So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi?
All we wanted was a planning permission.
It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site.
My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were.
We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files.
We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home.
So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden.
It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built.
We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what?
My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why?
So we carried on asking questions.
Then they blocked my emails.
We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging.
We still are.
#ProjectCleanCity
@SianReform@NathanEvansTeam@JoshHalliday@rbrooks45@DeclanGCarey@jackdulhanty
@LabourfutureUK 🤔 24,000 Afghanistans being flown in, 10000s of Palestinians being flown in. @ShabanaMahmood resettlement scheme.
Stop manipulating the public. 🙄
Reform UK’s Joe Martin has been censored and silenced in the Welsh Senedd.
His crime was to comment against the narrative on demographic change and mass migration.
An elected representative, chosen by the public, will not be allowed to speak in the chamber until he apologises. But why should he?
You don’t have to agree with him to see what happening… we don’t have free speech, we have permitted speech!
BREAKING NEWS! 50% of the Public think that the GOVT is deliberately hiding info about crimes committed by Foreign Nationals!
I AGREE TOO;
My account years ago CONFIRMED to YOU that this was happening Police Knew it but were forbidden to say anything so the info came to me & I had NO ISSUES telling YOU the REAL TRUTH of their Murders Rapes & CRIMINALITY committed by Foreign Nationals & by illegal Migrants🤷♂️
@Miatsf@BBCJustinR@BBCPanorama What a load of 💩. So why is our government giving the power to build 200 data centres in the UK on farmland & greenbelt 🙄 they are gigantic, ours is taking 8 years to build. Leaflet states 500 extra vehicles & 50 trucks will start at 7 am. I'm 5 min walk away. Wildlife?
I read the reports coming out of Manchester this morning and I am genuinely speechless.
Andy Burnham’s old political machine has just been caught secretly intercepting and censoring emails sent by the public to elected politicians.
What were those emails actually about? A resident was asking hard questions about the £55 million in taxpayer loans Burnham handed to Abu Dhabi property developers when he was Mayor, with zero affordable housing requirements.
Instead of letting elected councillors read the concerns of their constituents, unelected bureaucrats quietly diverted the emails straight to the legal department to be buried.
The politicians had absolutely no idea their personal inboxes were being filtered by the state.
The council claims they had to intercept the messages because of potential litigation. It is a complete lie.
Internal correspondence proves the city solicitor asked for this specific resident to be blocked months before any legal threat even existed.
You vote for local representatives to hold the system accountable. But the second a citizen asks where Burnham sent public money in a Gulf state property deal, his political syndicate builds a secret digital firewall to protect the investment.
This is not a functioning democracy. This is a captured corporate cartel running a cover-up for the Prime Minister, and the national media is letting them get away with it in broad daylight.
🚨BREAKING: It has been revealed that the Home Office have basically ignored over 20,000 deportation orders for foreign criminals
That's right, these people are criminals and yet the Home Office didn't bother deporting them on purpose
We all know why
Muslims set fire to the entrance of a Catholic school in Roubaix, France in broad daylight. It’s not a conspiracy who’s been burning down churches around the world.
@JoshBabarinde How dare you 🤬. Why would you want to erase your ethnics. Are you ashamed of your asestral past? 🙄 Absolutely shocking, and yes you do have to be white. Do you want to erase us. This is getting out of hand now. It's taking the piss.
@andyburnham Ten years ago, he left the veteran sleeping in a doorway and didn’t give him a second thought until he needed to write a speech about how much he cares about veterans.
🚨BREAKING: Angela Rayner has DELETED her now INFAMOUS video where she lied about Reform UK policies to schoolchildren
It would appear she may have BROKEN THE LAW by doing this
@sagor_dn556 To who ever did this to this girl, may the Almighty GOD strike there hearts, may GOD punish them and bring them to justice! 🔱⚔️❤️🔥
May GOD filled the vitics heart with love & light ❤️
@MirrorPolitics Did she answer a single question 🤔. A criminal standing in for @andyburnham couldn't lie straight in bed 🙄 trying to score cheap points while deflecting the questions. Weak MPs weak government. Horrendous really. Embarrassing.
@JonAshworth Did she answer a single question 🤔. A criminal standing in for @andyburnham couldn't lie straight in bed 🙄 trying to score cheap points while deflecting the questions. Weak MPs weak government. Horrendous really.