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Conservative member for now, love Europe hate EU. Views are my own, if you donโ€™t like them move on. Retweets not an endorsement.

Berkshire.
Joined March 2009
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Another one likely swept under the carpet too.
Must retweet of the day - Burnham in major scandal! TWO TIER JUSTICE AND LABOUR COVER UP Tommy Robinson has hired investigators to find out things about journalists. He has been prosecuted for harassment. Josh Simons, Labour MP and senior Keir Starmer No10 advisor, ran an illegal investigations and MI5 like data gathering, from inside No 10, to gather private and personal data about journalists to be used to coerce and blackmail them into being nice about Labour. Labour set the spy operation up to spy on journo's and find embarrassing things about them to blackmail them with. Josh Simons, Labor MP resigned in shame from No10 to evade a parliamentary and ICO investigation that could have led to CRIMINAL prosecution for SERIOUS GDPR/Data Protection offences. Starmer denied all knowledge. Josh Simons, then MP for Makerfield, latter resigned as an MP to open the door for Andrew Burnham. Josh Simons is now back on twice an MPs salary as a special political advisor to guess who, ANDREW BURNHAM, in No 10!
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Well, well, well, Narinda the bully
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Replying to @narindertweets
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๐Ÿ”ฅHonestly โ€ฆ I didnโ€™t think anything could be worse for citizens than Starmer. I was wrong โ€ฆ Burnham is an utter disaster. I hope you all know that ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Replying to @NormanBrennan
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Ann Widdiecombe was murdered 20 days ago. The mainstream media seems to have forgotten, and wants us to forget too. I haven't forgotten and will never forget.
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The organisation that probably contributed to Ann Widecomes murder, hate not hope, are now advising this government, @andyburnham already youโ€™re worse than starmer, I didnโ€™t think that was possible, weโ€™ve now got murder instigators in government, everyone can see it
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It just gets worse.
๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: UNELECTED JUDGE USES ECHR TO FORCE THE UK TO ACCEPT 18 FOREIGN MIGRANTS WITH NO ENGLISH OR HOUSING. Let me ask you a very serious question. How on earth is our country supposed to have secure borders when a single activist judge can bypass the law and invite an entire extended family into Britain? โ“ Immigration Judge Gemma Loughran has just ruled that 18 members of an extended Gazan family have a "right to family life" in the UK under the European Convention on Human Rights. ๐Ÿคก We are talking about parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws, and nieces! Most of the adults do not speak a single word of English, and the sponsor here does not even have the physical housing to accommodate them. To make this an absolute comedy, this is the exact same judge who previously ruled that a fully-grown, bearded adult asylum seeker was actually a child! While your local communities are stretched to breaking point, the unelected judiciary is using foreign treaties to hand out residency like confetti. Worse, the court has granted the entire family total anonymity so you are not even allowed to know who is entering your country. It is a complete civilisational betrayal, and we are completely powerless to stop it under this rigged uniparty system. RT to expose this broken judicial circus and demand we leave the ECHR immediately! ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Ann Widdicombe's name must be put on the wall in the House of Parliement alongside the other two MPs Joe Cox and David Amess who were also murdered. Repost this if you agree.
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But, but, but that's Liebour so it's ok.
Dale Vince donated ยฃ5 million to the Labour Party. His energy companies then received ยฃ123 million in subsidies. Funny that isnโ€™t it!? I donโ€™t remember Sky News camping outside his or his familyโ€™s house.
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Quite the charmer, not. Typical Liebour imbecile.
THE DOSSIER #21: Lisa Eva Nandy โ€“ The Chameleon Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | MP for Wigan since 2010 | The woman who would be Prime Minister. Born 1979. Manchester. Your grandfather Frank Byers sat in the Lords as a Liberal. Your father Dipak Nandy founded the Runnymede Trust. The Marxist academic. The refugee who built an empire of grievance. You learned well. You learned to weaponize identity. You learned to monetize victimhood. Newcastle University. Birkbeck, London. The elite's finishing school. Then the charity sector. The Children's Society. Centrepoint. The poverty industry. You have never worked outside politics. Not one day. Not one hour in the real world. Your affiliations tell the story. Fabian Society. Labour Friends of Palestine. You were Chair. You chaired Palestine solidarity while taking Israel lobby money. Labour Friends of Israel. Jewish Labour Movement. LGBT+ Labour. You signed the pledge to expel feminists. GMB. Unite. The union block votes. The Centre for Towns. Your dissolved think tank. Your funding black hole. You collect causes. You discard them. You are a member of everything and loyal to nothing. Councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham. MP for Wigan 2010. A safe seat in a leave-voting town. You ignored them. You ignored Brexit. You ignored the working class. You founded Centre for Towns. A Community Interest Company. Co-founded in a pub. Dissolved in secrecy. Where did the money go? Who funded your think tank? The transparency was zero. The questions remain. You ran for Labour leader in 2020. Finished third. Behind Keir Starmer. Behind Rebecca Long-Bailey. The also-ran. The perpetual candidate. You took ยฃ77,000 in donations. ยฃ2,900 from David Kogan. You forgot to declare it. You forgot until it mattered. Until you made him Chair of the Independent Football Regulator. Three breaches of the Governance Code. Sir William Shawcross confirmed your corruption. You apologized. Starmer accepted your "unknowing" error. You knew. You always know. You called yourself a Zionist. February 2020. At the Labour Friends of Israel hustings. "I am a Zionist." You said it proudly. You were Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine. You took money from the Israel lobby. ยฃ52,000. You sold the Palestinians. You sold your principles. You sold everything. You signed the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights pledge. You called Woman's Place UK a "trans-exclusionist hate group." You wanted them expelled. You wanted feminists purged. Then came the prison question. The 2020 hustings. Should violent male rapists who transition serve sentences in women's prisons? Your answer: "I believe that trans women are women... they should serve that sentence in the prison that is appropriate for the gender that they identify with." Rapists in women's prisons. You said it. You meant it. JK Rowling named you. "One of the biggest reasons many women on the Left no longer trust Labour." You endangered women. You dismissed biology. You sacrificed safety for ideology. You have never retracted it. You have never apologized. You took clothing loans from luxury PR firms. The 223 Agency. Free dresses. Free suits. Then you told the BBC you "never" accept free clothing. You lied. You always lie. You quit X in July 2026. You and your entire department. You called it "abuse and misinformation." You called it protecting democracy. You ran. You censored yourself. You couldn't handle the criticism. The Culture Secretary who cannot handle culture. The Media Secretary who abandoned media. The coward's exit. You called Reform "fascist." Behind closed doors. At Political Cabinet. Then you ran from the platform where they could answer. You smear and you flee. You slander and you hide. You backed Owen Smith against Corbyn. The soft left. The opportunist. The wind vane. You attack Wes Streeting. You attack your own. You have no loyalty. You have no principles. You have only position. Only advancement. Only Lisa. You are not a leader. You are a liability. You are not the future of Labour. You are its contradiction. The Zionist chair of Palestine Friends. The feminist who houses rapists with women. The transparency advocate with the secret think tank. The ethics minister with the undeclared donations. Your career is a study in expediency. Your reputation is ash. Your conscience is a void. Your ambition is grotesque. Your betrayal of Britain is complete. Congratulations. You are The Dossier.
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An engineered by election to accommodate him. No process to elect him party leader. No questions allowed from journalists. No parliamentary scrutiny until September. Something is very,very wrong about the installation of Burnham as our PM.
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THE DOSSIER #19: Emily Thornberry โ€“ The Sneer of Islington Born Guildford 1960. Your father abandoned you at seven. Council estate poverty. Then the University of Kent. Gray's Inn. The barrister's escape route. You learned the law. You never learned humility. Fabian Society member. Keynote speaker at their conferences in 2019, 2024, 2025. The same society that has shaped Labour's gradualist betrayal of the working class for over a century. Labour Campaign for Human Rights patron. Chatham House speaker. Vice Chair of the APPG on Sexual and Reproductive Health. National Security Strategy Committee. Liaison Committee. All the right credentials. All the wrong people. Barrister at Tooks Chambers. Human rights law. Michael Mansfield's protege. You took the pay cut to become MP for Islington South and Finsbury in 2005. You have represented that constituency for twenty years. It remains one of London's most deprived. Your property portfolio is worth ยฃ4.6 million. You campaigned for social housing. You introduced the Housing Association Bill to "empower tenants." Then you purchased a housing association property at auction. ยฃ572,000. A Georgian townhouse in Clerkenwell. You rented it to private tenants. Reportedly to your own parliamentary researcher. You sold it for profit. "Labour's queen of hypocrisy." You earned the title. The White Van Man. November 2014. Rochester and Strood by-election. You photographed a house. Three England flags in the windows. A white Ford Transit on the drive. You tweeted it. No words needed. Your sneer was the caption. Dan Ware. A cage fighter. He had "not got a clue" who you were. He called you a "snob." Ed Miliband was "furious." You resigned as Shadow Attorney General within hours. You claimed you had "never seen anything like it." Working-class patriotism. Unfamiliar territory. You altered an Electoral Commission press release in 2006. Inserted your own quote. Made it appear official. The Standards Commissioner found your actions "unwise and unfortunate." You faced no sanction. You never do. Caroline Flint called you out in 2019. Alleged you called Brexit voters "stupid." You threatened defamation proceedings. Gave her hours to retract. Instructed solicitors. Talked tough to Sky News: "They can't make up shit about me." Then you abandoned the case. Empty threats. Your trademark. You married Sir Christopher Nugee. Lord Justice of Appeal. Boris Johnson called you "Lady Nugee" in Parliament. The Speaker intervened. Called it "sexist." You reject the title publicly. You prefer the pretence of ordinariness. While living on Richmond Crescent. Same street as Tony Blair. Same day you both moved in. Your four-storey Victorian townhouse. ยฃ2.9 million. Plus the Guildford flat. Rental income over ยฃ10,000 a year. Working-class credentials. Pure theatre. You wanted to be Labour leader in 2020. You considered it. You did not stand. You knew. You served Corbyn. You serve Starmer. You expected to be Attorney General. The real one. Not shadow. Starmer appointed Richard Hermer instead. You were "shocked and disappointed." The snub was public. The message was clear. Even your own party doubts you. Now you chair the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Leading the "Scandelson" inquiry into Mandelson. Aggressive oversight. The irony is geological. You who altered official documents. You who abandoned legal threats when challenged. You now sit in judgment. They made you Dame Commander in 2025. DBE. For political service. The honour sits on your shoulders like a shroud. The working-class girl from the council estate who sneered at the England flag. Who profited from housing association property while preaching socialism. Who threatens lawsuits then runs. Who lives in ยฃ2.9 million splendour while her constituents queue for food banks. You are not a champion of the people. You are a cautionary tale. The champagne socialist who forgot which glass was hers. Your White Van Man tweet defines you. Your housing hypocrisy buries you. Your Damehood is mockery. You have no credibility. No authenticity. No political future worth speaking of. You gambled that class betrayal could be dressed in progressive language. You lost. Your reputation is ash. Your conscience is a void. Your Damehood is groresque. Your career is a study in elite condescension. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete. Permanent exile from public trust awaits. Congratulations. You are The Dossier.
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๐Ÿšจ I've listened to Andy Burnham's 10 year speech, where he looks Britain's new saviour in Zelenski uniform, bragging about what a success Greater Manchester is with my mouth open. You would be forgiven for thinking Greater Manchester was close to perfect, an example to everyone of how his fantastic policies have worked. Does he seriously think most of Greater Manchester is a success? or that he contributed to a shiny business sector, 2 world class football teams and the largest Uni in the country? because outside that... โ–ช๏ธNearly 1 in 4 GM neighbourhoods are in the most deprived 10% nationally. โ–ช๏ธHalf of GMโ€™s local authority areas are among Englandโ€™s 30 most deprived. โ–ช๏ธManchester city is ranked 4th most deprived English local authorities. โ–ช๏ธIn 2024, 16.2% of jobs in Greater Manchester workplaces paid below the real Living Wage = 193,000 low-paid jobs. โ–ช๏ธTemporary accommodation is around 5,915 households, with 8,600 children in temporary accommodation. โ–ช๏ธAround 12,700 long-term empty homes were identified across the city-region. โ–ช๏ธ4 of the 10 highest recorded crime local authorities in England are in Greater Manchester โ–ช๏ธEducational achievements are below national average โ–ช๏ธManchester city area above national unemployment levels โ–ช๏ธ1 in 8 working age people get PIP, above the national average โ–ช๏ธThe GM area has a lower household disposable income than the national average โ–ช๏ธ34% increase in rough sleeping โ–ช๏ธViolent crime and sexual offences are above the national average. โ–ช๏ธgrooming gangs? or is we still ignoring these? โ–ช๏ธDrug-related death rates in Greater Manchester are significantly above the national average Oh and now lets talk about debt. Bravo Andy... to achieve some of the highest deprivation in the country under his leadership, GMCA now has about ยฃ1.4 BILLION of gross debt and an underlying borrowing need of roughly ยฃ2.5 BILLION. So his speech on "Hopes and dreams" is actually more like 'No hope and nightmares', his leafy suburbs and shiny city buildings can't really hide the truth. You're welcome.
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One must admire the tenacity of Miss Phillipson. Raised in Tyne and Wear between a disused railway and a flattened chemical plant, she has evidently decided that her childhood hardships constitute a permanent shield against arithmetic. How quaint. Miss Phillipson promised 6,500 teachers, funded by her spiteful little VAT raid on private schools. She has delivered, by her own creative accounting, 4,654. One might almost congratulate her, were one not possessed of a calculator and the ability to read footnotes. The 4,654 includes further education lecturers and special school staff. The actual increase in secondary teachers? Nine hundred and seventy-eight. Not 6,500. Not close. She has not moved goalposts; she has relocated the entire pitch to another sport. Meanwhile, the National Education Union reports that zero percent of her profession considers her work "very good." Seventy-four percent consider it poor. One imagines even the flattened chemical plant of her youth achieved higher approval ratings. The private school VAT has displaced thousands of children, damaged the sector, and produced precisely the opposite of her stated intent. But then, one does not become Education Secretary to educate. One becomes Education Secretary to settle scores dressed as social justice. Miss Phillipson did not escape poverty to improve schools. She escaped to become precisely the sort of politician who uses her past as immunity from scrutiny while dismantling the ladders she climbed. VERDICT: Statistical fraud in working-class costume. A revolutionary who destroys the ladder, then charges admission to view the wreckage.
Despite what you've heard this week, we're delivering on our manifesto with over 4,600 teachers recruited into where we need them most โ€“ secondaries, special schools and colleges. That's alongside more teachers in training, more rejoining and more staying in our schools.
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Do you agree ๐Ÿ‘
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The Mayor. The Contract. The Wife. The Questions Andy Burnham Has Never Been Asked. Andy Burnham spent eight years as Mayor of Greater Manchester championing the Bee Network, his flagship public transport project combining buses, trams and electric vehicle infrastructure under a single integrated system. He has described it repeatedly as the model for how Britain should run its public services. He is now seeking to become Prime Minister and implement that model nationally. His wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it. Marie-France van Heel, known as Frankie, is a director of Be.EV, the Manchester based electric vehicle charging network backed by Octopus Energy Generation. Be.EV holds a contract with Transport for Greater Manchester, the body that delivers Burnham's transport policies, to operate and maintain TfGM's public EV charging network. That contract was awarded in 2019. The terms of the arrangement are not secret. Burnham declares his wife's role in his register of mayoral interests. He formally steps back from decisions relating to her firm. Those are the facts of compliance. They are not the end of the story. It is worth noting what the Bee Network actually delivers in practice. Bus patronage is up and fares have been simplified. But passenger reviews consistently describe ghost buses, unreliable timetables and school services that were horrifically late following the January 2025 rollout. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains an estimated twenty two years behind London. The model he is proposing to implement nationally still needs years of improvement to reach the standard he has promised. But the timeline is where the questions begin. Frankie joined Be.EV as chief marketing officer in July 2023, six years into Burnham's mayoralty and with the Bee Network already his flagship policy achievement. She became chief customer officer in July 2024 and was appointed to the board of directors in September 2024, as Burnham's mayoralty entered its final phase and his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible. She did not join a company that happened to hold a public contract. She joined a company whose entire commercial proposition in Greater Manchester rested on a contract with the authority her husband chaired, in a policy area he had personally championed for six years. Her role deepened as his power grew. That is the timeline. Draw your own conclusions. This sits alongside a pattern documented across multiple stories. ยฃ578 million in public money lent to developer Daren Whitaker of Renaker, whose personal fortune grew from ยฃ140 million to ยฃ698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. A tribunal finding that adequate due diligence was not conducted before that lending. Luxury towers built with public money marketed to Chinese investors in Hong Kong. A confidential bilingual letter praising China's Covid response sent to the Mayor of Tianjin. A Court of Appeal hearing on ยฃ140 million of those loans with judgment reserved. And now a board directorship held by Burnham's wife at a company whose public contract flows from the transport authority he chaired. Each element has an explanation. Interests are declared. Processes are followed. Steps are taken back. That is the language of compliance. It is not the language of scrutiny. And it is scrutiny, not compliance, that the office of Prime Minister demands. Burnham is no longer Mayor. He is an MP and a declared leadership challenger seeking the highest office in the land. The question is not whether he followed the rules. The question is whether the full picture of his eight year mayoralty, who benefited, and under what circumstances, has ever been examined with the rigour that entails. It has not. It should be. The public deserves to know before he reaches Downing Street, not after. "[Burnham's] wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it."
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๐Ÿšจ THE ULTIMATE INSULT TO EVERYDAY BRITS. Good morning, it is Friday morning, and millions of everyday Brits are waking up to a system that treats your safety like a sick joke. We all heard that Starmer plans to abolish mandatory life sentences for murderers. ๐Ÿคก Imagine standing in court, grieving your child, while a judge gives a killer a soft-touch sentence because they claimed they "only intended to injure." They want to create a "murder-lite" category for the very monsters who ruin families' lives forever. ๐Ÿ’ท Yet if you post the wrong opinion on X, Starmer will deploy the full force of the law and lock you up! They protect the elite and police your phone, but they completely refuse to protect your family from violent criminals. RT if you stand with the victims' families and want this corrupt circus gone! ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Corrupt Liebour doing what it does best, changing the rules to suit themselves, to win by any means possible. Legally or otherwise.
When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did. There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night. Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down. The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed. The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access. Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes. This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway. Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession. The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that. "Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."
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