Ian Ashkettle

I have read the entire report. It does NOT describe Burnham in those terms. Only the Labour Party collectively at the institutional level, ie retreating to comfortable old arguments and not dealing with the changed world. The UK political editor of a reputable organisation like Bloomberg should frankly be embarrassed for such an inaccurate post on X. In past times the public relied on journalists for accurate information, now anyone can access the source material easily it is trivially easy to see where the inaccurate reporting is. @Bloomberg This is a surprising example of inaccurate reporting by one of your top UK staff

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote: "Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true." It's not true, it's utter garbage. I'll go through facts and figures. /1

Cat check: "I think we’re going to have to think about healthcare very, very differently. I think we are going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare. Frankly, I would feel more comfortable that my money would return value if I was able to do that through the market place of an insurance company." - Nigel Farage

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker. Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year. Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead. Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency. Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle. Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free. Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to. Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds. Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires. Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle. Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all. Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons. Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting. Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again. Pint, mate?

Let me make this very clear. This is a still from a film. This is not me. This is a character I was portraying. This image has been stolen by someone in Restore, or by someone who supports Restore. I find the party, and its supporters, utterly abhorrent. #FightTheRight

8 lines every flag-shagging plastic “patriot” has in their playbook 1.“I want my country back” - From what? You voted for the party that ran it for 14 years. 2.“Our grandads didn’t fight for this” - Your grandads would be ashamed that you can’t find Normandy on a map. They fought with Poles, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and West Indians beside them. They’d have more in common with the immigrants you hate than plastic patriots sharing memes about them. 3.“This isn’t the Britain I grew up in” - Correct. It has lower crime, longer life expectancy, and better healthcare than the 1970s you’re romanticising. You just don’t remember the power cuts and three-day weeks. 4.“Britain is broken” - The most unpatriotic sentence in the English language, repeated daily by people say they love their country. 5. “We’re full” - The Netherlands has twice the population density and somehow manages. The UK is not full. It’s just had 14 years of no housebuilding and you need someone darker than you to blame for it. 6.“We look after our own first” - You vote for parties that cut disability benefits, froze nurses’ pay, gave tax breaks to the rich and closed Sure Start centres. You don’t look after anyone. 7.“Stop the boats” - The Tories spent £700 million on Rwanda to deport four people. Zero boats were stopped. You cheered anyway. 8.“Starmer is a traitor” - The man prosecuted terrorists, paedophile rings, and war criminals as DPP. You import American culture war propaganda from people who openly despise our allies, trash your own country 24/7, and follow convicted fraudsters who lied about where they were born. The only ones treacherously trashing Britain’s reputation daily are you.

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin. I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2. This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.

Ignorance must be so comforting Let me explain: Westminster Abbey is the Commonwealth Church as the King lives in the UK The flags of commonwealth countries are flown on their national days as this was US & Israel aren’t members of the Commonwealth so their flags don’t qualify

@DanielGoldersUK @lewis_goodall Seems much like Lewis, a couple of seconds on google is beyond your capabilities.

@sheldinij @SteveGaroood @thecarolemalone There would be no need they have plenty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian…

@SteveGaroood @thecarolemalone Because Great Britain is a Christian country with British values and British culture. We are NOT a multicultural country, we merely have some people of foreign ethnicity here. I wouldn't go to Pakistan and expect people to build a church. Wally.

It is also proof of how deluded you are!!!!

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Joanna is politer than I am going to be. For the Justice Secretary - a former barrister - to suggest that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee”, should be a resignation matter. @DavidLammy owes the public an apology.

@afneil Defending Brexit is bad enough but trying to cover up for Farage is even worse.

@L_Wastell @Telegraph @WillBoltons @fionagoddarduk @RobertJenrick @Katie_Lam_MP @adamhpking Parliament has never created an offence of racially or religiously aggravated rape so it cannot be charged Racial & Religiously aggravated offences increase the sentence BUT as Rape already carried maximum life imprisonment, Parliament didn’t deem it necessary

@Telegraph Which is standard at a time of rioting, as you've previously reported

@RichardAntWal @mggorilla011 @campbellclaret x.com/cakeypiesdad/s…

@mggorilla011 @campbellclaret The 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' fiasco was a bluff that Bush and his pet Tony Blair set up to steal the oil and slaughter an innocent population. When is the whole thing going to be exposed.

Truly dreadful decision.

@aftertheflood_ @campbellclaret Dont be hystrionically stupid, try open research open mind not slavish kowtowing to a corrupt rightwing enemy state oligarch owned media & its political poodles Ask why Hans Blix was still searching for more WMDs in Iraq in the days before the war started?

@afneil I follow Labour pretty closely and I never saw what you describe

@rabCcollins @afneil Nah, I think it's pretty clear what he meant; If he'd meant what you say, he (a highly intelligent man) would have said "Let us not forget this morning, that Labour sent out its people"