an Iranian talking about my people?

So Ash is admitting there were virtually no black people in Britain at that time, the church was a powerful force for good and white people stand up for the rights of black people. Well, I didn’t have that on my 2026 bingo card! Also, pronouncing ‘cotton’ as ‘co’un’ is the fourth great evil in Britain!

@AyoCaesar An openly anti white communist who celebrated the ethnic ckeansing of white cities.

@AyoCaesar We are putting you both in cells.

@AyoCaesar Last I heard her talk about being part of something is when she said, "we're winning, lads" about my people being a minority 🤷‍♀️

@AyoCaesar What stolen valour. Those people had a moral conviction, not a left wing political ideology. You cannot out of one side of your mouth blame the UK for slavery and then out of the other side praise the UK for ending it. You still hold a deeply negative view of Britain.

@AyoCaesar The anti-white, DEI, more diversity, decolonise everything, millions migrants a minute approach didn't work... Let's start talking about our 'shared history'. Fuck off

@AyoCaesar Liverpool was Lancashire at the time. Having a dig a country she doesn’t even know its geographical history.

Also did you hear about the black soldiers from USA during world war 2 stationed in uk. The locals protected them and didn’t accept segregation from white us soldiers. Local residents protected them and stood up for them. But the way you listen to the left we are all racists Source:%20Wikipedia

@AyoCaesar Let’s not forget either that other countries around the world also did slavery & some countries still do. Other countries aren’t getting blame nor feel guilty for their past involvement in slavery, so why is UK still beating itself over it?

@AyoCaesar “They didn’t know any black people.” But black people have always been here- they built Stonehenge!

@AyoCaesar Damn if they ever met black people back then those noble ideas would go right out the window and the chains would be coming out.

@AyoCaesar Gobsmacked about the fact that this penny has only just dropped. Pretty sure Tony Benn and some of the old left would not have had this level of ignorance. It explains a lot.

@AyoCaesar Didn't we all have "white privilege" 5 minutes ago? Don't pretend to give a shit about the white working class, because it's dawned on you that they can be a voting block against your Green party utopian delusions, I really hope you lose.