Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️ @KevSimmonds

I do not know of any other country whose ruling elites are so willing to trash that country’s history and traditions, or seem so intent on diluting its unique national character and turning it into some sort of outpost of the UN. It’s relentless.

GB News @GBNEWS

a week ago

King Charles will now 'protect the multi-faith nation' as new role defined gbnews.com/royal/king-cha…

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The Manchester Model. What It Actually Looks Like Up Close. Andy Burnham is asking the country to trust him with Downing Street on the strength of what he calls the Manchester Model. Eight years of integrated public services and progressive governance that he says Britain should adopt nationally. Before the country decides, it should know what that model actually produced. Start with the money. £578 million in public money was lent by Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes. Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to the GMCA when seeking loans and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking exemption from affordable homes requirements. The Court of Appeal is considering judgment on whether the loans were lawful. Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Whitaker's personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. The luxury towers were marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings. Now the transparency. In April 2026 the Information Commissioner issued a practice recommendation to the GMCA for failing to publish Freedom of Information compliance statistics. Greater Manchester Police, under Burnham's authority as Police and Crime Commissioner, was separately issued with an ICO enforcement notice for 850 overdue FOI requests, more than 800 over six months old. The oldest had been waiting two and a half years. Now the transport flagship. The Bee Network has absorbed a £30 council tax precept increase in two years to subsidise its operation. The £115 million Clean Air Zone was scrapped after £211 million in public funds was received and only £22.5 million returned. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains twenty two years behind London. The board of Be.EV, the company holding the Bee Network's public EV charging contract, includes Burnham's wife, who joined the company six years into his mayoralty and was appointed to the board as his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible. Now the promises. Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping by 2020. Rough sleeping rose. Today 18,000 people across Greater Manchester have no permanent address. He promised Platt Bridge a flood solution by 2018. The area flooded in 2015, 2021 and on New Year's Day 2025. The projected solution is now 2028. When asked on Question Time why he would not apologise, he said it was before his time. He became Mayor in 2017. The promise was made in 2018. Now the politics. Labour's candidate to replace Burnham as Mayor is Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, the body that accepted Renaker's low profit figures and granted the affordable homes exemption. The mayoral by-election on 30 July will be fought under the supplementary vote system rushed through the Lords two days before Burnham's Makerfield victory, designed to consolidate left of centre second preferences and lock out Reform. 108 Labour councillors lost their seats in Greater Manchester in May's local elections. The region Burnham governed for eight years delivered the most devastating local election result in Labour's history. This is the Manchester Model. These are its documented facts. The country is being asked to implement it nationally. It should read the small print first. Bev Craig. Labour's candidate to replace Burnham. Leader of the council that granted Renaker's affordable homes exemption.

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@JonAttenborough The hottest place on earth when I went there and you’re wearing black!

Let’s nail this state lie once and for all. The government is NOT increasing defence spending by £270 billion during this parliament. It is a ludicrous claim. Yet one Keir Starmer made to Parliament’s Liaison Committee in March: Labour, he said, will “spend £270 billion MORE (my emphasis) than we would otherwise have done on defence” in this Parliament. Starmer has always been weak on facts and figures but even by his standards this is a massive porkie. This is the truth: £270 billion is the total cumulative projected defence spending for the four financial years from 2025/26 up to and including 2028/29 lumped together. It is NOT even the cumulative increase in defence spending during these years. Nobody (except perhaps Gordon Brown) speaks about public spending in this way, unless the intention is massively to mislead. By 28/29 defence spending is projected to be £13 billion a year more than at the start of the period. So not exactly £270 billion. But I guess if you’re going to lie you might as well make it a whopper.

Andrew Neil @afneil

a month ago

I see the government is still posting a blatant lie about defence spending.

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The muted response by Satvir Kaur, the nation’s first Sikh MP, to the shocking case of a young white murder victim handcuffed by police who believed a Sikh’s lies, means hopefully the voters of Southampton Test will chuck her out at the Election. This is what she said at the end of her statement; “ Everyone deserves to feel safe within our community.” Is that it? She didn’t deal with the issue that a member of her religious community was carrying an 8inch ceremonial knife which may have been okay in medieval times in India but not today Southampton high street. As a junior member of Starmer’s government I presume she was told not to get involved. Same with Home Secretary, Lammy and the rest of the creeps who would have been first on the airwaves if a young man of colour had died while in handcuffs. Kaur has a majority of 9,000+. That can be easily be overturned. I know you won’t forget.

📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits." @doktor_val warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.

Muhammed Amaad has not been acquitted. That distinction matters enormously and the media coverage is blurring it almost completely. Two juries failed to reach a verdict. That is not the same as innocence. It means twelve people — twice — could not unanimously agree on what happened. The CPS has now declined a third trial, citing the cost and difficulty of achieving a verdict after two hung juries. PC Lydia Ward had her nose broken. That is a fact that cannot be litigated away. Amaaz was convicted — of assaulting Ward and another female officer, and a member of the public. He faces sentencing on June 26. His brother walks with no conviction against his name. Meanwhile the judge referred Farage — a man who forced this case to trial in the first place — to the Attorney General for calling it what it was. We are being asked to accept a justice system where the man who broke a policewoman’s nose gets sentenced, his brother walks on a technicality of jury disagreement, and the politician who made the prosecution happen faces scrutiny for saying the words “two-tier justice.” Does anyone still wonder why public trust in institutions is collapsing?

Dear @HantsPolice, I have a quiz for you: Of the two, which one is more important to investigate first? 1: “he’s a racist” 2: “I have been stabbed” Take all the time you need….

You have to ask why successive governments have given work visas to low skilled jobs that British young people should have. Labour’s claims that they are only giving immigration visas to high skilled people but they aren’t … demand they tell you why!!

STARMER - " I'll cut Government waste" and then he created 27 pointless new QUANGOS Here's the list of 27 bollocks departments created by Starmer in 9 months to funnel £ BILLIONS of your tax into private consultants. ▪️Regulatory Innovation Office - To erm... "streamline regulations and promote economic growth by reducing bureaucratic hurdles for businesses". ​ HAHAHAHA😂 ▪️National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority - This merges the National Infrastructure Commission with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Apparently to speed up infrastructure by adding MORE red tape 🤡 ▪️Great British Energy - Not an energy company but a risky investment vehicle spending $8.4BILLION of tax payers money, on erm... experimental energy ideas 🤡 ▪️Mission Control - (seriously it's embarrassing) to oversee and coordinate the government's Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. Which the previous 2 above should be doing🤡 ▪️National Energy System Operator - Created to manage the transition to a fully decarbonized and efficient energy system. Shouldn't the 3 above all be doing this? 🤡 ▪️Solar Taskforce - Set up to accelerate the deployment of solar energy across the country & destroy farmland 🤡 ​ ▪️Border Security Command - focusing on tackling smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migrant crossings over the English Channel. ​Abject failure already, with more boats landing than before it was established 😂 ▪️Jet Zero Taskforce - Created to advise on the development of sustainable aviation fuels and strategies to reduce aviation emissions. ​Also means, interfering in the private sector that they know nothing about.🤡 ▪️British Infrastructure Taskforce - Formed to build business confidence in UK infrastructure investments and develop a 10 year infrastructure strategy. ​er... 4 OTHERS similar, no idea why this group exist at all 😂🤡 ▪️Creative Industries Taskforce - Established to support and promote growth within the creative sectors. Centralised control of the creative industries by the civil service? 😂🤡 ▪️Circular Economy Taskforce: Set up to drive initiatives that promote recycling and sustainable resource use. ​Also known as Non Job eco grifting 🤡 ▪️Tree Planting Taskforce - Created to oversee national tree-planting, as part of environmental conservation efforts. ​Utterly pointless! we already have the forestry commission, which by the way is behind schedule on planting trees... which is its remit 🤡 ▪️Child Poverty Taskforce - Formed to reduce child poverty across the nation. ​There would be less child poverty if we spent more money on children and less on bollocks QUANGOS.🤡 ▪️Flooding Resilience Taskforce - Established to enhance the country's preparedness and response to flooding incidents. ​Pointless non jobs, we already had this within the environment department.🤡 ▪️Motor Insurance Taskforce - Private industry central government control. Created to tackle issues within the motor insurance industry and protect consumers. ​(we already have this function within government)🤡 ▪️New Towns Taskforce - Set up to plan and develop new towns to address housing shortages. ​Which we wouldn't need had the Border QUANGO stopped the boats.🤡 ▪️Onshore Wind Industry Taskforce - Established to promote and expand the onshore wind energy sector. ​Which is what 4 of the above QUANGOS were set up to do.🤡 ▪️Skills England - Created to oversee and enhance skills development and vocational training. ​Non Jobs, we already have this covered by DfE.🤡 ▪️Industrial Strategy Council - Formed to provide independent advice on the government's industrial strategy. What? advisors advising advisors?😂🤡 ▪️Passenger Standards Authority - Established to monitor and improve standards in public transportation. Non Jobs for pen pushers. 😂🤡 ​ ▪️National Jobs and Careers - Created to provide guidance and support for job seekers and career development. Total non jobs,could be done by the Skills England above & should be done under DWP anyway. ▪️Ethics and Integrity Commissioner - Appointed to oversee ethical standards within public institutions. ​NON Jobs, that's what HR is for 🤡😂 ▪️House of Commons Modernisation Committee - Formed to propose and implement reforms within the House of Commons. ​Not an entirely shit idea.✔️ ▪️School Support Staff Negotiating Body - Established to negotiate terms and conditions for school support staff. ​ What? 🤡 ▪️Independent Football Regulator - Set up to oversee the governance of football, aiming to ensure transparency and fairness within the sport. Total Non Jobs to interfere & centrally control a private industry🤡 ▪️Fair Work Agency - Created to promote fair work practices across various sectors, ensuring equitable treatment and conditions for workers. Non Jobs for no reason. See above point about HR. 🤡 ▪️Defence Innovation Agency - Established to drive innovation within the defense sector. ​What then is the point of the department of defence? isn't that literally its job?🤡 No private organisation would EVER run in such a wasteful and pointless way, over centralising and creating competing departments of bollocks, within the same sector. We don't need a chainsaw we need a bulldozer. All of the above need closing immediately 💣

Imagine this is the business I work for, we’d employ another 100 people to oversee the work we do. Bureaucratic incompetence

Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones

2 months ago

Each department in government will now have its own delivery unit, led by a senior civil servant. And every Secretary of State and Minister of State will be given a new “delivery advisor” in their private office to support this work. These new delivery functions will be

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Let’s hope the Veterans Minister sees this very sad interview. Why would any young person want to join up when they see how veterans serving as far back as 1970s are being treated by this Government

Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs

2 months ago

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Police say today's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally passed 'largely without any signficant incident'. Probably worth noting that at the 2025 Notting Hill carnival, 528 people were arrested, four people were stabbed, and 55 police officers were assaulted.

GB Politics @GBPolitcs

2 months ago

🚨NEW: The Met police say although arrests were made, the "Unite the Kingdom" rally proceeded largely without any significant incident

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He’s going all out… Quiet now, it’ll soon be over

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer

2 months ago

Today the voices of division will be loud. They don't speak for the country I know, one that belongs to all of us. That's our Britain. A Britain worth fighting for. lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…

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Why does it take 5 days? Assaulted someone in a coffee shop and then kicked off with the coppers, video evidence.

Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan

2 months ago

BREAKING NEWS; After a 5 Week Trial & FIVE days of Deliberations the Jury in the trial of these👇two brothers could Not reach a Unanimous verdict; SO? Have been sent home for the weekend & it will extend into a SIXTH day with the Judge now prepared to accept a Majority verdict👇

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It's not vegan leather. It's plastic. It's not oat milk. It's a beverage made by enzymatically processing oat starch and emulsifying it with rapeseed oil. It's not vegan cheese. It's coconut oil, modified starch, and titanium dioxide pressed into a slice. It's not plant-based meat. It's pea-protein isolate, seed oils, and methylcellulose extruded into a patty. It's not a butter alternative. It's an industrial spread invented by a soap company. It's not a milk alternative. It's water with oats and additives, sold for double the price of milk. Every product on the plant-based shelf has been linguistically rebranded to borrow the legitimacy of the food it replaced. The cow has not been consulted on the use of her name. The sheep has not consented to the term vegan wool. The marketing department in London has consented to all of it. The animals predate the marketing department by ten thousand years. The marketing department will be gone before the animals will.

He was Russel group university student. He had his whole life ahead of him. But he was stabbed to death by a foreigner. He could have survived, but died in handcuffs, arrested, after his attacker falsely claimed he was "racist" to him. The media is silent on this story.

Just a reminder for left wing politicians who are demonstrating unabashed bigotry toward one political protest over others. “One rule for them and one rule for everyone else”

@NormanBrennan Do you think they’ll poke and prod to provoke?

Last year's Unite the Kingdom rally = 23 arrests Notting Hill carnival = 443 arrests Palestinian marches = >500 arrests. I'm not making a point about race. I'm looking at the facts about the threat level. This is @Keir_Starmer trying to hate-bait you into violence. RISE ABOVE his attempts to divide the country. Wave your flags. Drink your flasks of tea. Hug strangers - just like last year. And celebrate our history, our shared culture and our potentially great nation. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

GB News @GBNEWS

2 months ago

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to use the 'full force of the law' against Unite the Kingdom attendees should the rally turn violent. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🇬🇧 Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/support

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