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should have booted him out as well

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Boris Johnson
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Great to be back at the pub again, and to see so many reunited with friends and family.

We’ve worked so hard to get to this point. Let’s keep going. Remember hands, face, space & fresh air.

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taxi

Steve Laws

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Border Force went into French waters to collect illegal immigrants today.

 

hes working hard
bet hes gagging for a pint

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Keir Starmer
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It’s been a really tough year for the high street. That’s why I was in Bath today, discussing Labour’s plans to rebuild and revive them.

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Months ago I said after a PMQs that Starmer was a ‘dud’ and some on here were saying how good his performances were. Sorry but he is a dud and people can see that.

 

Theft of people's pets. Over 80 stolen dogs and pups found in a traveller's camp in Ipswich. Quelle surprise...

 

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Jane Austen museum launches BLM-inspired 'interrogation' of author's love for drinking tea and wearing cotton due to slave trade links

• Jane Austen's House museum will hold 'historical interrogation' into slavery links
• The author's father Rev Austen was once a trustee of an Antigua sugar plantation
• She is noted for her use of products of empire including tea, sugar and cotton

By William Cole For Mailonline

Published: 19:51 AEST, 19 April 2021 | Updated: 02:39 AEST, 20 April 2021



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A museum devoted to Jane Austen has sparked fury by announcing plans to subject the author to a 'historical interrogation' over alleged links to the slave trade.

The celebrated author - and noted abolitionist - wrote Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park while living in a cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, which has now been turned into a museum.

But staff at the property devoted to the 18th century author are planning a revisionist attack on her alleged involvement in 'Regency era colonialism'.

Austen does have links to the slave trade through her father George Austen, the rector for a Hampshire parish who was at one point a trustee for an Antigua sugar plantation.

The museum however want to look for potential connections to slavery through her use of sugar in her tea and her wearing of cotton clothing, which experts say are all 'products of empire' brought back to Britain from colonies in Africa.

Lizzie Dunford, the museum's director says these links will be highlighted with future display boards to be installed at the property.

She says this will be part of a 'steady and considered process' of 'interrogation' into her life and how slavery-linked aspects can be better displayed.

But critics have slammed the plans as 'madness', saying the museum had fall victim to 'wokeism'.

 

****'s sake.

 

I could drink tea for England, I'm seriously worried now...

 

You said Lyndon Dykes was a dud.

 

I said months and months ago that Johnson was a liar............

 

And you were right

 

So I was!

 

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Derek Chauvin guilty. So not the victim’s fault after all.

 

Good to see Leave.EU are still getting those important memes out there.

 

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Keir Starmer
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Better late than never...

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Even your most avid of let’s blame the black fella would have struggled finding him innocent