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Saturday in London: 4,000 officers. Armoured vehicles on standby for the first time. Live facial recognition deployed at a protest for the first time. 7 foreign speakers banned from entering the UK. Riot gear for every officer. The threat? Grandmothers. Mothers. People like you and me.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

@ScottishFA Corrupt to the core.

Scottish FA statement.

Burnham Is Running. So Are The Markets. On Friday, as Labour's succession drama consumed Westminster, the gilt market delivered a verdict that none of the leadership candidates appears to have noticed. Britain's 30-year borrowing costs hit a 28-year high. The yield on 30-year gilts leapt to 5.8 percent. Markets were not reacting to Starmer's survival. They were pricing in what comes next. Andy Burnham has been approved by the NEC to seek the Makerfield candidacy. The by-election is expected on June 18. If he wins he becomes an MP and triggers a leadership contest. Rayner and Miliband are expected to stand aside and back him. The coronation narrative is already being written. The numbers on the ground are being studiously ignored. Reform won 50 percent of the vote across Makerfield's eight wards at the local elections. Labour won 22 percent. The Electoral Calculus MRP projects Reform winning the parliamentary seat with 46 percent to Labour's 35. Reform's likely candidate is Robert Kenyon, a local plumber, army veteran and NHS worker who won a council seat last week. Burnham is a former Cabinet minister arriving from a mayoral role he will have to vacate to stand. The optics of that contrast in communities that voted Reform so decisively are not in his favour. Burnham's personal popularity is real and it may yet carry him over the line. But personal popularity has limits when the structural collapse of Labour support in the North West is as severe as the May 7 results demonstrated. In neighbouring St Helens, Reform seized a majority winning 71 percent of all seats. These are not marginal drifts. They are historic realignments happening in real time. And then there is the economics. Burnham has repeatedly argued that Britain must stop being in hock to the bond markets, claiming governments have become too timid about public spending. His answer is an additional £40 billion in borrowing alongside looser fiscal rules. The bond market heard that argument on Friday and responded by pushing 30-year gilt yields to levels not seen since 1998. A politician who dismisses bond market discipline as timidity is precisely the kind of politician whose anticipated arrival in Downing Street accelerates the crisis he claims to want to resolve. But there is a question nobody in the Westminster succession commentary is asking. Before anyone in Makerfield votes for Burnham, they deserve an answer to what happened to the 57 children abused by a grooming gang of up to 100 men on his watch as Mayor. Operation Augusta was shut down. The minutes of the key meeting disappeared. Of 97 identified suspects, three were imprisoned. His response to parliamentary challenge was described in Hansard as supine. The Rochdale review identified 96 men still deemed a risk to children who remained at large. These are not historical footnotes. They happened in the communities Burnham is now asking to send him to Westminster as a future Prime Minister. The voters of Makerfield and the surrounding area deserve to know what he intends to do about the 96 men still at large before they are asked to make him their MP. The gilt market is watching. The grooming gang survivors are watching. Reform is watching with 50 activists already on the ground and a local candidate with genuine working class roots. Burnham may yet win the race. But the coronation being prepared in Westminster has not consulted the people who actually live there. And the bond market, which has no interest in Labour's internal politics, has already told you what it thinks of what comes next. "Burnham Is Running. So Are The Markets."

We all knew it!

Well, well, well Andy B. There’s always a tweet. I look forward to you calling an election when you replace Starmer.

I submitted my tax return to HMRC one day late. I was fined £100. And I didn't even owe them any tax! Angela Rayner tried to avoid paying £40,000 stamp duty for nearly a year and could have been fined £8,000 by the HMRC after she recently coughed up the money, (shortly after being gifted £50,000 from a refrigeration company for 'Office Expenses'). She wasn't fined a single penny. No fine. No penalty. No comeback whatsoever. Is it any wonder that us little folk are getting so pissed off with these freeloading, opportunistic, money grabbing, holier than thou, two faced charlatans?

The King tells us we'll be getting digital ID via his government Larry Ellison donates £257 million to The Tony Blair Institute and The TBI lobbies for Digital ID... Is this big tech giant set for a lucrative government contract... And the media focus on Nigel Farage

@MillieWiller Ed is a raving lunatic

Fuck that. This would be a disaster.

@JeffStelling This is why there are no corrupt Scottish refs at the World Cup. FIFA knows Scottish football is a cartel.

Seriously that is never a handball at Fir Park. The boy headed it 20 yards. The ref takes one look after VAR calls him over. Embarrassing for Scottish football.

@JChimirie66677 @AngelaRayner @AngelaRayner we’re ALL waiting for your reply!! You have not been exonerated by the public for being a tax cheat.

@AngelaRayner, a few questions your statement does not answer. Tax Policy Associates, one of the most respected independent tax bodies in the country, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of your advisers explicitly told you to obtain specialist tax advice before completing the transaction. You did not obtain it. Independent experts say a penalty of approximately 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome under Schedule 24 of the Finance Act 2007. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why. Do you believe HMRC reached the correct conclusion and if so can you explain why two independent expert bodies disagree? You state you had no personal financial interest in the trust set up for your son. The trust was funded in part by NHS compensation money awarded for your son's care. You sold your remaining stake in your Ashton constituency home to that trust for £162,500 in January 2025 and used those proceeds as a deposit on an £800,000 flat in Hove. How do you define no personal financial interest in that transaction? A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, described as towards staffing costs and declared on the parliamentary register. Weeks later you paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Who owns Refrigeration House Limited, what is their connection to you, and was any part of that donation used directly or indirectly to meet the stamp duty liability? You say politicians should be held to high standards. The questions above are what high standards look like in practice. They deserve answers.

I welcome HMRC’s conclusion, which has cleared me of any wrongdoing. I have been exonerated by HMRC of the accusation that I deliberately sought to avoid tax. When purchasing a home of my own with a mortgage, I did not own any other property and had no personal financial interest in the court-instructed trust set up to manage my son’s financial award. I was advised by experts that I should pay stamp duty at the standard rate. I set out to pay the correct amount of tax. I took reasonable care and acted in good faith, based on the expert advice I received, and HMRC has accepted this. I have always sought to act with integrity, and I believe politicians should be held to high standards - that is why I resigned from government and cooperated fully with HMRC.  I wanted to ensure that I paid every penny that I owed, and have done so. I am relieved that my family can now move on - and that I can get on with my job.

The Man Who Wants To Lead Labour Just Described Its Lost Voters As A Threat To The Nation. Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary this morning and launched his leadership bid with a letter that deserves to be read carefully. Not for what it says about the NHS. For what it says about how he intends to fight. Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom. Reform won 27 percent of votes cast in local elections across England a week ago. Millions of working class people in Labour's former heartlands, people whose parents and grandparents voted Labour for generations, chose that party. Describing their choice as dangerous English nationalism is not a strategy for winning them back. It is the attitude that drove them away in the first place, restated with greater confidence the morning after the worst local election result in Labour history. The NHS claims in the letter require equal scrutiny. Streeting describes a fastest improvement in waiting times in history. The Nuffield Trust's deputy director of research told the Telegraph that the apparent progress owes more to administrative removals than genuine increases in patient care. The number of patients waiting over 12 hours for emergency admission in March 2026 was 141 times higher than before the pandemic. The waiting list remains above seven million. The letter presents stabilisation as transformation and expects nobody to check. Then there is Angela Rayner. HMRC has cleared her of wrongdoing over the stamp duty affair that ended her Cabinet career in September. The clearance itself is more complicated than her team is presenting. Tax Policy Associates, an independent expert body, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of Rayner's advisers explicitly told her to obtain specialist tax advice. She did not. Independent experts say a penalty of around 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why. A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, declared on the parliamentary register and described as towards staffing costs. Weeks later Rayner paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Whether any connection exists between the donation and the payment cannot be asserted. The questions the timing raises are entirely legitimate and entirely unanswered. Over 100 Labour MPs have now called for Starmer to go. The threshold to trigger a leadership contest is 81. The numbers exist. What has been missing is a serious candidate willing to step forward and bear the consequences. Streeting has now stepped forward. Rayner is positioning. Burnham remains without a seat. The succession is underway. The candidates are the products of the same political culture that produced the Mandelson appointment, the three line whip, the undeclared Palantir meeting and the systematic accommodation of interests that do not align with Britain's. Streeting's letter describes Reform voters as nationalists. Rayner's clearance raises questions her supporters are not asking. Burnham's record on grooming gang accountability in Greater Manchester has never been satisfactorily addressed. None of them has identified the culture as the problem. None of them has proposed dismantling it. The country is being forced to accept the same arrangement with different names attached. The questions are already forming. They will not wait for the leadership contest to conclude. "Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom."

Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours: 1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone. 2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it. 3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence. 4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London. Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.

Britain is a place where a Prime Minister who has lost his authority and who everyone hates is trying to ram through legislation (outlined in the King’s Speech) on something that no one voted for, no one needs and no one wants - digital ID. Absolutely disgraceful abuse of power.

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10 Downing Street tonight.

Let me get this right🤔 ole boy Keir will Prevent ‘Far Right Agitators’ from entering Britain But NOT Tens of thousands of illegal Migrants some of whom go on to Murder & Rape our Women & Children & Commit crime at will & cost the taxpayers BILLIONS👇🤷‍♂️🙄

👇100% nail on the head!