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@elonmusk @TRobinsonNewEra Its really sad its not even a shock anymore to any of us in the UK that things like this happen with the one sided police we have

@TRobinsonNewEra Unconscionable. I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.

This is fucking outrageous

Watching PM’s questions. It’s all a fucking joke to them, having a good laugh again

@EdwardJDavey Same thinking as Starmer. Millions of us are in the wrong and racist. You obviously live a privileged life and not in an area like me in Birmingham

Though smaller than last year, the Unite the Kingdom march over the weekend was still sickening. The resurgence of out-and-out racism in the UK, from demands for remigration of British Asians to Antisemitic slurs on placards at both demonstrations, demands we meet this moment.

Truly “sickening” Ed. Look at the hate in their eyes. I’m still shivering. 😱

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries. Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences. We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea. Insane.

If Reform win the Makerfield byelection and Andy Burnham's leadership dreams are smashed to pieces by a patriotic local lad working as a plumber... It will be GLORIOUS. And I don't think I will ever stop laughing.

@BBCWorld Do you really think people will feel any sympathy for these men? They know what those girls will have to face. I’d rather we all died

Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU

@BBCWorld I would rather kill my children then myself rather than sell them. They would be better off dead than face that hell

@MrsBr0wn_82 I know some will say you don’t know what you’d do in their position, I do know, I’d kill us all before I’d sell my children, death would be a better option for the girls than being sold

The BBC is running a story trying to pull at our heartstrings for starving fathers in Afghanistan who are ready to sell their young daughters just to buy food. One man weeps while holding his seven-year-old twins, saying he'll sell one to feed the rest. Another already sold his five-year-old. I don't care how hungry I get I would never do this. Not in a million years. These beautiful, innocent little girls are being treated like goods to be traded by the very men who are supposed to protect them. Instead, they're guarded by monsters. Poverty and hunger are horrific, but selling your own child isn't an "impossible choice" it's a moral failure. The BBC can frame it as tragic desperation all they want, but we should be disgusted and outraged for the daughters, not feeling sorry for the fathers willing to do this. These children deserve real protectors, not men who see them as a survival asset. Absolutely sickening

@AndyBurnhamGM Selected 🤡

I am proud and humbled to have been selected as Labour’s candidate for Makerfield. These proud working-class communities represent the very best values of our country and they deserve so much better. It would be my honour to work for them every day, if elected as their MP, to achieve that. Many people here feel Westminster isn’t working for them and they are right. I am standing to change that and get the voice of these communities heard loud and clear. I am glad that this by-election has finally put the places that make up the Makerfield constituency into the national spotlight. They have been neglected by national politics for too long. It is a good thing that all political parties are now on the hook to tell the voters here what they are going to do for them. More than anything, people need life to be more affordable again. As Mayor, I have brought in changes which are helping, such as the £2 fare cap, free bus travel for our 16-18 year-olds and removing the 9.30am restriction from older and disabled people’s bus passes. But there is only so much I can do from Greater Manchester. If elected, I will have a relentless focus on reducing people’s everyday costs and bills and well as securing the investment these communities need. I have been an elected representative in Greater Manchester for 25 years. Throughout that time, I have fought for the people of the North West of England on so many fronts. I am now ready to bring the whole weight of that experience to fighting for the communities of the Makerfield constituency and would be privileged to be given that opportunity.

@benonwine massively high tracks, don’t know why there are 3 by Coleshill with roads shut for weeks/months and the dust from it. Huge temporary bases for workers and offices in Coleshill and Water Orton.

@AnnGold1 My god what have they done how can it still be a building site after all these years

£102.7 BILLION… and they’re now saying HS2 might not even be finished until 2039. Honestly, this project has become one of the biggest money pits in British history. How does a railway line end up costing this much and taking THIS long in a country that once built world-class infrastructure decades ago without endless delays and excuses? Taxpayers are being absolutely rinsed while the budget spirals out of control year after year. At this rate people will be travelling by teleportation before HS2 is finished.

It’s no wonder people are angry. 18,000 people are waiting for a council home in Southwark …. Yet SIERRA LEONE’S First Lady has a London council flat, even though she’s living in a presidential palace in Africa! It’s indefensible, Just evict her !🤡

@ShabanaMahmood Good luck with that in Birmingham. A shop by us has been closed down twice and it reopens after a couple of months still doing the same. We’ve got 6 Turkish barbers within half a mile

Criminal gangs have exploited our high streets to launder their dirty money and undercut honest businesses. We're hitting back with a nationwide crackdown to shut these fronts down, seize dirty cash, drive organised crime off our high streets and put bosses behind bars.

Let’s have a think about what’s happening in Makerfield. This by election is costing taxpayers £226,208. And it’s happening because a Labour MP chose to step aside to make room for Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions. He admitted that himself. But here’s some more interesting figures. If Burnham wins, he’ll have to resign as Greater Manchester Mayor too. That triggers another election costing taxpayers around £4.7 million. So in total, nearly £5 million of public money could be spent not on improving services, fixing roads, supporting communities or helping struggling families, but on political career ambitions. People are struggling with bills, crime, NHS waiting lists and communities being ignored. Yet Westminster politics still seems focused on who climbs the ladder next. That’s what frustrates people. Not democracy. Political games made to look like democracy.

Starmer accused the Unite The Kingdom march of “peddling hatred and division”. So did David Lammy. Sadiq Khan called it “far-right”. Given that only 20 arrests were confirmed, less than the FA Cup final yesterday, @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy @MayorofLondon should all apologise.

BREAKING: Man optimistic he can replace hated prime minister and win over the public by doing the exact same policies, but in a Mancunian accent ♥️

Attention King Charles: Take your digital ID, open borders, and tyranny and shove it!

I didn’t mind if you were gay. Until you paraded in the streets in chaps and with dildos in front of families. I didn’t care if you were trans. Until you wanted access to my kids in school and wanted them to question their own sexuality and gender. I didn’t care if you were black or white or brown. Until you wanted to pull down statues, destroy our history, re-write our novels and pay you reparations. I didn’t care if you wanted to cross borders. Until you decided to do so illegally and then started criminal enterprises in the country you entered or lived off the welfare system. I even didn’t mind if you wanted an abortion, until you started celebrating them and calling the fœtus a “clump of cells”. I am not the only one. There are millions of people just like me. And we are angry now and will fight back. The line must be drawn here.