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The dozens of Macbeth stans currently confused at finding common cause with Redwood.

So, he is in favour of getting rid of the aristocracy and giving all their wealth and land back to the Nation Can get rid of the monarchy as well - all good

And of course the English never did anything of the sort, so definitely fine to maintain nonsense grudges like this for literal centuries

You can see him glowering at the back during a Hereward the Wake press conference.

"Captain I protest! I am NOT a merry man."

The family were originally the Sequoias of Rome but changed their name to blend in

We certainly wouldn't stand for his sort up North - so his ancestors may have ben exiled (sent packing) at some point

To be fair it’s earlier than that, and it does incorporate two Old English words.

Jean de Rouge Bois!

No it isn’t. There is absolutely no evidence it’s the same name. And the de in the name means it is Norman. It does not appear as a prefix in Germanic languages.

He's proudly remembering his days as Welsh Secretary and is ready to stand with the Celts sgainst the Roman invader m.youtube.com/watch?v=JA1g...

Deport all Normans!!

William the Conqueror was no angel

France? Has he never heard of the treaty of Sain Clair sur Epte? Or fantasised inappropriately about Clive Standen in VIKINGS

I always thought he was stuck in the past

Particularly funny this close to the first major change to leasehold law in decades

A bit like the way the Zionists in Israel are behaving in Gaza and the West Bank, eh John?

Hutton the Wake

but what of the primitive English humans consumed by sabre tooth tigers on our shores a mere 800,000 years ago?

Good to see Mr #Redwood keeping up

V droll

Being historically pedantic this was not an invasion by the French who were at the time Guilliame of Normandy’s enemies.

A chippy colonial writes: not sure how hard I'd pull the "they had their lands stolen" thread, if I were English.

Strange to hear a right wing Tory bloviating on this front. I wonder how some of his aristocratic pals will take it. Presumably he's in favour of redistributing some of the property their ancestors stole?

I’d always assumed that the Tories took inspiration from the Harrying of the North

Heptarchy Gang RISE UP!

So how many Normans does it take to change a light bulb? None - they get an Anglo-Saxon to do it There, that’s my Norman Yoke

Jean Rougearbes.

Can't fault his history. But he is bonkers. Back to a 100 year war with France then.

He seems very certain that he's descended from one of those Angel or Saxon immigrants instead?

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.

If there isn’t a journalist currently going through his family tree to prove he has Norman ancestry I’ll be very disappointed

Great minds, etc.

Sure they were very bad in many ways, but Durham Cathedral absolutely rocks.

The @economist.com in a Christmas special piece said the England had never recovered from the North/South divide of the Norman conquests. So you’ve got company.

900+ year grudges are a guilty pleasure. If you go to the Commonwealth WW2 cemetery at Bayeux, the inscription there reads: "We, once conquered by William, have now liberated the Conqueror's native land".

I bet he still goes to see how many willies he can count on it.

Norman yoke eh? John worked with Messrs. Tebbit and Lamont, I thought he was fine with Norman overlords.

He used to be my local MP. Never to be seen. He didn’t even campaign during elections really as it was a safe seat.

I wonder how many Normans are in RessMogg's ancestry. Being numwrate, I'd hazard a guess at "lots to many".

Le Roi le veult!

Eggsit means Eggsit.

We need a proper system of reparations.My grandfather worked for the Raj so I owe Indians but my other grandfather was a Jewish Pole so Poles and Germans owe me.A great grandmother was Irish Catholic so I guess I owe me there.The balance so far is £12.6s.4d but we haven't started on the Normans yet.

Absolutely crazy. Are we now to define 'English' as 35 consecutive generations of Anglo Saxon blood? Barking mad

Redwood glossing over the 5th century somewhat

He should take up needlework.

Redwood always there to defend the rights of the previous generations to keep peasants in serfdom

I mean, has he done a DNA test ?

John Redwood knee-jerkingly blowing dog whistles without engaging his brain? That would be out of character...* *Caution - may contain sarcasm

When people say the poppy is to commemorate those who died in all wars, I guess they really mean *all wars*.

Was Labour in power?

Roman yoke --> Saxon yoke --> Norman yoke History is kinda just a series of yokes

I think that that Twin (Norman) Towers of Exeter Cathedral need to come down, for starters.

What about the Welsh, John?! How should we feel? Especially after your display during our national anthem… John’s is a complete and utter moron, and he’s a perfect example of how privilege can elevate someone to positions in life they never should have reached.

Ahem…cough…the enclosures…cough…

Sounds like treason to me.

Too soon.

Was he trying to make a point in that over-educated public schoolboy-who-doesn't-quite-get-jokes way, or is he actually bonkers now?

What’s Norman ever done to you? Poor chap…..😁

Careful, you could end up with egg on your face.

I blame Mesopotamians with their rules and inventions.

You are right, it is a bit more complicated - Roman genes never spread in England - 1066 Anglo-Saxon king and upper class spoke Old English with Germanic culture .Some had Viking roots - Common people had older Celtic genetic roots. Showing again that the churn was among the elite not commoners

Next: Reparations!

He doesn’t hold grudges does he 😂

Interestingly William the Conqueror abolished slavery in England which was widespread in the British Isles in 1066.

Ooh, no, but that sounds interesting! About rejoining the EU, you mean? I was actually commenting on the Bayeux Tapestry (which is embroidered) not really being a tapestry (which would instead require it to be woven on a loom).

The Bayou one was muddier.

Fully with Redwood on this - unsurprising he's close to getting ratio-ed by pro-Norman cucks on 'X'

We're only a small nudge away from "Only people who had their land stolen by the Normans are English and worthy of social housing and benefits." This doesn't go near far enough of course: if you don't look like cheddar man you or your ancestors probaby came on a small boat to the UK!

There's got to be a "bridge too far" meme about Stanford Bridge / Weather / Dead ground & Cavalry etc etc

Oh he surely would have done, but for people from the EEA (Norway) interfering. Poor old England at war on so many fronts.

Quite small boats at that

Surely Redwood is educated enough to know the Normans were not “the French”. 🤔 I’m hoping this is a fake post, otherwise my already low opinion of him will be even lower.

Hey ! ... No, actually you've got a point... Dudes landed on our shores like they own the place and blackmailed the then king of France with devastation unless gives a duchy... Vikings were plagues everywhere.

Indeed, I'd also call that resistance quite obvious.

"As we remember the end of the Anglo-Saxons, we should remember the thousands killed by this German invasion etc. etc."

All those hereditary earls & barons that Redwood now rubs shoulders with & worked so hard to protect in his HoC career were given their titles through hereditary lines dating back to being pals & fixers for William I

Rise up you Saxons.... our time is now

Læst we forgytan

Same bloke that thinks we should stop moaning about Brexit and get on with it?

The same serfdom that the Conservative party fought for so long to embed, preserve and resurrect? Has anyone told the Normans they're French?

Well that knocks Badenoch's "you can't talk about Thatcher, that's 40 years ago" out of the park.

I'm here north of York. Been waiting all my life for this. Let's fucking go!!

Who let him out? Matron....patient wondering about again

History had written them off, but the Saxon gentry were just waiting for their opportunity...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop...

We could start with the Duke of Westminster

So this is what Brexit was really about, restoring Anglo Saxon hegemony after 960 years …

He's right though. It is an embroidery.

Tell me this isn't real?! All of our aristocracy, our royalty, our parliament.. It's Norman.. what is re railing against?!

Out-MOPEd by an Englishman? Will Ireland ever recover from this shock? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhappy...

I’m a Pangea nationalist myself

We are all cursed!😆

They were Norman. Normandy didn’t become part of France until 1204. Calling them French is like describing Scandinavian settlers in the Danelaw as ‘English’.

How long do you have to live here to become British? Will almost 1,000 years qualify? I guess that forming a ruling class that spoke in French and often wrote in Latin might complicate the calculation?

Down with the lingua franca!

In 1066 the French stood idly by as small boats brought hoards of invaders to Kent. 1,000 years later nothing has changed.

Reparations for the 11th century saxon descendants Any discussion re the legacy of slavery from the 19th century.. Insert Drake Meme

Redwood? barf.

By English men and women he means Saxons that took the lives and lands of many Britons men and women, right ?