Stuart Powell

🚨🇪🇺 EU pushes SINGLE train/flight ticket linked to DIGITAL ID. A QR system tying travel to your identity, with potential controls based on carbon limits, vaccines or “wrong” tweets. BIG step toward tighter control over movement and data. ABOLISH THE EU

Woman Raped Outside Luxury Flats In Streatham, Police Release Images of Suspect. Police have launched an urgent appeal after a woman was brutally raped in the early hours outside a prestigious new development in Streatham Hill. The horrifying attack took place at around 5.30am on Tuesday, May 12, outside Gaumont Place, part of the London Square Streatham Hill development, just steps away from the busy high street, a high concentration of HMOs, and Streatham Hill station. The assault was captured on CCTV, but was not reported at the time. Police were only alerted the following day after reviewing the footage and have now confirmed it as a serious sexual offence. Despite this clear video evidence, the victim has still not come forward. Detectives are growing increasingly concerned she may be too traumatised to contact them, or that something even worse may have happened to her afterwards. Metropolitan Police officers, led by Detective Constable Charlie Codrington, have released clear CCTV images of the suspect they are desperately trying to trace. The man is described as a black male of medium build in his early 30s, wearing a dark cap, dark hooded jacket and carrying a backpack. DC Codrington: "This was a horrifying incident which took place in broad daylight, close to a busy high street. We know the woman in this footage will be scared, but we urge her to contact the police. We are concerned for her wellbeing and officers are here to provide her with welfare, medical and trained support." The Met is appealing for anyone who recognises the man in the CCTV images, or who was in the Gaumont Place area around the time of the attack, to come forward immediately. Anyone with information should call police on 101, quoting reference 01/7556597/26, or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. #UKNews #CrimeNews #London #Streatham

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.” Here’s something to wrap your head around. The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May. PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I saw Nigel Farage doing a walkabout in Felixstowe recently. He had to have quite a few burly bodyguards. And despite this, some nutters managed to get through and kick his car so Nigel had to be bundled away by the security. This 24 hour 7 day a week security, for the rest of his life, doesn't just cost a couple of hundred quid a week. And it's shocking that any politician needs this because people don't know how to behave.

@NOBLEINTHENORTH @russellquirk 🤣 Well most of your posts are sensible.

@stuartpowell @russellquirk

I’m sat in my first Essex County Council meeting on Monday morning, listening to a councillor induction presentation. ‘Any questions?’ asks an officer. A hand goes up. ‘Yes’ says a recently elected Labour member. ‘Do I get a pension as a councillor?’. His first question was about how much money he gets. Not procedure, or meeting dates or where the loos are… but how much cash he can grab. Same old Labour.

Thank you to Suella for popping round today to congratulate me on becoming Leader of Portsmouth Reform UK Group. We had a brilliant chat about our future plans for the wider region and how we plan to hold the government, and local council, to account on LGR 🩵🇬🇧🩵

@BillV0207 @russellquirk In your case, yes.

@stuartpowell @russellquirk And generalisation about people is how you show integrity is it?

@BillV0207 I don't make attempts, honesty is my Raison d'être.

@stuartpowell This is your attempt at honesty is it?

So, the NHS is safe in Labour hands eh?

@NOBLEINTHENORTH @russellquirk Satire or the wrong member identified in an unfamiliar setting.

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Reading Borough Council - get your act together! enquiries@cqc.org.uk Reading Borough Council (and UK local authorities generally) has several overlapping statutory duties of care towards a homeless adult with Down’s syndrome, who qualifies as a vulnerable person with likely care and support needs. These stem primarily from the Care Act 2014, the Housing Act 1996 (as amended), the Equality Act 2010, and the Down Syndrome Act 2022. legislation.gov.uk 1. Care Act 2014 – Adult Social Care Duties Needs assessment: The council has a duty to assess any adult who appears to have needs for care and support, regardless of the level or whether they meet eligibility criteria. Down’s syndrome typically involves a learning disability with reduced ability to cope independently, triggering this. reading.gov.uk Eligibility and meeting needs: If eligible (e.g., needs arise from a physical/mental impairment with substantial impact on daily living), the council must meet those needs. This can include support to find and maintain housing, daily living skills, supported living, shared lives schemes, or residential care. reading.gov.uk Safeguarding: Duty to make enquiries if the person is at risk of abuse or neglect (including self-neglect or exploitation while homeless). Reading has a Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board and processes for reporting concerns. reading.gov.uk Prevention: Broader duty to prevent, reduce, or delay needs worsening. 2. Homelessness Duties (Housing Act 1996 / Homelessness Reduction Act 2017) Prevention and relief duties: Anyone threatened with or actually homeless can approach the council. Reading must provide advice, assistance, and (for 56 days) help to relieve homelessness. reading.gov.uk Priority need: People with Down’s syndrome are often considered vulnerable due to learning disability. This triggers a stronger main housing duty to secure suitable accommodation (often temporary, then longer-term if needed). Authorities must consider medical/social services input and how homelessness would affect the person compared to an “ordinary” homeless person. gov.uk Suitability: Any accommodation must be suitable for their disability needs (e.g., accessible, supportive). 3. Down Syndrome Act 2022 Relevant authorities (including local councils for housing and social care) must have regard to statutory guidance on meeting the specific needs of people with Down’s syndrome. This covers appropriate housing, reasonable adjustments, and support for independence.gov.uk 4. Equality Act 2010 Public sector equality duty: The council must eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations. This includes making reasonable adjustments for disability and considering how policies impact disabled people (e.g., in homelessness assessments).england. shelter.org.uk Practical Steps in Reading Contact Reading’s Housing Advice Service or Adult Social Care for assessment/referral (agencies have a “Duty to Refer”). Support can include supported living, help with tenancies, or liaison between housing and social care teams. reading.gov.uk Rough sleeping or vulnerability heightens urgency, including safeguarding referrals. reading.gov.uk

CQC backlogs have left many providers with out-of-date ratings The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has struggled to deliver timely inspection, assessment, and ratings publication at the scale required for an effective national regulator. This matters because delays make public ratings stale and reduce the system’s ability to identify poor care and drive improvement. The system risk is weakened assurance: oversight becomes less responsive to deteriorating quality, and providers and commissioners lose a current, trusted signal of risk. statafiasko.com/article/cqc-ba… #CQC

@russellquirk The charge is not excessive.

We scrapped the Tory Book Tax on our third day in office. The day before that we launched a legal challenge to Labour’s Local Government Reorganisation, the first to do so. Tomorrow we’re doing something patriotic. Next week we have more announcements and decisions that will benefit Essex. Onwards…

Extremely clear evidence from the latest version of the Sunday Times Rich List: The Wealthy Are Abandoning Britain. "One in six people on the Rich List just two years ago do not appear in 2026. Nearly a third (111) of the UK citizens who appear in the main list of 350 individuals no longer live on the British mainland. At least 15 foreign nationals who appeared in last year’s Rich List have been removed because they now live elsewhere," notes the Times. Labour's attack on non-doms and on wealth more generally, is a massive own goal. Details are provided by the Times on emigrants who had not earlier been identified: For example the businessman Mahdi al-Tajir, owner of the water brand Highland Spring, moved to Dubai. Ellis Short, the American financier who used to own Sunderland FC, has returned to America. Lady Ballyedmond, Northern Ireland’s wealthiest woman, has gone to Italy. "Yorkshire’s wealthiest man" kitchen magnate Malcolm Healey, has gone to the US. Kuljinder Bahia, the boss of Southall Travel, is now in the UAE. Teddy Sagi, owner of Camden Market, is in Israel. Yakir Gabay, a major property investor, has moved to Cyprus. The global tax and immigration adviser David Lesperance says that 2 years ago he had some 20 UK-based international clients, each with personal wealth of more than £370 million. Every single one has relocated, he told the Times.

Let's learn from America - data centres require water and lots of electricity. If you value your supply, do not let these centres to be located near homes.

Wow.

They haven’t changed - VOTE REFORM UK 🩵

STATEMENT: THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS IS ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE ME The Manchester Evening News has contacted me with a list of allegations it intends to publish. I am making this statement because the public has a right to know what is happening and why. The allegations are false. Every one of them. They were put to me without a named source, without a single document, and without any indication of who commissioned them or on what evidential basis they were prepared. The communication was not even signed. A major regional newspaper, demanding a right-of-reply response by Monday 2pm, did not put a name to its own email. That tells you everything you need to know about the confidence this newspaper has in what it is about to publish. That is not journalism by any recognised standard. It is a smear, constructed and delivered under the procedural cover of a right-of-reply request. The @MENnewsdesk has form. This newspaper has spent the better part of a decade looking away from the institutional failures I have spent the better part of a decade exposing. It did not break the Oldham grooming gang story. It did not demand the national inquiry. It did not stand with survivors when doing so was costly and unpopular. I did. The people of this town did. Now, at the precise moment Reform UK has destroyed Labour in Oldham and the national inquiry is formally underway, this newspaper has chosen to come for me. The timing is not accidental. Andy Burnham is manoeuvring toward a parliamentary return. Labour's grip on Greater Manchester depends on controlling the political narrative. My campaigning, eight years of documented, sourced, legally tested investigative work, is a threat to that narrative. A threat to the project that would see Burnham as Prime Minister. The MEN has historically functioned as a press office for Labour's Greater Manchester operation. What is happening now is the continuation of that function by other means. I am a decorated anti-racist. I hold an MBE. I have sat in rooms with Prime Ministers and Secretaries of State. I have designed and implemented counter-extremism interventions at the highest levels of government. I have faced down Nazis, white supremacists, Islamists and jihadists. The idea that this man is a racist, peddling hatred for profit, does not survive thirty seconds of contact with my public record. Any journalist who had done the most basic due diligence would know that. The MEN knows that. They are proceeding anyway. I have sent the MEN a formal warning letter. I am already conducting active High Court proceedings in the King's Bench Division. I have solicitors engaged. Any publication of these allegations will be treated as an actionable wrong and pursued accordingly. There is one further matter I am placing on public record. I am a known figure in a town with a documented history of communal tension. Publishing content that portrays me as a racist because I spoke out against the Pakistani Rape Gangs does not merely damage my reputation. It creates physical risk. If the MEN publishes this piece and I or my child are attacked as a result, the question of editorial recklessness will be answered in court. I have not been silenced by arrests. I have not been silenced by false charges, by de-platforming, by blacklisting, or by years of coordinated harassment. I will not be silenced by a politically motivated hit piece from a newspaper that spent a decade refusing to report what was happening to the children of my town. Raja Miah MBE

Starmer is so out of touch with the British public that his redemption is impossible.

Excellent. Well done Steven.