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They didn't wait for the government. They didn't wait for anyone. 🍺🇬🇧 Centuries before the NHS, ordinary British working people built their own system. In secret. In pubs. Every week they pooled their pennies. If you fell ill, they paid your rent. 🏠 If you died, they buried you....

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Posy Hillvor 5 Monaten

A friendly society banner still hangs in St Mary’s church, Fownhope, Herefordshire. #TextileTuesday

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Voodooraevor 5 Monaten

This still happens in lots of pubs. Regulars chip in for their friends to support them through happiness and challenges. Everything, births, deaths, marriages, burglaries, birthdays, divorces, all issues This is why the British pub community needs to be celebrated and preserved

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Ralph Corderoyvor 5 Monaten

‘…the 1911 National Insurance Act – the Act which practically destroyed the friendly societies and inaugurated the welfare state – the magazine of the Oddfellows carried this…’ — @SteveBakerFRSA.

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Lord Mongrovevor 5 Monaten

I have the honour to be one of the last if not the last surviving members of the Musbury Friendly Burial Society. My Granny bought a policy for me when I was born - wishful thinking on her part! Now run by the Foresters - via the Oddfellows I believe who consider all premiums paid up and they'll pay out £100 on death(*). (*) As I found out when I cashed my dad's policy in, and very good about it they were to.

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Far Right Leftie Centristvor 5 Monaten

We are proud of UK & we are proud of you for keeping British values alive & telling the stories the schools won`t tell❣️

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neehavor 5 Monaten

The Scots’ Charitable Society is the oldest charitable organization in the Western Hemisphere. It was founded in 1657 in Massachusetts and incorporated in 1786. It was originally formed as a mutual aid society by the Scottish POW soldiers from the 1650-51 Battle of Dunbar and Worcester sold by the British to the iron works at Saugus, Mass.

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John Greenvor 5 Monaten

Probably one of the reasons they have closed a shit tone of pubs in the uk now👌🏻👍🏻👌🏻

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Science FTWvor 5 Monaten

Now as a youngster growing up in Christchurch, NZ, I was well aware of the Manchester Unity Friendly Society. But since it was located on Manchester Street, I thought it was related to that not from the old country. Still around today. There was also the Oddfellows

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Jan Harpervor 5 Monaten

I’m still a member of one that my grandmother ( she would be 126 yrs old this month)was a member of, it was called penny in the pound name changed now but it’s offices are still in the same building .

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Charlie Britain.vor 5 Monaten

Trade Unions are now a diseased institution in British society. They are infested by liberal progressivism and International socialism. Trade unions once were a positive force for British society now they look outward and away from their British heritage.

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Two Blunt Stilettosvor 5 Monaten

@CAwake95582 Communities have always been more effective than Governments at solving local issues, even in emergencies. @carneross wrote his book ‘The Leaderless Revolution’ about it.

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Polly Dymock 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌻slava ukraini 🇮🇱 🟧🧡🎗vor 5 Monaten

@AlisonEBond I was introduced to a Friendly Society when in my teens & was so grateful for their help. Sickness was not something to be feared - the Friendly helped. It was only a couple of years ago that I left & claimed the money.

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󠁧󠁢BeuwenDragonvor 5 Monaten

When charity is voluntary, it builds community, and strengthens Nations. When charity is coerced at gunpoint, forced upon the population via Taxes for the benefit of ‘public workers”, communities die, along with Charity.

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Reluctant Nomadvor 5 Monaten

We need to start our own police and military forces now…. I reckon that’s why they’re making it so bloody difficult for pubs to survive.

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James Denisonvor 5 Monaten

@ProtectOurPets2 That's the essence of insurance.

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Ultra Agent 6189-Cathy Mudgevor 5 Monaten

I'm still a member of an old hospital trust. They fund all sorts of treatment and dental, glasses etc. Still needed.

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Guisevor 5 Monaten

Thank you!. My great, great, great grandfather was chairman of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society. This was the earliest form of social welfare - by the working class, for the working class. Today people cannot even imagine a social welfare system that isn't run by the state.

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Beanievor 5 Monaten

The Manchester and Salford hospital Saturday fund, named because they used to get paid on last workday of the week ( Saturday) still going strong I believe.

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AltLib 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿vor 5 Monaten

Whenever stuff like this starts making a difference the government swoops in and turns it into an incompetently run, overly expensive and obligatory "service".

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Kurbis Jungevor 5 Monaten

Once you separate the gift from the grace of giving, you are doomed to fail. I don't volunteer my time for the benefit of the people in need. I am a greedy bastard. I give my time because it feels good, and I like to feel good

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JonAtLarge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿vor 5 Monaten

@hippychick70s Looking after your own, family, neighbour, street, town, etc is real humanity not Govt overlords dictating.

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Dave Bennettvor 5 Monaten

My family in Aldershot subscribed to the Independent Order of Rachebites, a teetotal organisation. They had a welfare function that included access to a free ambulance.This was in the 20s and 30s, before the NHS.

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Vivvor 5 Monaten

@ryanb_oates Today UK gov has infiltrated Unions...no more supporting the WORKER but selecting who'll they'll support by skin colour &/or sex (various versions) thus not Unions anymore but diversive weapons against own members. A UNION SUPPORTS A WORKER. Vote in YOUR leadership yourselves

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Christopher Geevor 5 Monaten

Then the plague of Keir Starmer was delivered to us to remove all woks they started

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LadyJane80vor 5 Monaten

@M60Pest That was certainly the case! Remember it quite well , actually in my childhood village…

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RussellScotland 🚜🐭🦋vor 5 Monaten

@HHepplewhite That only works in a homogenous high-trust society. Which Britain hasn't been for 50 years.

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Black_cod89vor 5 Monaten

When people tell you that england has no culture. Remind them of this. This is what our culture was built on. Helping one another so that we may all be happy in life. How it has changed...

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elizabethvor 5 Monaten

My first job in London in 1969 was in a Friendly Society, The Hearts of Oak Benefit Society in Charing Cross Road.

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Pat Henryvor 5 Monaten

Now the whole world wants your pot of money. Sad. they don;t start their own they poach yours.

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M K Dodd 💙💙vor 5 Monaten

@LadystephJ Grateful for your mention of friendly societies they did a lot of good for poorer people and their families. Imagine an agent calling at individual homes to collect money for a penny policy.

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No Permission Free Personvor 5 Monaten

Restore Friendly Societies. Stop allowing neoliberal corrupt gov bureaucrats to tax rape, enriching themselves and illegal migrants while giving pennies to ppl in genuine need.

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Not Georgevor 5 Monaten

@BenedictMPWhite Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund

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Me&G0dvor 5 Monaten

we need to take back the system not just the memory of it

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Tom Skidmorevor 5 Monaten

@iIDasHuman I never knew that. Society used to come together for the common good. I have read that the pub is an integral part of UK life. Thank you for the lesson!

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colinvor 5 Monaten

I remember my Dad going to our local at 11 30 am on a Sunday (opening hours 12 noon) to the meeting of the death and dividing club early 1950's. Rufford Arms Mansfield

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In 1946 a Hungarian visiting Britain made an observation. 🇬🇧 "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." He was right. But nobody told you why. It started in the factories of the Industrial Revolution. Same factory. Same start time. Same end time. Suddenly everyone needed the same thing at the same time. The queue was born. Then came WW1. Food ran short. People started joining queues without even knowing what they were for. Just in case it was something useful. Then came 1939. Britain stood alone. Everything was rationed. The government promoted taking your turn as a wartime virtue. Queue-jumping became a moral failing. Not just bad manners. Letting your country down. By 1945 it was who we were. The queue is democracy in its simplest form. Your time is worth no more than mine. A duke or a dustman. You wait your turn. In 2011 rioters looted a shop in London. They formed an orderly queue to climb through the broken window. One at a time. Even the rioters queued. 🇬🇧 In 2022 a quarter of a million people queued for twenty-four hours to say goodbye to the Queen. Nobody pushed in. Nobody complained. The whole world watched and didn't understand. That is your history. Nobody is coming to queue for you. Britain's story needs people to show up. Every story on this channel is available at If you want to help us keep them alive: Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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Before this, they decided if you were guilty by making you hold a red-hot iron bar. If you burned, God had spoken. You were guilty. They called it trial by ordeal. It lasted centuries. Then in 1215, on a riverbank in England, they wrote something down that changed the world forever. No free man shall be imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his peers. Not the king. Not the church. Not a lord. Twelve ordinary people. In 1670, a judge locked up a jury for refusing to convict. Starved them for two days. They still refused. One juror, Edward Bushel, took it to a higher court. And won. From that moment, no judge in England could ever punish a jury for its verdict. Over fifty countries use trial by jury today. All because eight hundred years ago, ordinary people decided that guilt was too important to leave to kings. If you think this should be taught in schools, help us reach more people: Be part of us Be Proud Of Us 🇬🇧
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Before this, they decided if you were guilty by making you hold a red-hot iron bar. If you burned, God had spoken. You were guilty. They called it trial by ordeal. It lasted centuries. Then in 1215, on a riverbank in England, they wrote something down that changed the world forever. No free man shall be imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his peers. Not the king. Not the church. Not a lord. Twelve ordinary people. In 1670, a judge locked up a jury for refusing to convict. Starved them for two days. They still refused. One juror, Edward Bushel, took it to a higher court. And won. From that moment, no judge in England could ever punish a jury for its verdict. Over fifty countries use trial by jury today. All because eight hundred years ago, ordinary people decided that guilt was too important to leave to kings. If you think this should be taught in schools, help us reach more people: Be part of us Be Proud Of Us 🇬🇧

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Your ancestors advanced human civilisation further than any people who ever lived. This is what they did. They looked at the oldest evil in human history. Slavery. Every civilisation on earth had accepted it. These people decided to end it. Not their government. Not their king. Ordinary people. With no power except their conscience. They organised the first mass petition in history. 📜 The first boycott ever. A man on horseback who didn't stop for thirty-five thousand miles. 🐴 He introduced the same bill to Parliament for twenty years. On the twentieth year the House of Commons rose to its feet. Eight hundred thousand people. Free. In a single act of law. ⛓️ They paid forty per cent of the national budget. They carried the debt for a hundred and eighty-two years. And decided that wasn't enough. Sixty years. Three thousand miles of coastline. Sixteen hundred ships captured. A hundred and fifty thousand people freed. ⚓ Over fifteen hundred British sailors died doing it. One for every nine they freed. They didn't stop when it was expensive. They didn't stop when their own people were hungry. They didn't stop for a century. The Atlantic fell silent. And when it did the mill workers of Lancashire, who had chosen to go hungry rather than buy cotton picked by slaves, received a letter from Abraham Lincoln. ✉️ He called it "an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country." No other nation in history has done this. Not at this scale. Not at this cost. Not for this long. That is your inheritance. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 We are a community of people who care enough to keep these stories alive. Will you keep your history alive? We will. Be Part Of Us. 👉 🙏 Be Proud Of Us.🇬🇧
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Your ancestors advanced human civilisation further than any people who ever lived. This is what they did. They looked at the oldest evil in human history. Slavery. Every civilisation on earth had accepted it. These people decided to end it. Not their government. Not their king. Ordinary people. With no power except their conscience. They organised the first mass petition in history. 📜 The first boycott ever. A man on horseback who didn't stop for thirty-five thousand miles. 🐴 He introduced the same bill to Parliament for twenty years. On the twentieth year the House of Commons rose to its feet. Eight hundred thousand people. Free. In a single act of law. ⛓️ They paid forty per cent of the national budget. They carried the debt for a hundred and eighty-two years. And decided that wasn't enough. Sixty years. Three thousand miles of coastline. Sixteen hundred ships captured. A hundred and fifty thousand people freed. ⚓ Over fifteen hundred British sailors died doing it. One for every nine they freed. They didn't stop when it was expensive. They didn't stop when their own people were hungry. They didn't stop for a century. The Atlantic fell silent. And when it did the mill workers of Lancashire, who had chosen to go hungry rather than buy cotton picked by slaves, received a letter from Abraham Lincoln. ✉️ He called it "an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country." No other nation in history has done this. Not at this scale. Not at this cost. Not for this long. That is your inheritance. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 We are a community of people who care enough to keep these stories alive. Will you keep your history alive? We will. Be Part Of Us. 👉 🙏 Be Proud Of Us.🇬🇧

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

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Corruption killed the censor. Freedom walked in through the door he left open. 🇬🇧 For most of history nothing was printed in England without permission. Every book, every pamphlet, every page, read first by a man with a stamp. If he didn't like it, it didn't exist. Then in 1695 the law came up for renewal and the Commons looked at it. Not because they believed in freedom. Because the censor was taking bribes, 1 company had the monopoly, the printing was rubbish and the books cost a fortune. So they killed the law. Then they went home. And censorship in England simply stopped. Within 7 years London had its first daily newspaper. Then coffee houses full of people arguing about it. Then the rest of the world copying it. France took another 100 years. Whatever you're reading this on, you're reading it because of that vote. They teach you Magna Carta. Not why your morning paper never needed permission. A crooked censor did more for your freedom than a hundred speeches. Imagine what honest people could do on purpose. That's what Proud Of Us is for. Nobody asked permission to print the truth. We don't ask permission to tell it. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. No censor either. Just people like you, paying for the research, the films and the free lessons for schools. That vote is the reason a channel like this can exist at all. Nobody had to let us. They freed the press by accident. We use it to tell Britain its own story. Nobody had to let us. No sponsor, no state, no ads. It runs on people like you. Every film comes with a free lesson for any school that wants one. If you can, stand with us: If you can't, send this to someone who's never read a newspaper. Teach yourself and your kids our glorious history: Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Corruption killed the censor. Freedom walked in through the door he left open. 🇬🇧 For most of history nothing was printed in England without permission. Every book, every pamphlet, every page, read first by a man with a stamp. If he didn't like it, it didn't exist. Then in 1695 the law came up for renewal and the Commons looked at it. Not because they believed in freedom. Because the censor was taking bribes, 1 company had the monopoly, the printing was rubbish and the books cost a fortune. So they killed the law. Then they went home. And censorship in England simply stopped. Within 7 years London had its first daily newspaper. Then coffee houses full of people arguing about it. Then the rest of the world copying it. France took another 100 years. Whatever you're reading this on, you're reading it because of that vote. They teach you Magna Carta. Not why your morning paper never needed permission. A crooked censor did more for your freedom than a hundred speeches. Imagine what honest people could do on purpose. That's what Proud Of Us is for. Nobody asked permission to print the truth. We don't ask permission to tell it. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. No censor either. Just people like you, paying for the research, the films and the free lessons for schools. That vote is the reason a channel like this can exist at all. Nobody had to let us. They freed the press by accident. We use it to tell Britain its own story. Nobody had to let us. No sponsor, no state, no ads. It runs on people like you. Every film comes with a free lesson for any school that wants one. If you can, stand with us: If you can't, send this to someone who's never read a newspaper. Teach yourself and your kids our glorious history: Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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No one seems to be talking about the fact Reform didn't have the result they hoped for in the Welsh election. They fell well short of what they said they'd get. They only got 29% of the vote. You can't be the voice of the people if over 70% of the people demonstrably don't want you to be their voice. Why do you think Farage didn't show up? He doesn't want to be associated with falling short. We saw this when they lost in Caerphilly last year, he was no where to be seen.
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No one seems to be talking about the fact Reform didn't have the result they hoped for in the Welsh election. They fell well short of what they said they'd get. They only got 29% of the vote. You can't be the voice of the people if over 70% of the people demonstrably don't want you to be their voice. Why do you think Farage didn't show up? He doesn't want to be associated with falling short. We saw this when they lost in Caerphilly last year, he was no where to be seen.

Will Hayward

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In 1943, Black American soldiers arrived in Lancashire.🇬🇧🇺🇸 Back home, they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as white people. Couldn't drink in the same bars. The locals didn't care about any of that. They said come in. Same pubs. Same pints. Same welcome as everyone else. They danced together. Drank together. Walked through the village together. One soldier said he didn't know he was coloured until he looked in the mirror. Then the US commanders tried to stop it. They demanded the village separate them. Every pub refused. A barmaid called Gillian Vesey served whoever was next. No exceptions. Military police walked into a pub and tried to arrest a soldier for wearing the wrong uniform. A British soldier stood up. "Why do you want to arrest them? They're not doing anything wrong." That night, things turned violent. A soldier was killed. The commanding general blamed the white officers. Racist officers were removed. The soldiers went home. But they carried something with them. The memory of a place that treated them like people. One veteran said: "These soldiers were never going back to accept being treated as less." "None of us were." A small Lancashire village showed them what was possible. Not by marching. Not by protesting. Just by being decent. They didn't think they were being brave. They were just being British.🇬🇧 This is who we are. Help us show the world. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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In 1943, Black American soldiers arrived in Lancashire.🇬🇧🇺🇸 Back home, they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as white people. Couldn't drink in the same bars. The locals didn't care about any of that. They said come in. Same pubs. Same pints. Same welcome as everyone else. They danced together. Drank together. Walked through the village together. One soldier said he didn't know he was coloured until he looked in the mirror. Then the US commanders tried to stop it. They demanded the village separate them. Every pub refused. A barmaid called Gillian Vesey served whoever was next. No exceptions. Military police walked into a pub and tried to arrest a soldier for wearing the wrong uniform. A British soldier stood up. "Why do you want to arrest them? They're not doing anything wrong." That night, things turned violent. A soldier was killed. The commanding general blamed the white officers. Racist officers were removed. The soldiers went home. But they carried something with them. The memory of a place that treated them like people. One veteran said: "These soldiers were never going back to accept being treated as less." "None of us were." A small Lancashire village showed them what was possible. Not by marching. Not by protesting. Just by being decent. They didn't think they were being brave. They were just being British.🇬🇧 This is who we are. Help us show the world. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

1,017,254 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Every freedom you have was fought for by British people. 🇬🇧 And it wasn't taken by kings. Or generals. Or lords. A king was told he was not above the law. By the people beneath him. English peasants marched on London and demanded an end to serfdom. They were slaughtered. But serfdom ended. A judge locked a jury in a room without food or water for refusing to convict two men. They still refused. No jury in the English-speaking world has been punished since. Sixty thousand people gathered in Manchester to demand the right to vote. The government sent cavalry. Eighteen were killed. The demand never stopped. Ordinary people signed petitions until Parliament couldn't ignore them. Britain abolished slavery. But it didn't stop there. It sent its navy to force the rest of the world to do the same. For sixty years. Girls as young as thirteen were working fourteen-hour days. The phosphorus was rotting their jaws. The company was paying 23% dividends. Fourteen hundred women walked out. They won. And sparked the entire modern trade union movement. They taught you about the kings. They never mentioned the people. This is the real story of Britain. Not just the kings. Not just the empires. The British people. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Every freedom you have was fought for by British people. 🇬🇧 And it wasn't taken by kings. Or generals. Or lords. A king was told he was not above the law. By the people beneath him. English peasants marched on London and demanded an end to serfdom. They were slaughtered. But serfdom ended. A judge locked a jury in a room without food or water for refusing to convict two men. They still refused. No jury in the English-speaking world has been punished since. Sixty thousand people gathered in Manchester to demand the right to vote. The government sent cavalry. Eighteen were killed. The demand never stopped. Ordinary people signed petitions until Parliament couldn't ignore them. Britain abolished slavery. But it didn't stop there. It sent its navy to force the rest of the world to do the same. For sixty years. Girls as young as thirteen were working fourteen-hour days. The phosphorus was rotting their jaws. The company was paying 23% dividends. Fourteen hundred women walked out. They won. And sparked the entire modern trade union movement. They taught you about the kings. They never mentioned the people. This is the real story of Britain. Not just the kings. Not just the empires. The British people. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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Eight hundred years of open justice. 🇬🇧 Gone. In a single vote. Magna Carta, 1215: "To no one will we deny or delay right or justice." Courts must be open. Anyone can watch. Anyone can challenge. The Star Chamber tried secret trials. No jury. No appeal. You never saw the evidence against you. Parliament abolished it in 1641. Never again. 372 years later, they brought it back. The Justice and Security Act 2013. Closed Material Procedures. The government presents evidence against you. You cannot see it. Your lawyer cannot see it. A "special advocate" can see it. But they cannot talk to you about it. Ever. Evidence about you. That decides your future. That you will never see. 2000 - surveillance without warrants. 2016 - your internet history stored by law. 2022 - the right to protest restricted. Every right ordinary people fought for. They keep coming for it. This is not history. This is now. This is you. They're counting on you not knowing. We exist to make sure you do. No sponsors. No ads. Just people who believe our heritage is worth fighting for. Stand with us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Eight hundred years of open justice. 🇬🇧 Gone. In a single vote. Magna Carta, 1215: "To no one will we deny or delay right or justice." Courts must be open. Anyone can watch. Anyone can challenge. The Star Chamber tried secret trials. No jury. No appeal. You never saw the evidence against you. Parliament abolished it in 1641. Never again. 372 years later, they brought it back. The Justice and Security Act 2013. Closed Material Procedures. The government presents evidence against you. You cannot see it. Your lawyer cannot see it. A "special advocate" can see it. But they cannot talk to you about it. Ever. Evidence about you. That decides your future. That you will never see. 2000 - surveillance without warrants. 2016 - your internet history stored by law. 2022 - the right to protest restricted. Every right ordinary people fought for. They keep coming for it. This is not history. This is now. This is you. They're counting on you not knowing. We exist to make sure you do. No sponsors. No ads. Just people who believe our heritage is worth fighting for. Stand with us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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65,935 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🇬🇧 Britain spent forty percent of its annual budget on one thing 🇬🇧 Not the army. ❌ Not the navy. ❌ For Freedom.✅ 1833 - Parliament faced a choice. End slavery gradually let it fade out over decades. Or end it now. But “now” had a price. Slaveholders owned people. Legally. Under existing law, their property couldn’t just be taken. The choice was simple. Pay them off. Or wait. But every year of waiting meant people still in chains. Mothers. Fathers. Children. Britain chose now. 👇 🇬🇧 Forty percent of the entire national budget. The largest loan in British history. Who paid? Not the slaveholders. They got paid. Working people paid. Through taxes. For 182 years. Your great-great-grandparents paid. Your grandparents paid. Your parents paid. Until 2015. Maybe you paid the final instalment … Not for empire. Not for power. For people eight thousand miles away they would never meet. That’s what your ancestors thought freedom was worth. Forty percent of everything they had. 182 years of payments. That’s your heritage. Did they teach you that in school? Help us keep telling these stories 👉 Follow for more. Be part of us.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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🇬🇧 Britain spent forty percent of its annual budget on one thing 🇬🇧 Not the army. ❌ Not the navy. ❌ For Freedom.✅ 1833 - Parliament faced a choice. End slavery gradually let it fade out over decades. Or end it now. But “now” had a price. Slaveholders owned people. Legally. Under existing law, their property couldn’t just be taken. The choice was simple. Pay them off. Or wait. But every year of waiting meant people still in chains. Mothers. Fathers. Children. Britain chose now. 👇 🇬🇧 Forty percent of the entire national budget. The largest loan in British history. Who paid? Not the slaveholders. They got paid. Working people paid. Through taxes. For 182 years. Your great-great-grandparents paid. Your grandparents paid. Your parents paid. Until 2015. Maybe you paid the final instalment … Not for empire. Not for power. For people eight thousand miles away they would never meet. That’s what your ancestors thought freedom was worth. Forty percent of everything they had. 182 years of payments. That’s your heritage. Did they teach you that in school? Help us keep telling these stories 👉 Follow for more. Be part of us.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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30,537 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Slavery existed for over 5,000 years. Every major civilisation accepted it. For most of history, nobody seriously tried to stop it at scale. Then Britain did something different. It didn’t just pass a law. 👇 In 1807, Britain abolished the slave trade. Then it enforced it. For 60 years, the Royal Navy hunted slave ships. 1,600 ships captured. Around 150,000 people freed. And it cost lives. Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it. Then in 1833: Britain abolished slavery across its empire. 800,000 people set free. It paid £20 million to do it. Around 40 percent of government spending. This wasn’t quick. This wasn’t easy. And it didn’t start with politicians. It started with ordinary people. Women boycotted sugar. Hundreds of thousands of them. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles to gather evidence. A movement that took decades. This is part of British history. Not perfect. But not what most people are told either. Almost no one explains it like this. Proud Of Us is funded entirely by our community. No sponsors. No advertisers. If you believe this history deserves to be told properly:👇 Be part of us. 👉 🙏 Be proud of us 🇬🇧
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Slavery existed for over 5,000 years. Every major civilisation accepted it. For most of history, nobody seriously tried to stop it at scale. Then Britain did something different. It didn’t just pass a law. 👇 In 1807, Britain abolished the slave trade. Then it enforced it. For 60 years, the Royal Navy hunted slave ships. 1,600 ships captured. Around 150,000 people freed. And it cost lives. Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it. Then in 1833: Britain abolished slavery across its empire. 800,000 people set free. It paid £20 million to do it. Around 40 percent of government spending. This wasn’t quick. This wasn’t easy. And it didn’t start with politicians. It started with ordinary people. Women boycotted sugar. Hundreds of thousands of them. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles to gather evidence. A movement that took decades. This is part of British history. Not perfect. But not what most people are told either. Almost no one explains it like this. Proud Of Us is funded entirely by our community. No sponsors. No advertisers. If you believe this history deserves to be told properly:👇 Be part of us. 👉 🙏 Be proud of us 🇬🇧

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355,597 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten