Maggie Joan Haggas

Property-rich, cash-poor, 'golden-oldie': Administrator for 3rd Age Hostelling and Housing: social enterprise keeping older people fit, well and less isolated.

[Maggie Joan Haggas @3rdagers]

"I describe myself as a 'golden-oldie' living in a house I can no longer afford to run. 20 years ago ... (my comment continues end of page 12). https://t.co/0kKNF7t2FH

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“The message was: do what we say.”

The BBC has been totally captured by trans ideologues.

Rob Burley tells FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK that the BBC arranged for Newsnight staff to attend an away day with trans lobbyists.

Trans activists advised staff on which individuals they should work with — and which they should avoid.

In 2013, the BBC adopted self-ID. Its official style guide changed the way the corporation handled trans issues by instructing staff to refer to men who identify as women as women.

Watch the latest episode of the FSU Podcast below with @RobBurl 👇

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

At the Al-Aqsa Mosque — one of Islam’s alleged holiest sites — a Palestinian Islamic leader openly called for the murder of every Hindu on Earth, including women and children, as human sacrifices for the sake of Allah.

Share this to expose the hatred being preached in the name of Islam.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“A man can marry a girl younger than 9 years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however, is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than 9. Other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy are allowed. When the girl turns 9, intercourse is allowed.”

-Ayatollah Khomeini
(founding leader of the Islamic regime in Iran).

I’ll never wrap my head around the fact that this is what Western leftists decided to side with. Disgusting and evil.

[Maggie Joan Haggas @3rdagers]

Is "Hope Not Hate" also funded by George Soros?

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A Charity Whose Trustees Read Like a Labour Honours List Is Trying to Win a By-Election.

Hope Not Hate is a registered charitable trust. Charities operating in the political arena are bound by a simple and unambiguous rule. They must stress their independence. They must not encourage support for any particular party or candidate. They must not give funding to political parties or politicians. These are not guidelines. They are legal obligations enforced by the Charity Commission.

Nigel Farage has written to the Charity Commission citing what he describes as a clear breach of those obligations in the Makerfield by-election constituency ahead of the June 18th poll.

The facts documented in his letter are precise. Hope Not Hate sent leaflets to addresses in Makerfield encouraging voters to join the local fightback against Reform and scan a QR code to participate. The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company. That private company received £787,858 in grants from Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust in 2024, representing almost the entirety of the charitable trust's expenditure for the year. The action apparently changed nothing.

The trustees of Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust and the directors and former directors of Hope Not Hate Limited include Frances O'Grady, former TUC General Secretary and Labour Peer. Gurinder Josan CBE, current Chair of HUCT and Labour MP. Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP. Alison Phillips, Chief Executive of LabourTogether, a Labour supporting think tank. Ruth Lauren Anderson, Labour Peer. Anna Turley, former Labour MP and Chair of the Labour Party.

A charitable trust whose trustees are overwhelmingly current or former Labour politicians is funding a private company to distribute leaflets in a by-election constituency explicitly targeting Reform and backing the Labour candidate. The Charity Commission's own guidance states that a charity must steer clear of explicitly comparing its views with those of political parties or candidates taking part in an election. The leaflet's footer, to join the local fightback against Reform, does precisely that.

This is not the first time the Charity Commission has been required to intervene. It opened a compliance case in July 2025 and concluded it in January 2026, declaring itself satisfied that the charity had taken sufficient steps to distinguish itself from Hope Not Hate Limited. The case was closed. Within months the same funding arrangement appears to have resumed with charitable funds flowing into electoral leaflets in a specific by-election constituency. The Commission closed the case. The behaviour apparently continued.

The Makerfield by-election is the vehicle through which Andy Burnham intends to return to Westminster and challenge for the Labour leadership. Reform took every council seat in the area at the May local elections with 46.2 percent of the vote. The stakes could not be higher. And a charity whose trustees read like a Labour Party honours list is spending charitable funds to help deliver the result.

The Charity Commission has 22 days to act before the votes are cast on June 18th. It has already investigated this arrangement once and the funding continued unchanged. Charitable money is being spent to influence a by-election that could determine who leads the country. The regulator that failed to stop it in January faces a simple question. Will it act before the result or after it no longer matters?

"The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company."

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

LOVE JIHAD: THE PREDATOR PLAYBOOK

UK journalist and political activist Tommy Robinson sits down with Lara Logan to describe what he says is the systematic method used by grooming gangs targeting vulnerable girls.

Robinson explains that the process often begins with a boy the same age befriending a girl at school. Over time, older men are introduced who shower her with attention, gifts, and status. They gradually isolate her from her parents and friends while introducing alcohol, drugs, and a new social circle.

By the time the girl realizes what is happening, she may already be emotionally dependent and cut off from her support system. Robinson says the next phase often involves manipulation or blackmail, sometimes with recorded sexual encounters used as leverage. Victims are then coerced into sexual exploitation or prostitution.

He warns that the process rarely happens overnight. It can take months of grooming and isolation before the abuse begins, which is why he believes parents and communities must understand how these networks operate.

Watch Episode 69 of @GoingRoguewLara | @TRobinsonNewEra:
https://t.co/Ttte5so5gG

#GoingRogue #TommyRobinson #HumanTrafficking #ChildExploitation #InvestigativeJournalism

[Decado @ItsDecado]

This is Tehran. Today, right around 10:15 AM.

I want the world to hear this: life is flowing here. We are actually doing fine.

For years, this occupying regime has choked our city in a permanent, toxic smog.

We never get to see a blue sky. But look up today.
The air is beautifully clear.
The only darkness in the sky is the black pillar of smoke rising exactly where they struck the regime's oil depot. The poison is finally burning.
The politicians and pundits in the West are terrified of escalation. They are begging for peace.
But walking these streets, seeing the iron of our cage melting before our eyes, we are not afraid of the fire.

We only have one true, suffocating fear: we are terrified that the strikes will stop before the rescue mission is finished. We are afraid of this regime's survival. And more than anything, we are afraid of losing our one real chance to end them for good.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

These are the names of the 25 Iranian footballers who stood in silent defiance against the Islamic Regime.

Say their names.
Save our girls.

Fatemeh Shaban
Fatemeh Makhdoomi
Mohaddeseh Zolfi
Atefeh Imani
Zahra Pourheydar
Fatemeh Amineh Borazjani
Melika Motevalli
Atefeh Ramazanizadeh
Fatemeh Pasandideh
Sara Didar
Roujin Tamrian
Afsaneh Chatrenoor
Zahra Sarbali
Golnoush Khosravi
Mona Hamoudi
Maryam Dini
Shahnaz Jafarizadeh
Raha Yazdani
Mahnaz Rezazadeh
Zahra Khajavi
Sana Sadeghi
Zahra Ahmadizadeh
Zahra Ghanbari
Koswar Anbari
Maryam Yektaei

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

This week the Home Secretary was asked a simple question.

Why was Pakistan not included in the government's visa crackdown when Pakistani nationals are the single largest group claiming asylum and account for a quarter of all visa-to-asylum switches?

She didn't answer it.

My latest piece sets out exactly what the statistics show and why @ShabanaMahmood's conflict of interest at the heart of this decision cannot be ignored.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

This story is absolutely insane.

Senior Iranian regime propagandists threatened to have members of the Iranian women’s football team killed because they didn’t sing the national anthem at a game in Australia this week.

The women were then basically held under armed guard in Australia by Iranian officials to prevent them escaping - they were even seen making SOS signals on their team bus.

The Australian government inexplicably dragged their feet on saving them right up until the last possible moment.

Five girls just escaped and claimed asylum. The rest face a flight home tomorrow to almost certain persecution.

This is the same Australian government which wants to import literal ISIS members from Syrian prison camps - they’ve spent the past month trying to get ISIS brides back on planes to Australia.

But they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to protect 5 women fleeing Islamist persecution

[Maggie Joan Haggas @3rdagers]

https://t.co/yDWC6iGdOz

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸This is possible the most accurate and powerful message coming from a citizen of Iran.🇺�

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello Australia, this is your moment. We need your support.
Iran’s women’s football team refused to sing the regime’s anthem right after the killing of Ali Khamenei.
State TV called them “war-time traitors.”
Now they’re on a bus back to Iran, flashing the SOS hand signal through the window.
I call on Australian government to them. Don’t send them back to danger. Please give them protection.

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

@russellquirk @GBNEWS It's actually much more serious than 'for fear of upsetting their Muslim voter base.' The cover-up of the industrial-scale rape of children points to something deeper and far more dangerous.

https://t.co/RK00PoyUS3

[Maggie Joan Haggas @3rdagers]

The Grooming Gangs Inquiry must go further. Add your voice to the consultation and help bring justice for survivors. https://t.co/mUaqd97MDG

[Maggie Joan Haggas @3rdagers]

https://t.co/hxr3hpdfDU.

[Alliance of Former Muslims 🇮🇪 @Ex_Muslims_Irl]

Yanar Mohammed, one of Iraq’s fiercest defenders of women’s rights, has been murdered by pro-IRGC militia in Baghdad. For decades, Yanar sheltered abused women, defied extremists, and refused to be silenced. Be her voice, for Western "feminists" certainly won't be. Rest in peace.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Shabana Mahmood flew to Copenhagen last week. She came back convinced she had found the answer. On Thursday she announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it.

This is the political equivalent of visiting a Michelin-starred restaurant, asking for the recipe, and coming home with the napkin.

Denmark's success on immigration is not built on paying people to go away. It is built on making sure they don't want to come in the first place, and on removing them efficiently when they do. The payment scheme exists in Denmark as a minor instrument inside a much harder overall architecture. Mahmood has extracted the instrument and left the architecture behind.

Here is what the Danish model actually consists of. Political consensus across left and right that the system must deter arrivals, not attract them. Asylum treated as temporary by default, with regular reassessments and a clear expectation of return. Benefits for new arrivals cut below standard welfare levels. Family reunification tightened. Rapid decisions. Rapid removals. Return agreements with origin countries treated as a diplomatic priority. Integration demands that are explicit and enforced: learn the language, work, respect Danish law. Denmark didn't find a magic policy. It decided what it wanted its system to do and then aligned everything around that goal.
What has Mahmood adopted from this? The leaving payment. One tool from the toolbox, with the toolbox left in Copenhagen.

And even on its own terms the comparison doesn't hold. Denmark offered up to £30,000 per person – three times the British rate. But the figure is beside the point. The payment works in Denmark because it sits inside a system designed to make staying impossible. Strip that system away and the number becomes irrelevant. What remains is a cash offer to people who have already been told they have no right to be here. That is not the Danish model. It is one line from the Danish model, lifted out of context and dressed up in Scandinavian branding for political cover.

Now consider the pull factor. The people crossing the Channel in small boats are overwhelmingly single young men. That is what the data consistently shows. This scheme is explicitly targeted at families. So where are these families coming from? And what signal does a publicly announced £40,000 family payment send to anyone considering the crossing? Come as a family, fail your claim, take the money. Labour's Alex Norris went on television to insist this would not act as a magnet. He would say that. The incentive structure says otherwise.

There is something deeper here too. Mahmood has been warned by her own department that the system creates perverse incentives – that people place children on dangerous boats precisely because families are harder to remove. Her answer to that perverse incentive is to attach a £40,000 reward to it. The deterrent and the incentive have changed places.

Mahmood is at least trying. The 30-month asylum review, the welfare restrictions, the Article 8 changes – there are genuine moves here that previous governments avoided. But trying is not the same as succeeding, and borrowing Denmark's reputation without borrowing Denmark's methods is not a policy. It's a press release.

The 150 families sitting in Home Office hotels got a text on Thursday morning giving them seven days to decide. The Home Secretary spent a week in Copenhagen and came back with a payment card and a photo opportunity. Denmark took twenty years to build the system she is claiming to have copied. Someone is getting a good deal here. It isn't the British taxpayer.

"On Thursday [Shabana Mahmood] announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it."

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Dear Prime Minister & Home Secretary,

I hope this letter finds you well, fully caffeinated, and in possession of a calculator.

I’m writing with what I believe is a modest, fiscally responsible proposal. I understand the Government is offering up to £40,000 to certain individuals to voluntarily leave the United Kingdom. First of all — bold strategy. Nothing says “strong borders” quite like a cashback scheme.

Now, I regret to inform you that I am, in fact, a fully tax-paying, law-abiding British citizen. I know — awkward. I appreciate this may disqualify me from the premium exit package, but I’m willing to negotiate.

I would like to formally apply for £35,000 to leave.

You see, unlike some applicants, I haven’t broken any laws to get here. I didn’t arrive by dinghy. I didn’t require processing, housing, or legal appeals. I’ve actually been funding the whole operation through PAYE for years — which I believe makes me a loyal shareholder in this enterprise.

Given that you’re prepared to offer £40,000 for someone to depart voluntarily after entering illegally, I feel £35,000 for someone who’s been here legally all along represents excellent value for money. Think of it as a “Buy British, Get One Gone” discount.

For £35,000 I will:
   •   Leave quietly.
   •   Not require a press conference.
   •   Not demand a diversity officer to wave me off.
   •   Even carry my own suitcase to the airport.

I may also tweet a polite thank-you note on departure, praising the efficiency of the scheme.

Frankly, it feels like I’ve misunderstood how incentives work in modern Britain. All these years I thought obeying the law, paying taxes, and contributing to society were the winning strategy. Turns out the real pro-move is to arrive unlawfully and wait for a loyalty bonus.

Who knew?

While British families are juggling rent, energy bills, and the weekly food shop like contestants on a dystopian game show, it’s reassuring to know the Treasury has located a spare £40,000 per head for voluntary goodbyes.

May I ask — is there a points card? Ten years of National Insurance contributions and I get a free exit bonus? If so, I believe I’m overdue.

In the spirit of fairness and fiscal responsibility, I am not even asking for the full £40,000. I’m trimming £5,000 off to help balance the books. That’s the kind of responsible budgeting I was raised on.

If successful, I promise to:
   •   Leave via a scheduled flight (economy is fine).
   •   Not stage a protest on the runway.
   •   And refrain from re-entering on a small boat to see if I qualify twice.

All I ask is equal treatment. If departure is now a funded career pathway, I would very much like to submit my CV.

Yours in hopeful relocation,
A slightly confused taxpayer

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

German politician Armin Laschet.

"Iran(lslamic regime) is in violation of international law in everything it has done for the past 40 years, And now, when "the people in Iran are cheering in the streets, we start international law debates..."

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

She was persecuted, oppressed, abused and tortured as a child by Muslims in her homeland of Lebanon.
She fled, became an American citizen and since then saving America from Islam.
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