Gary Houghton

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@GuidoFawkes I noted she wasn't in PMQs either. Something going on??

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@Whatsthehapp5 @EDeason9192 @BROKENBRITAIN0 There's no need to be rude! My point is they've been here a long time. Long before Israel was even thought of.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@Rick91398636 @BROKENBRITAIN0 Yes. You're right. You live and learn!

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Sorry. Yes, you're right they were. Though re admitted in the 17th century. Still been here a long time though.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The George Floyd incident, while tragic, is framed as a pivotal moment for UK policing, driving the Police Race Action Plan to address racial disparities and distrust, particularly within minority communities.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@GBNEWS 67?!! Wow.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@RupertLowe10 I've always thought that basic double entry bookkeeping must tell the story here. It's not that hard.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@MarioNawfal @RupertLowe10 Yes. I was initially shocked when Rupert came out with that statement, but on reflection, I think he's right. It might actually be a real deterrent.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Surely, this treatment is RACIST! Anti White racism. Again.

[Danny Tommo @RealDannyTommo]

It’s one thing for the Prime Minister not to have mentioned Henry’s name, but if the media and MPs do not hound Starmer this week about why he hasn’t mentioned his name, they are as bad as he is.

[Archie For Reform 🇬🇧 @ArchieforReform]

Nige is the man 💪

He is the one who will try and get this country out the mess it is in 🇬🇧

The Reform Team have a strong backing and deserve to be given a chance ➡️

If you agree: repost

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@Mofoman360 @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain She should stand down imo. Give Reform a clear run at it.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@BROKENBRITAIN0 To be fair, since Elon wrote that Farage has built quite a team. And one that is capable of running an election and running a government. Rupert is very capable, but he's a one man band. And is he a team player? I'm not sure.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

£700,000 for Migrants. 18,000 Homeless in Manchester. That's the Burnham Method.

Andy Burnham is asking the voters of Makerfield to send him to Westminster. Before they do, they should know what he has been doing with their money in Manchester.

This week it emerged that Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority is spending £722,685 on schemes to help migrants navigate the British welfare system. The Safe Transitions programme will provide guidance in multiple languages helping refugees understand their rights, entitlements and access to housing, benefits and public services. A Refugee Lodging Scheme will match refugees with resident landlords who will support them to access housing, benefits, employment, education and community networks. Greater Manchester already hosts more than 8,500 people in asylum support accommodation. More than 18,000 people across the region have no permanent address. One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them.

This is not a one-off decision. It is the visible expression of a consistent set of political instincts that Burnham has spent years developing and is now quietly concealing ahead of June 18.

Since 2019 he has repeatedly called for the abolition of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy, the rule that prevents migrants from immediately accessing Britain's welfare state and social housing. He called for it on his mayoral website in 2019. He signed a joint letter demanding it in 2023. He launched a pilot programme in Manchester called the Living Income Campaign, designed to top up the incomes of those living under NRPF conditions and build the case for scrapping the rule nationally. He has now quietly dropped that position. Not because he has changed his mind. Because he is campaigning in Makerfield.

His allies have confirmed that as Prime Minister he would tear up the multi-billion pound Home Office contracts with private asylum accommodation providers and hand responsibility to local councils. Dispersal housing rather than hotels. The saving is real. Hotel rooms cost £145 per person per night against £23.25 for dispersal housing. But dispersal housing means more migrants placed directly into communities like Makerfield, Wigan and the surrounding boroughs, without the visibility of a hotel that can be identified and closed. The cost saving comes with a community cost that nobody is discussing.

Meanwhile Makerfield itself tells a different story to the one Burnham is presenting on the doorstep. The constituency sits within a region where Reform won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave in 2016. The voters who went to Reform did so because they feel their communities have been transformed without consent, their housing lists lengthened, their public services stretched and their concerns dismissed. Burnham's answer to those concerns is to spend £700,000 helping more migrants access the same overstretched system.

The repositioning on NRPF is the tell. A politician who held a position for six years, built a pilot programme around it and signed letters demanding it nationally does not abandon it because he has been persuaded by the evidence. He abandons it because the polling in Makerfield made it electorally inconvenient. The same thing happened with his position on EU rejoining, held on Saturday and walked back by Sunday when his team realised around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave.

The voters of Makerfield are not being asked to elect a mayor. They are being asked to send a potential Prime Minister to Westminster. The £700,000 tells them more about what that Prime Minister would do than any doorstep conversation. It tells them what he does when nobody in Makerfield is watching.

"One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them."

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

They are laughing at us.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@GBNEWS They should never have had it. It must be a meritocracy and it must be about enforcing the law, ruthlessly. Pretty simple really.

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@ScaryEurope Hah!

[Gary Houghton @GaryHowt]

@Keir_Starmer Do the arsenal fans sing 'the song' as well?! That would be funny.