Thomas Standfield Senior

Rapidly approaching century of injustice as hill farmer tilling my red soil with my plough of fuzzisofical faux pas cliches & jibes to pursue fresh red growth

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Crooks uncovered
Manchester reset
And prosecutions
And funds recovery

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.

Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.

Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.

They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.

When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.

Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.

If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.

But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.

This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.

I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.

Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.

Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.

They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.

When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.

Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.

If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.

But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.

This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.

I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Five times on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Nigel Farage claimed the UK couldn’t control EU immigration under freedom of movement and had an 'open door policy' - that’s a lie.

Right: In 2017, Femi got him to admit on LBC that EU rules allowed restrictions. “Femi, in theory, you’re right.”

My view:

There was no “open doors” policy with the EU. Freedom of movement was and still is managed migration.

Freedom of movement meant British citizens could live and work in any of the other 27 EU countries, and their citizens could do the same here.

After three months, an EU citizen could stay in the UK if they were working or self-employed.

Students and people living on their own funds could also stay if they had enough money to support themselves and comprehensive health cover.

That’s Article 7 of EU Directive 2004/38/EC.

Article 14(4)(b) also protected jobseekers who could show they were still looking for work and had a genuine chance of finding it.

Article 8 allowed the UK to require EU citizens staying longer than three months to register.

The UK chose not to apply these rules.

Just as it was the UK government’s choice to impose austerity and cut public services, causing real frustration and making life more difficult for people.

At the end of the video, Femi warns that ending freedom of movement could lead to more immigration. And that’s exactly what happened. Under the UK’s post-Brexit rules, put in place by lead Brexiter Boris Johnson, net migration rose to 944,000 in the year to March 2023.

Five times Laura Kuenssberg could have corrected Nigel Farage on his remarks, five times she ignored it. It's this type of dishonesty from journalists who drive narratives instead of providing objective analysis.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

8 of the 11 Democrats who skipped the vote to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth were not “caught in traffic.” They were at an AIPAC-affiliated event that was scheduled at the same time as the impeachment vote by the Democrat’s House whip Katherine Clark. Turns out she was whipping votes to protect, not impeach, Hegseth. This was all planned because their AIPAC donors don’t want Hegseth impeached. If Hegseth is held accountable for war crimes it opens up the possibility of more Zionist war criminals being held accountable. They want to preserve the corrupt world we live in now where US/Zionist war criminals murder with impunity.

Big thanks to @JulianAndreone who broke the story about the AIPAC-affiliated meeting being scheduled at the same time as the Hegseth impeachment vote.

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Just what the fuck is Burnham playing at?

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

643 people sent me a DM yesterday about my post exposing how Andy Burnham’s Manchester council machine secretly intercepts emails from the public.

I believe this new revelation is going to trigger an even bigger shockwave.

Manchester City Council is currently fighting tooth and nail to keep a massive urban regeneration contract hidden from taxpayers.

The corporate partner is a Hong Kong-based developer called Far East Consortium. The funding is a staggering £120 million of public money, including £34.1 million handed over directly by Burnham’s combined authority.

Here is the specific detail that exposes the absolute arrogance of the modern political class.

When a local resident filed a request to read the document, the Chinese developer actually consented to its publication. It was the British council that intervened, heavily redacted the contract, and officially branded the taxpayer’s request for basic transparency as "manifestly unreasonable."

We are operating in a geopolitical environment where foreign powers routinely use infrastructure and property investment to build leverage inside Western cities.

Yet local Labour authorities are handing nine-figure sums of public wealth to Chinese-linked conglomerates, while deploying the full weight of their legal departments to keep British citizens in the dark.

They are perfectly comfortable outsourcing the regeneration of a major UK city to foreign capital. They are just terrified of the people funding the project ever seeing the actual terms.

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

643 people sent me a DM yesterday about my post exposing how Andy Burnham’s Manchester council machine secretly intercepts emails from the public.

I believe this new revelation is going to trigger an even bigger shockwave.

Manchester City Council is currently fighting tooth and nail to keep a massive urban regeneration contract hidden from taxpayers.

The corporate partner is a Hong Kong-based developer called Far East Consortium. The funding is a staggering £120 million of public money, including £34.1 million handed over directly by Burnham’s combined authority.

Here is the specific detail that exposes the absolute arrogance of the modern political class.

When a local resident filed a request to read the document, the Chinese developer actually consented to its publication. It was the British council that intervened, heavily redacted the contract, and officially branded the taxpayer’s request for basic transparency as "manifestly unreasonable."

We are operating in a geopolitical environment where foreign powers routinely use infrastructure and property investment to build leverage inside Western cities.

Yet local Labour authorities are handing nine-figure sums of public wealth to Chinese-linked conglomerates, while deploying the full weight of their legal departments to keep British citizens in the dark.

They are perfectly comfortable outsourcing the regeneration of a major UK city to foreign capital. They are just terrified of the people funding the project ever seeing the actual terms.

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

They should all resign
Or be kicked out
Corrupt bunch of treasonous
Crooks

How cheaply they
Have sold their souls
Sataneyu laughing all way

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

All 11 Democrats who couldn’t be bothered to show up to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth have taken money from AIPAC or other pro-Israel PACs:

Haley Stevens ~ $15.9M
Nancy Pelosi ~$166K
Laura Gillen ~$572K
Marilyn Strickland ~$371K
Steven Horsford ~$213K
Julia Brownley ~$134K
Brittany Pettersen ~$125K
Lou Correa ~$80K
Melanie Stansbury ~$60K
Frederica Wilson ~$39K
Jonathan Jackson ~$21K

There are no excuses left to make. The Democrats couldn’t even show up to hold a war criminal accountable who bombed an elementary school and mass murdered children.

A new party is required.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

IT’S TRUE…
No government contracts in Texas if you boycott Israel.

And it’s not just Texas. Over 30 states across the US have similar laws.

WHAT DOES ISRAEL HAVE ON AMERICA⁉️

[Katie @LuxMeaMundiAM]

Ask yourself why Helen Whately does this, literally daily.
She & her husband are both millionaires hoping to avoid a wealth tax at all costs. To them, disabled people’s lives aren’t worth a damn &they’d rather see us starve than pay a measly 2% wealth tax on their assets over 10m

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Agreed
Fuck
the checkers
the Bosses
the system

People make places
live Breath & work
Machines to be ignored

Maybe that’s it
No people to serve you
Just carry on walking
Civil disobedience
till change system

Look at size of profits
& extortionate prices
For shrinking packets

[The English Crusader @andrewc44104127]

Dear Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lid, Aldi, Waitrose, Morrisons, and all other stores that have self checkout.

You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now.

The lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping

everyone.

I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already

🛒 filled my cart

🛒 emptied my cart

🛒 scanned the items

🛒refilled my cart

and so I just skipped the exit line and left.

I heard her saying "umm - Excuse me " as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.

You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.

I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.

• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's vour problem not mine.

• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.

YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.

YOU DON'T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.

Signed ....All of us

These are jobs that are needed to have for young and old

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Man U
The unholy trinity meet today
Ratass Boredom & Bollox
& report to Glazedover-Hell

How degrading for Man U
That this bunch of chancers
Came out of the Dark
To rip out its heart

Having followed since
pre Munich this ownership
a new low not just on the field

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Tommy boy
U iz a bleddy liar
Bought n paid fer
By Satanic Theil

Go boil yer ed

N we ull kick out
Planted Evil Spiders Web

[Tom Watson @tom_watson]

Some MPs make false claims about Palantir, particularly about how we use data.

One MP even claimed that we could use NHS data to sell insights to private healthcare providers.

That’s flat-out wrong. False. We don’t do it. We never would.

We sell software. We don’t sell our customers’ data or reuse it for our own commercial purposes. The NHS holds the information. Our software helps connect its systems so it can make better use of it.

The NHS controls how its data is used. We process it on its instructions, with contractual obligations and technical safeguards, including encryption and strict access controls. Those controls apply to our engineers too.

More below.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.

A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.

The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.

This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.

112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.

A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.

And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.

@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.

This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?

NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GET HIM! Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed DOGWALKS Pete Hegseth on TV with a humiliating takedown as impeachment picks up steam.

The worst Defense Secretary in history's days are numbered...

"You mentioned the things that you think Democrats need to address on day one, tariffs, the Medicaid cuts, the Iran war," said Kaitlan Collins. "Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth was on the verge of potentially facing an impeachment vote today, but Republican leaders were successful in killing it. Is that something you want to see Democrats revive?"

While it's true that Republicans were able to kill a motion to impeach Hegseth today, it's a short-term solution for them. Come January, the Democratic majority takes power at which point impeachment will sail through the House. It will require a 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove Hegseth, but it's entirely possible that Republicans will jump ship to score points against this radioactive administration. Nothing is out of the question at this point.

"Can you imagine being Pete Hegseth right now? Like, why are you still in your job?" said El-Sayed. "I mean, it's an open question, like, Pete, like, really, just open question, why are you still doing this job? You are really bad at this!"

"You are failing your responsibility. You have mishandled this war, and nobody really actually understands what it is you're about," he continued. "Every day you're talking about fighting a new cultural war, but, like, you're supposed to be waging an actual war that is actually illegal on its own terms."

"So, just resign," urged El-Sayed. "Make it easy for everybody instead of, in the end, getting taken out, because that is clearly what's happening. So, Pete, just take it from me, like, you're not good at this."

While Hegseth would indeed be wise to resign to save himself from the humiliation of impeachment, that won't be enough to stop the metaphorical hounds. He needs to be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes. This man doesn't belong inside the Pentagon, he belongs in prison.

Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting Hegseth!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LEADERSHIP! Sen. Chris Van Hollen demands that Congress REMOVE the borderline treasonous provisions in the defense bill that would entwine the U.S. military with Israel.

This man is one hell of a fighter...

"Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself," Van Hollen wrote on X.

He reshared a video from July in which he outlined the problems in detail—

"A little while ago, I got off the Senate floor, where I urged my colleagues to vote no tomorrow to advance the National Defense Authorization Bill," said the senator. "And I gave three reasons..."

"One, it's a bloated budget to a Pentagon that continues to fail to pass an audit. Number two, no restraints on Trump's illegal war against Iran, essentially giving a green light to that illegal war that's been disastrous for the American people."

"But there are two provisions that have gotten very little attention, that are kind of crawling through quietly. Both have to do with greater support to the government of Israel," Van Hollen explained. "One of them is a provision Netanyahu has taken credit for pushing, which would require more joint defense cooperation between the United States and Israel."

Netanyahu has indeed been pushing for this measure and it's easy to see why. The American people have soured on Israel as an ally thanks to the atrocities in Gaza. We don't want to see our tax dollars flowing overseas to kill innocent Palestinians. Recognizing that shifting opinions mean their blank check days are over, Israel wants to mutate America's support into a more opaque, yet no less lethal, form. They want to mandate a deep entanglement of our countries, using our national-security apparatus to secure their own interests.

"We know from our own experience that Israel has previously vetoed our ability to act in our own national security interests when we wanted to send some weapon systems to Ukraine that had been co-produced with Israel," said Van Hollen. "And Israel blocked us from doing it."

"Another provision requires, mandates, that the U.S. government share more intelligence with the government of Israel," he went on. "Look, we can share intelligence with the government of Israel or any other government when we want. Why would the United States Congress order the executive branch to share more intelligence, regardless of what the government of Israel is doing? Why would we be doing that? We shouldn't."

"It's not in our national security interests to do it. We can always choose, on a case-by-case basis, to do whatever we want. Let's not mandate it," he concluded.

We commend Senator Van Hollen for taking a stand on this issue. This country has suffered enough from Israel First politicians choosing that foreign country's priorities over what's best for Americans.

Van Hollen's name has been bubbling up amongst the Democratic base since the blue tsunami, with many calling for him to challenge Chuck Schumer for the Senate Majority Leadership. He says he “hasn’t shut the door" on the possibility.

What do you think?

Please ❤️ and share if you support Senator Van Hollen!

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Disgraceful privileged bullies

[Baroness Patricia of Plague Island @Patrici89225734]

The cruelty Badenoch and Whately want to inflict on our vulnerable children must be stopped they haven't learned anything from the suffering the Tories put this country through for the 14 years they were in power, we must never allow it to happen again!

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

Come on
We are talking about the Burke Bunkum right?

Dim as a Nafi candle

We are going from bad to worse
Things can only get worse
To rewrite the famous lyric

That’s turning into a cacophonous tragic opera

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Andy Burnham tells Channel 4 News, "More money was found for the NHS.. £40 million from the GP contract to keep people supported at home rather than in hospital"

Hang on @andyburnham I really hope you're not suggesting that the £40 million you took out of the GP budget for the NHS, is the 'more money for the NHS'

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Andy Burnham tells Channel 4 News, "More money was found for the NHS.. £40 million from the GP contract to keep people supported at home rather than in hospital"

Hang on @andyburnham I really hope you're not suggesting that the £40 million you took out of the GP budget for the NHS, is the 'more money for the NHS'

[Thomas Standfield Senior @Muddlebrick]

You poor little baby

Perhaps jog along
& see Whateley
She has all the answers
To make you a man
& not a whining racist wimp

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Awww

I find the burka ‘extremely intimidating’, claims Reform deputy Thomas Kerr https://t.co/MxPBsbmXtj