David

Bring on United

[David @DavidKemp38]

Quite astonishing

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Senior figures at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, under the command of Andy Burnham, have cautioned firefighters who support Reform UK over their political views.

In a further chilling assault on free speech, staff have also effectively been urged in an email to report colleagues who support Reform.

Fire brigade bosses have also said they are seeking legal advice on what to do about firefighters who decide to stand as Reform UK candidates. This is despite the fact that, unlike police officers, there is no legal bar preventing firefighters from participating in national or local politics.

In their email, fire brigade bosses Mr Petch and Ms Ahmed said: ’We are aware that some staff members have chosen to represent Reform UK in their local areas. We know this may cause concern within our network and wider.

’The individuals involved have been spoken to, to make it clear that as members of GMFRS (Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service) our core values and professional behaviours must be displayed at all times.

’The service is currently seeking formal legal guidance… to ensure we are protected from all perspectives and that our inclusive culture remains safe.

‘Our priority is and always will be ensuring that every member of this network feels supported, respected and safe at work.’

They also confirmed that they would be consulting the Fire Brigades Union on the matter.

In his role as Mayor of Greater Manchester, @AndyBurnhamGM — who is also tipped by some to be a future Prime Minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election — is also Greater Manchester’s Fire Commissioner, responsible for overseeing the service.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has now written to Mr Burnham to raise concerns about the chilling effect this has on free speech.

Lord Young said that the ‘clear implication’ of the email from the fire brigade bosses was that ‘representing Reform UK constitutes an inherent threat to the institution’s culture and values and is to be treated as morally suspect’. He also highlighted that no action appears to have been taken against firefighters who support other political parties.

The letter also states: ‘Staff are further invited to report colleagues who support any groups that go against the service’s values, which effectively amounts to an instruction to inform on colleagues for their political beliefs.

’The email will create a chilling effect on the free speech of GMFRS employees who support Reform.

’The practical effect is that a public fire and rescue service governed by you is treating the lawful political activity of your electoral opponents as a reputational risk to their employer.

‘Regardless of whether this reflects your instruction, it reflects your governance; and a public office-holder who permits his institution to demonise or chill the speech and political activity of those who support his principal electoral rival cannot claim to be discharging that office with the impartiality it demands.’

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[David @DavidKemp38]

Breaking records! Thank fuck the anti-football twats got what they deserved

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

24.7% - Arsenal’s possession average (24.7%) was the lowest by a team in a UEFA Champions League final on record (since 2003-04), as well as their lowest in any match under Mikel Arteta where they had 11 men on the pitch throughout. Reactive.

[fatfilmsparody @fatfilmsparody]

Rocky 2026.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: its been revealed that Andy Burnham snapped up an ex council flat in Kennington for just £215,000 in 2005 while serving as an MP.

He then happily billed taxpayers for the mortgage interest payments because the rules let him get away with it.

That same flat is now worth 480000 to 500000 pounds and he rents it out while insisting the income barely covers his costs and he makes no profit.

Yet this is the same man demanding rent freezes council housing takeovers and lower rents for ordinary people.

Pure hypocrisy from a classic Westminster grifter feathering his own nest on the back of the system he loves to lecture everyone else about.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🇬🇧 Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester authority funnelled hundreds of millions in public loans to developer Renaker.

They built luxury skyscrapers packed with penthouses. Barely any affordable homes delivered.

The tycoon takes £40m+ dividends and relocates to Monaco.

This is champagne socialism in action.

Public cash for private luxury under Burnham.

Andy Burnham has serious questions to answer.

@KarenQuinn1973

#AndyBurnham #Manchester #HousingScandal #TaxpayerCash

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists

[United Vault @UtdVault]

OTD: John Terry changes the order so he can take the winning penalty - 2008

Viva John Terry 😂😂

[David @DavidKemp38]

808 State
James
Happy Mondays
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Prodigy
Jamiroquai
Stone Roses
Travis
Public Enemy
Air

[Giggsclass1 @giggsclass1]

Pulp
Madness
Dr Feelgood 🤦‍♂️
Wham
Blur
Genesis
Jodeci
Boys to men
Depech mode
Naughty by nature

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

Visibly Jewish woman and her children, waited for green light on pedestrian crossing, on Leicester Road, Manchester, when a driver, pulls over whilst his light was green, but steps on accelerator when it’s red.

He clearly tried to run over this Jewish family in Manchester.

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Remember when Ruud van Nistelrooy did this? 🤣

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.

Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:

“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained.

The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”

They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.”
They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.”

Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews.

The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

We have rape victims waiting years to have their day in court but David Lammy has found extra court capacity for the Unite the Kingdom march.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

When the Makerfield by-election takes place, electorate will be considering this:

“does Burnham actually care about my seat or does he want a job in Downing Street in London?”

He’s not running for Makerfield, he’s running for Starmer’s job and quitting as their mayor to do so.

Many people will see this as totally shameless and desperate of a Labour Party that seemingly hasn’t elected any talent to the House of Commons.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The voters of Makerfield now have the opportunity to do the single funniest thing in British politics ever.

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

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

[David @DavidKemp38]

Excellent analysis of the despicable “Bodybags Burnham”

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Ambition Before Accountability. The Pattern Burnham Hopes You've Forgotten

Andy Burnham is positioning himself as the man who will change Labour for the better. The outsider who understands working people. The mayor who got things done. Before Westminster accepts that narrative it should examine the one thing Burnham has been consistent about throughout his career. When institutional failure has required a reckoning, he has commissioned a review, expressed anger and moved on. The reckoning never comes.

Start with Mid Staffordshire. As Health Secretary from 2009 to 2010 Burnham personally recommended the trust for Foundation Trust status on the basis of four lines of information. Between 400 and 1,200 more patients died at Stafford Hospital than would have been expected. He and his predecessor Alan Johnson rejected 81 requests for a full public inquiry sitting in public across their combined tenures. The Francis Inquiry, which Burnham resisted, found systematic failures. David Nicholson, the NHS chief, told that inquiry that the level of detail Burnham required before recommending Foundation Trust status was surprising because usually ministers would expect much more. The HuffPost analysis published at the time concluded that looking at the witness statements it was difficult not to reach the conclusion that Burnham was guilty at best of incompetence, at worst of gross negligence. Burnham's response was to stand before Parliament and accuse the government of failing to respond adequately to the Francis Report. The report he never wanted. About the trust he had recommended.

Then comes the Augusta inquiry. Operation Augusta was a Greater Manchester Police investigation into a grooming gang of up to 100 members who abused at least 57 children, some as young as 12. It was closed before Burnham's mayoralty. But when MPs wrote to him challenging him on the failures documented in the subsequent review, his response was described in Hansard as supine. He accepted the lack of resources argument without challenge despite Greater Manchester Police having gained over 1,000 additional officers in the years the operation ran. There was, in the words of MPs who examined his reply, no sense of injustice. The minutes from the GMP meeting where the decision to close Augusta was taken had disappeared. The minutes from Manchester City Council had disappeared at the same time. The IOPC subsequently concluded it could not determine who took the decision or why because records were missing and former employees were unwilling to cooperate.

The Rochdale review he commissioned identified 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children who remained at large. Nobody has answered the question of what his mayoralty did to locate and prosecute them. Not Burnham. Not any of the MPs now championing him for Downing Street.

The pattern is not accidental. Mid Staffordshire. Augusta. Rochdale. In every case the same structure. Institutional failure. Review commissioned. Parliamentary challenge answered inadequately. Unanswered questions buried under the next announcement. The man presenting himself as the antidote to institutional evasion has spent his entire career practicing it.

Now he seeks to represent Makerfield. Reform is ahead in polling for the seat by 46 to 35 percent. Labour lost 20 councillors in Wigan last Thursday while Reform gained 23. The seat being handed to him is no longer the safe Labour fortress it once was. If he loses it his leadership bid ends before it begins. If he wins it the questions above will follow him to Westminster.

The political class preparing to crown him has not required him to answer those questions once. It will not start now. Changing the leader without changing the culture of institutional evasion reproduces the problem with a more popular face attached. Britain has been here before. It knows how it ends.

[Epic Gobshite @epic_gobshite]

Oh, spare us the sanctimonious drivel, Andy. Ten years ago you flounced out of Westminster because the 'system' wasn't working for you personally after failing upwards for 16 years. Now, after using Greater Manchester as your personal branding exercise - racking up debt, rebadging buses, and claiming credit for growth that predates you - you're bored of the Mayor gig and want back in Parliament for your own opportunistic gains. 'Deeply care about Makerfield'? You couldn't even be bothered to stand there (or anywhere) last time. This is just the latest chapter in your serial loser saga: you got absolutely trounced in not one but two Labour leadership contests, first to Ed Miliband, then to Jeremy Corbyn, before sulking off to Manchester to play regional 'king'. Now you're back chasing the top job again, positioning yourself as the saviour while the North crumbles under the very government you helped enable. The people who actually voted for you as Mayor get their mid-term rug pulled for your ego trip, costing taxpayers another expensive election. The 'man of the people' routine is ancient history, especially after Labour's national meltdown. This reeks of desperation, not principle. Good luck explaining to voters why the 'change we brought to Greater Manchester' requires you abandoning it halfway through for another shot at the prize you already proved you can't win.

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

It's not just that she tried to dodge her stamp duty that I don't want Ange as PM. Although she's now been miraculously cleared. 🙄😜

It's her lack of dress sense, it's her lack of dignity, falling drunkenly into a door, swigging booze on the beach, dancing in Ibiza like some crazy kid, and the language like 'Tory scum'. She's an utter embarrassment. She's cringeworthy. She's the epitome of the downgrading and degradation of society and everything it was to be ladylike.

And don't forget the shoes. Oh God, the shoes .🙄

[Calcio Türkiye 🇹🇷🇮🇹 @CalcioTurkey]

Diego Maradona, kitabında Franco Baresi hakkında şunları söylüyor:

“İtalya’ya geldiğimde herkes ona karşı oynamaktan korkuyordu.

Bir maçımızda Michel Platini bana şöyle dedi:

‘Hey yeni çocuk, pas vermekten çok çalım atmayı seviyorsun. Franco Baresi ile karşılaşınca ne yapacağını göreceğiz.’

Ben de, ‘Baresi mi? O da kim? Ona bir ders vereceğim.’ dedim.

İki ay sonra Milan ile San Siro’da oynadık. Carlo Ancelotti’yi çalımlayıp yere düşürdüm. Her şey kolay görünüyordu ve rahatça gol atacağımı düşündüm.
Bir anda arkadan biri üzerime atıldı ve ben fark etmeden topu inanılmaz bir zarafetle ayağımdan aldı.

‘6 numaralı bu oyuncu da kim?’ dedim.

Topu Mauro Tassotti’ye verdi ve yerde yatan Ancelotti’ye:

‘Onu bana bırak, ben hallederim.’ dedi.

İşte forvetlerin korktuğu Franco Baresi buydu.

Karşımda sıra dışı bir savunmacı olduğunu anladım.
Claudio Gentile beni durdurmak için tekmelerdi.
Ama Baresi, bana dokunmadan topu ayaklarımın arasından çalardı.

Bir maçın sonunda formasını istedim ve San Paolo Stadı’nın ortasında onun formasını giydim.

Bu, kariyerimde karşılaştığım en iyi savunmacıya duyduğum saygının bir göstergesiydi.”

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Posting again, please 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 because it seems the phrase “Genocide” is still being redefined by people who don’t have a clue.

The ICJ did NOT find that there was a Genocide in Gaza, not even a “PLAUSIBLE” one like they keep saying

Don’t believe me? Hear it from the President of the ICJ