The government that cannot find more money for defence announces more cash for bike lanes, for the rip off Erasmus student scheme, subsidies to employ workers from abroad and for France to fail to stop the boats. Why?
Andy Burnham has said that “Westminster has refused to listen to towns like ours for decades.”
From 2001-2017, Andy was the MP for Leigh.
During that time he held several cabinet positions, he was part of the Westminster bubble that refused to listen to Makerfield.
Charlatan.
One threw a stone at a police shield- Prison sentence- 2 years.
The second broke a police women’s nose and physically assaulted other officers- Walked Free.
One is White & British. The other is Not.
@Keir_Starmer@DavidLammy - and you wonder why the country’s on FIRE ?🔥
This incompetent fool gives billions to foreign migrants, lazy Britons & billions to net zero & billions on Foreign Aid & billions on Ukraine.
Removes the 2 child benefit cap, but refuses to keep us safe.
Anyone voting for this shower is on a death wish.
John Healey’s resignation letter confirms that Labour are more interested in paying for the idle to wake up at midday, “free” school meals, those out of work due to “mental health” and small boat arrivals than funding our defence to keep us safe.
Imagine spending £billions on free breakfast clubs, rapey third-worlders, and idiotically large pay rises for train drivers and junior doctors...
... and then running out of money for defence.
#Starmergeddon
.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.
With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.
A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.
Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.
The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.
Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.
How many more before the thoughts become action?
1. Protestors will be met with the full force of the law.
2. Beheaders will be met with sympathetic mental health specialists and woke judges who don't care if they do it again.
Apparently, not wanting to be dismembered in the streets, or your son stabbed to death, or your daughter raped, is now "far right".
Blimey. Doesn't that make everyone "far right"?