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spurs man for 50 years in remission from cancer. love my grandchildren. Englishman,pensioner, anti woke, pro brexit 🇬🇧 Reform never Labour or WEF

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Burnham Promised Affordable Homes. He Built Luxury Towers For Chinese Investors

Before Andy Burnham stood for Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017 he was explicit about what he would do with the region's housing investment fund. He criticised public loans for city centre and luxury schemes. He promised to renegotiate the fund so it would fully focus on the long term goal of an affordable home for all. Here is what he actually did.

Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority lent £578 million in public money to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. In March 2024 Burnham chaired a meeting that approved £120 million in loans to Renaker companies in the space of one minute. Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Since 2020 Whitaker's personal fortune has grown from £140 million to an estimated £698 million, making him one of the wealthiest individuals in the North West. He briefly registered his residency in Monaco before switching it back to Britain.

A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending him the money, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. Whitaker also received a £40 million dividend payout despite restrictions in the original loan agreement. The GMCA would not say whether it knew about or approved those payments. The terms of the loans remain secret. A Court of Appeal hearing on £140 million of those loans is scheduled for June 9. Nine days before the Makerfield by-election.

The China dimension is where the story connects to something considerably larger. The taxpayer backed developments were actively marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. A marketing event was held in Hong Kong just weeks before the GMCA approved a £69 million loan for the Contour development. Hundreds of flats in taxpayer backed skyscrapers have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings.

Angela Rayner, then Deputy Prime Minister, was simultaneously telling the Telegraph that it was a real frustration that international investors could buy up houses before local people get a look in. Her government's mayor in Manchester was lending public money to a developer marketing those same homes to Chinese buy to let investors in Hong Kong. Labour was pledging a stamp duty surcharge on overseas landlords while its most prominent northern mayor was facilitating exactly the investment it claimed to oppose.

For Makerfield voters the question is direct. The constituency sits within a region where 18,000 people have no permanent address and one in 61 Manchester residents is homeless. The man asking them to send him to Westminster promised in 2017 to focus public money on affordable homes for all. He then lent £578 million to a developer who built luxury towers now owned by Chinese landlords, extracted dividend payments despite loan restrictions, and left taxpayers exposed without conducting adequate financial checks.

For Britain as a whole the question is broader. The pattern of accommodating Chinese financial interests runs from the super embassy in London to the spy trial collapse to Mandelson's undisclosed relationship with China's finance minister. The Renaker story adds a further dimension. Public money, lent without adequate due diligence, flowing into luxury developments marketed directly to Chinese investors, by the mayor now seeking to become Prime Minister.

The Court of Appeal will hear the case on June 9. The voters of Makerfield deliver their verdict on June 18. Both deserve an honest answer.

"Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority lent £578 million in public money to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker."

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UK Police slam a White boy onto the ground, choke him & tell him to stop being a bitch after HE was just attacked.

Poor kid was hysterical & just kept asking what he had done wrong.

There is something very wrong with the UK & their Police force.

White Kids are not safe from foreign criminals or Police. When they are harmed the Police just traumatise them further.

Police are supposed to serve & Protect the community not terrorise them.

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📰 Senior executives at one of Britain's biggest Islamic charities, Penny Appeal, privately warned that £350,000 in aid sent to Gaza was "very likely" to have helped fund Hamas and other terror groups, The Mail on Sunday has revealed. This shocking admission comes as the charity faces a Charity Commission investigation, with inspectors seizing thousands of documents from its Wakefield headquarters.

Penny Appeal, which once boasted annual revenues over £25 million, donated the funds to British organisation Programme for NGOs to deliver aid into Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Up to 25 trucks carrying food and supplies were dispatched through the Rafah crossing, but alarm bells began ringing when updates on the money's distribution failed to arrive.

A whistleblower told the MoS that insufficient "due diligence" checks had been carried out. Leaked minutes from an emergency meeting on April 4, 2024, explicitly warn that the funds could have fallen into the hands of "Hamas and other terror-related entities operating in Gaza." Executives voiced concerns that local entities distributing the aid "could very likely be a front for extreme and terror-related activity."

The charity received no list confirming who had received the aid, with minutes recording that repeated requests for such lists were "ignored." Programme for NGOs director Ahmed Ibrahim dismissed these claims, stating he submitted updates and Penny Appeal bosses even visited his warehouses. However, documents seen by the MoS show thousands were spent on "media services" inside northern Gaza, raising fears British donations could have ended up with Hamas-linked organisations.

Despite a resolution for trustees to contact the Charity Commission, angry staff reportedly became whistleblowers. Penny Appeal founder Adeem Younis previously stood down as head of trustees in 2019 after the Charity Commission found he had personal interests "affected by the charity's contract." The Charity Commission confirmed its regulatory compliance investigation into Penny Appeal is ongoing.

This situation highlights a fundamental failure in oversight and accountability when British aid money is sent abroad. Ordinary British taxpayers and donors expect their generosity to help those in genuine need, not to inadvertently fund terror.

🔗 Source: Daily Mail

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