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David Hallett

David Hallett

@hallett.social

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Tech Founder CEO at http://sme.software - FRSA MIoD MBCS - Liberté, égalité, fraternité - London Plymouth Geneva https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallettdavid/

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David Hallett @hallett.social · 1d

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 1d

The Empire created Britain’s wealth.

Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.

It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.

Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 3d

a fat boy with chocolate on his face is eating it all .

ALT: a fat boy with chocolate on his face is eating it all .

media.tenor.com

Reposted by David Hallett

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 4d

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:

Hello there

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

3
NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

[ends]

David Hallett @hallett.social · 7d

Good point. Crap. I'm 60, so 1 hour is 0.0005708%... An ever increasing justification to spend those hours wisely!

David Hallett @hallett.social · 7d

Exactly, it's completely indefensible now. There's a difference between making the news and reporting the news, and from the BBC I expect the latter, exclusively. That's been lost.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 7d

If you live to be 80 years old then you waste 0.0001427% of your life every time you waste an hour.

I decided that even 0.0001427% just isn't worth it. It feels powerful.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 8d

So she expressed it badly, but her point was correct? They'll be shooting for the disabled next.

I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage defends MP’s complaint about TV adverts as ‘ugly’ but not ‘deliberately’ racist

Reform MP Sarah Pochin said seeing adverts of black or Asian people ‘drives me mad’

www.theguardian.com

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

I am outraged. I've just seen a TV advert featuring a child. Children are over represented on TV. You already can't avoid them just walking down the road. They're everywhere! Somone should introduce a bill to get them off my TV!

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

If this is allowed to pass, they'll be coming for same sex couples next. Then the disabled.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

With bells on! Sooner the better.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

School playground stuff.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

I used to staunchly defend the BBC. I don't recognise them as journalists any more. Pathetic.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

BBC did not clarify the Philp policy much: failed to ask any of the key questions

- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill

- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

"... Labour’s official remarks from the party chair, Anna Turley, who on Saturday night condemned Pochin’s remarks and said Reform were “more interested in dividing our country than uniting it”, but stopped short of calling the comments racist."

It's racist! Fight back!

David Hallett @hallett.social · 9d

Same

Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 9d

I used to defend the BBC’s coverage until fairly recently. Election night 2024 was probably the point at which I snapped and could no longer avoid facing what it had become.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

David Hallett @hallett.social · 12d

Their raison d'tre 🤷🏻‍♂️

David Hallett @hallett.social · 13d

Indeed, if it doesn't get stamped out quickly and loudly my wife and I will be soon making plans to extract ourselves from the UK along with our business, and the jobs we created. She's Portuguese and has ILR. She used to respect the UK but it has to reciprocated, not abused.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 13d

? explain please

David Hallett @hallett.social · 15d

How does he breathe with so much of Donnie's sh*t covering his nose?

David Hallett @hallett.social · 15d

And shhhh don't mention the Duchy of Lancaster

David Hallett @hallett.social · 15d

Medieval is the right word for everything describing this family.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 16d

I moved back, with my Portuguese wife. 6 months later we had Brexit. Now we have chatter about revoking her ILR. We're considering leaving and taking our business and jobs with us.

David Hallett @hallett.social · 17d

Go on Deliveroo or Just Eat and try and find any of this "amazing" British food. You'll find it in pubs, less and less, and it's shite.

Isn't the most popular dish now Thai? Or heading that way?

David Hallett @hallett.social · 21d

At what point do the white coats come for him and feed him mashed cornflakes in warm milk?

David Hallett @hallett.social · 21d

No name check, but hey, at least you're in the photo.