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There was similar blowback when the government introduced a 70mph limit on the newly made motorway, but later on it was proven to save a lots of lives.

I remember the old nuffin days, lol

did anyone else watch the horrible histories song?

Not until you mentioned it, but imo you're reaching a bit there. The cheddar guy is brought up on screen, and the dude doing the song is the same throughout. He's got modern hair and facial hair - which one assumes is his regular style.

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https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/News_events/2023/September/'Division-not-the-answer'-as-Mayor-makes-decision-to-remove-most-LTN-traffic-restrictions.aspx

I think the point being made by several people is that because the people that started Stonehenge were darker skinned than contemporary white British people, it allows kids to envisage a Britain whose culture, society and history was not purely the construct of a bunch of white dudes.

To draw a direct link between the beaker people and modern black British kids isn’t the intent, it’s that not everything in this country came from people who looked like Ben Fogle. So if you are a kid who doesn’t look like mr typical white kid, you are still part of the deal.

The latest consultation shows around 41.7% of Tower Hamlets residents in the LTN area in favour of removal and 57.3% wanting to keep them

Hmmm

Latest being a 2nd consultation that further cemented the 1st consultation replies because the, previously found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices, mayor didn’t like the results, nor police, hospital, schools, TFL input.

I also hadn't listened to the song until now but I don't think it says what you seem to think it says.

It doesn't say anything about 'original brits' or who is descended from who, just that there was a mix of people in the British Isles including black people.

The only thing I can find to be angry about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-qsVS8zeU
is the audio quality.

More Black people in England before 1950 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cr41bp - You're Dead to Me, Black Georgian England

Aha, better audio and subtitles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bzyqh2/horrible-histories-songs-weve-been-here-from-the-start

Fucking hell, a song about the fact there were some darker skinned people in ancient and slightly more modern British history being sung by one of the slightly more regular HH cast who is black being something to bitch about compared to various gay, straight, north African, Asian, native American and Mediterranean roles with various dress and accents bring portrayed by the same slightly swarthier actor is fucking daft. Neither is a fucking issue as they're acting and portraying a role, maybe there's an actor out there that would more accurately portray someone from 5000 years ago in Britain, maybe they could've got someone of Egyptian decent to dress up as an Egyptian or Peruvian to sing a song about sacrificing humans and drinking fermented llama saliva, but they're a smallish bunch of mostly British comedians who do a pretty good, mostly accurate and very entertaining, educational comedy that gets people, mostly kids into history. Stop shitting bricks and chill out, yes there's been darker skinned people in Britain for pretty much ever, having an even darker skinned/eyed person might not portray that 100% accurately, but neither will anyone else on the cast and it's fucking acting for fucks sake.

But also fuck the horrible histories team which misleads kids and riles racists

We wouldn't want to rile racists, would we? Checks um, actually...

That corrupt cunt, Lutfur Rahman.

Mr Bean as Henry VII? HH are ruining are kids!

about 2 or 3 minutes longer.

Or not longer at all, going by a lot of the research undertaken.

Did you report them to Roadsafe? That sort of psychopathic behaviour will get someone killed.

https://insidecroydon.com/2023/09/19/policing-minister-member-of-online-group-that-salutes-vandals/
"The Tory Government’s policing minister, Chris Philp, the MP for Croydon South, is a member of a social media group in which criminal acts, damage and vandalism to public property are celebrated on a near-daily basis.

Philp, a member of the King’s Privy Council for the past year, has confirmed that he has failed to post anything on the private Facebook page to condemn the criminality and, when he was contacted about his membership of “Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion”, he could only offer as an excuse: “I cannot be held responsible for what other people post on Facebook groups which I do not administer.”

Which is a bit awkward for Philp’s colleagues in Croydon Conservatives. The group admin for “Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion” is Croydon’s Tory Mayor, Jason Perry."

Who pays for the cameras, local authority or central government? If it is the councils then these vigilantes are probably increasing next year's council tax for themselves.

Who pays for the cameras, local authority or central government?

TfL

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66869161

What a dude!

Succession IRL; Rupert Murdoch is quitting

Ace!

He's off to spearhead the Trump election campaign, I gather.

Rupert Murdoch railing against the elites, right OK.

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Expecting that they are only going for ULEZ cameras is a bit optimistic I suspect.

They are fairly distinctive. From a technology perspective it's quite interesting to see how it's all changed compared with the first CC cameras and things like bus lane/yellow box/jam cams before that.