Jeff Hartley

SHEPHERD FOR MAKERFIELD

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Tomorrow's headline in the National Press. If you care about the victim's, then please repost this. The only way that we can break open the Labour Party's cover-up of the Rape Gang Scandal is to keep the pressure on Starmer. Please do your bit and repost. Thank you all.

A foreign billionaire just did the job the entire British press wouldn't. @elonmusk asked the question every newsroom in this country should have been screaming for months. Who are the officers that handcuffed a dying boy and let him bleed out in the street? Who are they, and why are they still in a job? Not the BBC. Not Sky. Not GB News. A bloke in Texas with no stake in this country. They had the story. They let it die. He picked it back up, called it unconscionable, and offered to fund a wrongful death lawsuit. The answer to his question? Silence. Still. This is Henry Nowak. First year student. Walking home from a night out with his football team. A wounded teenager telling officers he couldn't breathe, and the response was handcuffs, not an ambulance. A boy dies like this on a British street and it should never have left the front page. It should have been the reckoning that didn't stop until someone answered for it. Instead it took a man who owes us nothing to drag it back into the light. Not one officer named. Not one suspended. The watchdog is investigating now, and only now, because the pressure came from a website and not a single news desk in this country. Ordinary people never needed permission to care. They raised over £40,000 for Henry at a charity football match in his memory. That is the Britain that still has a pulse. The one that doesn't wait to be told who's allowed to matter. When the richest man on earth has to do your journalism for you, what exactly is the British press for? So let me ask you the question they wouldn't. Did you see Henry's name on the news? Or did you have to find it here? Henry Nowak. 18 years old. Walking home. He should have made it.

As a man, a dad, and someone who actually gives a damn about protecting women and girls , I’m done watching politicians like @AndyBurnhamGM play Russian roulette with female safety for the sake of self-ID ideology. Andy: How many women and girls have to be assaulted, raped, flashed, filmed, or intimidated in toilets, changing rooms, prisons, sports, or refuges before you stop prioritising men in dresses over actual women? Male pattern crime doesn’t disappear because a bloke says he’s a woman. Ministry of Justice stats prove it: 70% of trans women (biological males) in prison have sexual offence convictions that’s 20 times higher than female prisoners. Yet you’ve backed self-ID, opposed the Supreme Court’s clear ruling on biological sex, and dismissed women’s safety concerns as “culture wars.” This isn’t “inclusion.” It’s betrayal. Women aren’t “bigots” for wanting single-sex spaces. They’re just trying to stay safe. And every time you let a male-bodied offender into female only areas, you’re telling half the population their safety is negotiable. I stand with women. Real women. Biological women. No more sacrificing girls’ safety for feelings. Women and girls first. Always.

@CrisisFront @muskonomy Until he does it, and he will. You bet against Elon Musk at your peril.

@muskonomy Moving a million tons of cargo on a rocket that has not even completed a single fully reusable orbital mission is pure fantasy he is just throwing out massive numbers to keep his stock inflated

NEWS: Elon Musk laid out SpaceX's core mission in precise terms during his Forbes interview, describing the specific test he uses to define a genuinely self-sustaining civilization beyond Earth. If resupply ships from Earth stop arriving for any reason, does the civilization on the Moon or Mars continue to grow or does it collapse? Passing that test is the actual goal, not simply putting humans on another planet. To reach it, Elon estimates humanity needs to deliver roughly 1 million tons of cargo to the Moon or Mars to build sufficient industrial capacity. He was careful to define what multi-planetary actually means. It is not about leaving Earth and relocating somewhere else. That would simply be a single-planet civilization in a harder place to live. The goal is for humanity to extend outward while keeping Earth intact, eventually becoming a spacefaring civilization spread across multiple worlds. SpaceX's Starship, targeting full reusability as early as this year, is the vehicle Musk says makes the million-ton goal physically achievable. He described this as a "fundamental breakthrough" he hopes to see happen in 2026.

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

@gguworld To quote a great man. "I'm playing all the right notes. Just not necessarily in the right order". Discordant crap is what it is.

Someone sent me this and I have watched it four times. I still have no idea what to say. Just watch.

@Mazclin I thought he couldn't work because he can't walk?

His 16 mile walk will be done in 10 steps 😬

We birds of a feather must flock together… please share!

@AndyBurnhamGM @JamesMelville

@JamesMelville They doorstepped me! I can assure you I wouldn’t arrange for this to be filmed. 😂

Here’s Andy Burnham having a run. Politicians are a very strange bunch. So many of them like to get the TV cameras on them when they are jogging. Even the rather hefty Boris Johnson repeatedly did this. Why do politicians do this sort of thing? It’s so weird.

Starmer Just Threatened The Unite The Kingdom Rally youtu.be/04yCFtUM1E8?si… via @YouTube

@AndyBurnhamGM If Josh is so great, why isn't he challenging Starmer for the leadership? I hope you lose.

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@Telegraph Kier Starmer out of that lot. He is so truly incompetant that he can only make things worse and worse. We're not getting a general election any time soon so let's keep the most useless PM in history in post. It can only help the right, Restore UK or Reform, when that time comes.

❓Who would you rather have as prime minister?

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A big hit piece on Restore Britain in the Financial Times today. Excellent news.

Dear @owenjonesjourno. As editor of Jewish News, I was appalled by the language my deputy used towards you. There is no excuse for the unnecessary use of a full stop before a coordinating conjunction. The sentence should, of course, have read: “I am Deputy Editor of Jewish News and I’m respectfully asking you to fuck right off.”

This is England, where even the kindest, most human acts are subject to control by authoritarian pen pushers. Using “health and safety” to stop a young 25 year old man from cleaning gravestones with soap and water. This is how you crush a society. You do it by smothering small acts of decency, like driving people home from the pub and cleaning gravestones. You do it by putting rules in the way of people pulling together, until eventually they just stop trying. Reject this 🔥

I urge @elonmusk, @JDVance and the wider American administration to deploy whatever appropriate power they hold to prevent Keir Starmer from banning X in Britain. Free speech must be protected, and such disgusting authoritarianism must be resisted. We need help.