Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.
Remember when Andy Burnham lambasted Margaret Thatcher for ‘selling off’ council homes? It was last week!
Yet in 2005, as an MP, he snapped up a two-bed ex-council flat in London for £215k, claimed mortgage expenses on it, and now rents it out for massive PROFITS.
Pure hypocrisy from the man who lectures us on HOUSING, TAXES and demanding WOMEN give up their‘SAFE PLACES’. He’s not just a Champagne Socialist, his morally DANGEROUS.
#BurnhamHypocrisy #ThatcherWasRight #Makerfield
Why are Scottish taxpayers paying hotel accommodation, dinner and expenses for Green MSP Ross Greer in Edinburgh when he lives half an hour away by train in Glasgow?
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Make sure everyone you know in Makerfield sees this clip from September 2025. Burnham saying he will put the UK back in the EU.
Share this like crazy people 👇
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin watching the "Unite the Kingdom" event.
Always said this lady will go far, she genuinely cares about our country and our people.
Fair play Sarah Pochin 🙏👏❤️🇬🇧
This is what it is to be Jewish and go to synagogue in @MayorofLondon’s London. Coming out the tube to chants of the ‘River to the sea’ - the call to murder Jews.
@JamesCleverly Millions of @reformparty_uk will be delighted with this news.
Next Reform should start using their "Doge" to get to the bottom of whose pockets the taxpayer billions£££s earmarked for Ukraine is ending up.
@Nigel_Farage Hope your Doge team will reveal exactly in whose pockets the billions of £££ UK taxpayers are forced to funnel to corrupt Ukraine ends up.
@toadmeister The 2024 Labour manifesto was a pack of lies,designed to garner the votes of hopeful moderates .The deceit worked, and we have a hard left dictatorship.
Can't the King intervene when HMG has basically cheated the electorate to seize power on a false mandate?
🚨 MPs’ renting scandal just went nuclear — and the snout-in-the-trough champion of the week is none other than Labour’s own Deputy Leader, Lucy Powell.
It’s now been exposed that a whole string of MPs have been renting rooms and entire homes to each other at full taxpayer expense. Powell raked in over £30,000 last year alone by renting out a room to another MP. Taxpayer-funded second homes, taxpayer-funded rents flowing straight into fellow MPs’ pockets — a cosy little Westminster property scam that makes the old expenses scandal look like pocket change.
This is the same Labour Party that lectures working Brits about “fairness”, “austerity” and “paying your share” while their own elite treat Parliament like a private members’ club with an unlimited bar tab on your dime. While British families are crushed by sky-high rents, energy bills and taxes to fund this circus, Labour insiders are quietly lining their nests by renting to one another — all perfectly “within the rules,” of course. Because in two-tier Britain, the rules are written by the grifters for the grifters.
Lucy Powell isn’t some backbencher caught with her hand in the till. She’s the Deputy Leader. The second most senior figure in Starmer’s government. The same government that’s busy hiking your taxes, slashing services and telling you to tighten your belt while they play Monopoly with public money.
This isn’t a mistake.
This isn’t an oversight.
This is systemic corruption dressed up as “MP accommodation.”
The silent majority has had enough of these champagne socialists treating the British taxpayer like a bottomless ATM. We pay for their second homes, their rents, their expenses — while our own kids can’t get on the housing ladder and pensioners choose between heating and eating.
We demand:
✅ Immediate full public audit of every MP’s property dealings and expenses — names, amounts, everything.
✅ Resignations for anyone caught in this rental racket — starting with Lucy Powell.
✅ A complete overhaul of the MPs’ expenses system — no more second homes, no more self-dealing, no more pigs at the trough.
✅ Real consequences for the entitled elite who think the rules don’t apply to them.
Labour isn’t just failing Britain.
It’s looting it — one taxpayer-funded rental agreement at a time.
Starmer Out.
Powell Out.
The whole rotten Westminster cartel out.
The British people are watching. And this time we’re not forgetting.
🇬🇧 #MPSRentingScandal #LucyPowellExposed #TwoTierBritain #LabourGrift #RestoreBritain #PutBritainFirst #MPsExpenses #BritainIsBroken #EndTheCorruption
#Lichfield#Burntwood#Hammerwich area - keep an eye out for this white van, caught on camera stealing from our farm today - plates are false
please RT to warn others 👍
Look what UK Secretary of State for Health & Social Care @wesstreeting wrote about me in 2009. He wanted to push me - a Dutch MP - under a train.
Maybe look at your own crowd first before stopping others entering the UK, @Keir_Starmer, as Labour did with me in 2009 (which decision was later overruled by a UK Court).
Good luck Saturday @TRobinsonNewEra!
Two men live in Zone 2 London.
Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat.
But only one believes he has a future in the city.
James was born in London.
He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street.
He earns just under £60,000 a year.
On paper, he is doing well.
But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it.
Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent.
Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time.
Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in.
Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000.
The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain.
His parents bought their first home younger than he is now.
James still does not know if he will ever own one.
So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting.
He watches friends delay children.
People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday.
Now meet Shaheed.
He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status.
He does not work.
He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system.
He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests.
He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month.
And this is the part driving so much public anger.
James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in.
Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system.
That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere.
London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.
Statement from Cllr Samantha Gethen:
I was asked to leave a SEND community roundtable this morning - not for causing disruption, but because the local Conservative MP, @bhatti_saqib, refused to begin the meeting until I left.
I attend North Solihull’s SEND support group as a parent of children with SEND. Yes, I am also an elected Reform councillor - but today I attended as a mother wanting to discuss support for children and families.
Rather than allow the meeting to become uncomfortable for the organisers or other parents attending, I chose to leave out of respect for them, and for the significant time and effort that had gone into organising the event for local SEND families. Their priorities should always come before any attempt by the local MP to ostracise me because of my political affiliation.
It is deeply disappointing that a non-political family event was turned into a political issue.
Excluding a SEND parent from a conversation about their child’s future is wrong. SEND families deserve to be heard, regardless of politics.
Starmer's new "special envoy" already hard at work, handing out peerages.
Message since deleted, but this was sent to Labour's defeated leader in Oldham.
They never change.