Tony WhatDoIKnow.
@TOPA_JustAVoice
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Follow The Money. Your age, gender, sexuality, race and religion are about as important to me as your star sign, and I say that as a committed Cesarean.
Manchester, England
Joined December 2018
Be proud to be British.
Most people in Britain carry DNA that traces back over four thousand years.๐ฌ๐งโ๏ธ Before the Romans. Before the Anglo-Saxons. Before the Vikings. Your ancestors were already here. And scientists just proved what they built. In 1999, two men pulled something from a German
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"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes." That's not a modern law. That was written in England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ over a thousand years ago. Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. ๐ She
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How is Hope Not Hate allowed to be political? And what this says about the useless Charity Commission:
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Europe's oldest human footprints were found at Happisburgh, Norfolk, in 2013. ๐ฌ๐ง 850,000 years old. The oldest outside Africa. They belonged to a group of early humans, Homo antecessor, moving through an ancient river estuary. Adults and children. The prints showed they were
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Two British men built the machine that changed the world. ๐ฌ๐งโ๏ธ An ironmonger. And a plumber. You've never heard of either of them. 1690s. Britain's mines were drowning. The deeper they went, the more they flooded. Men drowned in those tunnels. Children hauled water out by
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Britain called her a housewife. ๐ฐ ย Sheโd mapped the molecule that saved the war. ย Dorothy Hodgkinโs hands were destroying themselves. Rheumatoid arthritis twisting every joint, locking every finger. The instruments she needed were the size of pins. ย She kept working. ๐ฌ
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Love this view of @RupertLowe10
@RupertLowe10 There's nothing more British than a bloke called Rupert, who gives zero fucks, speaks sense and wears either a suit or farmer attire. We need to Restore Britain and we will Restore Britain ๐๐ฌ๐ง
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A fool and his money, etc. Taxpayers let us play the fool no more.
๐จ Office for National Statistics signs off ยฃ2.6m conference booking contract. Yes, thatโs ยฃ2.6 million to a company to help them find and book venues. This comes on top of the ยฃ6 million contract theyโve already signed off for another company to book travel for them. So
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Britain nearly lost its entire army. ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ง May 1940. 400,000 men trapped on a beach at Dunkirk. The Navy sent everything it had. It wasn't enough. Churchill expected 30,000 saved. Out of 400,000. A phone rang in a fishing village. ๐ And another. And another. Harbours.
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It's still a beautiful area.
A chocolate maker bought 120 acres of Birmingham slums. ๐ซ His name was George Cadbury. He didnโt build a factory. He built a world. Every house had a garden. By law. Every single one. ๐ฟ Schools. Parks. Swimming pools. Cricket pitches. Pensions. Education during working
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In 1850, William Gladstone went to Naples on holiday. ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐น It was meant to be a Holiday. While he was there, someone took him to a courtroom. He watched a lawyer, a former government minister, sentenced to 24 years in chains. His crime? Wanting a constitution. Gladstone
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British wool production reached approximately 70 million kilograms per year in the early 20th century. The British Wool Marketing Board, established in 1950, guaranteed a price floor for clip wool. For decades, sheep farmers received a meaningful return on their fleece. Then
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We need to get our energy and vitality back.
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The methane a British cow produces today contains carbon that was atmospheric CO2 six months ago, when the grass absorbed it. That methane will break down in about twelve years, back into CO2, which the grass will absorb again. Closed loop. Has been a closed loop for millions
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That pound in your pocket? ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง That's the oldest currency in the world. It was there during two world wars. Bombs falling on London. Ration books on the counter. The pound was still there. The civil war tore this country in half. Royalists on one side. Parliament on the
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They taught you about the chains. They never taught you who broke them. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง In 1772, a man was locked in chains on a ship in the Thames. In the middle of London. His name was James Somerset. Captured in West Africa as a child. Sold in Virginia at eight years old. Brought to
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It's not an accident that farmers all across the West are being taxed and regulated out of existence, so BlackRock and Bill Gates can buy up all the farmland. Control the food, control the people.
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11,000 years of stories. Buried under your feet. We dig them up. Every video we make exists because of people like you. No sponsors. No ads. Just people who believe this history is worth uncovering. https://t.co/RDvxA7Odku ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง
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