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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has paused plans to merge smaller councils into larger authorities after receiving legal advice

It means local elections next year will go ahead on existing council boundaries

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

Rupert has tabled a parliamentary motion calling for peaceful protestors fighting the invasion to be properly protected.

All MPs can sign.

Let's see who steps up.

[Big Time Charlie @shadowcanman]

🚨🚨 EMERGENCY AUDIT: THE RNLI AND NGO DONOR NETWORK

I went through the publicly identifiable organisations funding the RNLI. What emerges is a much wider philanthropic network than the familiar image of collection tins and seaside volunteers.

Goldman Sachs Gives is named by the RNLI as a significant supporter.

The RNLI does not disclose the amount, but Goldman Sachs Gives has separately provided £2m to UNHCR, £1m to the Refugee Council’s Syria Grant Fund, $3.6m towards Welcome US Ukraine programme, and $75,000 to Screen Share, which supports refugees and asylum seekers in Britain.

Postcode Community Trust has provided around £170,000 to the RNLI. Its published grants also include £50,000 to United to Assist Refugees UK, £48,000 to Displaced People in Action, multiple grants to Kent Refugee Action Network, and funding for refugee and asylum organisations in Swansea, Slough and West Yorkshire.

The Julia Rausing Trust gave £250,000 to the Dart RNLI appeal. The same philanthropic network has also provided £225,000 to Refugee Education UK. The Trust says more than £500m has been distributed across over 2,000 grants.

Other significant RNLI support includes roughly £311,500 from ShareGift, more than £200,000 from Ørsted, around £186,000 from the Co-op, and £1.4m raised through Omaze.

The exception is the Lifeboat Fund, which exists specifically to support the RNLI. It contributed £467,577 in 2025 and more than £26m historically.

The wider RNLI supporter list also includes major grant-makers such as the Peter Sowerby Foundation, RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, Calleva Foundation, Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation, Irish Aid and others.

The interesting point is the crossover.

Some of the same institutions funding Britain’s lifeboat service are also financing refugee, asylum, migration and wider NGO work.

[Big Time Charlie @shadowcanman]

RNLI PAY AND SALARIES

The RNLI’s latest audited accounts reveal a substantial senior salary bill.

In 2025:

Total staff costs: £117.2 million
Wages and salaries: £92.5 million
Employer social security: £10.2 million
Pension costs: £14.5 million

The RNLI also disclosed 125 employees receiving more than £60,000 when severance payments are included.

That breaks down as:

£60k to £69,999: 68 staff
£70k to £79,999: 23
£80k to £89,999: 14
£90k to £99,999: 6
£100k to £109,999: 5
£110k to £119,999: 4
£130k to £139,999: 2
£140k to £149,999: 1
£150k to £159,999: 1
£170k to £179,999: 1

Excluding severance, 113 employees were still above £60,000.

Chief Executive Peter Sparkes had an annual salary of £175,000.

His 2025 employment package was disclosed as:

Salary: £170,900
Employer NI: £18,667
Pension contribution: £24,235
Other benefits: £3,500

Total: £217,302

The Executive Team collectively received £1.776 million in benefits, with a further £0.2 million in Executive Team severance payments.

Trustees, by contrast, receive no remuneration.

These are not estimates. They come directly from the RNLI’s audited 2025 accounts.

We are now mapping these salary bands against the senior leadership structure, historic job adverts and advertised pay ranges to establish what different RNLI leadership roles are actually costing.

[Danny Tommo @RealDannyTommo]

The conversation I just had with @ZiaYusufUK was for one reason and one reason only: to protect our organisation in front of the press, and to make it crystal clear why face masks are being used, to protect its members from far-left attacks, from people losing their jobs, and from being labelled.

I also made it very clear that he needs to go and tell that sausage @Nigel_Farage to stop labelling working class people disgusting for standing up for their country, their families and the future of this country.

Our organisation’s position is neutral. We do not align with any political party at this stage.

Only once the egos and the in-fighting have been put aside will we, in 18 months, build a voting bloc behind the most viable option that can take back control of this country.

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

Why has Burnham not called a COBRA meeting this morning about the mass invasion of our country by murderers and rapists?

He called one before because it was a little hot one day and banned BBQs 😂

I don’t think he has his priorities right !!

[Rogue @RogueUnfiltered]

The coach company involved transporting the illegals, paid by the home office, are they;

“Aiding and abetting”?

Let’s do some digging! ‼️

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

As I travel home after covering events in Portsmouth across the media, one thing is clear.

The Government came dangerously close to inflaming tensions by falsely portraying last night as “thuggish” or violent.

There were zero arrests. Zero.

What we actually saw was a community fearful and angry about what has been done to them.

Government rhetoric should calm tensions, not pit people against people. This is being done unto the the people of Great Britain. By the very people who are elected to protect them.

[The Nationalist GB @TheNatGB]

The contractor running minibuses for the Home Office is absolutely riddled with debt and has a total of 7 charges against it.

£500,000 to debtors. £250,000 to the banks. Repossessions galore.

This is who the government is giving our money to.

[Cllr Maxine Fothergill @MaxineFothergil]

🚨 PIDDINGTON: 1,256 OR 3,510? THIS GOVERNMENT MUST EXPLAIN.

Piddington is a beautiful rural village of around 370 residents, including just 46 children.

Yet the Government wants accommodation for up to 1,256 single adult men at MOD Bicester Site A for potentially 10 years — around 3.4 times the population of the entire village.

This is not an existing accommodation site. It is a former storage and distribution site with no residential units currently there.

Now, buried within 1,000+ pages of supporting documents only made public last Wednesday, a Government Property Agency UXO Risk Assessment dated 31 March 2026 refers TWICE to accommodation for 3,510 service users.

To be clear: I am NOT saying 3,510 is the current proposal. The current application says 1,256.

But where did 3,510 come from? Was it an error, an earlier capacity assumption, or was accommodation for 3,510 ever considered?

3,510 would be almost TEN TIMES Piddington’s population.

Even 1,256 would fundamentally change the character and scale of this tiny community — and in my view, it would be completely wrong.

3,510 would be devastating.

So we need one clear answer:

WHERE DID 3,510 COME FROM — AND WHAT DID IT RELATE TO?

Piddington deserves transparency. Piddington deserves to be heard. 🇬🇧

@ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice @andyburnham @CMcKinnellMP @AlexJJNorris

@PiddingtonRoars @W4Restore @RestoreBritain @RupertLowe10

[Lizzie Hawes 🇬🇧 @lizzie_hawes]

When border force are no longer enforcing the border, what is their purpose?

[Alice Young @alicefayeyoung]

Goodness gracious me! This is SHOCKING! 😳😳

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

PIDDINGTON WILL HAVE ITS SAY. 🇬🇧

On 15 September—Battle of Britain Day and UN Democracy Day—our village votes.

Meanwhile, the Government proposes a huge asylum site while redacting vital details on water, sewage, electricity and operations.

After repeated questioning, Andy Burnham still cannot provide the answers.

This is peaceful. This is legal. This is democracy.

[email protected]

Objection to Urgent Crown Development Application MOD Bicester (Site A)
Application reference: PCU/RARE/C3105/3378843
Site: Bicester Garrison, Launton Road, Oxfordshire, OX25 1AE
Applicant: Home Office

The proposal closes on 17 September. Speak up before it is too late.

Thank you to everyone standing with Piddington—the village that roars. 🦁

#PiddingtonRoars #BattleForBritain #DemocracyDay #Oxfordshire #GovernmentTransparency

Busing the guests from #Piddington to #Wheatley #Oxford #Thame #Wallingford #Abingdon #Bicester #Aylesbury #HighWycombe and #MiltonKynes

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

UK government policy is to close all factories making petrol and diesel cars by 2030. That means big job losses. Customers may then buy fewer new cars, with a likely emphasis on cheaper Chinese battery car imports. Lift the ban now to save jobs.

[Cllr Maxine Fothergill @MaxineFothergil]

Good grief — I’ve only just seen this! 😳

I was in Piddington this week speaking directly with residents with @W4Restore about Site A, so this is particularly disturbing to see.

Whatever anyone’s views on the proposed development, people must be able to protest peacefully without fear of violence or intimidation.

I hope everyone involved is okay and that the police establish exactly what happened

@RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain

[PiddingtonRoarsNews @PiddingtonNews]

#Piddington 1st…
#Eurovision NEXT?!

👇🏻@PiddingtonRoars is ready to go for the big one 🌍🎙️🌍

[Big Time Charlie @shadowcanman]

🚨 THE £330 MILLION POSTCODE LOTTERY NGO MACHINE 🚨

You buy a People’s Postcode Lottery ticket.

Where does the money go?

I’ve been digging through the funding.

And the scale of the migration, asylum, refugee and human-rights ecosystem sitting inside it is extraordinary.

💷 £330.7 MILLION

That is the cumulative Postcode Lottery player funding identified in my audit going to major organisations whose work includes refugees, asylum, migration, displacement and/or human rights.

Some of the biggest names:

💷 War Child: £29.42m
Conflict, displacement and children’s rights.
💷 Save the Children: £27.22m
Refugees, asylum policy and displaced children.
💷 Depaul UK : £26.82m
Supports refugees leaving Home Office accommodation.
💷 ActionAid: £25.73m
Dedicated refugee and displacement programmes.
💷 Amnesty International UK: £25.59m
Runs an entire Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme covering UK asylum, immigration and nationality policy.
💷 Plan International UK: £24.75m
Human rights, humanitarian crises and displaced populations.
💷 Oxfam GB: £24.75m
Refugee programmes and direct campaigning on British asylum policy.
💷 British Red Cross: £23.28m
Describes itself as the UK’s largest independent provider of support to refugees and people seeking asylum.
💷 UNICEF UK: £23.21m
Works on migrant and refugee children and UK migration policy.
💷 Crisis: £21.72m
Runs specific work on migrant homelessness, refugees, asylum seekers and NRPF.
💷 Barnardo’s: £21.30m
Supports asylum-seeking families, unaccompanied children and refugees.
💷 Theirworld: £20.65m
Large-scale refugee and migrant education programmes.

Then come:
Human Rights Watch: £8.50m
Thomson Reuters Foundation: £6.50m
Peace Direct: £5.90m
Helen Bamber Foundation: £3.88m

Helen Bamber is particularly interesting.

Its group includes Asylum Aid, providing legal representation through the asylum system and challenging Home Office policy.

Now narrow the audit even further.
Take just a small group with unmistakable UK-facing asylum, refugee or migration activity:

Amnesty UK
British Red Cross
UNICEF UK
Crisis
Barnardo’s
Depaul UK
Helen Bamber Foundation
Save the Children
Combined Postcode Lottery player funding:

🚨 £173 MILLION 🚨
And this is why simply searching grant descriptions for the words “migrant” or “asylum” massively understates the picture.

A charity can receive millions in unrestricted or institutional funding while simultaneously operating refugee programmes, immigration-policy teams, asylum legal services, lobbying operations and human-rights campaigns.
The grant description does not tell you the full story.

Follow the organisations.

My wider audit identifies approximately:
💷 £827.5m in the modern Postcode Lottery grant ledger examined.
💷 £378.2m linked to the wider rights, humanitarian and vulnerability organisation cohort examined.
💷 £330.7m to major organisations with demonstrable work spanning refugees, migration, asylum, displacement and/or human rights.

This is actually a far greater % of funding than the National Lottery.

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

🚨 EUROVISION BOMBSHELL? 🚨

I’m hearing rumours that “Battle for Britain” by @PiddingtonRoars is being considered as the UK’s entry for Eurovision! 🇬🇧🎶

Could our tiny Oxfordshire village be about to ROAR across Europe’s biggest stage?

This remains unconfirmed—but imagine Piddington representing the nation!

🎧 https://t.co/UwBC47hhVC

#Eurovision #Eurovision2027 #ESC2027 #EurovisionUK #EurovisionSongContest #UnitedByMusic #BattleForBritain #Piddington #PiddingtonRoars #TheVillageThatRoared #Oxfordshire #UKMusic #BritishMusic #NewMusic #Spotify #TikTokMusic #ViralMusic #MusicNews #BreakingNews #CommunityVoice #UnitedKingdom #Britain

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

PRIME MINISTER ANDY BURNHAM — COME TO PIDDINGTON. @andyburnham

See what Whitehall sees only on a map.

A village of 350 people.
46 children.
No shop.
No pub.
No substantial infrastructure.

Drive the fast rural roads — stretches with no pavement and no safe pedestrian route to the nearest town, six miles away.

Now consider the proposal: accommodation for up to 1,250 male asylum seekers on the edge of our village. More than three times our entire population.

Explain to our 46 children and their families how a development of this scale will work safely.
Tell us where the infrastructure is.
Tell us what the policing plan is — because when we asked, none was provided.

Cherwell District Council has stated there was no prior engagement or consultation before the announcement. Explain why.

You have spoken about giving places outside Westminster a voice. Ours is clear.

96% of those voting supported a referendum on our future.

We are not asking you to read another letter. We are asking you to come here.
Walk the village.
Meet the residents.
See the roads.
Answer the questions.

Do not make decisions about Piddington from Whitehall.

350 people.
46 children.
One village that refuses to be ignored.

We are Piddington.
THE VILLAGE THAT ROARED.
#Piddington
#PiddingtonRoars
#thevillagethatroared
#powertoeverypostcode
#bicester
#oxford
#oxfordshire
#aylesbury
#Banbury

[Oracle @biggle1908]

The UK foreign aid budget for a little over 12 months is a real eye opener.

#ForeignAid
#Ripoff

Afghanistan £31,048.25
Albania £980,000.00
Angola £637,279.53
Armenia £638,026.06
Bangladesh £31,643,559.78
Belize £1,159,464.97
Benin £229,532.81
Bhutan £14,489.18
Bolivia £1,629,989.23
Bosnia and Herzegovina £740,737.00
Botswana £633,139.77
Brazil £4,895,877.51
Burkina Faso £686,566.63
Burundi £13,313.00
Cambodia £1,986,365.64
Cameroon £1,357,249.54
Cape Verde £183,420.26
Chad £16,170,000.00
China £92,095.15
Colombia £1,943,706.74
Comoros £31,048.25
Congo £1,105,034.16
Congo (Democratic Republic) £56,648,070.00
Costa Rica £60,026.62
Djibouti £2,069.88
East Timor £89,004.99
Ecuador £1,609,843.59
El Salvador £765,000.00
Eritrea £277,068.88
Eswatini £18,628.95
Ethiopia £80,269,420.98
Fiji £31,048.25
Gabon £1,128,779.33
Georgia £2,069.88
Ghana £7,395,435.73
Guatemala £979,036.35
Guinea £238,098.91
Guinea-Bissau £87,773.46
Guyana £18,628.95
Haiti £31,048.25
Honduras £945,918.21
India £14,425,537.11
Indonesia £22,063,180.55
Iraq £4,534,627.00
Ivory Coast £31,048.25
Jamaica £1,732,880.00
Jordan £21,038,612.00
Kazakhstan £33,170.11
Kenya £30,334,070.28
Kosovo £180,315.00
Kyrgyzstan £208,125.36
Laos £1,525,531.05
Lebanon £15,447,518.49
Liberia £154,459.72
Madagascar £4,875,928.02
Malawi £18,262,187.48
Malaysia £234,092.50
Maldives £347,689.18
Mali £747,388.20
Mauritius £2,069.88
Mexico £139,322.27
Mongolia £301,741.53
Montenegro £39,541.00
Montserrat £15,314,821.29
Morocco £246,316.13
Mozambique £7,356,418.41
Myanmar (Burma) £308,654.71
Namibia £794,694.63
Nepal £30,722,893.64
Nicaragua £249,963.59
Nigeria £68,664,794.08
Pakistan £47,711,153.38
Palestine £42,705,208.00
Papua New Guinea £281,044.25
Peru £1,968,397.13
Philippines £1,643,155.74
Pitcairn Islands £432,017.37
Republic of Tunisia £34,882.37
Rwanda £13,659,404.11
Sao Tome and Principe £155,241.26
Senegal £497,767.66
Serbia £88,890.00
Sierra Leone £7,430,121.81
Solomon Islands £364,248.25
Somalia £70,404,920.35
South Africa £10,965,903.47
South Sudan £46,508,909.77
Sri Lanka £1,097,994.54
St Helena £15,756,096.13
St Lucia £53,816.97
Sudan £130,372,083.00
Syria £22,239,678.00
Tajikistan £861,139.94
Tanzania £28,872,658.13
Thailand £1,293,477.35
The Gambia £4,978.12
Togo £18,045.67
Turkey £23,356,207.00
Uganda £9,592,031.28
Ukraine £211,671,819.04
Uzbekistan £143,796.73
Vanuatu £333,200.00
Venezuela £30,490.96
Vietnam £1,597,680.89
Yemen £76,449,987.00
Zambia £17,230,696.32
Zimbabwe £4,183,605.72