WorkandPeople

Something is wrong. Nevertheless, it will become right. This is the essence of possibility.

[WorkandPeople @WorkandPeople]

@CDP1882 @GBNEWS All this happened in predominantly Labour run Councils. Absolute shame on the lot of them. Those poor children and girls. There is no greater evil than this.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Reform UK has pledged to pass an "Equal Treatment Act" within the first 100 days of Government

It would ban Police Race Action Plans, DEI practices and end the exemption for Sikhs to carry large bladed weapons

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Reform shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick said:

“McFadden has admitted privately what he can’t say publicly: Labour are now the party of shirkers, not workers. The reason why everyone is feeling hard up right now is because Labour is taking a record amount in taxes, only to spend it on welfare.

“This extraordinary admission is the nail in the coffin for this sorry excuse of a government. Reform UK will scrap the appalling waste on welfare so we can reward hard work.”

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Glad to hear my application for an urgent question has forced the Home Secretary to come to Parliament tomorrow.

The Prime Minister and Home Secretary hadn’t even mentioned Henry Nowak’s name until now.

Shameful.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Starmer is still running scared from delivering a National Rape Gang Inquiry & the Labour Party is still running away from collecting & publishing the ethnicity, immigration status and the religion of child sexual offenders.
It took over 260,000 members of the public signing a petition to get a debate on this issue in the House today.
@RupertLowe10 @officialsammyuk

[Rt. Hon. Alan B’Stard MP @NoWayWoke]

This is going to run until the next election, isn’t it 😁

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

The Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, has had to intervene and force the government to issue a statement on the murder of Henry Nowak.

This is utterly unprecedented. Shame on the Labour government, especially the Prime Minister and Home secretary, shame on you.

Astonishing.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

They are no longer the Labour Party, they are the Welfare Party. It doesn’t matter who is in charge of these people, the party for Benefits Street will tax us all into poverty to pay for more welfare.

Pat McFadden has said in private what he and the Prime Minister deny in public. As I’ve said repeatedly, Labour MPs don’t understand where money comes from. They think our taxes are their money to spend, rather than the result of the hard work of the people in our country who deserve so much better.

The Conservative party is the only party holding Labour to account, as Reform, Lib Dems the SNP and others join Labour in demanding the state pay more and more benefits.

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

What I want to see is senior public servants including Chief Constables, council leaders and even Home Secretaries held criminally to account…. And that’s what I’ve always said! I contributed to this story in the @Daily_Express saying the same as I’ve always said.

I am non party political, and have seen successive governments both Labour and Conservative fail miserably because they hz f t wanted to tackle this head in!

But I will help any political party who truly want this outcome, which is what every victim and survivor I know is demanding too! The problem has always been though action does t follow the empty promises, and that’s why we are still where we are today!

In the background our legal team at Action for Accountability Ltd #Theyknew is working ferociously towards this aim. But this is a marathon not a sprint! Another “David v Goliath” fight, but one we are determined to fight to the very best of our ability….

Further updates to come.

https://t.co/2qetWFyY4H

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (+3)
LAB: 18% (+1)
CON: 18% (-1)
GRN: 15% (-1)
LDM: 13% (-1)
RES: 3% (=)

Via @YouGov, 31 May - 1 Jun.
Changes w/ 25-26 May.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

If Starmer thinks his personal ratings can't get any worse, I have news for him - they can.  Not appearing on the media at the weekend in support of the family of murdered teenager Henry Novak will make sure of that. His absence from their side demanding answers from the police was a mistake of monumental proportions. 

This case, and the behaviour of the police, is already being compared with the George Floyd incident in the US.  In that case, which had nothing to do with the UK, Starmer was all over it, and couldn’t have bended his knee more, saying that it had 'prompted a burning desire for change'.

His relative silence over Henry - bleeding to death, being handcuffed by the police who preferred to believe the lies of his black killer than the cries for help of a white stab victim - is deafening.  

Has there ever been a more perfect illustration of the disgrace of Two Tier Kier?

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Wanted !!

Skilled Vape Shop Workers - From Abroad

Dear Secretary of State,

Re: Skilled Worker visa route

I am writing to you following reports that vape retailers are currently holding and potentially exploiting licenses to sponsor overseas workers through the Skilled Worker visa route.

According to these recent reports, almost 80 different vape companies across the country are listed on the Home Office’s public register of licensed sponsors for worker and temporary worker immigration routes. Meanwhile, over 90 newsagents and 100 barbershops are listed. Many more businesses are also free to hire from overseas. In the last five years, there have been over 300,000 applications through this visa route. These numbers raise serious questions.

I understand that possession of a sponsor licence does not in itself imply any abuse or wrongdoing, nor does it mean that the sponsored visa will be approved. However, I know that many people across the country have increasing concerns surrounding rogue vape shops, illegal products, organised criminal activity and immigration abuse. We need total transparency. It is important that we know how these businesses came to qualify for a route that is intended to facilitate skilled employment.

We saw reports last week that over one million young people are currently not in work, training or education. It is a total insult to our young people that people are exploiting these visa routes to come and work in Britain, and it only goes to show that our immigration system is in a complete mess. Hard-working Brits up and down the country do not want their highstreets dominated by vape shops, let alone dodgy hiring practices.

I would be grateful if you could clarify how many skilled worker visas have been sponsored by vape retailers, how many of these licenses have been suspended or revoked and how many of these businesses have been inspected by the Home Office or other enforcement agencies, including Trading Standards.

Please could you also outline what steps you are taking to verify the validity of sponsorships and to tackle exploitation from sponsoring organisations.

It is ridiculous that these businesses are continuing to qualify for sponsorship under this visa route at all. Last year alone, we saw more than 920 people arrested in targeted raids on mini-marts, vape shops, barbers and takeaways. We need a total clampdown on illegal working and much tighter controls.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Anderson MP

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

Adding VAT onto private school fees looks to be one of the worst education policy decisions of recent decades. Forced closure of good schools, disrupted children's education, and likely to cost taxpayers more than will ever be recuperated. Terrible.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So far this is the revelation from the Mandy files that will cause Labour most pain — now and for some time to come.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 4. November 2025.
Around Rachel Reeves’s 2nd Budget.
Torsten Bell, who played a seminal role in concocting Labour’s 2nd Budget, tells Mandelson ‘the big picture is ... messy’.
Mandelson replies: it was ‘messy because the Government doesn’t do policy … well enough.’
Treasury minister Bell: ‘Well that is definitely true … Everyone seems to think it’s someone else’s job to get the policy right ... which is very odd.’

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025
Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson:
‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’
Wow! Just wow!!

[Cllr Rob Kenyon @RobKenyonReform]

The media attacks are coming in thick and fast, but that won't stop us.

I was born here, schooled here, and live here. Makerfield deserves to finally have a local MP.

[Cllr Rob Kenyon @RobKenyonReform]

This changes nothing.

Migrants will still be packed into HMOs across Makerfield at taxpayer expense and jump ahead of locals for housing.

Burnham wants them next door to hard-working Wiganers. He's treating us like idiots.

Only Reform can stop the boats and deport illegals.

[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

In the past two days 351 illegal immigrants have entered the UK via 5 dinghies. This is in addition to the 1,202 who entered in the previous seven days. Enjoy your Sunday.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

The rape gangs scandal is the greatest state failure in British history.

Public bodies and politicians aided and abetted the mass rape and sexual exploitation of children. Predominantly white working-class girls were brutalised by criminal gangs who were (and still are) disproportionately men of Pakistani nationality or heritage.

Inquiries and words are not enough. State-enabled child sexual exploitation continues to this day, including in Wigan and Makerfield.

For decades, politicians like Andy Burnham, local authorities, the police and the media engaged in a conspiracy of silence - institutional avoidance in the name of political correctness.

It is time for action.

A Reform government will redress the harms caused by public servants in so many Labour-run local authorities. Within our first 100 days, we will:

- Release all files held by public bodies relating to the grooming gangs, going back 40 years.

- Increase police and National Crime Agency taskforce funding by £300m, taking it to £400m, so they can adequately investigate the perpetrators and the complicit police officers, social workers and politicians who enabled them. They will be given every resource they require.

This is our plan to finally deliver justice for our girls.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

No thank you @AndyBurnhamGM …

Migrants shouldn’t be getting anything.