Dr. Ben Twilley

@RupertLowe10 They should look at nail parlours, tattoo shops and mini marts, they're all in the same game. And what about Chinese restaurants that only take cash?

HMRC harasses lawful businesses, yet lets the vape shops and Turkish barbers get away with blatant money laundering. As I made clear to HMRC senior civil servants this afternoon...

@ukboomers Nothing stopped my daughter buying her first property at the age of 23 a couple of years ago. Today's kids should get up of their arses and stop believing the world owes them a living.

Genuine question to millennials and gen-Z. What stops you from buying a house? That's us at 26.🇬🇧

Before Anyone Crowns Burnham, Ask Him About The Cover Up. Andy Burnham arrived in Makerfield this weekend as Labour's saviour. He left Sunday evening having retreated from his own position on Europe within 24 hours and facing a whistleblower's allegation of a cover-up in his own commissioned review. Start with Europe. Last year Burnham said he hoped in his lifetime to see Britain rejoin the European Union. On Saturday his allies confirmed he stood by that view. On Sunday, facing a backlash in a constituency that voted 65 percent to Leave, his spokesman insisted he would not be standing on a national manifesto and would focus on local issues. A position held on Saturday abandoned by Sunday in a seat where Reform will put his own words on their leaflets. The voters of Makerfield will draw their own conclusions about a politician who says what the room wants to hear. Then there is Maggie Oliver. Oliver is not a political opponent. She is a whistleblower who spent sixteen years in Greater Manchester Police, resigned over its handling of the Rochdale abuse ring, and won a judicial review against successive governments for failing to implement the recommendations of the Jay inquiry. Her charge against Burnham is specific and serious. The fourth part of Burnham's own commissioned review into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester was, in her words, a cover-up. A paper exercise. The two independent reviewers who had spent six years scrutinising Greater Manchester Police resigned because they were blocked from accessing documents and speaking to survivors. The final assurance review, published last year, was instead carried out by HMIC. Oliver says it did not speak to a single victim or survivor from the last seven years. This did not happen before Burnham became Mayor. It happened between 2019 and 2025, under his watch, in his name, with his authority. The review was meant to provide assurance that things had improved. Oliver's verdict is that it provided cover instead. Burnham commissioned the earlier reviews. That credit has been extended to him repeatedly and fairly. But commissioning accountability is not the same as delivering it. The final review, the one that was supposed to confirm whether the recommendations had been implemented and whether victims were safer, is the one Oliver describes as a paper exercise that blocked the people best placed to scrutinise it. The mayoralty has given Burnham something Westminster could not. Distance from scrutiny. Regional media is a shadow of its former self. When things go wrong a Mayor can blame the government. When things go right he takes the credit. The reputation for accountability on child sexual exploitation that Burnham has built over eight years rests almost entirely on the first three reviews. The fourth, the one that was supposed to confirm whether the changes had actually been made, is the one Oliver describes as a cover-up. The reputation and the reality, on the evidence of the person who knows most about both, do not match. Burnham may yet win Makerfield. His personal popularity is real and may carry him over the line against a Reform candidate who won the local wards 50 percent to Labour's 22 percent. He may yet become Labour leader and Prime Minister. But the communities he is asking to send him to Westminster are the same communities where these failures happened. They deserve a straight answer about the cover-up allegation before they cast their votes. Not a local manifesto. Not a focus on bus routes. An answer. Maggie Oliver has asked the question. Burnham has not answered it. "The fourth part of Burnham's own commissioned review into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester was, in [Oliver's] words, a cover-up."

“The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband's wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment. Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway. Bureaucrats admit the plans may destroy 'nationally recognised sites, landscapes and historic environments' as well as damaging 'biodiversity and water resources.' Officials also confess his schemes may increase 'air emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and vibrations, light pollution, dust and soils.'”

@Sofia50020Sofia An IQ higher than my shoe size

White men, what’s stopping you from dressing like this?

@DailyMail Probably in luxury on a full benefits package.

Albanian murderer is found secretly living in the UK... for a second time trib.al/Y3bzNBF

I fought 2 mayoral campaigns on this scheme. Andy desperately wanted it to fund his yellow bus project. But once the people found out about it, he bottled it. And wasted a load of taxpayers money. He then put up council tax for his buses!!

@BrexitBassist Agricultural, very heavy and inefficient. Sounds good in an MGB though.

Proper old school bullet proof engine made by men in brown overalls with pencils in their top pockets. Nuts and bolts assembled, no plastic and not made by soulless computer robots. 100% British 🇬🇧

@Artemisfornow He deserved it, he was shit.

Shameful that our act at Eurovision was abandoned by the BBC and his team as the scores came in! And how lovely of the Denmark team to invite him to sit with them, so he wasn’t alone. Well done BBC, you chose him and then you abandoned him. Vile.

@ArchRose90 He can't wait to get his snout in the trough.

This is hilarious. The Daily Mail has revealed that Andy Burnham was jogging at 12.18pm, then he returned home 45 minutes in his VW Golf. His jog was just a photo op. Why pretend to jog? It just makes him look fake and untrustworthy. Something the public hate about politics.

@GriftReport I hope he catches some awful debilitating incurable disease,

@CutMyTaxUK The Communist Labour regime made certain that she was let off lightly. It wouldn't surprise me if the party paid it off for her. Had it been any normal person they'd have been slapped with a big fine.

Angela Rayner was indeed given special treatment by HMRC, conclude experts interviewed by the Times. Sean Drury from Blick Rothenberg said: “We are seeing taxpayers get in touch with HMRC & admit they got it wrong & are automatically being charged penalties. I would say we have seen people fined for way less than Rayner. The general public is seemingly being held to a higher standard than politicians.” He said private citizens generally have wait for to more than 3 years for HMRC investigations to be concluded. While some simple cases were wrapped up more quickly, dealing with complex ones like Rayner’s would certainly stretch into years. But deciding that Angela didn't deserve a penalty took HMRC only 8 months.

@KieraDiss Carrot crunching tractor tosser.

I’ll leave you with this rather embarrassing encounter of a woman caught short up a farmer’s lane. When you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go. Much love, beautiful Britain 🇬🇧

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

@NotFarLeftAtAll He'll be popular with the Muslims🤣

Wes Streeting wants to be the first gay PM and that he will take us back into the EU

@RupertLowe10 Unfortunately, you didn't have any candidates in my local elections.

Restore Britain teams have been out campaigning this weekend in hundreds of constituencies. It is glorious to see.

@DailyMail They love wasting taxpayers' money chasing stupid policies.

Ed Miliband's wind turbines and solar farms ARE bad for environment, Government privately admits trib.al/fpXuJoj

@politixintheuk All lies of course, as you can expect from the Labour Party

The government has hit one of its key NHS targets on waiting times, with 65% of patients being treated within 18 weeks, government reported! This is the biggest improvement in NHS waiting times in 16 years, and the first time since November 2021 that more than 65% of patients were seen within 18 weeks. Source: The London Economic

@Keir_Starmer Lies as usual

Today the voices of division will be loud. They don't speak for the country I know, one that belongs to all of us. That's our Britain. A Britain worth fighting for. lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…