Shabana Mahmood has branded Danny Thomas an “outright racist”.
Very well, Home Secretary.
Now answer the question you appear rather less enthusiastic about.
Why did YOUR department announce plans for up to 1,256 asylum seekers beside Piddington without consulting the local council beforehand?
Mahmood now concedes that residents have “legitimate concerns”.
My god, really?
A village has just voted 285–26 in symbolic protest against what is being imposed on its doorstep.
Yet instead of beginning with an explanation of how government allowed matters to reach this point, the Home Secretary reaches for the labels.
If Danny Thomas commits a crime, arrest him.
If Mahmood believes he has said something racist, show people exactly what she is referring to and let them judge it.
But calling somebody “far-right” or “racist” does not answer the substantive question:
Why were local people treated as an afterthought while Whitehall planned an asylum site completely disproportionate to the community beside it?
Perhaps the Home Secretary should spend rather less time labelling the people who are angry — and rather more time answering for the decisions that made them angry.
Yours in equal treatment,
A Gentleman from the Old School.
Martin Lewis, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
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PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT .
🚨 THE FRENCH BEACH TAXI SERVICE EXPOSED: SMALL BOAT MAKES FIVE PICKUPS OVER THREE HOURS WHILE POLICE WATCH!
You honestly have to watch this to believe the absolute mockery being made of British border security.
BBC correspondent James Waterhouse stood on Gravelines beach in northern France and filmed a small boat operating like a public taxi service in broad daylight!
The boat spent three full hours making five separate collections along the sand, packing 82 migrants on board while French police literally stood on the shore watching and did nothing.
People smugglers are charging 1,700 pounds in cash per person, and our authorities treat industrial human trafficking like an orderly boarding queue.
And what is Prime Minister Andy Burnham doing today? He is welcoming Emmanuel Macron to Downing Street to hand France even more British taxpayer cash!
We are paying hundreds of millions of pounds to bankroll French officers who stand on the sand and watch boats load for three hours straight.
Watch this unbelievable footage and RT and SHARE everywhere to expose the Channel taxi service! 🇬🇧🔥
I'd like to suggest that promoting child marriage, stoning, halal animal torture, wife beating, sharia courts, and other behaviour contrary to British values, should now be referred to as Anglophobia
Sad photo of the Day 😢
None of us are safe from the utter madness labour are inflicting on us.
Andy Pandy is never going to stop the boats.
We must all stand as one United Kingdom against the loony left.
Country before party
🚨 ANDY BURNHAM'S 10 PERCENT DEATH TAX WILL HIT AVERAGE MORTGAGE FREE HOMEOWNERS WITH A £75,000 BILL.
Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits waking up on this Friday.
You honestly have to laugh at the absolute brass neck of this Labour government! 🤡
New research from Reform UK exposes the horrifying reality of Andy Burnham's proposed 10 percent death tax on all inheritances.
The average mortgage free homeowner in England and Wales is set to be slapped with a staggering 75,000 pound bill the moment they pass away!
Even in Burnham's own constituency of Makerfield, grieving families will be forced to hand over between 20,000 and 50,000 pounds directly to the state.
You spend forty years working, paying income tax, stamp duty, and council tax just to pay off your home. Then, as a thank you for your hard work, Labour robs 10 percent of your life savings when you die.
Andy Burnham has zero democratic mandate for this massive state grave robbery. He wants to destroy family inheritance and punish the aspirations of working class people.
RT and SHARE this everywhere if you demand Andy Burnham scraps the death tax and leaves family savings alone! 🇬🇧🔥
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: TOMORROW THEY WILL SHUT THE DOOR ON INTERNET FREEDOM.
Tomorrow, Minister Liz Kendall will stand in the House of Commons and officially announce a sweeping crackdown on VPNs across the United Kingdom. 🤡
The state has just published research today whining that 26% of teenagers are currently using VPNs to bypass their upcoming social media ban.
But here is the massive, terrifying truth they are hiding from you!
You cannot block or restrict VPNs just for children!
To enforce this, the Labour uniparty will be forced to ban, monitor, or require a mandatory Digital ID passport check for every single VPN user in the country!
They are using child safety as a permanent human shield to build a state-controlled internet firewall, copying the exact digital prison models used by China and North Korea.
If you want to use a basic app or browse the web privately, you will soon be legally forced to upload your biometric facial scans to massive tech corporations.
We are trading a failed Prime Minister for a high-tech socialist dictatorship that wants total control over what you are allowed to see and say.
RT to completely blow up the UK timeline and demand our freedom back! 🔁🇬🇧🔥
I am apocalyptically angry about Labour's plan to import thousands and thousands more fake 'refugees' - from Sudan, Eritrea and other third world dumps through 'safe' routes.
The answer is quite obviously NO.
Stopping this cannot wait until 2029. It will be too late.
I have written an open letter to the Home Secretary opposing it - I have requested support from Reform, Conservative, Northern Irish and independent MPs.
Stating our opposition, and making it clear that anyone who arrives through this scheme will be deported - we need cross-party support to make this point. It is vital.
If enough MPs do it, we can stop it.
One has signed so far - Gavin Williamson. Fair play.
I will work with anyone to draw a deep line in the sand.
Reform, Tory, whoever. It doesn't matter.
Now is the time to put aside party politics and work together in parliament to ensure that we do not import an endless stream of third world scumbags into our country.
Enough is Enough. The whole fanbase has had enough. We need change. We need a lift, however small. We need a new manager or 'head coach' as you want to label it. Slot has to go. Tonight. Regards, the Liverpool fanbase @LFC 👍
✍️ An Open Letter to Richard Hughes
Richard,
Liverpool supporters are not unreasonable. They understand football. They understand setbacks. What they struggle to accept is a full season of the same problems repeating with no visible solution.
That is where we are now.
Sunday’s draw with Tottenham felt less like a point gained and more like an indictment of everything that has gone wrong this year. Spurs arrived in disarray. Injuries everywhere. No league wins in 2026. A squad patched together with academy players. Yet Liverpool, at Anfield, produced a performance that was hesitant, shapeless and alarmingly toothless.
In truth, Liverpool were fortunate to leave with a draw.
This isn't about one afternoon. It's about a pattern.
Week after week, Liverpool dominate possession but rarely dominate the game. The attack lacks fluency. The midfield lacks authority. The defence collapses under late pressure. The same questions are asked after every match because the same issues appear every week.
At some point, responsibility must rest with the man in charge.
Arne Slot inherited world-class players. He inherited a club built on elite standards. Yet over the past year, the football has become slower, more predictable and increasingly ineffective. When almost every player looks worse than they did twelve months ago, the explanation is rarely individual failure.
It's coaching.
Managers are judged on their ability to solve problems. Liverpool’s problems have been obvious for months, and yet the solutions have never arrived.
That is why November matters so much.
At that point, the warning signs were already clear. Performances were deteriorating. Confidence was draining from the team. Many supporters, myself included, believed decisive action was needed before the season unravelled completely.
Instead, the message that came from the club was calm reassurance. We were told everything was under control. The now infamous roundtable video in February, featuring you alongside Slot, projected unity and confidence that the direction was correct.
But unity only works when the direction is right.
Looking back now, that moment feels less like leadership and more like hesitation. A chance to confront reality was replaced with a public show of faith that the evidence on the pitch simply did not support.
That decision sits with you.
You were rightly praised last summer. The recruitment looked ambitious and intelligent. Many fans backed you completely. Yet hindsight now suggests the squad balance has not worked, and the coach entrusted to guide it has struggled badly.
Supporters can accept mistakes.
What they cannot accept is pretending a mistake has not been made.
Liverpool still possess too much talent and too much history to accept a season where the football becomes this stagnant and the standards fall this far.
Leadership requires honesty.
Arne Slot has had time. He has had patience. He has had backing.
But the problems remain exactly the same.
Deep down, you may already know the conclusion. No new contract for Slot, suggests you do.
And if that is the case, Richard, Liverpool supporters are simply asking for one thing.
The courage to act on it. 🙏
This club was built on the foundations laid by those three, which is why it is where it is today - not just because of trophies, but because of what the club represents. The connection with life itself, quotes you could write books about, anecdotes, relationships with the fans, the local community, the global fanbase, and so on.
The three of them contributed the most to making Liverpool the very top of world football, to making it easy for us to identify with this club in so many life values, and to be proud of what the club stands for.
Other managers have helped Liverpool’s image at times and damaged it at others - and I don’t mean only through trophies.
Today, we have a man who delivered a Premier League title and will rightly go down in history for that. But unfortunately, everything he’s doing this season is dragging the club’s reputation down.
The same man who, after winning the title, said it was a huge achievement that Liverpool won two titles in five years, is now repeatedly stressing that there’s a reason the club has won only two titles in 30 years - seemingly to justify himself by dragging the club through the mud. Disgusting.
Today he even said that if we hadn’t been knocked out by PSG, we wouldn’t have won the Premier League because we had so many days to prepare for matches.
There have been many other gems - recently, when asked about young Calvin Ramsay, he said there are many better options ahead of him.
In general, he’s a man who doesn’t trust young players and constantly complains whenever he has to play one.
When you put it all together, over time he’s shown his true face: that he’s not right for this club, that he doesn’t know how to connect with the fans, how to build healthy relationships within the club and among players, how to develop and motivate young players, or how to understand the values Liverpool stands for - values that the club’s legendary managers understood perfectly.
Sack him. He's not the one to lead this football club.
Him admitting he can’t handle managing a big club like Liverpool that HAS to fight for all trophies every single season and therefore he’s bringing down the club to HIS shitty standards. If I see anyone excusing this shit I might get suspended.