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@benonwine Stop lying

If you could say TWO word’s to Starmer, what would it be?

@MasterMaliq So why do the so called moderate Muslims never expose the extremists amongst them? If you helped root out the baddies we might have a bit of trust for you.

Muslims are not dangerous. We are human beings like everyone else, with families, love, care, and ordinary lives. Our faith teaches compassion, not hatred. Our Prophet taught respect and mercy. Yes, there are a few extremists who distort our religion and bring shame to it, but they do not represent the vast majority of Muslims. So why is it that many still get profiled and treated as suspects? Is it fear, or hate?

@dave43law @LeeAndersonMP_ Ha ha your so called main candidate Andy Turnham must be dizzy with all the U turns he's been doing! Main candidate 🤣🤣🤣

So a mere coincidence - the one day Farage leaves his bunker since the £5million story hits - he goes to Makerfield - a plumber with a dodgy social media history says I'l show you round - in an amazing coincidence the dodgy plumber candidate takes you in to a cafe where the main candidate in the byelection is doing an award ceremony - amazingly you have a pet Reform journalist in tow with a camera crew Smell anything fishy so far because it stinks more than Farage's 3 stories about the £5million so far

Why did she ask for a selfie?

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle You should ask yourself why you think that simply raising taxes on a certain section of our society ever higher is a panacea to enable ever higher gov spending. Even low paid workers have been fleeced into poverty, and your answer is tax anyone that still has anything

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle If I think it’s right or want everyone in society to pay their fair share I should go to Russia or China?! 😳🤷🏻‍♂️ What of moronic response is that? You should ask yourself why you want the rich to get special treatment.

I regret to inform you that we will be publishing a detailed analysis this week of the £5m payment to Nigel Farage, and whether it's taxable. It is likely to annoy *everybody*. (except tax advisers, which is all that matters)

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle I really think you will find what you are looking for by moving to China or Russia

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle No! I’m jealous of-one. I don’t want to take anything off anyone they have legitimately earned I simply want EVERYONE to pay their fair share What is so terribly difficult to understand here? 🤷🏻‍♂️ You’re at pains to defend the super rich & I don’t know why 😳

You might have heard of Maggie Oliver. She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so. Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission. She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse. Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills. She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward. Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations. The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated. The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions. The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history. That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt. They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt. It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure. Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face. The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands. There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts. Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace. She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle Why, because as I said, they are very mobile, they are already leaving in significant numbers, taking their jobs and wealth with them.

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle The solution is that those who rich pay their fair share rather than exploiting tax loopholes, offshoring their businesses/asset or finding other ways to avoid paying the tax they should Why on earth would you be fighting against this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle I don't blame the poor, I am one of them! But if you take too much of the better off they will leave to more favourable shores.

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle And it isn’t ’anyone with wealth’ It’s the super rich who have gamed the system or taken advantage of loopholes to accumulate their wealth exploiting others in the process Clearly something needs to change, instead you want to continue to blame the poor It isn’t working

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle Loopholes are there to be taken advantage of, that's what financial advisers do. It's not illegal to use loopholes it's governments duty to fix loopholes.

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle Your right on one thing, that corruption should not be tolerated from anyone! And yes, to quote - "You could quite as easily argue it’s human nature to be jealous of others & to take what they have" Exactly your problem.

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle It’s corruption! Human nature or not corruption should not be tolerated You could quite as easily argue it’s human nature to be jealous of others & to take what they have I’m singling no-one out! I’m saying everyone should pay their fair share & if youre going to be annoyed….

This is fucking outrageous

This is outrageous White lives matter too!

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle And if you think taxing rich people is going to stop corruption, well!

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle ‘Vindictive envy’ ok pal 🤦‍♂️ It’s called corruption & it stinks to high heaven! You know full well if you’re honest with yourself that these billionaires back certain parties in return for favourable treatment. They aren’t just taking a punt wth their millions hoping for the best

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle And your solution is what, leveling down?

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle One of things things will happen if ppl like you continue to lick the boots of billionaires Either the poor will be punished. ie - reduced benefits, NHS privatised, cost of living going up etc…. Or the middle classes will be squeezed Those at the top continue to get richer

Not really what we want running our country is it?

@zomboy666 @DanNeidle It's not working, it's just making Reform stronger and more popular, so keep up the swearing and insulting you're handing it on a plate to Reform, mate!

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle But why would it discredit, humiliate, embarrass or belittle unless there was wrongdoing? The answer is it WOULDNT and that’s why you know it WILL. See your own logic biting you on the fucking arse there, pal?

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle A level playing field financially to compete with the unions who fund the Labour party and rich tories fund the tories. Only being generous to rich industrialists and entrepreneurs will get our economy back on the rails, NOT punitive tax regimes. Idealistic measures won't

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle A level playing field for whom? If Reform looks after the interests of billionaires then someone else will pay the price Maybe he’ll give the super rich tax breaks? Maybe he’ll sell one of them a lucrative contract from the NHS when he pulls it apart?

@NeilWC2010 @DanNeidle I'm detecting a touch of vindictiveness or envy from you. Mate, we all vote or join parties that we hope will be beneficial to us. End off.

@visit_lochness @DanNeidle He hasn’t just taken a punt, that’s the point! Clearly he KNOWS Reform will do him a favour & thats an issue You’re either being disingenuous or you are naive if you think a party’s largest donor just pays his money & takes a chance. There’s a reason these guys are billionaires

@stevenroy27 @benonwine No he wants tories to stand aside to let Reform win. Do you even know what far right is!

@benonwine So he is saying first past the post is a bad electoral system and does not give a true reflection of what voters want If he wants the Tories to stand aside and let the far right win what does that say about the Tories?

Jacob Rees-Mogg has called for the Tories to stand aside in the Makerfield By-election to stop Andy Burnham. I think this is a very honest and sensible statement from Jacob Rees-Mogg and he is right as well.