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@chickuu_ @AndyBurnhamGM Painting the buses yellow and raising council tax by £150 to fund his pet (failed) projects is not making Manchester better. He has achieved sod all in 8 years.

@AndyBurnhamGM Lots of politicians say they're 'different.' Andy Burnham actually left Westminster and built something better. What's your excuse for not believing him?

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

@LukePar57582384 @JBStoke @AndyBurnhamGM Hasn't fallen since 2020. Like all Burnham's policies - an abject failure - and we're all paying an extra £200 for the privilege through his mayoral precept.

@JBStoke @AndyBurnhamGM Homelessness dropped by 42% since 2017…

@AndyBurnhamGM Then you must IMMEDIATELY resign as Mayor of Manchester. You are full-time employed as Mayor and should not be spending any time on your personal ambitions - when you are meant to be serving Manchester.

@wesstreeting The most incompetent health secretary ever - and all the charisma & personality of a slug

@MENnewsdesk @AndyBurnhamGM Why is Andy Burnham in London today? Is he following his own personal ambition at taxpayers expesnse? This is, what the M.E.N should be investigating.

Andy Burnham hails major Manchester Airport change coming into force this week manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

@LabourGrowth @LouHaigh I had to laugh when I read the bio of this group of cretins. The main barrier to growth in this country is the Labour Party and it's idiotic ideologies.

In a world getting more dangerous by the day, the biggest risk for Britain is standing still. That’s why Chris Curtis and @LouHaigh have come together to argue for a bolder economic vision that rewards work and contribution while taking on a system that’s broken. 🔗 👇

@AngelaRayner A proven tax cheat - should be barred from public office

We need immediate action to cut costs for households and put money back into the everyday economy. This can be done within the current fiscal rules, by ensuring those who benefit from the crisis contribute more so that everyone can thrive. Our Employment Rights Act was just the first step in our plan to Make Work Pay. Now is the time to take the next steps, starting with a Fair Pay Agreement in social care - but not ending there. A rising minimum wage must go alongside our programme to get young people into work. The investment we secured in social and affordable housing should now unleash a building boom that benefits British business and workers. We must double down on renters’ reform and show leaseholders our action on tackling ground rents and charges was just a first step to ending the feudal leasehold system for good. Our devolution revolution has begun, but is nowhere near done. Giving mayors powers to transform planning and licensing can boost local business and good growth, in the interests of local people. They must go alongside economic powers and public services. Boosting community ownership and stopping the sell-off of local assets from pubs to playgrounds will put power back in local hands, helping restore the pride they feel in the places they live. We must go further on planning reforms, to build the schools, hospitals, roads and infrastructure the country needs to grow. We should be unafraid to promote new forms of public, community and cooperative ownership across the board. Buses and trains being brought back into public hands can now operate for the public good, at prices passengers can afford. Thames Water is an iconic failure of privatisation, which resonates for the same reasons. People are rightly sick of bonuses for bosses who deliver nothing but higher bills. We must face down demands that the public pay the price of private failure. We must create good jobs that pay decent wages by ensuring defence investment includes a secure manufacturing base. Use our house building programme to boost construction, invest in the green economy, backing SMEs by reforming business rates and increasing support to revive our high streets and local economies, raise the minimum wage and get young people into work. And then there is politics itself, putting power back into people’s hands so that they are shaping the decisions that impact them. We must tackle the inflow of dodgy money in our politics - something that Nigel Farage, who took 5 million pounds in a secret personal gift from an offshore crypto baron, will never do. We must make politics work for ordinary people. We can only prove we mean it by putting the common interest ahead of factionalism. This is bigger than personalities, but it is time to acknowledge that blocking Andy Burnham was a mistake. We must show we understand the scale of change the moment calls for - that means bringing our best players into Parliament - and embracing the type of agenda that has been successful at a local level, rather than reaching back to an agenda and politics that has failed people. These are the fights we need to have, and the change in direction we need to see. Policy tweaks will not fix the fundamental challenges facing our country. This government needs, at pace, to put measures in place that make people's lives tangibly better, while fixing the foundations of a system rigged against them. The Prime Minister must now meet the moment and set out the change our country needs. Change our economic agenda to prioritise making people better off, change how we run our party so that all voices are listened to, and change how we do politics. Labour exists to make working people better off. That is not happening fast enough, and it needs to change — now. 2/2

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@owenjonesjourno It's funny how Jones thinks wearing a white tshirt somehow makes him one of the people.

They're trying to strip Zack Polanski's Jewish identity away. The way Trevor Phillips spoke to him was disgusting. If a Jewish politician who wasn't left-wing or pro-Palestinian had been spoken to like this, it would be a national scandal.

@AngelaRayner A proven tax cheat and an alcoholic to boot

@AndyBurnhamGM Burnham promised to end homelessness in Manchester by 2020. Like all his failed policies, they are just PR soundbites to be announced so he can get his face on the TV. A champagne socialist taking the gullible for a ride.

We are expanding A Bed Every Night to 650 places and, as part of that, introducing fast-track access for veterans as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant. No one who has served our country should ever have to sleep rough on the streets. 1/2

@HarrietHarman @UKLabour @Jasmine_Ali The woman who thinks a biological man who has a certificate is magically transformed into a biological woman.

Lovely to be out Rye Lane ward with the great @UKLabour team @Jasmine_Ali

@mtpennycook Everyone's thinking the dog has the most brains

Less than four hours until the polls close. Vote Labour 🌹

@BBCBreaking How is this deemed to be the main story? Laughable.

WHO says five hantavirus cases now confirmed from cruise ship, and more may follow due to six-week incubation period - follow live bbc.in/4f8gbIJ

World Health Organization gives update on hantavirus cruise ship outbreak - follow live bbc.in/4tX3pBx

@AngelaRayner A proven tax cheat and alcoholic.

No matter what they say, Reform UK will only let down the working class. They voted against our better deal for workers. With your support, we got it done. Only Labour will work for working people. Vote Labour 🌹

@WorldSeniors @jenningsbetinfo @5ACTION_tv @PlutoTV That table is appalling to watch on tv - the white is far too dazzling.

STEADMAN SEALS VICTORY 👊 We have our first winner of the 2026 @jenningsbetinfo World Seniors Snooker Championship! Craig Steadman defeats debutant Neal Jones 4-0 to set up a last 16 match against 1995 world finalist Nigel Bond 🤝 #SeniorsSnooker | @5ACTION_tv | @PlutoTV

@theSNP Keith Rollinson - bus driver killed by a drunken thug who is back in the streets, having not even spent 1 night in prison. Thus is the reality of justice under the SNP.

A re-elected SNP government will protect free prescriptions, free eye tests, free tuition, free bus travel, lower Council Tax, free school meals, the Baby Box and funded childcare, while going further to help families with the cost of living. Make it #BothVotesSNP tomorrow.

@Arsenal You never have & never will win the Champions League🤷

INTO THE FINAL!! Enjoy all the Live From N5 coverage now, Gooners 📺 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@AngelaRayner A proven tax cheat lying to school kids. Was she even sober?

@UKLabour She is so full of sh*t it shows.

🥣 Free breakfast clubs 🏠 Renters’ Rights Act 🏥 Over 5 million more NHS appointments ✂️ Cutting energy bills 💷 Raising the minimum wage and state pension Labour is delivering for Britain.

@mtpennycook Why do all Labour MPs move the hands in an exaggerated way when speaking? It makes them look like a complete twat.

Happy Renters’ Rights Day, England. This Labour government is delivering for private renters.