Burnham clearly doesnโt understands the role of a PM. Being on the International Stage to represent UK interests is pretty fundamental. This Makerfield test nonsense is now becoming quite nauseating.
As Iโve said before, it has been so refreshing to have a serious and well respected politician representing the UK on the world stage. He was a good friend of Denmark, and will be sorely missed.
@Markclaret1@dibreformuk@CityAM@Donkers49@CityAM is making things up. It already works this way. Not a new or even a recent thing. State pension is included in your taxable income and the total is taxed in the usual way - personal allowance, base rate etc. I know. I'm a pensioner.
@CityAM There is no secret plan. That's how it works now. The state pension is included in your income for tax calculation purposes. You're making things up.
My opinion of Andy Burnham, having watched him over the years, is twofold:
a) He never thinks about the impact of any policy on women. We simply donโt enter the equation at all. When we speak up, we are an inconvenience to him so he brushes us aside as being of no importance.
b) His ambition far exceeds his ability. He will ALWAYS play to the gallery, even if that means flip-flopping later.
The man is an empty vessel.
Iโm sorry, this is total bollocks. I have been looking after my river for a decade and you have done absolutely nothing to support me and the other hundreds of volunteers who give up their free time to do your job for you and to stop the river we love from dying.
This picture is the part of the Aldersbrook that we havenโt yet restored. Do you agree that allowing one of the ancient rivers of London to disappear beneath a layer of sewage, silt, rubbish & knotweed is a disgrace? If so, when can we expect EA teams down in the river to sort it out?
I know that I will be hammered for this -but I believe Burnham's behaviour yesterday was tasteless.
*A very public rail journey to London.
*Undignified swearing in.
*Organised photo call with a crowd of Labour MPs.
*His assumed entitlement to be PM
A total lack of self awareness.
@MayorofLondon@TfL during this period of extremely hot weather, please allow Freedom Pass and Oyster 60+ holders to use their cards before 9am to help them avoid the worst of the heat.
Do you know something?
Try as hard as I might, I cannot get beyond a feeling of great animosity towards @AndyBurnhamGM
It is so obvious to me that he and his nasty little coterie have been planning this putsch for very many months, possibly more.
Think about it:-
1 The Labour seat made vacant for him within days of the local election results.
2 The fact that his campaign was so slick, and done so quickly.
3 The fact that so many Labour MPโs supported him and with obscene alacrity.
The @UKLabour membership rejected his bid for the leadership, twice. We voted for @Keir_Starmer for leader and PM - not him.
So, the conniving little weasel has done it via the back door, and seemingly without any challenge.
Bollocks to him, I say.
Soon, this terrible mistake will become glaringly obvious. He ainโt nearly good enough, you see, and not in Starmerโs league.
#BollocksToBurnham