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.”
BREAKING: India FAKES moon landing. pic.twitter.com/nWp58rDwxG
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) August 23, 2023
Indians left no stone unturned to show the British the mirror.
Heartening to see Chandrayaan-3 providing Twitter monetisation opportunities to an entire generation of American/British Nazis.
ISRO says you’re welcome, @realstewpeters ♥️ pic.twitter.com/g1zhLCI14l
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) August 24, 2023
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”.
Being taken for a ride! #India lands on moon after taking £2.3bn in UK aid over five years #Chandrayaan-3https://t.co/wPGWlJGIf3 pic.twitter.com/4jdCB4Xtuz
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) August 23, 2023
In response, an X handle Citti Media which is an organisation vocal about Hindumisia reminded them about aid and presented facts.
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… https://t.co/kS1pedO8Sg
— Citti Media (@CittiMedia) August 23, 2023
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”.
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. pic.twitter.com/hmD7Vw367n— Alex Armstrong (@alexharmstrong) August 23, 2023
Indians gave them befitting responses to the baseless allegations made.
What’s better than a successful Indian space mission? Watching futureless British trash like this guy wail cluelessly about aid. More of this please 😂🤡 https://t.co/sr4bGQ6Gta
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) August 23, 2023
These Britishers really need to calm the hell down. If the world starts demanding their antiquities and artefacts back, all that would be left in the British Museum, rightfully so, is a painful memory of the pedophiles they worship. https://t.co/kmZWmpM9tW pic.twitter.com/L3QBfoefpn
— Nupur J Sharma (@UnSubtleDesi) August 23, 2023
Disagree – much British aid post 2016 was done to “facilitate engagement” in India post brexit. A lot of the institutional engagement capacity had been lost while Britain was in the EU. Building independent contact had to be done through aid. https://t.co/UTRFbf7DxV
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) August 23, 2023
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.
India Also India pic.twitter.com/RELtGFwRCq
— Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh) August 23, 2023
Indians responded by reminding her of her own home country whose economic condition was in a mess.
Pakistan Also Pakistan https://t.co/59ZwNFf3nW pic.twitter.com/0XeLoZaQnS
— Sunanda Roy 👑 (@SaffronSunanda) August 24, 2023
Low self esteem Brit-Pakis dont even realize they are using borrowed racism of British white racists to bash India. https://t.co/i0xp77GIF8
— the exDem and exRepub 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (@joysamcyborg) August 24, 2023
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.
Listen to what BBC had to say about #Chandrayaan3
– Should India which lacks in Infrastructure and has extreme poverty, Should they be spending this much amount of money on a space program pic.twitter.com/dz28aaaS1T
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) August 23, 2023
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?”
It is absolutely insane that we’re dishing out foreign aid to some of the world’s richest countries when we have people in need of charity here in Britain 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/SnhUU3zOjC
— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) August 23, 2023
Patrick probably wouldn’t be bothered to inquire about the source of funding for Meghan Markle’s dress.
The British tax payers paid for Markle's wedding. It was sickening to see her wearing an engagement dress costing £56K – more that some people could earn years. The grifter spent nearly £1M on clothes paid for by KC3 and sold them after to pocket the cash. https://t.co/4J2Nrg4dU7 pic.twitter.com/div1xM44gX
— Observer88 (@JR42845598) August 23, 2023
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.
There is enough proof available that British Govt gives this money to NGOs in India (not Govt of India) to spread missionary activities & spread western "agenda" in India.
It should also be noted that Indian Govt does not ask money from British Govt. They themselves offer it… pic.twitter.com/47oBmqNYnu
— Incognito (@Incognito_qfs) August 24, 2023
Another handle on X, reminded Patrick about a piece of history that Patrick either knows about or prefers not to dig deep into.
Whilst indignation has a place, @PatrickChristys .. how about outraging over British Govt doctors feeding plutonium & radioactive chappatis to Indian Sikh women … ?https://t.co/Gqsx2j4FFY Britain's moral debt to India can never be paid, nor its hate justified. Humility ? https://t.co/tbAgMBd5fe
— Pt Satish K Sharma MBCS FRSA (@thebritishhindu) August 24, 2023
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.”
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.
— Sophie Corcoran (@sophielouisecc) August 23, 2023
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.”
Watch as Britain pays for India to attempt to land on the moon. https://t.co/NHPgzrqJ2v pic.twitter.com/1JTs9ugbke
— Carl Benjamin (@Sargon_of_Akkad) August 23, 2023
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.”
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. https://t.co/EJUUnGzt21
— Carl Benjamin (@Sargon_of_Akkad) August 24, 2023
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 bhai from Pakistan has a reply for BBC and Brits over the Chandrayaan meltdown. 😂 pic.twitter.com/8lDi4mmYgH
— Hardik Rajgor (@Hardism) August 24, 2023
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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