Geoff Williams

Yesterday Andy Burnham put 'reindustrialisation' at the heart of his pitch to be Labour leader. Today Ed Miliband will whip his MPs to vote to shut down the North Sea. The greatest act of industrial self-harm in a generation. Will Andy stand up for British workers or not?

Drone Footage Reveals the TRUE Size of the UTK Rally - The MSM Won't Show This! Share this far and wide! We won on May 16th! Thank you to everyone that attended, spoke and was involved in the running of this beautiful, peaceful, patriotic event! COME ON!!!!!

@SarahForRuncorn Lammy’s response was pathetic. Although typical of the man.

Why are some protesters being fast-tracked through the courts, while grooming gang survivors are left waiting decades for justice? This betrayal is just another example of two-tier justice under this government.

Baroness Foster quotes Churchill: ‘An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it’ll eat him last.’ As she describes in the house of lords the weak and pathetic responses to Islam by the government.

You might have heard of Maggie Oliver. She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so. Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission. She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse. Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills. She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward. Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations. The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated. The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions. The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history. That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt. They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt. It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure. Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face. The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands. There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts. Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace. She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.

Makerfield was Andy Burnham’s back up plan. For Robert Kenyon, it’s his home. This battle will be David Vs Goliath.

Robert Kenyon is our by-election candidate. This is The Plucky Plumber taking on Open Borders Burnham. Only Reform UK can beat Labour.

@bphillipsonMP Surely parents should be feeding their children and giving them breakfast. Not government. Raise tax the threshold and let working people keep more of their income. You’re not telling us parents can’t afford Cornflakes and toast?

With Reform UK, it's always about 'looking after our own' until it comes to feeding children. Labour is providing over 6,400 children across Kent County Council with free breakfast clubs. Reform UK literally want to take the food from their mouths. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

So ministers are campaigning to win a seat they already had, for a candidate that wants to replace the PM that they have full confidence in and claim is going nowhere. And we are meant to pretend this is all perfectly normal.

🚨 Starmer says Brexit made Britain poorer. But the GDP data tells a more awkward story. Since the Brexit vote: UK real GDP: +12.1% Germany real GDP: +6.0% Britain is not booming. Nobody serious should pretend it is. But Europe’s supposed economic engine has grown at barely half the UK’s rate. So why is Starmer’s big answer still more Europe? This wasn’t a reset. It was a relapse: more Brexit blame, more Brussels, more excuses. No wonder voters are walking away from Labour.

@YvetteCooperMP @FCDOGovUK This seems a completely meaningless post, what is it meant to achieve? How does it help the UAE? Virtue signalling again?

We strongly condemn the attack on the Barakah nuclear facility in the UAE. This reckless attack risks wider regional instability. The UK stands in solidarity with the UAE in support of its defence and a return to stability in the region.

Released 65 years ago in New York, “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King became one of the most unforgettable soul classics in music history ❤️

This mornings comedy video clip. We need humour like this nowadays #comedy #monday 😳😳😆😆😆

“Remarkable” GOLDFINGER (1964) #SeanConnery #GertFröbe #HaroldSakata

Geoffrey Boothroyd was a gun aficionado who wrote to IAN FLEMING asking him to change Bond's signature gun – a Beretta. SEAN CONNERY — on the set of GOLDFINGER (1964) — introduces Boothroyd who shows us why he thought 007 needed a gun with more oomph.

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

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Paradise, found. Hello Saint Lucia! 👋 🇱🇨 📸 by: @augustjuly

This video from @ZiaYusufUK on immigration has been removed by TikTok for “Hate Speech”. This is unacceptable political interference from a big tech company. Does @TikTokComms believe in free speech or not?

Kikladhes, Greece 🇬🇷