Uffach Dân

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The riots in France aren’t students against schools. It’s Muslims against Catholicism.

[Anglo-Reconquista @thetraitorfiles]

Manchester City Council external debt rose from about £540m in 2017 to £1.74bn by 2026.

That is an increase of roughly £1.20bn, or 222%.

Leese led the council until 2021. Craig succeeded him and remained leader into 2026. Burnham was Greater Manchester Mayor from 2017 until June 2026.

Nearly three times the debt in nine years.

And the next question is simple: where did the money go?

[Anglo-Reconquista @thetraitorfiles]

🚨🚨🚨 RICHARD LEESE, ANDY BURNHAM AND THE MANCHESTER-UAE NETWORK

One name keeps appearing when you trace Manchester’s relationship with Sheikh Mansour’s investment network: Sir Richard Leese.

🏛️ Leese led Manchester City Council for 25 years.

🏗️ In August 2014, he became a director of Manchester Life Development Company.

Companies House records Sheikh Mansour as the controlling shareholder in that company, with more than 50% of the shares and voting rights. Manchester City Council holds more than 25%. (https://t.co/iw11TZ25u4)

Leese later became a director of further Manchester Life companies, including Manchester Life Development Company 2 and Manchester Life Strategic Development Company. (https://t.co/iw11TZ25u4)

🗳️ Then Andy Burnham was elected Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017.

One of Burnham’s first major appointments?

🤝 Richard Leese as Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester, responsible for business and the economy. (https://t.co/shMfGAt6kM)

So between 2017 and 2021, Leese simultaneously sat at the centre of:

🏛️ Manchester City Council.

📈 Burnham’s Greater Manchester leadership and economic policy.

🏗️ Manchester Life, the development partnership majority controlled by Sheikh Mansour.

He left the Manchester Life boards on 1 December 2021.

🔄 On the very same day, Bev Craig replaced him as a Manchester Life director. (https://t.co/iw11TZ25u4)

Then came another remarkable development.

⚽ After leaving Manchester City Council, Leese was appointed an Honorary President of Manchester City FC.

The club itself praised him for his role in the regeneration of East Manchester, now home to the Etihad Stadium and City Football Academy. (https://t.co/VZSnZ5vpAX)

So the chain is remarkably tidy:

🏛️ Manchester council leader
🏗️ Sheikh Mansour-controlled Manchester Life director
🤝 Andy Burnham’s Deputy Mayor and economy lead
⚽ Manchester City Honorary President

None of this, by itself, proves wrongdoing.

But it shows just how closely Manchester’s Labour political establishment, its regeneration machinery and the Abu Dhabi-backed Manchester City ecosystem became intertwined.

And Burnham was not standing outside that system.

He put Leese at the heart of his own Greater Manchester administration.

[Mr Knight ✝️ 🇬🇧 ➡️ @MrKnight2205]

⚠️

A whistblower who works as a border control officer at Manchester Airport has come forward.

He says there is a private terminal being used to fly in migrants.

"We patrol to check nothing is untoward. There is an area we can see - but are formally prevented from entering or inspecting.

Regular flights arrive there - 3 or 4 times every week. Transponders are switched off, yet they are given clearance to land using a special call sign.

Passengers are not screened by us - they are processed directly by Home Office personnel. They board unmarked buses. Each flight carries 200 - 300 people.

These flights arrive from the Middle East and sub‑Saharan Africa. They land between 2:00 am and 4:00 am. Government gives clearance. Unmarked buses collect passengers and leave through a hidden exit gate onto restricted roads - then merge onto motorways and vanish".

Full interview:

https://t.co/O5XAqC8gw6

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

@YrHenGwrcyn Exactly. Not as advertised!

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

Not Cuprinol.

[Hood Action News @BAPingLoud]

🚨 BREAKING: Rap artist YBG Bulletproof reportedly shot and killed outside Chicago gas station

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

55 years ago today, “Theme from Shaft” by Isaac Hayes was released as a single.

[Anglo-Reconquista @thetraitorfiles]

🚨 THE CRAIG–BURNHAM–UAE MANCHESTER NETWORK

There is a political and corporate overlap in Manchester that deserves far more scrutiny.

Bev Craig was not simply another Labour council leader.

While Andy Burnham was Mayor of Greater Manchester, Craig became his senior Economy, Business and International figure inside the GMCA. Official records show her continuing to hold the region’s economy and business portfolio into 2026. (Greater Manchester Democracy)

At the same time, Craig was Leader of Manchester City Council.

And she also became a director of Manchester Life, the property-development partnership between Manchester City Council and the investment structure ultimately controlled by Sheikh Mansour.

So one politician was simultaneously sitting across:

Manchester City Council.

Greater Manchester’s regional economic machinery.

And the Sheikh Mansour-linked Manchester Life development structure.

Meanwhile, Burnham repeatedly defended the contribution of Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners to Manchester.

Today, following the Premier League commission’s adverse findings against Manchester City, Burnham said he would be “very concerned” if the Abu Dhabi owners sold the club because of what their investment had done for the city.

Manchester City denies wrongdoing and is appealing the ruling. (Reuters)

The sequence is remarkable.

Burnham builds his Greater Manchester economic model around major outside investment.

Craig becomes one of his most important economic lieutenants.

Craig simultaneously sits inside the flagship Sheikh Mansour-linked property joint venture.

Craig then emerges as Burnham’s political successor in Greater Manchester.

And Burnham continues publicly defending the importance of the Abu Dhabi ownership to Manchester.

But the institutional overlap is very real.

The question worth asking is simple:

How much access and influence did one extraordinarily concentrated Abu Dhabi investment network acquire inside Manchester’s political and development establishment?

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

And this is why you don’t let the government legislate the limits of acceptable speech…

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

As expected. No surprise here! 👇

Follow the money, as ever.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Poor - and biased - response from Andy Burnham on Manchester City being found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules by an Independent Commission.

He says “I can’t intervene *more* in the process,” which requires an explanation in itself.

Then offers commentary on previous proceedings he felt was unfair, AND states he wouldn’t want to lose the club’s owners who have “been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester. Obviously, the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.”

How was that force built?

And on the investment into the city itself, per a 2022 Guardian report: “Nine sites were sold to Sheikh Mansour at a fraction of their value, and well below what other plots nearby fetched. They were on leases lasting 999 years, well beyond the norm. And the fund shifted what had been public assets to companies registered in Jersey.

“That walk along the water from New Islington into Ancoats now passes blocks of privatised land owned in an offshore tax haven, which yields millions upon millions for a key member of the wealthy elite running a surveillance state halfway across the globe. One of the greatest cities in the world has sold itself to a senior figure in a brutal autocracy – and not even for a good price.”

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

I concur.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Andy Burnham should resign, then be forced into exile...

[WireSpy @WireSpy92]

Remember who you are.

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

@willp6666 @WireSpy92 Same! I wasn’t disappointed 🤣

[Uffach Dân @GatDyGleber]

@TheBabylonBee You jest, but, so true!

https://t.co/aHZB8hxLrK

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

People who voted...

a) For Britain to leave EU: 17,410,742

b) For Burnham to be PM: 0

@uklabour

[David Sinfield @omotforest]

And bailed rather than held under the Terrorism Act.

That's only used against non-terrorists.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

Mahmood’s resettlement scheme will open up new migration routes from the Third World on a scale that this country has never before soon.

There is no economic case for this and there are grave security risks that the Home Secretary seems determined to ignore.

[Sagal Abdi-Wali @Sagal_AW]

Out and about with a VERY special guest, talking about building the affordable homes Camden needs… 👀

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I have a dream. I dream of a day when men in the West will find their spines and testicles, and rise up against parasitized suicidal empathy. I dream of a day when the populace will rise up against parasitic taxation whereby a large chunk of an individual's hard-earned money is stolen. I dream of a day when universities recommit to intellectual enrichment void of ideological activism. I dream of a day when people recognize that all religions are not equally congruent with our liberties and freedoms. I dream of a day when our grandchildren will live in freer societies than those of our grandparents. I dream of a day when people who fail to recognize the two phenotypes (male and female) are laughed out of public discourse. I dream of a day when every single person who adheres to a religious ideology that wishes to exterminate us is removed from our midst. Freedom and truth are the ideals from which all else that is good flows. I have a dream.