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Senga Singleton retweeted
Covid inquiry and care homes but let’s not forget that @scotgov said those working in care homes testing positive may need to continue working
Keep retweeting this @KayBurley asks @JohnSwinney about #Covid_19 positive staff being asked to continue shifts in care homes
Senga Singleton retweeted
🔥 @DMS_MilMed @DefenceHQ
Are you seriously for real?
You claim to have carried out “appropriate due diligence checks” before appointing Jason Leitch.
Seriously?
What exactly did those checks involve, and how thoroughly was his previous record scrutinised?
The public deserves to know.
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Senga Singleton retweeted
Glasgow anti-racism campaigner Zamard Zahid and her young daughter discussing violent against “colonisers.” Regardless of someone’s politics, that is not normal political education it’s a child welfare question.
We are told to take threats and extremism seriously. We should be consistent: if an adult is exposing a child to violent rhetoric and apparently inviting the child into it, social work and @PSOSGreaterGlas should at least assess whether that child is safe and whether any criminal threshold has been crossed.
We’ve just seen how quickly public alarm spreads over hoax Islamic terrorist emails in Scotland. Public safety and child protection should not depend on which “side” the adult is on.
If this were a far-right activist saying the same thing to a child, I suspect there would be wide spread outrage.
Recording your daughter inciting violence against white people award!!! 🏅
"Anti-racist campaigner" Zamard Zahid posted a TikTok of her and her daughter supporting a violent revolution against "colonisers" AKA Europeans in their own nations. This is how they think. This is how they look at the world.
Remigration is the peaceful solution.
Senga Singleton retweeted
🔥🔥Just weeks before #Eljamel’s final surgery at @NHSTayside on 9 Dec 2013, Jason Leitch attended ex-CEO Gerry Marr’s leaving do, posting photos and warm farewells.
Backslapping all round, seemingly without a care in the world….while patients were being butchered.
Senga Singleton retweeted
Burnham had seven significant meetings with Man City and Abu Dhabi chiefs, not one. He’s been caught lying again. Now Reynolds and Powell are implicated. The ‘Etihad Coup’, which got rid of Starmer in double quick time, is beginning to unravel. The PM’s toxic Manchesterism…
Senga Singleton retweeted
Choose Scotland? How about choosing to tell Scotland the truth?
The SNP launching a campaign called Choose Scotland is almost beyond satire.
Thirty years after Trainspotting gave us the famous “Choose Life” monologue, exposing the devastation of heroin addiction, Scotland has recorded another 1,133 drug deaths. And we're being promised a better future.
But there's something the Scottish public really needs to understand.
Westminster controls drug laws. Holyrood controls drug treatment. Full stop.
The Scottish Government already has responsibility for funding and delivering addiction treatment, residential rehabilitation and recovery services. It doesn't need Westminster's permission to improve any of them.
Yet whenever Scotland's appalling drug death figures are discussed, we're directed back to Westminster's Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, as though that legislation prevents people receiving treatment.
It doesn't.
England, Wales and Scotland operate under the same drug laws, yet Scotland's drug death rate is around three times that of England and Wales.
Same laws. Dramatically different outcomes. So perhaps the problem isn't Westminster's legislation but Scotland's treatment response.
And this is where I believe the public is being misled.
The SNP repeatedly conflates drug laws with drug treatment. I don't believe that's accidental. In my view, it's political misdirection that also serves to soften public resistance to more permissive drug laws.
The SNP wants to decriminalise possession for personal use. That isn't the same as legalising the sale and supply of drugs, but I believe the public deserves an honest explanation of whether ministers see decriminalisation as the first step towards wider legalisation.
Instead, the argument about drug laws repeatedly diverts attention from the government's existing responsibility for treatment.
Changing the law on drug possession won't open a single rehabilitation bed, create a recovery community or guarantee someone access to treatment.
After nearly twenty years in government, ministers should be explaining what they've achieved with the substantial powers they already possess.
Trainspotting exposed a generation trapped in addiction, hopelessness and a lack of meaningful choices. Thirty years later, we're still burying people who desperately needed a way out.
The SNP wants Scotland to choose its future. What about the Scots who simply want the chance to choose recovery?
You don't need independence to provide that choice. You need to take responsibility for the powers you already have.
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Senga Singleton retweeted
This is an absolute scandal, and a textbook example of what happens when people spend other people's money without being held properly accountable for it.
£642,000 of taxpayers' money allocated to tackling Scotland's addiction crisis, and the public bodies responsible cannot produce sufficient evidence to demonstrate precisely how it was spent. Not £642. Not £6,420. Nearly two-thirds of a million pounds. A quarter of Aberdeenshire's alcohol and drug funding.
And here's the truly astonishing part. Auditors raised serious concerns in 2022. Four years later, the same fundamental failures remain. What exactly have these people been doing for four years, apart from attending meetings, producing reports and collecting salaries?
Milton Friedman famously described the problem of spending other people's money on other people. When you're spending your own money, you have a powerful incentive to control costs and demand value. When you're spending taxpayers' money, those incentives can become remarkably weak, particularly when there are no personal consequences for failure.
Scotland's addiction bureaucracy appears determined to prove his point.
Of course, the auditors haven't established that the money was stolen or misspent. They've established something quite damning enough: the system cannot provide adequate assurance about how substantial public funding was used.
And NHS Grampian's response is breathtaking. Apparently, changing the funding arrangements would create financial difficulties elsewhere. So institutional financial convenience becomes an argument for maintaining arrangements that auditors have identified as fundamentally inadequate. You really couldn't make it up.
Imagine a small recovery charity telling its funder that it couldn't adequately account for a quarter of its funding, despite having been warned about its financial controls four years earlier. Its funding would be at risk, its governance questioned and its trustees expected to explain themselves. Yet when it's the NHS and the addiction bureaucracy, we get another improvement plan and assurances that lessons will be learned.
This is institutional incompetence protected by institutional privilege.
Meanwhile, 1,133 people died drug-related deaths in Scotland last year. Families are burying their children, parents and partners while the institutions entrusted with tackling this catastrophe struggle to demonstrate where the money goes, never mind whether it's changing lives.
And that's the deeper scandal. We've created a system that can tell us how much money it has been allocated, how many committees have met and how many strategies have been published, but apparently cannot always demonstrate what the public has received in return.
The money doesn't belong to NHS Grampian, the Alcohol and Drugs Partnership or the officials administering it. It belongs to the public. It was allocated for the benefit of people whose lives are being devastated by addiction.
Yet those whose money funds the system have little meaningful oversight, while those whose lives depend upon it are left wondering what difference any of this expenditure has made.
Four years of warnings. £642,000 without adequate financial assurance. Another 1,133 people dead. And where is the personal accountability?
At what point does incompetence become grounds for dismissal rather than another taxpayer-funded action plan?
Other people's money. Other people's lives. Apparently nobody's responsibility.
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Senga Singleton retweeted
Save this because Andy's minders will be working overtime to get this removed.
They can't allow any evidence that proves he's a liar to keep resurfacing
I believe Andy Burnham just lied to the House.
The Ministerial Code states that it is ‘of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity. Ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation to the Prime Minister.’
Senga Singleton retweeted
This is just a new level of disgusting.
When a 26-year-old homeless woman lay dying, or already dead, in a tent on Kirkgate in Bradford city centre, Hassan Shah tried to rape and assault her.
He never even spoke to her. He never even checked she was OK.
Today a jury saw the CCTV and found that he did it…
But he WON'T go to prison. He CAN'T. Because the court ruled him unfit to plead, so the judge can only give him a hospital order, a supervision order, or a DISCHARGE.
That's it. For this.
She had no home, no safety, and not even dignity in death.
She died with nobody to protect her. Now she gets no justice either.
Sickening.
Credit @W4Restore
Senga Singleton retweeted
The Crown Office have been blocking the prosecution of Nicola Sturgeon and her allies for half a decade now. wingsoverscotland.com/and-ju…
Senga Singleton retweeted
What JACOB REES MOGG “ACTUALLY MEANS”, when he says on @GBNEWS “VOX POPULI,VOX DEI” in his very POSH manner ! I had to use ‘AI’ to even ‘have a scooby-doo’, W.T.🦆. he means; (so this may interest some on X) 🤔! 😁😂🤣👍share.google/aimode/H0ArREBt…
Senga Singleton retweeted
No country in the world is stupid enough, apart from SNP run Scotland, to allow a temporary foreign student to be a politician and be involved in making laws which affect the indigenous population. This is a very dangerous situation.
Scottish Greens MSP Q Manivannan declares 'I'm not going anywhere' after getting new visa scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
Senga Singleton retweeted
The liar who claimed she was in Bute House when she wasn't, receives £100000 from Scots Government after the court case
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Senga Singleton retweeted
🚨BURNHAM’S “MAN OF THE PEOPLE” LONDON FLAT WAS HELPED BY £16,000 IN TAXPAYER CASH
Andy Burnham bought a £215,000 Kennington flat in 2005 after negotiating to add most of an £18,200 Dolphin Square tenancy buy-out to his parliamentary second-home allowance, then claimed £16,644 in expenses covering stamp duty, legal fees and a new kitchen. Contemporary reports show he later rented the property out (now estimated around double its purchase price) while claiming roughly £17,000 a year from taxpayers for a different London flat. The self-styled voice of ordinary people, who has criticised landlords and housing profiteering, still owns an asset acquired and improved with public money under rules he and others later condemned.
Senga Singleton retweeted
This is apparently the results of the assault from the foreigners on the children of Dundee.
Special mentions must go to the following.
Police Scotland saw this and quickly ran the "don't speculate" narrative because they wanted to protect the people who did this. They pushed out their own misinformation, lying to the public and warning us at the same time not to speculate.
@thecourieruk ran a lovely puff piece for gentle family man, Fatoz Ali Dumana, the man found guilty, who seems to have undergone a name change. They pushed his side of the story as if only one side existed.
The vile @HumzaYousaf couldn't wait to stand in defence of child abusers because it was more important to defend them than admit that, even just this one time, foreigners were in the wrong. Still has not apologised.
And lastly, to the hundreds of incipid, cruel and out of touch, stuck up weaklings in this nation who couldn't wait to throw these girls under the bus. You couldn't wait to just wall off the prospect of foreigners abusing young girls. Instead, you dehumanised them, called them feral, questioned them straight away while gulping down the "Bulgarians" narrative without even the slightest pause.
Your desperation to sneer at the working class and their plight is a stain on this nation.
It's people like you that allow things like Rotherham to happen.
The likes of Humza will always prioritise everyone over us.
But you threw your own kin to the meat grinder, with a smug and self righteous grin.
If this applies to you, get a bloody grip of yourself
‼️FINALLY SENTENCED‼️
Bulgarian siblings have finally been sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court for attacking Scottish girls in Lochee, Dundee, in August 2025.
Ilia Belov, 23, was given a community payback order of 300 hours’ unpaid work with 18 months’ supervision, and 18 months on the sex offenders register, for assaulting a then 12-year-old and for threatening or abusive behaviour towards four girls aged 12–14.
Nadjedzha Belova, 20, was given 180 hours’ unpaid work after admitting she seized a 13-year-old by the hair, dragged her to the ground and struck her on the head.
The court heard Ilia Belov told a 12-year-old: “Come here sexy. I will show you how to have a good time”. He then pushed her and her head hit a metal handrail. Only after that did she produce the axe and knife she had in her waistband.
Sheriff Niven-Smith rejected his story (that he never made sexual remarks and only pushed her to protect his sister) as neither credible nor reliable. The sheriff found his comments were the trigger for the incident.
Just remember how this all went down at the time though:
👉🏻 The police initially tried to flip the narrative, framing the perpetrators as victims and vice versa, stating the Bulgarians were approached by the young girls. The 12-year-old girl was subsequently arrested and charged over the weapons, and her self-defence was dismissed as “misinformation”.
👉🏻 Commentators and parts of the media also spent months implying the child was the threat, and the adults were the victims.
👉🏻 John Swinney warned the public off the footage, then had to subsequently apologise to the girl.
👉🏻 Sentencing was delayed twice, in August and September, because social work reports were not ready. Fourteen months from the attack to a sentence and, after all that, no jail time.
So, two adults of foreign descent, one of them making sexual remarks, assault young Scottish girls walking the streets of their native homeland and the first instinct of the authorities was to protect the narrative, charge the child, and gaslight the public.
This is what happens when the safety of women and children is treated as secondary to managing the story about immigration.
Senga Singleton retweeted
The smell is bringing the buzzards in
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Andy Burnham and the high price of Abu Dhabi’s billions
From taxpayer loans for luxury flats to no affordable housing, the prime minister faces growing questions over his past mayoral ties to Emirati backers
By Constance Kampfner, Bill Curtis, Sian Bradley
In 2018 Andy Burnham received a letter. It came from a group of impassioned Manchester residents, disturbed by the fate of Ahmed Mansoor, a blogger and human rights activist imprisoned for criticising the government of the United Arab Emirates.
That same government had been funding the regeneration of a huge chunk of their city, buying Manchester City Football Club and transforming the hollowed-out industrial buildings next door into trendy flats.
The campaigners had a simple request: to name one of Manchester’s streets after Mansoor. It would be, they wrote, “a fitting honour to bestow upon an individual who embodies so many of the qualities that the city and the wider region celebrates as a key part of its history”.
The letter was also addressed to Lucy Powell, the MP for Manchester Central and now the deputy leader of the Labour Party, who responded by writing to the council and asking it to consider the proposal.
However, the Manchester city council leader at the time, Sir Richard Leese, rejected the idea, saying: “Street naming is not my department, but longstanding policy is to not name streets after anybody still living or with no connection to the city.”
And what of Burnham, who by that point had been mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) for just under a year? He never responded. Off the record, his team told journalists that it was a city council matter, not a regional one.
Yet his silence on the issue, campaigners felt, spoke volumes. Since the 1990s Manchester had been on a journey of transformation; the crumbling post-industrial city dubbed “Gunchester” because of gang violence was rapidly becoming populated by high-rises and office blocks. Yet some residents felt that this renaissance had been at the expense of Manchester’s poorest, locked out of an increasingly expensive city centre.
📷Manchester’s high-rise boom, driven by strategic partnerships and overseas capital under Burnham’s mayoral tenureGetty Images
Sensing the public mood, Burnham had run on a pledge to eradicate rough sleeping and to use any leverage he had as mayor to push individual councils to “work with responsible developers that will honour obligations to affordable housing”.
And yet, within his first year, he oversaw more than £55m in taxpayer-backed loans to UAE-linked developments, projects that contained no affordable housing.
Manchester Life, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) and the city council, applied three times to the Housing Investment Loans Fund, a pot overseen by the mayor, to develop properties in the east of Manchester around the Etihad Campus, and was successful each time.
None of the 453 homes built on the sites it was developing in Ancoats and New Islington were advertised as affordable housing despite local policies setting a 20 per cent target for developments of that size.
📷TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
Documents seen by The Times show that ADUG — owned by Sheikh Mansour, the Emirati royal and Manchester City Football Club proprietor — had been given first preference on developments in the area. The ten-year contract with the city council, which rival developers complained was a “sweetheart deal”, was first reported by the Manchester Mill in 2024.
The role played by the Emiratis in Manchester’s transformation has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks after an investigation found that Manchester City had arranged “sham contracts” with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m. The club has lodged an appeal.
The prime minister was accused of downplaying the seriousness of the guilty verdict last week when he praised ADUG as a “huge partner” in Manchester’s development. He later told the BBC: “I think it’s important to separate the football issues from wider investment.”
The joint venture had been struck well before Burnham’s mayorship by Leese and the council’s former chief executive, the late Howard Bernstein. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash, when Manchester’s economic progress was under threat, the men aggressively courted foreign capital, facilitating Abu Dhabi’s entry into the city.
📷Howard Bernstein in 2013JOEL GOODMAN/LNP
So strong was the relationship with Bernstein that Manchester City’s owners named a street near the Etihad Campus after him (council rules on naming did not apply to private land). After he retired in 2017 Bernstein became an adviser to the club on “commercial and development schemes” in and around the stadium. He died in 2024.
Several Labour MPs maintain close ties with the club, which provided £11,000 worth of match tickets to seven Labour MPs in recent years. Among them is Powell, who accepted £2,360 worth of hospitality tickets from the club for five matches between April 2023 and March 2024.
Her ardent support for the club spilt over awkwardly at the recent Labour Party conference when she addressed the fallout surrounding Manchester City by telling delegates: “Can I just say to all those United fans who have been gloating all week — you’re still crap and you know you are.”
📷Lucy Powell at Etihad Stadium
Burnham, who has been pictured attending City games at the Etihad Stadium in hospitality areas, is now facing mounting pressure to release full details of any hospitality or gifts he has received from the club or its Emirati backers, with his political opponents seizing on the issue. On Tuesday Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, said: “I think transparency is essential. If he’s got nothing to hide, then he should open the box.”
Jon Silver, a professor of urban geography at the University of Sheffield and the co-author of a damning report into the Manchester Life partnership — which concluded that Manchester city council had “sold the family silver too cheap” by agreeing to 999-year leaseholds “below comparable rates” with Abu Dhabi — told The Times that Burnham now needed to answer for the consequences of that deal.
Silver said: “Burnham wasn’t a major figure in the transformation of the city, but he has used its perceived success to build his own political brand. So he now has to take responsibility for the limits of this model.”
Campaigners and activists repeatedly urged Burnham, the figurehead for the region, “to take a stand around human rights in the UAE and its actions in Sudan, which he didn’t do”, Silver added. “Given the city celebrates itself as a bastion of democracy, his silence was, to the campaigners, quite damning.”
📷Sir Richard LeeseCOLIN MCPHERSON/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES
On Monday Leese defended the council’s deal with ADUG, which he said was brokered by the UK government, as being “good for the city”.
“It was a time when development in Manchester had stopped,” he told the BBC. He added: “There was criticism at the time though — and there still is now — that the land was given away too cheaply by the city council. The point is, the investment from Abu Dhabi is what created the value.”
A spokesman for Manchester city council said: “More than ten years after these developments were first conceived, it would be wrong to look at those initial Manchester Life developments through the lens of the area’s current success — not the economic scenario and low housing demand at the time the partnership was created.”
Manchester Life said all loans had been repaid with interest. A spokesman said that the so-called sweetheart deal was “a mutual right of first refusal, giving either party 30 days to accept an offer on the same terms and conditions as would otherwise be offered to a third party or to the market more generally”.
A GMCA spokeswoman said its housing loans were “open to any developers looking to bring forward viable schemes throughout Greater Manchester” and that applications were assessed “for their deliverability, value for money and their contribution to our affordable and social housing priorities”.
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