#british prime minister

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1981 – Bobby Sands dies at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. Bobby Sands dies in prison following a 66 day hunger strike. Sands would be the first of ten men to die in an effort to gain political status in a very public battle with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the House of Commons Thatcher commented on Sands death “Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice…

[gay-jewish-bucky]

🥳🥳🥳

[the-cricket-chirps]

Winston Churchill

A scene on the River Meuse at Dinant

Late 1946

[estrogengerard]

Diversity loss: the first british asian prime minister is a tory cunt

[loveboatinsanity]

Well, that didn’t last long.

[tmarshconnors]

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Backup Lizzy down!

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

You know what? At this point I hope the Brits are taking the opportunity to laugh at us in the middle of this Speaker clusterfuck, because after all they’ve been through they deserve a chance to revel in someone else’s political misery instead of their own.

[lariej]

oh joy the uk has ANOTHER prime minister we didn't vote for but it gets BETTER because the fucking TORIES didn't vote for this prick either!!! everyone just dropped out!!! i hate it here!!!!

[nowwavingnotdrowning]

To all the people who say they want Queen Elizabeth II to die right now, that wouldn't be an improvement:

Boris would definitely use the whole State Funeral process to put his ego front and centre in a stomach churning display.

The fuss would be far too helpful as distractions from skeletons in anyone's closet and would distract the Civil Service from the actual business of government.

Boris has only resigned as Party Leader. The Party Leader of the ruling party is Prime Minister but the whole thing operates on an honour system. However British Law says that, if Boris refuses to go and Parliament has a vote of No Confidence, the Queen can actually chuck him out...an appealing thought if not for the negative consequences of that level of chaos.

Anyway! Queen dying right now? Not a good thing.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1980 – British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, stated in the House of Commons: "The government will never concede to political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the province."

The hunger strikes of 1980-81 were a confrontation between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the iron will of Irish republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, in an attempt to break the British policy of criminalising paramilitary prisoners. The prisoners’ ultimate demand, to be granted a ‘special category status’ that distinguished them from other prisoners, led to two hunger…

[cat-clawz]

Happy "the cabbage actually did outlast her" day to my UK followers

[the-cricket-chirps]

Winston Churchill

Calanques, near Marseilles

1948

[thebeigewitch]

As a Canadian, sometimes I have to step back and realise what in the actual fuck goes on in other countries

[aqua-cultured]

my partner, upon just waking up to me telling them the queen is dead: does that mean the collared one is the only one in charge now?

[deadpresidents]

Thems the breaks.

Definitely Not Winston Churchill