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Este señor no es ningún comunista, es un republicano pedófilo que gobierna en el país más poderoso del mundo.
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🚨 PANIC IN DOWNING STREET AS ANDY BURNHAM FORCED TO OPEN SECRET UAE FILES!
Days after I exposed Burnham acting as an unpaid defense lawyer for Man City, the Prime Minister has officially hit the panic button haha.
Faced with overwhelming public backlash, Burnham has surrendered and announced he will publish his private meeting logs with the club billionaire Emirati owners.
He rushed onto a podcast desperately trying to get ahead of the scandal, claiming he only had one significant meeting back in 2021 and that his mind was on other things when he defended the club on national television.
What an insulting, pathetic excuse from the man supposedly leading Great Britain.
Burnham conveniently failed to mention that he personally chaired the authority meetings that handed 55 million pounds in taxpayer loans to Jersey property companies owned by Sheikh Mansour.
He wants the public to believe football rules and foreign investments are totally separate, yet his local administration used public money to buy up land specifically for Abu Dhabi developers.
The Prime Minister is only agreeing to publish these records because he was caught red handed using his political office to shield foreign oligarchs while taxing British workers into the dirt.
I want every single unredacted diary entry, text message, and private meeting note released to the British public immediately without Whitehall censorship.
Retweet this right now to demand total transparency before Downing Street scrubs the files. 🇬🇧🔥
No worries losing 3-0 in Brighton.
1970 -1971 Arsenal Double season Arsenal lost 5-0 away to Stoke City and still won the league. #arsenal
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🚨JUST IN: Yaya Touré on the Manchester City of been find guilty of the 115 charges
🗣️Yaya Touré “Honestly, I think people are afraid to speak about Manchester City because of everything Pep Guardiola has achieved there.
“But football is bigger than Pep, bigger than Manchester City, and bigger than any trophy.
“If the club is found guilty, they must face the consequences.
“I don’t care how many Premier League titles they have won or how much money they have spent.
“Why should Everton face punishment while Manchester City are treated like a special case?
“For me, if the evidence proves serious breaches, relegation to League One should not be off the table.
“You cannot punish smaller clubs and then make excuses when a big club faces the same questions.
“And Pep Guardiola must stop acting as if questioning Manchester City is an attack on football itself.
“Nobody is bigger than the rules.
“If another club had been accused of this many breaches, do you honestly believe we would still be having this conversation years later? That’s the question Manchester City fans need to answer.”
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🚨 EXPOSED: ANDY BURNHAM HANDED 55 MILLION POUNDS OF TAXPAYER CASH TO MAN CITY OWNERS!
Remember when Burnham panicked on national television last month to fiercely defend Manchester City against Premier League financial cheating charges?
Now I have the official paper trail explaining exactly why he acts like a dedicated public relations agent for the United Arab Emirates!
Official records prove that during his time as mayor, Burnham personally chaired the meetings that handed 55 million pounds in taxpayer loans to Jersey based property companies ultimately controlled by Man City owner Sheikh Mansour.
This cash was drained straight out of a 300 million pound state housing fund supposedly reserved for struggling local developers.
Instead of helping British builders construct homes, Burnham rubber stamped a massive taxpayer loan for the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates!
Sheikh Mansour is one of the richest men on the planet and could secure private corporate finance in thirty seconds.
Yet Burnham gave a foreign billionaire preferential access to a public cash machine funded entirely by your hard earned wages!!!!!
Labour politicians are bleeding the domestic working class dry with brutal taxes while secretly operating a VIP fast lane for Middle Eastern royalty.
Retweet this investigation immediately to expose Andy Burnham and demand a full parliamentary inquiry into this Man City money scandal. 🇬🇧🔥
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🚨 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: LUCY POWELL CAUGHT TAKING THOUSANDS FROM THE UAE GOVERNMENT!
Just in case you missed the latest Gulf money scandal taking over Downing Street, let me expose the latest politician caught in the web.
Education Secretary Lucy Powell pocketed 3,500 pounds in luxury hospitality paid directly by the United Arab Emirates government.
She also happily accepted free tickets on five separate occasions from Manchester City, the exact same football club Burnham protects from financial cheating charges.
Labour elites are raking in luxury foreign freebies while forcing brutal tax hikes onto working class families.
Retweet this immediately to expose the corrupt influence ring operating right inside the Burnham cabinet. 🇬🇧🔥
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"Get lost! How dare you ruin what's part of our country, our DNA in this country."
Ian Holloway had some very strong words when asked about the Man City charges.
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🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Premier League clubs are demanding that Manchester City be RELEGATED
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City nominated two of three panel judges at CAS in 2020. This is a fact. UEFA let them. Also a fact. It was and is a highly unusual move by UEFA. Astonishingly, so many City fans don't believe City were allowed to pick 2/3 judges in that case. 🤷
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The Labour government is lying to you.
A border officer at Manchester Airport says there is a corner of the airfield he can see and is banned from entering. Flights in between 2am and 4am. Three or four a week. Transponders off. Special call sign. Cleared to land.
Not screened by Border Force. Met by Home Office staff. Onto unmarked buses. Out a side gate. 200 to 300 people a flight, from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
That is not a leak. That is the government flying people in while telling you the border is under control. Illegal immigrants, delivered by the same people who swore they would stop the boats.
They are not failing. They are doing it. And they are lying to the British people about it.
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🚨🔵🛑Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Manchester City financial breaches allegations.👀
🗣️Ratcliffe: "Let’s call a spade a spade, shall we? You look across town and you see this glittering empire, but the foundation is built on absolute financial fiction. We at Manchester United, for all our recent faults and boardroom incompetence over the last decade, generate our revenue because half the globe genuinely cares about the badge."
🗣️"City claim to have out-earned Real Madrid and United commercially, yet they play in a stadium they can barely fill for a Champions League knockout tie. It’s an insult to the intelligence of every football fan in the country."
🗣️"If you run a petrochemical company and cook the books to artificially bankrupt your competitors, the government steps in and people go to prison. In football, apparently, you just get to hire a fleet of lawyers and parade around on an open-top bus for ten years."
🗣️"The Premier League has to stop tiptoeing around this issue like a frightened child facing a state-backed bully."
🗣️"If those 115 charges are proven and frankly, the sheer volume of smoke tells you exactly where the fire is a Nine Hundred-million-pounds fine or a temporary points deduction is a sick joke."
🗣️"You don't dock points. You strip the titles, you wipe the records, and you send them down to the National League where they can learn to balance a legitimate ledger against Halifax Town. Anything less is a permanent, terminal stain on the integrity of English football."
🗣️"I, for one, am entirely finished pretending their 'treble' wasn't bought on credit they never legally possessed."
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There is no evidence Sir Jim Ratcliffe said this. No credible interview, video, transcript or reputable report attributes these quotes to him, including the claims about relegating City to the National League.
Source: Reuters
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1. “We didn’t cheat.”
2. “And if we cheated, it wasn’t that bad.”
3. “And if it was, cheating didn’t make much difference.”
4. “And if it did, everyone else was cheating.”
5. “And if they weren’t cheating, the rules were unfair anyway.”
6. “And even if we cheated, you only care because we beat you.”
7. “And if we beat you, we beat you on the field.”
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🚨🗣️ Matthew Syed (English journalist) went HARD against Pep Guardiola about Manchester City's case:
"Either Pep knew about it—in which case he is neither a visionary nor a legend, just a fraud—or he didn't know, making him incredibly shortsighted."
"I mean, I’m no forensic accountant, yet I’ve been questioning City’s financial arrangements for over a decade, despite facing constant insults and threats. And Pep didn't see a thing? Is he blind?"
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‘None of Manchester Life’s homes are affordable, and the developer does not pay any subsidies for local amenities, known as section 106 payments.
‘Rivals say the partnership has created an uneven playing field for developing the lucrative east Manchester corridor next to the Etihad. “This is a sweetheart deal between the council and Abu Dhabi,” said one. “They get the land without any fair competition process, they can build apartment blocks, and when the blocks start earning millions the council gets no rental income. They don’t even have to make section 106 payments, like lots of other developers. The whole thing stinks.”
‘Manchester Life was launched with a promise “to rebalance the relationship between landlord and tenant to one of equals”. Just a year after the opening of a rental apartment block in Smiths Yard, residents received section 21 eviction notices. These allow landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason, even if the rent has been paid on time and the property kept in good condition.’
thetimes.com/business/articl…
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Back in 2014, there was a man who was already aware of the irregularities involving Manchester City. That man now runs FIFA. The infamous Gianni Infantino, then UEFA General Secretary, abused his authority, shared confidential documents and, in short, outmanoeuvred the Investigatory Chamber, doing everything in his power to ensure that both Manchester City and PSG would merely receive a fine, avoiding a deeper investigation that could have led to a Champions League ban. All of these details were also revealed through Football Leaks.
Given his actions as UEFA General Secretary and, more recently, as FIFA President, I can only say, in my humble opinion, that Gianni Infantino has become a cancer on football and should have no place in the future of the game.
