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Epic Meltdown Of Britons & British Media On The Successful Soft Landing Of Chandrayaan-3

August 24, 2023
The Commune

As Indians rejoiced and celebrated the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander on the South Pole of the moon, Britons were found to be whining. Why one wonders? You may question whether it’s driven by jealousy or a reluctance to acknowledge that a former colony, which has now surpassed them in terms of economic growth, has achieved a significant milestone in space exploration, in this case, on the moon where no one has been successful with?

Here are some of those epic meltdowns and reactions to those meltdowns:

Host of The Stew Peters Show, Stew Peters, shared a tweet on X today. It said, “BREAKING: India FAKES moon landing.”

Indians left no stone unturned to show the British the mirror. 

Now we are not sure if this is a sarcastic tweet or if he was expressing his anger and jealousy through it. Okay, over to the next one.

A British tabloid, Express, went overboard to claim that the British were being taken “for a ride”.

In response, an X handle Citti Media which is an organisation vocal about Hindumisia reminded them about aid and presented facts.

They asked 5 questions to the tabloid, “A country which looted $45 trillion from India does not trade in the currency of ‘aid’. And hysterical tabloids which mislead readers don’t seem to trade in the currency of facts or data. So here are some (facts + data), along with 5 questions, for The Daily Express:

Question 1. Why haven’t you explained this to your readers? – India refused your aid many years ago; – Former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee gave Britain one condition in exchange for accepting continued “aid” from Britain (& this was c. 2 decades ago) – that India would donate the same sum back to Britain as aid + £1. In other words, India told Britain to “take a walk.”; – A few years later, Former Finance Minister – later President of India, Pranab Mukherjee publicly stated that British aid was not actually ‘aid’, that it was peanuts anyway, & that it was not wanted nor asked for by India; – £1bn of the ‘aid’ you refer to in your headline is actually in the form of investments through BII to advance British commercial & foreign policy interests in India; – £749m is to international and multilateral organisations to advance British interests in India; – The rest is also seen by many as ‘incentives & facilitation’ to advance British commercial & foreign policy interests in India. It is Britain that keeps pushing this ‘incentive programme’ to various ‘intermediaries’ in India, & then dressing it up as ‘aid’. Former British International Development Minister, Andrew Mitchell has even admitted, on record, that ‘aid’ was used as an ‘incentive’ for India to buy the Eurofighter. [We ended up buying the Rafale, by the way – a safer bet on many fronts].

Question 2. Why have you added a photo of Rishi Sunak for the (hysterical + misleading) headline below about India’s moon landing? Dog whistling?

Question 3. When was the last time you wrote about the $45 trillion Britain looted from India + started a conversation with your readers on how best to make reparations to India?

Question 4. When was the last time you told your readers that Britain’s GDP was circa 0% – that’s right, c. 0% – of world GDP before the colonial era, whereas India’s was up to c. 33%?

Question 5. And finally, why, for a handle which has c. 1 million followers, do you hardly have any reposts and likes on so many of your posts? Are your followers fake / purchased? Even small independent media firms like us have far more numerical – let alone relative engagement than you. Namaste from India. Keep an eye out for our mission to the sun, which comes next. “

Alex Armstrong, a political commentator tweeted, “India have landed on the Moon. £2.3 billion in UK aid went to India between 2016 and 2021. We don’t live in a serious country”. 

Indians gave them befitting responses to the baseless allegations made.

 

 

Bushra Shaikh, a Pakistani-British national and founder of “Run Racism Out” tweeted a couple of pictures comparing the landing on the moon on one image with poor people on the other as if echoing the other Britons.

Indians responded by reminding her of her own home country whose economic condition was in a mess. 

A old video clipping of a BBC interview. the BBC anchor asks “Should India which lacks in Infrastructure and has extreme poverty, Should they be spending this much amount of money on a space program”. In the video, the anchor can be seen inquiring whether India’s substantial expenditure on its space program is justified, given the prevailing poverty in the country. Furthermore, he pointed out that a significant portion of India’s population, exceeding 700 million individuals, lacks access to basic sanitation facilities. Although this video is an old one, it definitely reflects the current mindset of the British. 

Patrick Christys, a presenter on the GBNews channel had an epic meltdown on camera. While he started his monologue by congratulating India on the mission’s success, he added, “I would like to invite India to return the 2.3 billion pounds of foreign aid money we sent them between 2016 and 2021. We are also set to give them 57 million pounds next year but I think the British taxpayer should keep hold of that, don’t you? we should not be giving money to countries that have a space programme as a rule. if you can afford to fire a rocket to the dark side of the moon, you shouldn’t be coming to us with your hand out. India reportedly has 229 million people living in poverty, according to the UN, it is the highest number anywhere in the world. it is also the 5th largest economy in the world with an annual GDP of around 3.75 trillion dollars. Why are we paying to help poverty-stricken Indians when their own government wont bother?” 

Patrick probably wouldn’t be bothered to inquire about the source of funding for Meghan Markle’s dress.

In response to Patrick’s meltdown on the “funding”, netizens replied that the money that was being given to India was not going directly to the government but in fact, going to NGOs.

Another handle on X, reminded Patrick about a piece of history that Patrick either knows about or prefers not to dig deep into.

Another reality TV personality and political presenter, Sophie Corcoran posted on the same lines as Patrick and many others, “India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon so why did we send them £33.4 million in foreign aid which is set to rise to £57 million in 24/25 Time we get our money back.”

 

In another tweet by a handle that goes by the name Carl Benjamin (based on his bio, it seems he runs a YouTube channel/podcast on LotusEaters.com) posted, “Watch as Britain pays for India to attempt to land on the moon.” 

Another X handle responded to this tweet with a meme which implied that a British museum comprised of stolen artifacts. Carl Benjamin replied to it saying, “We dug that stuff out of the ground after we conquered you. Then, for some reason, we lost confidence in ourselves after being on the winning side in the largest war in history, then we invented the internet so you could make feminine posts about how much you need our money.”

That was a compilation of some of the meltdowns we saw on X after the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3.

A surprise response to these meltdowns came from a Pakistani in the form of this video. Here we see Rizwan Haider, a sports journalist (as per his YouTube channel) speaks with Mohsin Ali on the reactions of the British.

Mohsin Ali says, “I watched that BBC video and the journalist asks, is it fair, so many million people living under poverty. They do not have bathroom, so are they Indians “doing bathroom” in your face? Are they coming to your house if they want to use a toilet? Ali goes on to question the anchor and says, you dont have even a bit of courage to appreciate them, you just talk. If Great Britain is having an issue with this (Chandrayaan-3 landing), if their official mouthpiece, BBC is having a problem with it, there is a special reason for it. The whites are upset that we kept these people (Indians) as slaves for centuries and they overtook them in just 70-odd years and they have gone behind! They are just jealous, send them Burnol and flowers”

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