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Post by Firestick Frank on Aug 16, 2020 23:09:36 GMT
Yesterday marked 201 years since the Conservative Party ordered the murder of men, women and children in Manchester for peacefully demanding the right to vote for working class men.
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many, they are few.
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Post by everhopeful on Aug 17, 2020 4:44:32 GMT
Yesterday marked 201 years since the Conservative Party ordered the murder of men, women and children in Manchester for peacefully demanding the right to vote for working class men. Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many, they are few. Plus ça change... |
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Post by ivawhopper on Aug 26, 2020 21:54:11 GMT
The Conservative party wasn’t actually founded until 1834, so not sure how they ordered anything 15 years before they existed?
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Post by Firestick Frank on Aug 26, 2020 22:24:51 GMT
The Tories were founded in 1678. Dissolved in 1834 and succeeded by the “Conservative Party” but essentially the same thing.
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Post by sealandender1 on Aug 27, 2020 14:01:48 GMT
Have a read of ‘Peterloo - The Manchester Massacre’ by Jacqueline Riding; a superb read. Why this subject isn’t featured within our school history curriculum is beyond me.
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Post by everhopeful on Aug 28, 2020 1:06:46 GMT
The Conservative party wasn’t actually founded until 1834, so not sure how they ordered anything 15 years before they existed? And they were founded by whom?? |
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Aug 28, 2020 5:34:04 GMT
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Post by Ian H Block on Aug 28, 2020 5:34:04 GMT
The Conservative party wasn’t actually founded until 1834, so not sure how they ordered anything 15 years before they existed? And they were founded by whom?? Robert Peel. |
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Post by ivawhopper on Aug 28, 2020 18:15:47 GMT
And they were founded by whom?? Robert Peel. The man who the term bobby for a policeman was named in honour of. |
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Post by mabinogion on Sept 23, 2020 0:06:04 GMT
The same Tory party that voted against the creation of a National Health Service no fewer than 21 times.......... some things never change.
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Post by mabinogion on Sept 23, 2020 0:08:52 GMT
And they were founded by whom?? Robert Peel. He founded the police not as @ crime fighting force but mainly to protect the assets of the wealthy from being pilfered by the poor. It’s just too easy at times. 😂 |
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Sept 23, 2020 7:56:15 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Sept 23, 2020 7:56:15 GMT
He founded the police not as @ crime fighting force but mainly to protect the assets of the wealthy from being pilfered by the poor. It’s just too easy at times. 😂 The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine The poor and wretched don't escape If they conspire the law to break This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back |
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