DavidGF

creative thinker that loves art politics history science & technology - my opinions are my owns but hopefully spark new ideas.

[DavidGF @DavidGFozza]

@LNHolmeswriter "Love this – Deadly Nightshade Ch.1 has breathing rivers - a writer first starting out #DeadlyNightshade -https://t.co/3FofLkwmyW

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

This
Cult
Is
Not
A
Religion
Of
Peace

[welshman @welshmaan]

The left were ready to go when they heard a Muslim teenager was beaten to death by 13 youths outside Mosque during Ramadan. How disappointed they were to find out who the accused actually were:

→ Hamza Saqib
→ Fahir Qamar
→ Hamd Ali
→ Armaan Khalil
→ Bilal Salim
→ Mohammed Zubair
→ Ishaq Ahmed
→ Abbas Rehman
→ Isa Khan
→ Rehaan Siddique

Three suspects aged 15, 15 and 14, also from the Black Country, cannot be identified for legal reasons due to their ages. [continued in replies]

[DavidGF @DavidGFozza]

@Neccccy If he does then the poll will be null and void

[🤬 Labour-Out 🤮 @Keir_StarmerOut]

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Abu Dhabi Andy denies all allegations. 🤔

I think the Prime Minister will have to resign soon. 😲

#ManCity

#AndyBurnham 🤢

#Liebour 💩

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[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

The invasion is getting worse under Burnham.

Only Reform UK has a plan to stop the boats forever and save Britain. 🇬🇧

[Cornwall7000 ⛵️🐕 @cornwall70001]

Why on earth would you make it easier to cheat???

We all know why.

Labour are the cheats.

[welshman @welshmaan]

UK 2026.

Foreigners celebrate as a judge gives them no jail time for physically assaulting a 12-year-old girl, calling her sexy, and threatening to rape her.

I don't hate my country, but I hate what's happened to it.

[The English Crusader @andrewc44104127]

SHARE DONT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS

Formal questions have been raised regarding the eligibility of Labour’s newly elected MP, Sagal Abdi-Wali, following her victory in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election on Thursday, 8 October 2026
political figures, including Councillor Maxine Fothergill, have highlighted that Abdi-Wali is still publicly listed as an active board member of the Oxford Street Development Corporation (OSDC), a role overseen by City Hall
Holding certain public or state-appointed board memberships can legally disqualify individuals from standing or serving as a Member of Parliament under UK electoral laws. Formal letters demanding clarification were sent to Camden Electoral Services and City Hall on 9 October 2026

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

This

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

House prices are unaffordable because you allowed uncontrolled immigration and millions came in.

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

The trough is deep and tempting. £100K a year and yet our MPs still want free shit.

[ASKdes 🇬🇧🇺🇸 🌎 @ASK_des]

#AndyBurnham Andy Burnham doing all he can to get us back in the EU. 17,410,742 voted leave the EU in 2016.
Makerfield voted 65% Leave the EU. Has Andy Burnham seen all protests,riots, going on in France, Germany, & Spain. Why would anyone want to Rejoin the bloody EU in 2026.

[MJK @MJK10797588]

#AndyBurnham

JUST ANOTHER CORRUPT PM
ON THAT COG OF CORRUPTION
THAT KEEPS TURNING…..

HE SHOULD NEVER OF BEEN INSTALLED
NO WONDER HE HASNT BEEN SEEN
IN UK 🇬🇧 ALL WEEK
HIDING IN GERMANY 🇩🇪

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

All men all foreigners it's now being asked are the government flying them into our airports late at night early hours of the morning right under our noses?
This government and the last have got a lot to answer to for what they have done and are doing ......

[The Global Desk @TG_desk69]

BREAKING: Calls continue to grow for Andy Burnham to resign as Prime Minister following revelations of corruption and bribery throughout his political career.

Andy, the party is over, resign for us.

[Malcolm Hay @MalHay]

The smell is bringing the buzzards in

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Andy Burnham and the high price of Abu Dhabi’s billions
From taxpayer loans for luxury flats to no affordable housing, the prime minister faces growing questions over his past mayoral ties to Emirati backers

By Constance Kampfner, Bill Curtis, Sian Bradley

In 2018 Andy Burnham received a letter. It came from a group of impassioned Manchester residents, disturbed by the fate of Ahmed Mansoor, a blogger and human rights activist imprisoned for criticising the government of the United Arab Emirates.

That same government had been funding the regeneration of a huge chunk of their city, buying Manchester City Football Club and transforming the hollowed-out industrial buildings next door into trendy flats.

The campaigners had a simple request: to name one of Manchester’s streets after Mansoor. It would be, they wrote, “a fitting honour to bestow upon an individual who embodies so many of the qualities that the city and the wider region celebrates as a key part of its history”.

The letter was also addressed to Lucy Powell, the MP for Manchester Central and now the deputy leader of the Labour Party, who responded by writing to the council and asking it to consider the proposal.

However, the Manchester city council leader at the time, Sir Richard Leese, rejected the idea, saying: “Street naming is not my department, but longstanding policy is to not name streets after anybody still living or with no connection to the city.”

And what of Burnham, who by that point had been mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) for just under a year? He never responded. Off the record, his team told journalists that it was a city council matter, not a regional one.

Yet his silence on the issue, campaigners felt, spoke volumes. Since the 1990s Manchester had been on a journey of transformation; the crumbling post-industrial city dubbed “Gunchester” because of gang violence was rapidly becoming populated by high-rises and office blocks. Yet some residents felt that this renaissance had been at the expense of Manchester’s poorest, locked out of an increasingly expensive city centre.
📷Manchester’s high-rise boom, driven by strategic partnerships and overseas capital under Burnham’s mayoral tenureGetty Images
Sensing the public mood, Burnham had run on a pledge to eradicate rough sleeping and to use any leverage he had as mayor to push individual councils to “work with responsible developers that will honour obligations to affordable housing”.
And yet, within his first year, he oversaw more than £55m in taxpayer-backed loans to UAE-linked developments, projects that contained no affordable housing.

Manchester Life, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) and the city council, applied three times to the Housing Investment Loans Fund, a pot overseen by the mayor, to develop properties in the east of Manchester around the Etihad Campus, and was successful each time.

None of the 453 homes built on the sites it was developing in Ancoats and New Islington were advertised as affordable housing despite local policies setting a 20 per cent target for developments of that size.

📷TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP

Documents seen by The Times show that ADUG — owned by Sheikh Mansour, the Emirati royal and Manchester City Football Club proprietor — had been given first preference on developments in the area. The ten-year contract with the city council, which rival developers complained was a “sweetheart deal”, was first reported by the Manchester Mill in 2024.
The role played by the Emiratis in Manchester’s transformation has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks after an investigation found that Manchester City had arranged “sham contracts” with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m. The club has lodged an appeal.
The prime minister was accused of downplaying the seriousness of the guilty verdict last week when he praised ADUG as a “huge partner” in Manchester’s development. He later told the BBC: “I think it’s important to separate the football issues from wider investment.”

The joint venture had been struck well before Burnham’s mayorship by Leese and the council’s former chief executive, the late Howard Bernstein. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash, when Manchester’s economic progress was under threat, the men aggressively courted foreign capital, facilitating Abu Dhabi’s entry into the city.

📷Howard Bernstein in 2013JOEL GOODMAN/LNP

So strong was the relationship with Bernstein that Manchester City’s owners named a street near the Etihad Campus after him (council rules on naming did not apply to private land). After he retired in 2017 Bernstein became an adviser to the club on “commercial and development schemes” in and around the stadium. He died in 2024.

Several Labour MPs maintain close ties with the club, which provided £11,000 worth of match tickets to seven Labour MPs in recent years. Among them is Powell, who accepted £2,360 worth of hospitality tickets from the club for five matches between April 2023 and March 2024.
Her ardent support for the club spilt over awkwardly at the recent Labour Party conference when she addressed the fallout surrounding Manchester City by telling delegates: “Can I just say to all those United fans who have been gloating all week — you’re still crap and you know you are.”
📷Lucy Powell at Etihad Stadium
Burnham, who has been pictured attending City games at the Etihad Stadium in hospitality areas, is now facing mounting pressure to release full details of any hospitality or gifts he has received from the club or its Emirati backers, with his political opponents seizing on the issue. On Tuesday Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, said: “I think transparency is essential. If he’s got nothing to hide, then he should open the box.”

Jon Silver, a professor of urban geography at the University of Sheffield and the co-author of a damning report into the Manchester Life partnership — which concluded that Manchester city council had “sold the family silver too cheap” by agreeing to 999-year leaseholds “below comparable rates” with Abu Dhabi — told The Times that Burnham now needed to answer for the consequences of that deal.

Silver said: “Burnham wasn’t a major figure in the transformation of the city, but he has used its perceived success to build his own political brand. So he now has to take responsibility for the limits of this model.”

Campaigners and activists repeatedly urged Burnham, the figurehead for the region, “to take a stand around human rights in the UAE and its actions in Sudan, which he didn’t do”, Silver added. “Given the city celebrates itself as a bastion of democracy, his silence was, to the campaigners, quite damning.”
📷Sir Richard LeeseCOLIN MCPHERSON/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES
On Monday Leese defended the council’s deal with ADUG, which he said was brokered by the UK government, as being “good for the city”.

“It was a time when development in Manchester had stopped,” he told the BBC. He added: “There was criticism at the time though — and there still is now — that the land was given away too cheaply by the city council. The point is, the investment from Abu Dhabi is what created the value.”

A spokesman for Manchester city council said: “More than ten years after these developments were first conceived, it would be wrong to look at those initial Manchester Life developments through the lens of the area’s current success — not the economic scenario and low housing demand at the time the partnership was created.”

Manchester Life said all loans had been repaid with interest. A spokesman said that the so-called sweetheart deal was “a mutual right of first refusal, giving either party 30 days to accept an offer on the same terms and conditions as would otherwise be offered to a third party or to the market more generally”.

A GMCA spokeswoman said its housing loans were “open to any developers looking to bring forward viable schemes throughout Greater Manchester” and that applications were assessed “for their deliverability, value for money and their contribution to our affordable and social housing priorities”.
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[NATHAN @mbga_uk]

Labour With Their Noses In The Trough Again
Donations & Freebies
They are taking us Brits for fools.
£300,000 handouts from Manchester City & UAE.
Citys owners found guilty of massive financial cheating.
Our country has become Dirty & Corrupt
Vote these Self Serving clowns out

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

Folks one of Britains Top Barristers is currently looking at Sacked Rhodri Davies case; Rod’s was a Sgt in 4yrs & Insp in 10 an Outstanding Officer; a Senior Fed Rep recently told Rhodri’s Employment Tribunal that under current use of force rules Rhodri would most prob NEVER have been disciplined; a SWP Female Insp he won a Discrimination case against SOUGHT her REVENGE when hey ho SHE was a DCI in the Complaints & Discipline & INITIATED & controlled a complaint against him; one day you will see/hear ALL >The Evidence👇🤷‍♂️

[robert chard @robertc77438249]

"IMPORTANT: Today, we found out that Green MP Hannah Spencer’s campaign manager ADMITTED that mosques secretly endorsed the Green candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, despite charity rules forbidding it,
I said this happened at the time.
They cheated, plain and simple

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Andy Burnham is reportedly rushing through plans to scrap photo ID requirements at polling stations.

Labour is housing illegal migrants in communities across virtually every postcode in Britain, and now wants to weaken voter identification rules.

This raises serious questions about electoral integrity and whether Labour believes its immigration policies will translate into future electoral support.

Illegal migrants are not entitled to vote, and removing photo ID requirements would not change that.

But why is Labour making these changes, and what safeguards will replace the existing checks?

The British public deserve answers.