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@peterkyle Have you seen the bond markets.

None of this happened by accident. Strong growth figures show that this government has the right economic plan. And now, the IMF has upgraded the UK’s growth forecast. This growth is driven by an activist, interventionist government that believes in backing British business.

@AndyBurnhamGM Amazing. Just how many others did you beat in the CLP applications and hustings?

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.

@TomK_Brit1993 Enough said

Would you support Britain rejoining the EU?

When you think about growth and #brexit take a look at the facts. Although to be honest it’s going to be crap with @UKLabour in charge.

Better GDP growth than most of the G7 and the second highest export growth since we voted to leave. #BrilliantBrexit

Yeah, it's very much the fathers who are the victims in this Islamist trade in young girls to be raped every day for the rest of their lives by strangers they must call their husbands. Absolutely spot on, @BBCWorld. You don't hate the BBC enough.

Deport.

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.

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

The Unite the Kingdom rally was an outlier in recent London marches in having no mass chants calling for death to minority groups, yet perversely this was the one Sir Keir Starmer chose to condemn, says Jonathan Sacerdoti. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/18/kei…

Andy Burnham now now says: 1. I will stick to Rachael Reeves’ fiscal rules. 2. I will not seek to rejoin the EU. Two U-turns in one day. What exactly would he do differently?

@timothy_stanley Yes and fortunately the Good Samaritan had money, because he was a worker.

Appeals to *heritage* - but faith isn’t an heirloom. It’s an animating force, transformative and not in the least bit parochial. There’s no bloody point calling Britain Christian if we don’t love God & love each other, including refugees!

This is Flotilla members throwing their ‘aid’ into the sea. Three plastic water bottles filled with dried goods. That’s it. Millions of dollars was spent on this pathetic display. It did nothing for Gazans.

Just like good old uncle Joe. Socialists find them a brewery to fuc…. Reeves urges supermarkets to cap grocery prices telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@NeilDotObrien Resignation is not enough. Sacking is required.

They URGENTLY need to get out either some good explanation we haven't heard yet - or people apologising & resigning over this.

My synagogue by the way. So that’ll be a nice fun morning. With the most virulent Jew-haters in the country.

402 Labour MPs elected And not one of them is fit to be PM So they want to parachute in this chancer 🤡🤡🤡

This is a joke isn’t it? Reeves backs Telegraph National Pub Day telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…

“As we drive around our farm picking up these paper lanterns - that our cows try to eat - we ask you to find something better to do to support your causes. “There is wire inside the paper that will get on their stomach and kill them “Donate money directly to your cause please, instead of lanterns or balloons!” 📸 Karen McCartin Foster

🚨 This footage of Andy Burnham being absolutely hounded by furious families at a public meeting should be required viewing for every voter in Britain — because this is the man quietly being lined up as Keir Starmer’s replacement. Watch the raw anger. Mothers and fathers screaming from the public gallery, demanding answers about the systematic rape of hundreds of vulnerable British girls in Oldham and Greater Manchester. Burnham — the so-called “King of the North” — stonewalls them, shuts down calls for a proper public inquiry, and prioritises “community relations” over the broken bodies and shattered lives of working-class white girls targeted by grooming gangs. Greater Manchester Police failed these victims catastrophically. Files ignored. Girls dismissed as “troubled” or “consenting.” Fathers arrested for trying to rescue their own daughters while the predators — overwhelmingly Pakistani-heritage men — operated with impunity for years. Burnham didn’t just turn a blind eye. He actively blocked full accountability. His toothless “Assurance Review” was a whitewash designed to bury the truth rather than expose it. He spent years defending it, denying a cover-up, only conceding the obvious when the scandal went national and international. This isn’t ancient history. This is the same Andy Burnham who, as Mayor, refused to discipline senior officers who looked the other way. The same man who watched grooming gangs destroy lives and chose political correctness and bloc votes over the safety of our children. The same Labour careerist now being floated as the next Prime Minister — the antidote to Starmer’s collapsing regime. Let that sink in. In two-tier Britain, the feelings and electoral clout of certain communities matter more than the innocence of British girls. From Rotherham to Rochdale to Oldham to Manchester — the pattern is identical, and the cover-up machine is still running under Labour. Burnham isn’t the solution. He’s the continuation of the same rotten project that sacrificed our daughters for “diversity” optics and cheap votes. The silent majority has had enough. We demand: ✅ A full, fearless national inquiry into grooming gangs with no limits, no sacred cows, and real criminal consequences for every police chief, councillor, social worker and politician who looked the other way. ✅ Life sentences that actually mean life for the rapists — no more soft-touch sentencing. ✅ Burnham held to account publicly and barred from ever holding high office again. No “King of the North.” No return to Westminster. No path to No. 10. ✅ An end to the two-tier protection racket that puts imported communities above native British children. Patrick Christys is right to keep showing this. The British people remember every girl failed. Every father arrested. Every inquiry blocked. And we will not let the grooming-gang apologists rewrite history or slither into power. This is why Reform is rising. This is why the silent majority is awake. Protect our children. Demand real justice. No more cover-ups. No more Burnham.