@SamHat

Working mother in construction, and also partial to a blueberry muffin & a glass of red wine.

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Joined February 2009
Samantha Hathaway retweeted
“The fasten seat belts sign is on”. This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years. 10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month. 30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high. Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown. At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill. Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout). The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances. Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric …. I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024. Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists. I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings. The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more … Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private … Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Does anyone remember before the election, when Labour promised they would be careful with our money? They promised us they had fiscal rules. They promised no return to huge borrowing. They promised our kids wouldn't inherit this huge debt. Let's see how that's going...
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What is the economic impact of immigrants in Europe? Do they pay more taxes or receive more welfare? There's very little data, but this is ALL I could find across the EU: 1. NETHERLANDS It has the best data While a Nordic immigrant contributes >€200k, a Somalian costs >€600k
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Hello @andyburnham - watch my show 9-11pm @GBNEWS. Our country is being invaded and your mates in France are complicit in that invasion.
🚨 9-11pm @GBNEWS - Proof that the French are helping with the invasion of Britain
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Lots of people discuss immigration & crime in Europe, so I compiled what I think is ALL the data on the topic, which is hard because many countries hide it. Do they commit more crime? Is it because of age? Sex? Education? Poverty? Culture? 1. Sexual offenses & violent crime:
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Curious that both @BBCNews and @SkyNews are reporting @reformparty_uk party conference as an insurgence this morning, bit extreme! @GBNEWS 🤯
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Labour’s business rates ‘review’ is too little, too late. They’ve hiked taxes, watched businesses struggle, and announced a review that will do nothing until 2029! Conservatives would abolish business rates now for tens of thousands of retail, hospitality and leisure firms.
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Comments turned off, I wonder why. Any other small businesses out there care to fill in what would actually be successful in unlocking investment, growth and local jobs! Business rates? Employers NI? Energy costs? @aliciakearns @KemiBadenoch @MelJStride @griffitha
🛍️ Independent businesses should not be held back by unfair fixed costs. Fairer rates would unlock investment, growth and local jobs.

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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Buckinghamshire Council's SEND school transport payments to one taxi firm rose 11.4x in four years: £310,397 to £3,550,151. All payments to the firm: from £1.17M (2021) to £6.18M (2025), according to the council's own FOI figures. The contracts behind that money? Almost none are published. The accounts for the firm? Incorrectly filed in a way that obscures any useful details. 🧵
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Hey Anna So stupid was the claim from Lisa Smart ( or not so) MP that the Commissioner has thrown it out in under 24 hours Will the Guardian now apologise to me for its absurd report on this and correct the record? @BenQuinn75
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
The last overseas shearers Britain intends to let in are on the fells right now, working out the final weeks of their leave. The door shut on 30 June. No vote, no debate, no announcement, just a date passing quietly in a summer when everyone was looking elsewhere. Those still working the Borders this week are here on leave that expires on 1 October, and when they fly out that is the end of it. Understand what is walking out. Six New Zealanders spent three months in one Northumberland valley last year and sheared nearly 90,000 sheep. Fifteen thousand head each, across farms from the Scottish Borders down to County Durham. They have been coming into Coquetdale for over thirty years. Since 2011 a concession has let up to 75 of them in each spring, and between them they take the wool off one and a half to two million British sheep in a window a few weeks long. The Home Office rejected the application on 2 February. Twenty-six days of farmers writing to their MPs got it reinstated on 10 March for one final year, with a line about the sector having had fourteen years to train British workers and now being expected to transition to domestic labour. Here is what that sentence is standing on. British Wool trains over 800 people a year, most of those courses are basic level, and most of the people on them are sheep farmers learning to do their own flock. Training was never the bottleneck. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes, calm hands, no panic in the animal, hundreds a day for weeks on end, and reaching that standard takes years of conditioning and a place in a global trade that follows the season around the planet. Fourteen million breeding ewes. A few weeks to do them all. A sheep left in fleece gets eaten alive by maggots, so the job is not optional and the date is not negotiable. Next spring those farms make phone calls that nobody answers. Seventy-five shearers, once a year, and a government that could not find room for them.
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
Lammy's Data Cover-Up Is A Scandal About Power, Not Just Numbers The Ministry of Justice is now in court to stop the public seeing crime data the public is legally entitled to see. That is the story, stripped of the politics around it. David Lammy's department asked the Information Commissioner for permission to withhold seven years of conviction data broken down by nationality. The Commissioner refused. The MoJ is appealing that refusal to a tribunal rather than complying with it. The reasons the MoJ gave for withholding the data are worth dwelling on, because both were tested and both failed. The department claimed the request would cost too much to fulfil. The Information Commissioner's office did not simply take a different view. It found the MoJ had never produced a coherent estimate of the cost in the first place. Complexity, the ruling noted, does not excuse a public body from having to show its working. A government department asserted a defence and could not substantiate it to its own regulator. The department also claimed publication risked identifying individuals. The Commissioner rejected this too, and for a reason that exposes how thin the objection was: the standard method of suppressing any category with fewer than five convictions would resolve the privacy concern entirely. This is routine practice across government statistics. The MoJ did not explain why it would not apply here. Two arguments, tested by an independent watchdog, both found wanting. That is the pattern that should trouble people regardless of where they stand on immigration. A department lost on the merits and chose litigation over compliance. Nick Timothy and Robert Jenrick have both called this a cover-up, and it is easy to see why the word fits. But it is worth being precise about what is actually being covered up, because the temptation is to overreach. The published figures already show foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual offence convictions last year, against a population share of roughly one in eleven. What remains hidden is the breakdown within that figure: how many of those convictions were rape, how many grooming, how many child sexual abuse, and which nationalities appear most often within each category. Nobody outside government currently knows that with precision. That is exactly why the MoJ's resistance matters. The public is being asked to trust a conclusion it is not permitted to check. Lammy's own account of this makes the pattern harder to defend, not easier. In a letter to Timothy last week, he defended the department's position by pointing to a "range of statistical breakdowns" already published, and said publication of further data was kept under "continuous review." Continuous review is not a commitment. It is a form of words that allows a department to say something is being considered indefinitely without ever being obliged to act on it. Put alongside two failed arguments before the Information Commissioner, it reads less like caution and more like a holding position dressed up as process. It would not be the first time. When early release for serious offenders began this year, the same department declined to publish a total figure for how many foreign nationals would be affected, despite holding the data. There is a version of this story that is simply about migration policy. It is not that story. It is about whether a government department will accept the ruling of the watchdog charged with enforcing transparency law, or whether it will use the machinery of litigation to delay disclosure indefinitely. Parliament does not need to wait for the tribunal to ask that question. It needs to ask why a government that says it has nothing to hide is paying lawyers to make sure nobody can check.
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Andy Burnham just promised to 'govern for all' outside Number 10. Here's what he didn't mention... Andy Burnham is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Read that sentence again. Let it settle in your bones. The man who covered up the industrial-scale rape of 250,000 British children. The man who left a hospital where 1,200 people died without a public inquiry. The man who wasted £100 million of your money on abandoned schemes. The man who wants 10,000 more asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. The man who put terrorist-sympathising smear merchants in charge of Number 10. This is not politics. This is the capture of a nation by a machine of betrayal. This is the complete file on how Andrew Murray Burnham failed his way to the top. PART I: THE NHS BODY COUNT Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Between 2005 and 2009, between 400 and 1,200 people died unnecessarily. Patients drank water from flower vases. They were left in soiled sheets. They died of thirst and neglect in a British hospital. Andy Burnham became Health Secretary in June 2009. The families of the dead had one demand: a statutory public inquiry with full legal powers to compel witnesses and evidence. Burnham received 81 requests for this inquiry. He refused all 81. Instead, he appointed a limited independent inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC. Held in private. Without the power to force testimony. Without the power to demand documents. This was not incompetence. This was strategy. A limited inquiry admits failure without exposing the full rot. Burnham could express regret without revealing responsibility. He could promise change without delivering justice. The families called it what it was: a cover-up. Julie Bailey, whose mother died at Stafford, called Burnham "grossly unsuitable" for leadership. The inquiry he refused could have saved lives. He chose his career over their children. But Mid Staffordshire was not the only body count on his watch. Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. Mothers and babies died. The Care Quality Commission, the regulator, found catastrophic failures. Then something strange happened. Baroness Young, chair of the CQC, gave evidence that pressure to "tone down" criticism "peaked under" Burnham's tenure as Health Secretary. Professor Sir Brian Jarman accused Labour ministers of "suppressing" work exposing problems. He called the Department of Health "a denial machine." The pattern repeats. The regulator pressured. The criticism suppressed. The bodies buried. The minister promoted. Then Hinchingbrooke Hospital. The first fully privatised NHS hospital in Britain. The process began under Burnham's watch in March 2010. The shortlist drawn up on the eve of the election. The contract signed by the Coalition in 2011. The hospital returned to the NHS in 2015 after Circle Health pulled out. Burnham now attacks Conservative NHS privatisation. He started the process himself. This is the Burnham Method. Adopt the popular position. Act contrary in power. Express regret when safe. PART II: THE PROPERTY CORRUPTION The Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund. £983 million of public money. The largest housing fund in the country. The promise: affordable homes for Mancunians. The reality: a feeding trough for developers. Burnham's administration directed over £600 million to a single developer. Renaker. One company. Sixty percent of the entire fund. The £140 million loans were approved despite "inconsistent" viability reports. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority failed to obtain asset and liability statements from the developer. A report into these failures was suppressed for 13 months. The duty of candour was ignored. Aubrey Weis, a wealthy landowner, challenged these loans in court. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled for the GMCA in 2025. The Court of Appeal heard the case in June 2026. Days before the Makerfield by-election that would make Burnham Prime Minister. The timing was not accidental. The corruption was not theoretical. Then the donations. The 2026 campaign. £1,400 from Citybranch, a property developer. Burnham claims he never met the donor. The man who controlled £983 million in housing funds cannot remember meeting a property developer who gave him money. The revolving door spins faster. James Purnell, Burnham's chief of staff in Number 10, was CEO of Flint Global. A lobbying firm. Clients include Huawei, Apple, BP, Amazon, Uber, Glencore. The man who advises the Prime Minister on policy spent years selling access to the same corporations. Transparency campaigners warned of conflicts of interest. Burnham appointed him anyway. This is how it works. Public money flows to developers. Developers donate to campaigns. Campaigns win elections. Lobbyists write policy. The circle closes. You pay for it all. PART III: THE RAPE COVER-UP Operation Augusta. Manchester, 2003 to 2005. Police identified up to 100 men collecting girls from care homes like takeaway orders. At least 57 children in Manchester social services care, some as young as 12, were being gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured. Police had names. Police had addresses. Police had evidence. The operation was shut down in 2005. Not because the danger passed. Not because the men stopped. Shut down because senior officers and Labour councillors were more afraid of "inflaming community tensions" than of protecting raped children. The perpetrators were predominantly Pakistani heritage Muslim men. The victims were white British girls. The decision was political. The children were abandoned. Andy Burnham became Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017. He commissioned independent reviews into historic child sexual exploitation in Manchester, Oldham, and Rochdale. The reviews confirmed widespread organised abuse. The reviews confirmed institutional failure. The reviews delivered no justice. In 2024, the reviewers Malcolm Newsom and Gary Ridgway resigned. They alleged that authorities were "lawyering up" and obstructing the investigation. The duty of candour was missing. The cover-up continued. Maggie Oliver knows the truth. She was the detective who blew the whistle on the Rochdale scandal. She worked with Burnham's reviews. She called the Oldham review "nothing less than a cover-up." She accused Burnham of failing to "grasp the nettle" on current failures. She saw the pattern: admit past failures to protect the present. The numbers are staggering. The Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry Report, published June 2026, crowdfunded by 20,000 people, documented 250,000 young white British girls abused since the 1950s across 149 local authorities. The methods were torture. Girls as young as 11 collected from schools. Drugged with alcohol. Passed between men like currency. Taken to "red rooms" for daily gang rape. Trafficked to Pakistan. Forced to convert to Islam and marry rapists to legitimise pregnancies. Called "white trash" and "kuffar" by their abusers. The rape was racial. The rape was religious. The rape was targeted. The institutional collapse was total. Police called victims "prostitutes." Social services placed children in trafficking hubs. NHS recorded genital injuries in children then discharged them without safeguarding. Schools excluded victims instead of protecting them. Taxi licensing renewed permits for drivers who transported children to rape houses. Burnham's response? He called critics "desperate." He dismissed Reform UK's allegations as "smears." He stood by his record. His record is 250,000 victims and no justice. Then there is Bev Craig. Executive Member for Adult Social Care in Manchester from 2017 to 2021. While Burnham commissioned his reviews, Craig oversaw the same adult social services that the Lowe Report says undermined parents, placed children in trafficking hubs, closed cases despite clear exploitation indicators, called victims "prostitutes," offered contraception instead of protection. She knew where the bodies were buried because she helped bury them. In December 2021, council leader Richard Leese stepped down after 25 years covering the Operation Augusta period. His chosen successor? Bev Craig. The woman who oversaw the failures became the leader. Then Burnham's Deputy Mayor for Economy. Then the Labour candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor in July 2026. The coronation complete. Burnham to Prime Minister. Craig to Mayor. The rape gang inquiry investigating their city while they seize national power. PART IV: THE OPEN BORDERS BETRAYAL "Open Borders Andy." "Open Borders Burnham." The Reform UK nickname that sticks because the record supports it. The double game is simple. Tough talk for election cameras. Soft reality for policy. In 2024 and 2025, Burnham made sceptical noises about mass migration. He supported some of Shabana Mahmood's reforms. He talked about ending hotel accommodation. The Critic saw through it immediately: "Suspect on immigration." "Embraces state multiculturalism." The nickname fits the record better than the messaging. The record is clear. Burnham opposed longer waits for permanent settlement. He backed attacks on Indefinite Leave to Remain reforms. He supported ending "no recourse to public funds" restrictions. He wants asylum seekers working while claims are processed. This creates a magnetic pull factor for illegal entry. Why risk the Channel when you can work legally while waiting? Then the bombshell. Reform UK's Zia Yusuf revealed Burnham's plans. Direct relocation of more than 10,000 additional asylum seekers from overseas. Specifically high-arrival nationalities like Sudan and Eritrea. Reversal of delays on permanent status for the post-2021 "Boriswave" cohort. Potentially granting benefits and family sponsorship rights to hundreds of thousands at catastrophic fiscal cost. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority under Burnham spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on schemes helping migrants, including refugees, access housing, benefits, and services. Your taxes. Their priority. While British citizens sleep rough. While veterans wait for housing. While your grandmother waits for a hip replacement. Nigel Farage has publicly blamed Burnham for the North West receiving a disproportionate share of asylum seekers. The "Open Borders Burnham" label is not rhetoric. It is description. The North West has cheaper housing costs. Long-standing Home Office policy places asylum seekers where rent is low. Burnham did not create the policy. But he did not fight it. He welcomed it. He built his "progressive" brand on it. As Prime Minister, Burnham avoided immigration entirely in early speeches. He listens only to "insane open borders backbench MPs." Same soft policies. New face. Worse crisis. The borders remain open. The boats keep coming. The bill keeps rising. And Burnham is in Downing Street. PART V: THE ISLAMIST SOFTNESS Prevent. The UK's primary counter-terrorism safeguarding tool. The system that identifies vulnerable individuals at risk of radicalisation. The shield against Islamist terrorism. In 2016, as Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham called Prevent "toxic." He compared the reporting duty to internment in Northern Ireland. He said it made Muslims feel spied upon and unfairly targeted. He argued it risked creating the conditions for extremism to flourish. He wanted it scrapped or overhauled. This is not criticism. This is dismantling the main tool against Islamist radicalisation. Then MEND. Muslim Engagement and Development. A group later named by Communities Secretary Michael Gove as having an "Islamist orientation." MEND hosted speakers supporting physical punishment for Jews, gay people, and minority sects. The Labour Party cut ties with MEND. Burnham did not. He endorsed MEND campaigns. He spoke at MEND fringe events. He platformed the group while it spread extremism. Then CAGE. The organisation that praised "Jihadi John." The group that defended individuals linked to extremism. In 2021, Burnham co-hosted an interfaith iftar with the Ramadan Tent Project. Keir Starmer had withdrawn from the same event due to the group's CEO backing CAGE. Burnham stayed. Burnham hosted. The Muslim vote matters more than counter-terrorism concerns. The Manchester Arena bombing. 22 May 2017. Salman Abedi. Islamist terrorist. 22 dead. 1,017 injured. The worst terrorist attack in Britain since 7/7. Burnham's response? Community cohesion. Avoid "Islamophobia." Prioritise relations. Do not confront. Do not name. The "Islamist-appeasing" accusations stick because the pattern is clear: the Muslim vote over border control, community relations over confronting political Islam, cohesion over courage. The grooming gangs connect here too. The 250,000 victims. The predominantly Pakistani heritage perpetrators. The honour/shame clan codes. The targeting of white British girls as "kuffar." Burnham commissioned weak reviews. He avoided statutory public inquiries. The Muslim voting blocs of Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale mattered more than raped children. The pattern repeats. The community protected. The victims abandoned. PART VI: THE STATE CAPTURE July 2026. Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister. His first appointments reveal everything. Alison Phillips. Board member of Hope Not Hate Limited. The private company arm of Hope Not Hate. The same Hope Not Hate that faced Charity Commission investigations for political activity. The same Hope Not Hate that employed Liron Velleman, convicted of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. Phillips made Director of Transition in Burnham's Number 10. Her job: avoid the "early mistakes that befell Starmer." Matthew McGregor. Former Director of Campaigns and Communications at Hope Not Hate. Made Director of Political Strategy in Burnham's Number 10. The man who ran smear campaigns now controls government political strategy. Think about what this means. A man who ran Hope Not Hate's operations now controls the Prime Minister's political strategy. A woman who sat on Hope Not Hate's board while they faced regulatory investigations now controls the Prime Minister's transition. Anna Turley, former Hope Not Hate director, is already Labour Party Chair. Hope Not Hate is not a charity. It is the continuation of Searchlight, a communist militant operation founded in 1964. It uses charitable status to launder taxpayer money into political warfare. It employs convicted child sex offenders. It uses blackmail, deception, and alleged drug supply to manufacture sources. It collaborates with the BBC to target political enemies. It spreads misinformation during civil unrest. And now its operatives run the British government. PART VII: THE METHOD The Burnham Method is consistent across every scandal. Five steps. Recognisable. Repeatable. Step One: Adopt the popular position. NHS defender. Civil liberties champion. Hillsborough campaigner. The man of the people. Step Two: Act contrary when in power. Privatise NHS services. Implement ID cards. Suppress inquiries. Waste public money. Step Three: Use limited inquiries. Avoid statutory public inquiries. Appoint friendly reviewers. Control the scope. Control the timing. Admit past failures to protect present power. Step Four: Surround with lobbyists. Burson Marsteller. Flint Global. James Purnell. The revolving door spins. Access is sold. Policy is written. Step Five: Express regret when safe. Years later. When politically convenient. When the damage is done. The apology tours begin. The contradictions are stark. NHS defender who presided over mass death. Civil liberties champion who implemented ID cards. Anti-surveillance while voting for ID cards. Pro-union while appointing a chief of staff from a union-busting firm. Anti-privatisation while starting the Hinchingbrooke process. Pro-inquiry while voting against Iraq War investigations. Anti-war while voting for Iraq. Transparency while surrounded by non-transparent lobbyists. Man of the people while a career politician since age 24 with a Cambridge education. PART VIII: THE MONEY June 24, 2026. The day after the Makerfield by-election made Burnham Prime Minister. Two companies incorporated. Same day. Same address. Office of Andy Burnham Ltd. Company number 17299283. Director: Andrew Murray Burnham. Correspondence address: 71 to 75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Andy Burnham for Leader Ltd. Company number 17300460. Director: Andrew Murray Burnham. Correspondence address: 71 to 75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Both verified by RAPID FORMATIONS LIMITED ACSP on June 19, 2026. Both active. Both controlled by the Prime Minister. The funding tells the story. March to April 2026. £20,000 from trade unions. £10,000 from Fire Brigades Union. £5,000 from Communication Workers Union. £5,000 from Unison. The union paymasters. Then £1,400 from Citybranch, a property developer. The developer donor. The man who controlled £983 million in housing funds cannot remember meeting a property developer who gave him money. The MPs' expenses scandal adds texture. The £215,000 London flat purchased in 2005, part-funded by taxpayer ACA claims. The IKEA receipt including a bathrobe, claimed as a "genuine oversight" and repaid. The spousal involvement. Marie France van Heel, his wife, "regularly in touch with fees office to negotiate claims." The June 2006 refusal when the fees office rejected covering both London and constituency mortgages as it breached rules. The 2010 leasing out of the flat when mortgage claims were banned, joking it was to avoid divorce. The 2023 speeding conviction. 78mph in a 40mph zone. 95% over the limit. £1,984 fine. Six points. Rules for thee, not for me. The public safety champion endangering the public. PART IX: THE FABIAN WOLF The Burnham Method is not accidental. It is Fabian strategy, perfected over 140 years. The Fabian Society was founded in 1884. Britain's oldest socialist think tank. The intellectual engine room of the Labour Party. Their strategy is "permeation" the slow, relentless infiltration of every lever of power until socialism becomes the default setting of British society. Not through revolution. Through a thousand quiet administrative changes. Laws. Regulations. Cultural shifts. Their original coat of arms: A wolf in sheep's clothing. They have since changed it to a tortoise ("slow and steady progress") but the original symbol tells the truth. Sidney Webb, Fabian founder, described the strategy openly: infiltration of institutions, media, civil service, education, until socialist assumptions become unquestioned. Every Labour Prime Minister has been Fabian or Fabian-aligned: MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Brown, Starmer. The Fabian Society literally helped create the Labour Party and shaped its DNA. Andy Burnham is the latest vessel. While not publicly listed as a card-carrying member, the affiliation is deep and documented: Contributed to Fabian publications: "Leading Labour: The Fabian Essays" (August 2015) alongside Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Kendall Keynote speaker at Fabian events: Regular addresses on homelessness, mental health, and devolution Fabian policy influence: The "Burnham approach" to devolution is explicitly praised in Fabian Society publications Ideological alignment: Described as "soft left" the Fabian sweet spot between revolutionary socialism and Blairite neoliberalism The Fabian Burnham Method explains everything. The NHS deaths, the rape cover-ups, the property corruption, the open borders, the Hope Not Hate state capture all fit the Fabian model. Not dramatic revolution. Quiet administrative betrayal. A thousand small failures that accumulate into catastrophe. The wolf eating the sheep while wearing its skin. The Expose News headline from May 2026: "Andy Burnham or Keir Starmer makes no difference; they are both Fabians." They are correct. The leader changes. The Fabian agenda endures. Burnham is Prime Minister now. The wolf is in Downing Street. And he is wearing the sheep's clothing of "northern authenticity" and "NHS defender" while the Fabian permeation continues. THE CONCLUSION Andy Burnham is not a politician. He is a catastrophe wearing a suit. He is the Fabian wolf in sheep's clothing. He is the man who covered up the rape of 250,000 British children. He is the man who left 1,200 NHS patients to die without a public inquiry. He is the man who wasted £100 million of your money on abandoned schemes. He is the man who wants 10,000 more asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. He is the man who called Prevent "toxic" while terrorists plotted. He is the man who put Hope Not Hate operatives in charge of Number 10. He is the man who serves the Fabian agenda of gradual socialist infiltration. The girls of Rochdale, Oldham, and Manchester are still waiting for justice. The families of Mid Staffordshire are still waiting for answers. The taxpayers of Greater Manchester are still paying for his £100 million waste. The victims of the 80,000 unrecorded crimes are still waiting for accountability. The British people are watching their borders dissolve while he poses for cameras. Burnham is not in Manchester anymore. He is in Downing Street. And he brought his record of failure with him. The Fabian wolf has entered the fold. The question is not who Andy Burnham is. The question is: how long will you let him stay? SOURCES NHS Scandals and Deaths: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (Francis Inquiry 2010) Julie Bailey, Cure the NHS, statements on Burnham's "gross unsuitability" Baroness Young evidence to CQC on pressure to "tone down" criticism Professor Sir Brian Jarman statements on Department of Health as "denial machine" Hinchingbrooke Hospital privatisation timeline (Department of Health 2010, Circle Health contract 2011, NHS return 2015) Property Corruption and Renaker: Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling (2025) and Court of Appeal hearing (June 2026) Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund documentation (£983 million total) Electoral Commission donation records: Citybranch £1,400 (2026) James Purnell appointment and Flint Global client list (Huawei, Apple, BP, Amazon, Uber, Glencore) Rape Cover-Up and Grooming Gangs: Operation Augusta police files (2003-2005) Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry Report (June 2026, 219 pages, crowdfunded £600,000) Maggie Oliver whistleblower statements to Times Radio and The Telegraph ("cover-up," "failed to grasp the nettle") Malcolm Newsom and Gary Ridgway resignation from Burnham's reviews (2024) Bev Craig career timeline: Executive Member for Adult Social Care (2017-2021), Council Leader (December 2021), Deputy Mayor (2021-2026), Labour candidate for Mayor (July 2026) Open Borders and Immigration: The Critic, May 2026: "Andy Burnham's immigration double game" Reform UK and Zia Yusuf statements on 10,000 additional asylum seekers and reversal of permanent status delays Nigel Farage statements on "Open Borders Burnham" and North West asylum dispersal Burnham support for asylum seeker work rights and ending "no recourse to public funds" Islamist Softness and Prevent: Andy Burnham 2016 statements as Shadow Home Secretary calling Prevent "toxic" and comparing to internment Michael Gove House of Commons statement on MEND "Islamist orientation" Burnham MEND fringe event attendance and endorsement records Ramadan Tent Project iftar 2021 and Keir Starmer withdrawal Manchester Arena bombing inquiry and Burnham "community cohesion" response Hope Not Hate State Capture: Companies House: Office of Andy Burnham Ltd (17299283) and Andy Burnham for Leader Ltd (17300460), incorporated 24 June 2026 Alison Phillips appointment as Director of Transition, Burnham Number 10 Matthew McGregor appointment as Director of Political Strategy, Burnham Number 10 Anna Turley Labour Party Chair and former Hope Not Hate director Charity Commission investigations into Hope Not Hate (2024, 2025) Liron Velleman conviction (January 2026) for attempted sexual communication with a child Fabian Society Connection: Fabian Society: "Leading Labour: The Fabian Essays" (August 2015) Fabian Society publications praising "The Burnham approach" to devolution The Expose News, May 2026: "Andy Burnham or Keir Starmer makes no difference; they are both Fabians" Sidney Webb "permeation" strategy documentation Fabian Society coat of arms history (wolf in sheep's clothing) Personal Corruption and Expenses: MPs' expenses scandal documentation (Telegraph 2009): bathrobe, spousal involvement, £215,000 flat Companies House: Leigh BPT Limited (08786493), dissolved, Burnham director 2013-2016 Speeding conviction 2023: 78mph in 40mph zone, £1,984 fine, 6 points Electoral Commission: trade union donations 2026 (Fire Brigades Union £10,000, Communication Workers Union £5,000, Unison £5,000)
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Burnham is blaming Thatcher who left office 46 years ago. He forgot to mention that Blair & EU cost Britain 8% of it's industry vs Thatcher's 5%. So 60% more, in a shorter time too (and Thatcher had much bigger problems to deal with). He's either ignorant or lying.
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Since you mentioned the 1980s, @andyburnham, here’s a reminder of what was achieved: • Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40% • Savings income taxed at up to 98% in 1979 — surcharge abolished • Basic rate: 33% → 25% • Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986) • Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990) • Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third • Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners • Home ownership: 55% → 67% • Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults • Foreign holidays: roughly doubled • Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten • Pensioners’ average incomes: up around 30% in real terms • Infant mortality: down almost 40% • Real GDP: up by almost a third • GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s • Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s • Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million • Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon • Britain became a net oil exporter • London restored as the world’s financial capital in 1986 • Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90 • National debt: 47% of GDP → 28% • State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39% • The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000 • Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms’ rate: 42% → 25% • Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms • Higher rates of income tax: nine → one • Death duties: fourteen rates → one • Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years • 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector • The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987 • British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90) • BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen • “Tell Sid” broke the record again in 1986 • British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, “the world’s favourite airline” • The Channel Tunnel launched and entirely privately financed Over to you.
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Samantha Hathaway retweeted
👀🇦🇷 Después de decir que esta vez el arbitraje no influyó, me pidieron revisar el partido con detalle y encontré esto. Enzo Fernández, autor del gol del empate de Argentina, no debió terminar el encuentro. Al minuto 3 lanzó un codazo en la nuca a un jugador inglés, sin ninguna posibilidad de disputar el balón. Si se hubiera aplicado el mismo rigor arbitral que vimos contra Suiza y Egipto, esa acción perfectamente pudo terminar en expulsión. Pero no solo no fue roja… ni siquiera fue amarilla. Minutos después, el mismo Enzo cortó un contragolpe de Inglaterra con una zancadilla al borde del área. ¿La sanción? Tampoco hubo amarilla. Desde el primer tiempo, Enzo debió estar expulsado. Si una acción así hubiera sido contra Messi, difícilmente el infractor se salvaría. Por cierto, guarden el video porque la FIFA los anda borrando.
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Punch in the back of the head on Anderson should have been a red card, not even allowed to do that in boxing #england England Argentina Match
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Coventry care company ‘Momo & Tarek Care Ltd’ assigned 648 certificates of sponsorship for the ‘Skilled Worker’ route from 21-24. As a comparison, Apple assigned 687; Microsoft assigned 505. According to 24/5 accounts, Momo&Tarek had 6 employees (avg.) In 23/4; 0 employees🧵1/6
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Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax." Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?" Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely." Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke." Activist: "But the land's worth millions." Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm." Activist: "So sell a corner of it." Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way." Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it." Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill." Activist: "It's still an asset." Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."
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