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Lord Babington retweeted
She is 65 and got cheated on by the man she’s been with since 19 and you’re talking about jackpot lol
You people spend too much time online
This is the kind of stress that makes you start smoking like a French woman whose husband has returned from war but unfortunately so has her lover
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Lord Babington retweeted
Clear expression of white supremacist revisionist history. Haiti's poverty was deliberately manufactured by white powers as a direct punishment for the Haitian Revolution, the world's only successful revolt by enslaved people. 🤡
Lord Babington retweeted
What's the most attractive medicine a man can take, the CVS near me had two baddies working the counter
Lord Babington retweeted
He's not wrong most European food is overhyped, just because they're white they're deemed the best when none of those European soups compare to a bowl of pho, laksa, or ramen
Riz Ahmed says French cuisine is overhyped because cooking a steak doesn't compare to the complexity of South Asian food
“I do feel that French cuisine is, I guess, a little bit overhyped”
“It's relatively simpler things that are done executing very well and with care”
“Coming from a background where it's about curries slow cooked, intense layering of a dish like nihari, the amount of spices and things going into it, it's just incredible. The flavor profile and the range of things, the time it takes...”
“Whereas, not being funny, but a steak, it's a steak”
“Like you get the thing, you put it on and the trick is like, oh, 28 seconds or 33, and it's like boom”
Lord Babington retweeted
Witnessing a Pakistani and a Nigerian fight over who should protect the homeland of White British people was not on my bucket list for 2026.
Shabana has made a serious mistake surrendering to Labour MPs. So I’m putting people on notice - when we get into government we will scrap this weak policy.
Immigration is too high. Labour are making a bad situation much, much worse.
The Conservative Party is under new management. I accept this problem started under a previous Conservative govt. Many of those in that Cabinet have gone to Reform where they belong.
And I’ve got a proper plan to fix it👇
Lord Babington retweeted
Can't even tell Kyle to shut up and dribble cause you don't want him doing that either 😭
Lord Babington retweeted
Imagine releasing a strongly worded statement to defend your colonial masters against the material interests of your own people.
This is exactly why I constantly warn against reducing colonialism and imperialism to mere skin color. Figures like Kemi are modern-day equivalents of Mobutu Sese Seko and the rest of the comprador elite who oversee and facilitate the destruction of their own ancestral states solely to serve the interests of global capital.
Therefore, the fight for the emancipation of Africa must be viewed strictly through the lens of class struggle. On one side is the African working-class population, who have been condemned to live under engineered economic ruin. On the other side is the bourgeois class, comprising the corrupt African politicians who facilitate the extraction of our wealth, alongside expendable imperial diplomats like Kemi.
Her specific mandate is to justify this historical plunder, gaslight the victims, and reduce the structural devastation of Africa to the supposed moral failings of its people, rather than the deliberate economic strangulation orchestrated by her neo-colonial masters.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Lord Babington retweeted
Kemi, congratulations on leading a major British party as a Black Woman. It takes real talent to rise to where you are and deceit is what it takes to rise as a Black leader in a western Conservative Party.
It is a pity the climb did not leave room for a history book and since you chose to argue in the language of history, let us do the history. Let’s dissect your verbal diarrhea point by point.
Everyone participated." Slavery existed on every continent. So did war, and nobody calls a village feud the World War. The transatlantic trade ran for 366 years (1501 to 1866) and put about 12.5 million Africans on ships, of whom about 1.8 million died before they saw the Americas, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It ran through joint-stock companies, chartered monopolies, Lloyd's underwriters and acts of Parliament. It was hereditary, because the law made the child of an enslaved mother property from birth. It was racial, because a whole continent was defined as chattel. No other system in history combined those features at that scale. Dissolving all of it into "people from every continent" is far worse than intellectual dishonesty.
Britain was a market leader, not a participant. British ships carried about 3.2 million Africans, second only to Portugal and Brazil. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave Britain the asiento, a thirty-year monopoly to supply 4,800 enslaved Africans a year to Spanish America. The Royal African Company, chartered in 1672 and headed by the Duke of York, later James II, branded its captives "DY". During Edward Colston's years in its leadership it shipped about 84,000 people, and roughly 19,000 died on the way.
You say British taxpayers should not answer for what happened before they were born. They did. In 1833 Britain borrowed £20 million to compensate slaveholders, and taxpayers serviced that loan until 2015, including the descendants of the enslaved. So the principle you invoke was not applied when the cheque went to slaveholders. It only appears when the cheque changes direction.
"Navel-gazing" is a curious charge from someone whose party spends more energy on the past (Empire nostalgia, culture war crusades) than most of those you accuse. Defend Britain if you must. But do not use your Nigerian name as the permission slip for arguments Nigerians know better than anyone.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Lord Babington retweeted
Why is illiteracy propaganda on my timeline.
Lord Babington retweeted
Modern Family is easily, EASILY a top 3 sitcom, of all time. That “Shaun Mbaduwe” “I said by the way” bit???? Comedy gold 😭😭😭😭
Lord Babington retweeted
A momentous day for London.
I’m so excited to see our plans to transform Oxford Street becoming a reality.
And this is just the beginning.
Lord Babington retweeted
Oh now we can excuse the GAANG for getting destroyed by an insanely skilled bender but when KORRAS team gets beat by the embodiment of evil itself they’re trash? Okay.
