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#AbolishHolyrood

[Venice Allan @roseveniceallan]

As a woman who was suspended by labour for simply saying what a woman is, I can tell you that they will never have a female leader because it’s the most sexist boys’ club that exists

[Lorin Bell-Cross @lorintbc]

Former director of BBC Television Danny Cohen told the JC: "It is very disappointing to see the incoming prime minister give one of his very first interviews to Gary Lineker, who left the BBC after sharing a post about Zionism which depicted a rat - an animal the Nazis used to depict Jews. 

"To make matters worse, Mr Burnham failed to challenge Lineker’s description of the conflict in Gaza as 'genocide'. This is an unproven claim which fuels antisemitism in Britain. 

"All of this sends a deeply worrying signal to the Jewish community.”

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Until every question about the missing money is answered, this scandal will continue to hang over the SNP.

Accountability isn't optional.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Nigel Farage wasn’t prepared to accept a narrative that didn’t make sense.

When he says he was told Ann Widdecombe’s death was “a burglary gone wrong,” his response was simple:

“A burglar doesn’t park his car on your drive and walk into the house.”

Too often, the public are expected to accept official explanations without question, then criticised for asking perfectly reasonable questions.

[MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen @SebastianMEP]

Today, Belgian police blocked me — a sitting Member of the European Parliament — from entering the European Parliament for nearly an hour.

They were on the phone with Brussels Mayor Philippe Close, who was personally directing their actions. We have video footage of the incident.

The Mayor prevented me from delivering over half a million European citizens’ signatures for the @SaveEuropeAct initiative.

This is unacceptable.

The EU is a union of 27 member states. No single country — and certainly not one socialist mayor of a single city — has the right to decide which MEPs from other nations can carry out their democratic duties.

My team and I will launch a formal investigation into the mayor’s conduct.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Lucy Connolly's conviction is deeply unsound

The state bullied and coerced a mum into pleading guilty when she obviously wasn't.

We are a nasty society and we won't get better if people listen to Dan.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Police are now investigating “far left terrorism” in the horrifying murder of Ann Widdecombe.

And we were accused of “playing politics” with Ann’s death for suggesting it was politically motivated.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

The attacks on Nigel Farage and Reform since the assassination of Ann Widdecombe have been absolutely DISGUSTING!

The "be kind" left are some of the nastiest people I have ever seen.

The likes of Dan Hodges and Kevin Maguire should be ashamed of themselves.

Me with @Iromg

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

⛔️ TRANS ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN WOMEN IN BRISTOL

Last night, 100 trans activists turned up to shut down women asking questions about @BristolCouncil refusal to implement single sex spaces.

It is alleged that questions were leaked and a call for attendance put out to far left activists - who turned up to intimidate, abuse, harass and heckle.

Green Councillor Emma Edwards shut down the women asking questions and delighted in playing to the gallery of activists.

Most of the disruption has been cut from the YouTube video but watch to the end of this clip and you can get the gist.

@BristolCouncil - is this true?
Were activists deployed to intimidate and bully women asking reasonable questions?
Do you think what the women were subjected to is remotely appropriate at a public council meeting?
Do you think the Supreme Court ruling doesn't apply to Bristol?

You have a lot of questions to answer here...!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

And what do you propose women’s rights should be based on instead of our sex, dear guru? Special lady feels? Spinny skirts and lipstick? Candyfloss coloured souls?

[Dubhghall @macnahgalla]

Credit @UAS1707

An interesting fact is that the fraudster’s moll @NicolaSturgeon signed off @thesnp accounts in 2015 which contained the transfer of £825,000 to Yes Scotland Limited to fill a black hole in its finances. Why did Yes Scotland Limited need bailed out? 🤔

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The constant demonisation of Reform has caused a toxic culture in which violence against individuals was inevitable.
My 🔥 column
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[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

No other politician has faced the demonisation which @Nigel_Farage has experienced over many years Even in the Commons he has been constantly barracked and shouted down @AllisonPearson is absolutely correct

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

Britain can’t stop illegal migrants crossing the Channel, but it can stop Päivi Räsänen, a Christian grandmother and former Finnish Interior Minister, from changing planes at Heathrow.

Christian views on marriage now make you a security threat.

This country has lost its mind.

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

Watching some SNP politicians tie themselves in knots over whether they can support England is genuinely amusing.

It's a football match.

England are our next-door neighbours and a fellow Home Nation. Nobody's asking you to wear a St George's Cross or sing Three Lions. Just put the chip on the table for 90 minutes, enjoy the match and back another Home Nation.

https://t.co/JTMDPWvKOz

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The Gay Men's Network was outrageously libelled by Amnesty as "anti rights" despite our work to protect the 80-90% gay/lesbian youth at gender clinics where staff joke "soon there will be no gay people left".

We are beyond grateful, emotional and touched by the decency of JKR.

[Diogenes @adriansopinion]

Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens have all been blatantly inciting violence and hatred towards Reform politicians, the Police need to stop this before anyone else is hurt.....

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: At the last minute the India-UK Trade Deal was changed to give Indian workers in the UK a national insurance exemption up to FIVE YEARS (previously three)

Labour are literally incentivising British companies to hire Indians over Brits

Treason

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I’ve always backed England if Scotland not involved. I hate the anti-English nonsense of too many Scots. So yes, WE. Do you have a problem with that?

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Wales Has Been Left Out of The National Inquiry. Today Gave Its New Labour Leader No Excuse Left

Gwent Police have charged eight men over alleged child sexual offences against children in South Wales, spanning 1985 to 1996.

Every one of these men is presumed innocent, and nothing in this piece changes that.

The names: Shafaq Mohammed, 58. Syed Mohammed Ashan Taqvi, 65. Mohammed Sheikh Abdul Hannan, 54. Kevin Lawrence, 54. Sheikh Mohammed Tahir Ullah, 73. Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, 58. Shakeel Babur, 58. Murad Ali, 57.

Newport, Abergavenny, Swansea, with prosecutors saying there are links further afield still being worked out. The case goes to court now.

Most people will scroll past this as just another historic case. They shouldn't, and here's why.

The alleged offending starts in 1985. The inquiry's own timeframe starts in 1996. That's eleven years of this case sitting outside the period the inquiry has agreed to look at, and it's happening in one of the first major prosecutions announced since the inquiry opened its doors.

And we've learned this the hard way, over and over, in town after town. Where there's one gang, there's usually many more. Oldham taught us that. Rotherham taught us that. Every single time one of these cases gets prosecuted, it turns out to be a single thread pulled from something far bigger that nobody wanted to look at directly. Eight men charged today doesn't mean eight men is the whole picture. It rarely is.

The years that matter in cases like this are never the last ones. They're the first ones. The moment a child said something to an adult and that adult decided what to do about it, or didn't. Whether that was a police officer, a social worker, a teacher, doesn't much matter. What matters is that none of it gets built in a year. It takes a decade to bed in. Sometimes two.

So if these charges hold up in court, whatever went wrong institutionally around the earliest victims in this case happened almost entirely in years the inquiry has already ruled outside its scope.

We were told this inquiry exists to drag institutional failure into daylight. Here's a case alleging exactly that kind of failure, starting eleven years before the inquiry's own clock. So which is it. Does the inquiry follow the failure back to where it actually started, or does it just inherit the case at the point its own paperwork happens to switch on.

Nobody's told us yet. That's the point.

The courts will decide guilt or innocence, and that's exactly where that decision belongs. But the inquiry has a separate question in front of it now, whether it wants it or not. You can't say you're examining institutional failure and then rule out the exact years that failure was forming.

There's someone new who needs to answer for that question now. Ken Skates was confirmed today as leader of Welsh Labour, unanimous backing, first day in the job proper after months as interim. He inherits a party reduced to eleven seats and third place in the Senedd, and he inherits this case landing on the same morning as his appointment. That's not a coincidence he gets to dodge.

So here's the question for the new leader of Welsh Labour, on day one.

Will you demand that the National Inquiry into Grooming Gangs treats Wales the same way it's being forced to treat Rotherham, Oldham, Telford and Bradford, or will you let Wales carry on being the case nobody in Westminster wants to say out loud.

If Skates wants to lead differently to Eluned Morgan, this is where that starts.
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Imagine the Prime Minister Under Oath

Imagine the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dragged in front of a national inquiry into the cover-up of the Pakistani rape gangs, forced to testify under oath, forced to defend his own record.

You don't have to imagine it. You just need to help me make it happen.

For eight years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani rape gangs. With the people of Oldham behind me, I led the campaign that forced the national inquiry into existence. Now, with your help, we force that inquiry somewhere it does not want to go.

The Cover-Up of the Cover-Up

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham fronted a series of Assurance Reviews. One of them was in my hometown, Oldham. It buried the truth rather than exposed it. Don't take my word for it. Ask Maggie Oliver. She has reached the same conclusion.

We forced the national inquiry despite his efforts, not because of them. Burnham once defended the robustness of a review that has since been exposed as a cover-up. Now he is rewriting what he actually did.

Why This Matters Before It's Too Late

Right now, the national inquiry will not investigate Burnham or his conduct. His deceit is set to go unchallenged. We intend to change that before the inquiry reaches Oldham.

Once Burnham is in Downing Street, the pressure to protect him will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will do everything they can to avoid holding a prime minister to account. Much of the press will look away, as it always has. So it falls to us to carry the truth where they won't.

What This Community Becomes

This is why I'm turning this readership into something I can no longer run on my own. Red Wall and the Rabble needs to grow into a proper independent investigative outlet.

Before Burnham reaches Number 10, Red Wall and the Rabble needs 2,000 more paid subscribers. That's the scale of what's coming. But today, we only need two.

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Should we succeed, politicians will go to prison. It is as simple as that. Surely, on this prospect alone, it is worth your support.