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Tw-t 👇

@tomhfh He is also complicit

Is Andy Burnham already becoming a bit…. Trudeau The kitsch aesthetics, leaning into popular culture a little bit too heavily, relatively vacuous policy… it’s starting to feel a little bit Justin.

@jeremycorbyn Labour are full of sick perverts🤮🤮🤮

The very least any new Prime Minister should do is establish a full, independent, public inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide.

If only they had some Thailand-based crypto tycoon to bankroll their lives…

@piersmorgan Labour are full of sick perverts🤮🤮

@afneil @ramonagusta GENERAL ELECTION NOW

If he’s only going to spend one day a week in No 10 North but doesn’t regard the real No 10 as his main residence then where will he stay when in London?

@afneil @ramonagusta

When Andy Burnham ran for Manchester Mayor, there were 189 rough sleepers on the streets of Greater Manchester. He promised to do something about it. And for a while, he did! By 2021 he reduced it to just 89, which was a fair achievement, considering it was his premiere pledge. But over the next few years he seemed to lose interest again, and the numbers crept up. Today, they’re back at 2016 numbers, which sort of tells you everything about his tenure as Manchester Mayor. Even on his flagship policy, he simply offered a bandaid for a bullet wound, and now Manchester is back at square one.

@AllisonPearson I wouldn't turn this into a north Vs South thing. Northern England has been the most under invested place in the UK. The devolved nations gave the Barrnet formula. All too often the North gets forgotten. Saying that I hate Burnham, and labour are full of sick perverts

I’ve got a feeling Number 10 North will not be the big vote winner Burnham’s team thinks it is. Southern taxpayers won’t be amused.

@BethRigby Labour are full of sick perverts 🤮🤮

ANALYSIS: Genuine change or a better story-teller at the top? So many Qs from Burnham’s first real leadership speech, but v short on answers

@JuliaHB1 Labour are full of sick perverts🤮🤮

My thoughts on Andy Burnham's speech today... He's a lot easier to listen to than Keir Starmer, whose voice and judgey too are worse than nails down a chalkboard. That makes it easier to actually hear what Burnham is saying.  The trouble is that, in 30+ minutes, he didn't really say very much.  It was a positive, friendly pitch - full of hope and change and calls for unity, a broad church, a collaborative approach and an end to the current broken system. Which all sounds great, doesn't it? What's not to like about all of that? Except that he doesn't actually suggest anything tangible or practical to achieve any of those things.  Crucially, while his calls for unity and an end to the "arguing" might sound nice,  they ignore the reality that, in a democracy, we need competing parties (and individuals within those parties) to argue their case for what they want to do and how they plan to do it. The battle of ideas is vital. If you want unity, go and live in a dictatorship. Andy Burnham is right to say Westminster hasn't been working for the country for years and that our politics is broken. But that's not because power isn't devolved enough - it's because politicians have repeatedly ignored the express will of the people after they are elected on key issues like immigration, Brexit, law and order and even house building, to name but a few.  If Burnham thinks that the solution to all of Britain's ills is more devolution of power down from Whitehall to local metro mayors and councils then I suggest he pays a visit to Wales and to Scotland to find out how all that devolved power is working out for the benefit of people in those countries - and it's not looking great. And if Westminster and Whitehall have been so useless at their jobs over the past few decades (which they have indeed been), then why on earth does Burnham think that local mayors and civil servants will miraculously do any better job?  The plan to set up a Number 10 North in Manchester is nothing but a silly gimmick - met with cheers by his audience in the room because they can't wait to get their hands on those lovely, well paid, secure public sector jobs.  Spending time, taxpayers' money and Whitehall bandwidth on adding yet another layer of bureaucracy to our already overly heavy public sector won't do a single thing to boost growth. It will just eat up yet more billions and grow the state at the expense of the wealth-generating private sector. His plans to cut utility prices and reindustrialise also sound like a good plan but both are impossible while Labour is hooked on the Net Zero targets, which push up energy prices.  A renewed focus on technical education is to be welcomed but, frankly, I've lost count of how many times a politician has pledged to do that.  And where have we heard that promise to have a "laser-like focus on growth" before? Hmmmm... And his bid to build tens (even hundreds?) of thousands of council houses a year is pie in the sky stuff. Labour are already way behind their current house building targets - even for market-priced homes - and the high cost of building supplies, energy and a shortage of skilled labour will make Burnham's plan hard to deliver. All in all, everything he said sounded nice. But there was no flesh on the bones and no evidence that anything he offered was a solution to any of Britain's problems. Of course a Prime Minister-in-waiting can't cover every major topic in just one short speech. But the fact that Andy Burnham chose not to mention literally ANY of the biggest problems that Britain faces suggests he just isn't serious about solving any of them. 1/2

@paulmasonnews Labour ate, full of sickos 🤮🤮

This is a vision we should have started with...

He’s like a parody northerner. Absolute BellEnd…

@Iromg Sick perverts that should be in prison 🤮🤮

Applause for Burnham as he talks about devolution and calls his model: Manchesterism “a vision of good growth and a rejection of the trickle down model”

@BethRigby More sick perverts🤮🤮

@Alexarmstrong Sick perverts🤮🤮

Andy Burnham announces “Number 10 in the North”. Just a reminder that Manchester is in the bottom 45% of Great Britain…