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John Smith retweeted
Oh dear !
Looks like the Labour Candidate in Holborn and St Pancras by election was ineligible to stand.
Makes Labour look incompetent !
🚨 URGENT: FORMAL QUESTIONS RAISED OVER THE ELIGIBILITY OF NEWLY ELECTED LABOUR MP SAGAL ABDI-WALI!
Following yesterday’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election, I have today written formally to the Oxford Street Development Corporation, City Hall and Camden Electoral Services requesting urgent documentary clarification.
Official records confirm Sagal Abdi-Wali’s appointment to the Oxford Street Development Corporation Board in June 2026, and City Hall continues to list her as a member.
Under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, membership of a Mayoral Development Corporation is a disqualifying position.
WAS SHE STILL A MEMBER WHEN NOMINATIONS CLOSED ON 15 SEPTEMBER OR ON POLLING DAY, 8 OCTOBER?
I have formally requested confirmation of the precise date any resignation or termination became legally effective.
This is not an allegation of wrongdoing, but a potentially serious constitutional matter that deserves an immediate, documented answer.
@AndyBurnhamGM @UKLabour, will you ensure this straightforward question receives a clear and transparent response?
THE LAW MUST APPLY EQUALLY TO EVERYONE, REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY! 🇬🇧
@RestoreBritain @RupertLowe10 @Tyler4Restore
John Smith retweeted
8 of Britain’s leading lenders are putting up mortgage rates as inflation rises again. @andyburnham can tinker with bus fares but the cost of living crisis is getting worse under Labour
John Smith retweeted
🚨 Andy Burnham has just lost the next general election.
He said he would never cut Benefits to pay for national security.
Has Burnham just had his Ratner moment?
John Smith retweeted
The mask slips. @andyburnham admits in the Commons he prefers social security to national security. Labour prefers the shirkers to the workers
John Smith retweeted
'I'm a rich bloke, get me out of here!'
The third highest taxpayer is leaving the UK, leading @NickferrariLBC to ask Labour's Pat McFadden how much of a blow this will be.
John Smith retweeted
Labour literally goes directly after those that go to work, pay their taxes, and their bills, & save for their old age!
🚨 EMERGENCY WARNING TO EVERY PENSIONER IN GREAT BRITAIN: LABOUR IS PREPARING THE ULTIMATE WEALTH GRAB!
If you worked hard for 40 years, paid your taxes, and saved for retirement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just placed a massive target firmly on your back.
The highly influential IPPR think tank, which is packed with Burnham's own inner circle, just published the exact socialist blueprint Labour plans to use to bail out their bankrupt government. 🤡
Look at the terrifying three step robbery they are demanding for the October Budget.
First, slapping National Insurance directly onto the incomes of 9.6 million British pensioners.
Second, hiking capital gains tax to a staggering 40 percent to crush your investments.
Third, a devastating 0.65 percent annual property wealth tax just for the privilege of living inside your own family home!
They label you "wealthy" to justify stealing the nest egg you spent a lifetime building. Yet they magically find endless billions to house illegal arrivals in catered hotels without blinking an eye.
They treat the generation that built this country like an absolute cash machine while engineering our total national decline. The mask has completely slipped.
RT and SHARE this everywhere to warn every single retiree in Great Britain before Chancellor John Healey raids their bank accounts! 🇬🇧🔥
John Smith retweeted
Respectfully, @andyburnham, you have made it more expensive and more difficult to employ people.
So perhaps you might start by reversing the changes that your party brought in re National Insurance, minimum wage, employment rights, etc., in order to encourage people to hire young people.
You are moaning about problems @UKLabour have created. You can fix them. Good luck doing so.
When I talk to young people about work, the same thing keeps coming up. Not a lack of ambition - a lack of a way in.
One million young people in this country are not in education, work or training. That's around one in eight. And six in ten of them have never had a job at all.
I know that these young people aren't lazy. They have been let down by a system that told them there was only one route to success, and then left them without the opportunities to get their foot in the door anywhere else.
Too often, work experience has depended on who you know, rather than what you can do.
Last month we changed the education system so that from 14, young people can access proper technical education, with real skills, real work experience and real links to employers where they live.
Now we're bringing employers, schools and colleges together to close the gap between the classroom and the workplace.
The youth unemployment crisis has been ignored for too long.
That ends now.
John Smith retweeted
Anger Rayner on taxpayer-funded £17,000 Severance Pay.
When it’s herself: I don’t have to pay it back.
When it’s Boris & Truss: “At a time when people up and down the country are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, it shows a staggering lack of shame”.
John Smith retweeted
Another day, another lie exposed. As I said on @bbcquestiontime - the guy’s weird and dangerous.
🤦♀️
Exclusive: Zack Polanski falsely claimed to have worked at the Ministry of Justice telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
John Smith retweeted
What @Keir_Starmer & his team don’t understand is that many voters know that their security is linked to their employer’s security, when @RachelReevesMP cripples small businesses & piles on taxes voters know that we’re all put at risk. Without small businesses there is no future
John Smith retweeted
He can visibly rage all he likes, but I’m not buying this claptrap. How can someone as controversial as Mandelson, fired twice from previous Govts, fail a security vetting to be Britain’s top diplomat, and NOBODY in Govt or No10 is told about it?
This defence will unravel.
BREAKING: PM visibly raging as he speaks to @SamCoatesSky on Mandelson vetting row
Starmer says it's "staggering" and "unforgivable that [he] was not told", he's "absolutely furious"
"I was not told he had failed security vetting... No 10 was not told, that is completely unacceptable."
John Smith retweeted
No, @DavidLammy, Cyprus is NOT a NATO country.
This is really basic stuff, David. Just do everyone a favor and resign. This is all too embarrassing
John Smith retweeted
The man’s as thick as mince. As if Starmer hasn’t already embarrassed Britain enough on the world stage. Now this Cretin is let loose.
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“You couldn't make it up.”
@NickFerrariLBC is left frustrated by what the government chose to focus on instead this weekend, saying ‘Starmer’s just not got it’.
John Smith retweeted
Labour’s PM, Chancellor and govt ministers keep saying ‘we’re asking people to make a contribution…’ like it’s some polite request that can be declined. They’re not, they’re ordering us all to pay higher taxes, with heavy fines or imprisonment for those who don’t.
