David Germaney

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

1. The judge can indeed impose the terrorist connection, whether it is so charged or not, per s.69 Sentencing Act 2020.

2. Crown Court sentences don't set precedents. This is trite - and as an MP, you really ought to know this.

3. The sentences are neither disproportionate, nor wrong. There was serious damage (£1.2m) to property, and a police officer's spine was fractured with a sledgehammer.

What's "wrong" here is that MPs are outraged that people have been appropriately sentenced for such crimes that include GBH by fracturing a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer.

We should not have MPs who think this way.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Equalities watchdog moves office after threats by trans activists. Only one side constantly threatens violence. It has never been both sides. One legitimate side has only ever been logically & factually arguing for female rights, to get the law applied.

https://t.co/iDOh4bw1FZ

[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.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Keir Starmer does NOT want the World to see how badly British Patriots want their country back

Would be a shame if it went viral on 𝕏

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Fancy that

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Important we give these Green councillor resignations as much spotlight as the BBC and Sky give Reform and Tory resignations.

Share away.

[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

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

Labour on your side? No. Here's a non-exhaustive list:

• Pubs closed since Labour 2024: >500 (161 in Q1 2026 alone, ~2/day).

• Large businesses closed/moved:Claire’s: All 154 UK/Ireland stores, 1,300 jobs.
Whitbread: 197 Beefeater/Brewers Fayre, 3,800 jobs.
River Island: 32-33 stores.
Body Shop: 82 stores.
Ted Baker: All 46 stores.
Boots, New Look, Superdrug (dozens- hundreds), Poundland, Homebase, Carpetright, Lloyds Pharmacy, others (GAME, TGI Fridays, etc.).

• Company registrations down: Record low; Q1 2026: 78k new (-8%), net loss of 4,500 firms.

• Employment reduction: 200k-276k payroll jobs lost since mid/late 2024.

• Moved/relocated overseas: 3,790-6,000+ directors/business owners left UK (2024-2026), many to Dubai/UAE.

• Rising insolvencies, high street distress, net business closures.

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

Happy Labour Wipeout Day to all who celebrate !

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case.

I think it’s strongly in the public interest, so here it is.

https://t.co/Wi7Zq1cIVv

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.

They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Lord Hermer is Keir Starmer's most senior legal adviser.

He worked with a convicted fraudster to drag British soldiers through the courts over false claims.

Now, he wants to let activist lawyers do the same to veterans who served in Northern Ireland.

[James May @MrJamesMay]

I’m sure we have all now seen the footage of Metropolitan rozzers kicking a suspected terrorist in the head, repeatedly, when he was down.

We can all play a part in putting an end to this sort of police brutality. Mainly by not going around stabbing people.

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

Proof degrees are sometimes worthless.
She has a degree in political science

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

The Government claim they wish to fight terrorism in Northern Ireland.

Yet they want to change the law, so veterans who have done just that, are exposed to decades of legal harassment.

It’s hardly a surprise that many in the special forces are simply choosing to resign.

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

A Pakistani MP stripped White Brit Mark Bullen, a former British police officer, of his nationality because of his links to Russia but refused to strip the nationality of a Pakistani Brit Bushra,who is working for tyrant Iran. Why?
@ShabanaMahmood

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

If there was nothing to hide, why order your party to stop the referral and make threats?
Vote wisely next time around.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

Minutes of Key Players Meeting in Rotherham – Friday, 18th January 2002

They knew the names of the rapists, names of the children, the schools they targeted, the taxis, hotels, and takeaways they used, the children’s care homes they targeted, the drop off points and that they were related to a Labour politician who went on to make a non-prosecution deal that enabled him to walk free for years. They knew they had murdered people. I told the police where one of the bodies was found.

The rapist named in this document were later jailed for 35 years. His brother also received 25 years. They had no choice but to jail them, I named them all in 2013 in the media.

For over 25 years, they knew the full extent of the operation and did absolutely nothing and not one professional has ever been held to account.

[Liberal Voice for Women @LibVoice4Women]

Lord Strasburger asked the government about the EHRC guidance and complying with the Supreme Court ruling. He ended by asking 'either the government doesn't really care about the safety of women and girls or it's just incompetent - which is it?'