Michael Thompson
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Michael Thompson
@ThompsonMinor
A Briton and proud of it. A life spent travelling, and a career spent in hospitality and technology



Good the Stolen Valour Labour councillor scumbag Greg Brackenridge has now resigned. Now his Labour MP wife should resign too, she got elected on the back of his lies on the election leaflets. Blatant liars both of them. A Wolverhampton councillor and former mayor, who was found to have falsely claimed he had served as a Royal Marine, has stepped down. City of Wolverhampton Council confirmed that Greg Brackenridge, councillor for Wednesfield South, had resigned from his seat. He was investigated by the authority's subcommittee in July and found to have breached a code of conduct for exaggerating his military service. The BBC has tried to contact Brackenridge for comment. He was elected as mayor of Wolverhampton in 2021 and used to represent Labour, before more recently sitting as an independent. Brackenridge had made the false claims in 2021 during a speech when he unveiled a statue in Wednesfield to commemorate Sikh soldiers who died during the Battle of Saragarhi. An investigation last year heard Brackenridge, whose wife Sureena is Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East and whose son is a councillor, was found to have not completed the training and had not received a green beret for "passing out" as a Royal Marine commando. The panel also said he had "given the impression" he had served as a Royal Marine while chairing the council's Armed Forces Covenant Board. At the time, he faced faced cross-party condemnation for his behaviour and for "watering down" a public apology. A city of Wolverhampton Council spokesperson said: "We confirm that Councillor Greg Brackenridge has resigned his seat and we have, in line with the law placed a notice of vacancy on our website. "We anticipate that the election to fill his seat will be held on 7 May 2026 along with the 20 other seats being contested at the upcoming election." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…


Peter Mandelson's bankrupt lobbying firm has admitted that a "significant" number of his emails have somehow disappeared, I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for this


Graphic published by the Israel Defense Force of the assessed range now of Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles, following yesterday’s attempted attack against the joint US-UK military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean utilizing two intermediate-range ballistic missiles, with nearly all of Europe - including parts of the United Kingdom - now in range of missiles fired by Iran.


NEW CHILD RAPE SCANDAL EXPOSÉ TONIGHT FROM 9PM ON @GBNEWS Raids in mini-marts found used condoms scattered across the floors and pull out beds ready for use. Young girls as young as 13 allegedly touched, kissed and dragged towards upstairs rooms.















EXCL: 65% of people back the assisted dying bill, just 14% oppose it, as it’s held up in the Lords. One dying man pleads with peers from his hospice bed to give him a choice. ITV News is featuring stories from both sides of the debate as time runs out. itv.com/news/2026-03-1…

*UK 10-YEAR BOND YIELD RISES TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2008

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.


Exclusive from @breeallegretti Angela Rayner has privately criticised the OBR and suggested that Labour has 'over-corrected' in the wake of the Tories In a private call with City investors organised by BNP Paribas she said that the official forecaster had failed to recognise the benefits of increased public spending Rayner attacked the scoring methodology used by the OBR, which measures the expected cost and growth gains of government policies to calculate the amount of fiscal headroom, based on the chancellor’s rules She said that the government's drive to build more social housing was considered a cost without any recognition of the social benefits She argued that the OBR is 'preventing' the government from greater public spending because it 'doesn't account for the returns' properly Expect this to be a growing fault line as the elections in May approach thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…





