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michael smith

michael smith

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Whitehaven, England Katılım Şubat 2013
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James Esses
James Esses@JamesEsses·
We now know Andy Burnham: -Provided £100,000 of taxpayer’s money to fund a group that helped children get puberty blockers -Believes men should have access to women’s toilets -Criticised the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex Labour pose a danger to women and children.
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Restore Edinburgh
Restore Edinburgh@RestoreEdi·
Make sure everyone you know in Makerfield sees this clip from September 2025. Burnham saying he will put the UK back in the EU. Share this like crazy people 👇
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Maxi
Maxi@AllForProgress_·
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.
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Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra·
PEACEFUL. PROUD. UNBREAKABLE. | My Urgent Message Before Saturday The world will be watching on Saturday. Please stay peaceful, stay disciplined, and do not give the media or the establishment what they want. No aggression. No masks. No excuses. Families, women, and children will be there. This is about showing strength through unity, discipline, and pride in our country. If provoked, smile and rise above it. Britain cannot afford to fail.
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Benonwine
Benonwine@benonwine·
So Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan reportedly met senior Met Police officials this morning ahead of tomorrow’s Tommy Robinson rally. A lot of people are now asking an obvious question: Why are politicians holding meetings with police chiefs right before a major political demonstration? The police are supposed to be completely impartial and independent from political pressure. At a time when trust in institutions is already collapsing, optics like this only fuel even more suspicion and division. There is a stitch up happening that is plainly clear and evident. In a democracy, you don’t protect free speech by only allowing opinions the government agrees with.
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Inevitable West
Inevitable West@Inevitablewest·
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.
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Sophie Corcoran
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc·
If HMRC don’t fine Angela Rayner for not paying £40k in tax Then they should refund the ££££ in fines they have given to self employed people in this country on modest incomes who don’t have the advice that a deputy PM would have It is insanely unfair.
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Wolf 🐺
Wolf 🐺@PsyGuy007·
🇬🇧 CHOC À SOUTHAMPTON : Henry Nowak, 18 ans, étudiant brillant, se fait P0IGNARDER dans la rue par Vickrum Digwa armé d’un énorme couteau de 21 cm Au lieu d’aider la victime qui se vide de son sang, l’agresseur l’accuse immédiatement de racisme. La police arrive… et menotte Henry, le blessé, pour « sécuriser la scène ». Il s’effondre, SE NOIE dans son propre S@NG et MEURT sous leurs yeux. Priorité aux accusations de racisme plutôt qu’à sauver une vie britannique. 🗣️ Commentez « Justice pour Henry » et partagez massivement pour que cette honte s’arrête et que justice soit faite ! 😡 🔥
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Right over Left Everytime
Right over Left Everytime@RightSide_Uk·
🚨 MPs’ renting scandal just went nuclear — and the snout-in-the-trough champion of the week is none other than Labour’s own Deputy Leader, Lucy Powell. It’s now been exposed that a whole string of MPs have been renting rooms and entire homes to each other at full taxpayer expense. Powell raked in over £30,000 last year alone by renting out a room to another MP. Taxpayer-funded second homes, taxpayer-funded rents flowing straight into fellow MPs’ pockets — a cosy little Westminster property scam that makes the old expenses scandal look like pocket change. This is the same Labour Party that lectures working Brits about “fairness”, “austerity” and “paying your share” while their own elite treat Parliament like a private members’ club with an unlimited bar tab on your dime. While British families are crushed by sky-high rents, energy bills and taxes to fund this circus, Labour insiders are quietly lining their nests by renting to one another — all perfectly “within the rules,” of course. Because in two-tier Britain, the rules are written by the grifters for the grifters. Lucy Powell isn’t some backbencher caught with her hand in the till. She’s the Deputy Leader. The second most senior figure in Starmer’s government. The same government that’s busy hiking your taxes, slashing services and telling you to tighten your belt while they play Monopoly with public money. This isn’t a mistake. This isn’t an oversight. This is systemic corruption dressed up as “MP accommodation.” The silent majority has had enough of these champagne socialists treating the British taxpayer like a bottomless ATM. We pay for their second homes, their rents, their expenses — while our own kids can’t get on the housing ladder and pensioners choose between heating and eating. We demand: ✅ Immediate full public audit of every MP’s property dealings and expenses — names, amounts, everything. ✅ Resignations for anyone caught in this rental racket — starting with Lucy Powell. ✅ A complete overhaul of the MPs’ expenses system — no more second homes, no more self-dealing, no more pigs at the trough. ✅ Real consequences for the entitled elite who think the rules don’t apply to them. Labour isn’t just failing Britain. It’s looting it — one taxpayer-funded rental agreement at a time. Starmer Out. Powell Out. The whole rotten Westminster cartel out. The British people are watching. And this time we’re not forgetting. 🇬🇧 #MPSRentingScandal #LucyPowellExposed #TwoTierBritain #LabourGrift #RestoreBritain #PutBritainFirst #MPsExpenses #BritainIsBroken #EndTheCorruption
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michael smith@Msmith132Smith·
@JamesMelville The last decent leader the Labour Party had 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️👍👍
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
On this day in history, 32 years ago… John Smith, the Labour Party leader, was 55 years old when he died from a heart attack on May 12, 1994. He once said: “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.” And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.
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Rupert Lowe MP
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
The very worst Prime Minister, of the very worst Government. Starmer has disgraced the office, and history will remember him as such. Resign.
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AC_SPARTAN
AC_SPARTAN@ACSPARTAN1·
Before anyone in Westminster crowns Andy Burnham as Labour’s saviour, they should revisit his record on one of the gravest policing failures in modern Greater Manchester: Operation Augusta Operation Augusta was a Greater Manchester Police investigation into the organised sexual exploitation of children in Manchester. An independent review published in 2020 confirmed that the operation had identified at least 57 children as potential victims. Many were as young as 12, all were in the care of Manchester social services, and the abuse was known to be systemic. Police had identified 97 individuals as potential offenders. Despite this info the operation was closed down. The official explanation was a lack of resources. This was difficult to reconcile with the fact that GMP had gained more than 1,000 additional officers in the years leading up to the decision. Of the 97 suspects identified, only a small number were ever prosecuted. The review found that the decision‑making minutes from the senior “Gold Group” meeting where the shutdown was agreed had disappeared. Minutes from Manchester City Council relating to the same period were also missing. When MPs later challenged Andy Burnham then Mayor of Greater Manchester on these failures, Hansard records their assessment of his response as “supine.” They noted that he accepted the “lack of resources” justification without scrutiny and expressed no clear sense of injustice on behalf of the children failed by the system. Burnham also commissioned the Rochdale grooming review, which identified 96 men who were still considered potential risks to children and remained at large. That review covered failures between 2004 and 2013, documenting repeated missed opportunities, abandoned investigations and a pattern of institutional indifference toward vulnerable girls, mostly white and from deprived backgrounds. Burnham described the findings as “lamentable” and called for a statutory duty of candour. What he did not do was explain what his mayoralty had done to locate or prosecute the 96 men still identified as potential offenders. Commissioning reviews is not the same as confronting the failures they expose. The reviews Burnham ordered documented serious safeguarding breakdowns that occurred both before and during his tenure. His response to parliamentary scrutiny was judged inadequate by MPs who examined it. Yet the political class, MPs, union leaders and commentators now presents Burnham as the uncomplicated answer to Labour’s problems. The same institutions that failed to press him on Operation Augusta are preparing to elevate him without demanding accountability. It mirrors the wider pattern exposed in the current political crisis: a culture that manages consequences rather than confronting wrongdoing. Before anyone decides that Andy Burnham is the solution, they should read the Hansard debate on Operation Augusta. They should ask what happened to the 96 men identified as potential risks to children. And they should insist on a better answer than the one he gave last time.
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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
This is for anyone who voted Labour today: You want to know how Labour-led areas treat abuse survivors? Well, let me enlighten you. I was five. I knew that it didn’t feel nice and I wanted it to stop. But I also had no frame of reference for what was normal and what wasn’t. The early abuse made me vulnerable. And predators exploited that vulnerability, making it that much easier to be groomed and abused by other men throughout my teen years. Eventually, I confided in a social worker and filed a police report detailing the years of abuse that I had experienced. But, as countless other girls in Telford have testified, I was made to feel as though I was to blame. The system demonised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators. I remember being asked by a detective whether I “consented” at any point to sexual activity, and told by a social worker that “my actions had led me to where I was today”. All the while the Labour-led council tried to block an independent inquiry into CSE for years and their Council Leader (now the MP for Telford), along with 10 other powerful local men, even wrote a letter to the Home Secretary saying they felt an inquiry would unnecessary. Little girls in Telford were branded child prostitutes and p*ki shaggers — my West Mercia Police, no less. In Rotherham, Rochdale and elsewhere, victims were continually swept aside by those in positions of power, as if they chose this lifestyle. The attitudes that social workers, local services, authorities had towards children was so skewed, and so deeply unprofessional. And my case, like 96.5 per cent of all sex crime cases in the UK, never resulted in prosecution. I was told that there was an unrealistic prospect of conviction against any of my abusers, due to the historic nature of my case. It broke me. And I spent years in silence because I thought I would somehow be judged or penalised for the abuse I had suffered. Because I had been conditioned to feel like I was somehow responsible for my own victimisation. The Telford scandal made headlines when it broke in 2015, then again when the Crowther Report was released in 2022. Yet, The news cycle moved on far too quickly. This isn’t a 60-second-and-then-done issue. For change to occur, there needs to be constant attention brought to this issue because, otherwise, silence and ignorance only serves to support the predators and the paedophiles. This is a crime that thrives on misinformation, on fears of “racism” and a lack of awareness, and on being swept under the rug. They rely on girls not being taken seriously, the media not caring and the police not taking any action to investigate. These are not crimes of the past. Kids are still being exploited, groomed, raped and even murdered in council estates like mine. It isn’t enough to have empty words and hollow promises. I even went on national TV to discuss Pakistani grooming gangs in Telford and the continued risk of abuse faced by little girls in my hometown. The next day, officers banged on my door, demanding I speak to them about my interview. They ignored victims for decades, but tried to intimidate me for speaking about their failings on live TV. CSE is a national epidemic. But those in power continue to treat it like a localised issue, choosing to believe that the extent of the abuse is contained to a few bad towns and pockets of bad apples. That couldn’t be further from the truth. But those in power refuse to address that fact for fear of being forced to confront their decades-long failure to protect young girls from abuse. It’s easier to ignore victims, especially when they come from communities, social classes or demographics that are already disenfranchised in Britain. And for those who do speak out, it feels like you are screaming at a brick wall that would rather label you as the problem than take you seriously. So, if you care at all about women and girls: Don’t vote Labour.
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michael smith@Msmith132Smith·
@Ed_Miliband You deluded simpleton can’t see the wood for the trees 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband·
Thanks to the all Labour activists out campaigning today. We were elected to change this country, two years in we’ve got a lot done, and we’ve got lots more to do. The Prime Minister and the whole cabinet is focussed on delivering on the change we promised to the country.
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Jon Gaunt
Jon Gaunt@jongaunt·
Let’s be frank, @Keir_Starmer you Lost because we HATE you. We hate you because of Southport. We HATE you for attacking pensioners and farmers. We HATE you for allowing unvetted illegals of fighting age into U.K. We HATE you for dragging out mass rape inquiry. We just HATE YOU!
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michael smith@Msmith132Smith·
@Keir_Starmer Deluded is a understatement 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
These are tough results for Labour. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’ve lost brilliant Labour representatives who’ve stood up for their communities. People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough. We haven’t offered enough hope or optimism for the future. I was elected to change this country - tough days like this don’t weaken my determination to do that. They strengthen it.
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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
Welcome to Britain, Where 30,000 Muslims can hold a mass public prayer demonstration. But a Christian preacher gets arrested for reading the Gospel. Our country is utterly broken.
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leekern
leekern@leekern13·
White British kids aren’t killing Jews Hindus aren’t killing Jews Sikhs aren’t killing Jews Black Christians aren’t killing Jews Rastafarians aren’t killing Jews Chinese and Japanese people aren’t killing Jews Romanian and Polish immigrants aren’t killing Jews It is muslims Muslims are killing Jews Britain doesnt have an “antisemitism” problem It doesn’t have a wayward youth problem It doesn’t have a knife problem with regard to attacks on Jews It has a muslim problem Britain has an emergency with lethal, racist, backwards, violent muslims
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