van Owen
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Leeds United director Peter Lowy (Lowy Family Group) speaking at UKReiif in Leeds: “The key to investment in Leeds is the redevelopment of the stadium. This is the anchor to developing the land around which hasn’t seen investment in 40 years. We need light rail/tram.” #LUFC
SUCCESS! – local people won the Aylesham case. Inspector dismissed the Berkeley appeal against refusal of planning permission. He cited English Heritage objection that it would be ‘an enormous wall of development, thus resulting in harm’. See more here: #May_2026_Huge_Success.21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">peckhamvision.org/wiki/Aylesham/…
For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.
Read my letter to my constituents below:
So the story about Polanski dodging tax is actually wrong, and it's the council/marina who have messed up. Looks like a lot of folk living on those boats are getting an unexpected tax bill thanks to Dan. Labour are even pissing off the floating voters now lmao.
How to get Andy Burnham back? One way forward would be for a current sitting MP – Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner – to challenge Starmer for the leadership now, with the express and explicit intention of using their position as leader to recompose the NEC, bring Burnham back into parliament, and make way for him as leader and Prime Minister as soon as possible. Yes, the press would squawk about the bond markets. But Burnham could be brought into cabinet discussions as soon as the new leader were in place; that way, investors could be reassured that a consistent programme would be followed during the few weeks that it would take to complete this process: especially if, for example, caretaker PM Ed Miliband were to be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer as soon as his more electable colleague was installed as Premier. ✍️ @jemgilbert newstatesman.com/comment/2026/0…
The U.S. govt just released this photo. Supposedly a UFO. What do you think?
Disturbing @Moreincommon_ poll result for @JewishNewsUK: 40% say that Britain would be neither better nor worse off if Jews left the country because of antisemitism; 32 per cent say Britain would be much worse off; just 4 per cent say Britain would be better off; 24% don’t know
The equivalent of this for lads born in the 90s & early 2000s:
