Just to be clear: this person’s ONLY intervention in the House of Lords on the #COVID19 pandemic has been to ask for something of *direct* benefit to himself. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face"> #crooks #liars #ToriesOut https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">
His personal interest is declared, so there is no formal wrongdoing, but as a matter of ethics and integrity, this is shameful… Given the scale of the crisis, and the thousands of deaths, this makes him a disgraceful grifter. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #booo #crooks #liars #ToriesOut
Sadly, it runs in the family: his son is a convict, having defrauded his employer of £355,000 to help pay for the very same festival… Barring accidents, the fraudulent Alex will one day be “viscount”. #crooks #liars #ToriesOut https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12358495">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
Viscount's son jailed for fraud

A viscount's son is jailed for defrauding Tesco out of £355,000 to repay debts incurred by a loss-making music festival at the family seat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12358495
Given that he’s a Tory with what I judge to be dodgy ethics, it will come as no surprise that Trenchard has been a robust supporter of Brexit... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #Brexit #ToriesOut #crooks #liars
Given that he’s a Tory with what I judge to be dodgy ethics, it will come as no surprise that Trenchard has been a robust supporter of Brexit... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #Brexit #ToriesOut #crooks #liars" title="Given that he’s a Tory with what I judge to be dodgy ethics, it will come as no surprise that Trenchard has been a robust supporter of Brexit... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #Brexit #ToriesOut #crooks #liars" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Moreover, he continues to argue for a *hard* Brexit, safe in the knowledge that, as a banker and “aristocrat”, he’ll be just fine. He has spoken in the House of Lords on Brexit fully 22 times, according to Hansard. #ToriesOut #liars #crooks
So, how does this Brexity “viscount”, who is not overly keen on holding the government to account on #COVID19 but is happy to lobby for his own interests, come to be in the House of Lords? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Face with monocle" aria-label="Emoji: Face with monocle">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #Brexit #resist #liars
He is one of the hereditary peers that remain in parliament following Blair’s botched reform of the Lords in the late 1990s, so of course has never been elected by the public… Here he is in military cosplay. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨🏼‍✈️" title="Man pilot (medium light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man pilot (medium light skin tone)"> #ToriesOut
The RAF uniform is significant because Hugh owes his title entirely to his grandfather, Viscount Trenchard (also named Hugh), who is widely regarded as the founder of the Royal Air Force. Here is the original Hugh in 1919. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Face with monocle" aria-label="Emoji: Face with monocle"> #history
Viscount Trenchard (1873-1956) was the first Chief of the Air Staff (during WW1), & the official RAF website calls him the “Father of the Royal Air Force”. He was known as “Boom” Trenchard due to his love of explosions. @RoyalAirForce https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-college-cranwell/news/college-100-lord-hugh-trenchard/">https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organ...
COLLEGE 100 LORD HUGH TRENCHARD | Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Hugh Trenchard - known affectionately as the Father of the Royal Air Force was critical to the formation of the RAF College.

https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-college-cranwell/news/college-100-lord-hugh-trenchard/
He also has a prominent statue in London, on Victoria Embankment. The inscription – simply “Trenchard” – suggests a significant degree of fame, certainly when unveiled in 1961. #London @RoyalAirForce #Trenchard
So far, this appears to be a normal (if depressing) story of the English Establishment: forebear distinguishes himself, gets a peerage, and his descendants still hang around in our corridors of power, regardless of their abilities or personal qualities… https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face"> #ToriesOut #resist
However, the #Trenchard success story – the version on official websites & in military histories – is fundamentally dependent on our collective willingness to overlook colonial violence, and to see only the “war hero” elements, the parts suitable for Biggin Hill flypasts…
A hint of this can be seen around the base of the statue on Victoria Embankment: a regimental badge, reading “WAFF”, the West African Frontier Force. This marks Trenchard’s service in #Nigeria 1903-1910. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Face with monocle" aria-label="Emoji: Face with monocle">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #BritishEmpire #history #Africa
In most histories of Trenchard’s career, his period as a colonial soldier is overlooked or dismissed fleetingly. This cannot be an accident, for it was exceptionally bloody. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Nigeria #ColonialViolence #Igbo #Empire
Consider his role in the “Ahiara expedition” in what is now Imo State, in 1905. Following the killing of a Dr Stewart during an anti-colonial rising in this Igbo region, the district officer proposed violent retribution... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Empire #ColonialViolence #Trenchard
Trenchard is regarded in Nigeria as the most notorious “destroyer of towns”... Decades later, his violent campaign was still remembered. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Nigeria #Empire #ColonialViolence #Trenchard
Use of extreme force was not in the least exceptional in colonial territories (the empire project resting fundamentally on violence), but the evidence does suggest that Trenchard was especially cruel & aggressive. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😔" title="Pensive face" aria-label="Emoji: Pensive face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Nigeria #ColonialViolence #Igbo #BritishEmpire
Use of extreme force was not in the least exceptional in colonial territories (the empire project resting fundamentally on violence), but the evidence does suggest that Trenchard was especially cruel & aggressive. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Nigeria #ColonialViolence #Igbo #BritishEmpire" title="Use of extreme force was not in the least exceptional in colonial territories (the empire project resting fundamentally on violence), but the evidence does suggest that Trenchard was especially cruel & aggressive. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😔" title="Pensive face" aria-label="Emoji: Pensive face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #Nigeria #ColonialViolence #Igbo #BritishEmpire" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Unsurprisingly, he brought a committed racism to his work. In what is in fact a revoltingly hagiographic biography of Trenchard, his attitude to the local people under his supposed care is made clear. #racism #ColonialViolence #Igbo #Nigeria #BritishEmpire #Trenchard https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria">
When confronted with such colonial violence and rampant racism, imperial defenders will often trot out the ‘bad apple’ defence, or the ‘must have gone mad’ claims... These are disingenuous. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #BritishEmpire #LameExcuses
Not only was violence at the heart of empire, men like Trenchard were at the heart of the imperial Establishment. The fact that he can have a reign of savagery in colonial Nigeria and then go on to a peerage is proof of that. #ToriesOut #DownWithTheEstablishment #resist
Not only that, after retiring from the RAF, he was even appointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1931-35), which given his history seems a grisly joke. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #gross #racist #crook
Not only that, after retiring from the RAF, he was even appointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1931-35), which given his history seems a grisly joke. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #gross #racist #crook" title="Not only that, after retiring from the RAF, he was even appointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1931-35), which given his history seems a grisly joke. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> #gross #racist #crook" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
So the statue in Victoria Embankment shows not a war hero who deserves a Spitfire flypast, but a racist psychopath who had the blood of unknown numbers of Nigerians on his hands. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> #resist #racism #BritishEmpire
What is most galling is that our lunatic and woefully undemocratic system means that the grandson of this appalling individual is handed the right to make our laws, and has helped to inflict Brexit on this country. #brexit #resist #SystemChange #democracy https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Deciduous tree" aria-label="Emoji: Deciduous tree">
I have written already about the way in which the English class system is destroying the country (thread https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow">), and this is yet more evidence… https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦‍♂️" title="Man facepalming" aria-label="Emoji: Man facepalming"> #resist #ToriesOut #Brexit #oligarchy https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎩" title="Top hat" aria-label="Emoji: Top hat">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💰" title="Money bag" aria-label="Emoji: Money bag">

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Ancestral colonial psychopathy and love of blowing things up should NOT get someone a seat in the House of Lords… How can we imagine that we’re actually a modern country? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😖" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face"> #FFS
Hugh Trenchard (the current one) is now in the House of Lords for reasons that have nothing to do with his personal talents or authority, and is FAILING in his duty to hold the government to account in this national emergency. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #COVID19 #coronavirus #ToryShambles
Hugh Trenchard (the current one) is now in the House of Lords for reasons that have nothing to do with his personal talents or authority, and is FAILING in his duty to hold the government to account in this national emergency. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #COVID19 #coronavirus #ToryShambles" title="Hugh Trenchard (the current one) is now in the House of Lords for reasons that have nothing to do with his personal talents or authority, and is FAILING in his duty to hold the government to account in this national emergency. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #COVID19 #coronavirus #ToryShambles" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
When the #COVID19 crisis is finally over, it is obvious that we need a wholesale #SystemChange. Throwing the self-dealing hereditary peers out of the House of Lords will be just a small part of that. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #coronavirus #resist #ToriesOut #ToryShambles #crooks
CORRECTION Thanks to @thrustvector and @OU_Williams for pointing out that Trenchard’s nickname ‘Boom’ came from his notably loud voice rather than love of explosions as some sources have it... This https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow"> is from the recent Miller biography. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up"> #history #Trenchard
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CORRECTION Thanks to @thrustvector and @OU_Williams for pointing out that Trenchard’s nickname ‘Boom’ came from his notably loud voice rather than love of explosions as some sources have it... This https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= is from the recent Miller biography. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up"> #history #Trenchard #EnglishAbroad" title="CORRECTION Thanks to @thrustvector and @OU_Williams for pointing out that Trenchard’s nickname ‘Boom’ came from his notably loud voice rather than love of explosions as some sources have it... This https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow"> is from the recent Miller biography. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up"> #history #Trenchard #EnglishAbroad" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
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