Getting a tattoo of the logo of a business that won’t exist after the next general election
He’d have been far better off just gluing his cock to his forehead
The effect is much the same
@KEdge23 Control was already lost because of am14 years of austerity and underfunding the police. Stop blaming Labour for the Tory governments failings. It takes time to put things right.
Andy Burnham had the power to stop the grooming gangs, but chose not to.
He spent his career minimising them, calling it “propaganda” and saying campaigners were “creating hate”.
He served in the Home Office under David Blunkett at a time when reports of widespread abuse poured in.
In 2003, survivor “Amy,” forced into sex acts with multiple men at just 13 years old, reported her ordeal to South Yorkshire Police.
The blood and DNA evidence she provided inexplicably disappeared.
Her family wrote directly to the Home Office.
Nothing was done.
Just months after Burnham took up his role as a Home Office minister, Greater Manchester Police closed down Operation Augusta.
This was set up after the horrific death of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia, injected with heroin by a 50-year-old man.
Instead of pursuing justice for Victoria, the police blamed her “propensity to provide sexual favours.”
The perpetrator received a pathetic three-and-a-half-year sentence and was never charged with causing her death.
When the full horror in Greater Manchester finally emerged, Burnham as Mayor resisted calls for a proper national inquiry for years.
He only launched a limited local review after a TV documentary forced his hand.
Even that process was crippled.
The two men leading the review resigned after being blocked from accessing critical information.
The report itself revealed that authorities feared inflaming community tensions more than protecting children from repeated rape.
Maggie Oliver, the brave whistleblower said "when it comes to leadership and courage and gripping what is going on now, unfortunately, he turned away",
As a result "we missed a huge opportunity to bring changes that are needed".
Survivors have heckled and booed him at public meetings.
His reply? He stands by his record and accuses his critics of “creating hate”.
Not a single council worker or police officer in Greater Manchester has faced criminal proceedings for their role in this betrayal.
Now this shameless man seeks to use the very communities he betrayed to catapult him to higher office.
He is a disgrace and if he had any shame would apologise and bow out of this race.
@TiceRichard Have you forgotten that Maggie Thatcher sold our oil and gas off, so anything produced is sold by international companies on the global market and does fuck all to reduce prices? Whereas Norway didn't, which is why they now have a sovereign wealth fund of £1.6 trillion.
Labour promised to publish their plan to fund our defence in Autumn last year.
9 months on, and there is still no sign of it.
If they won’t act, we will vote to force Keir Starmer to publish the plan within one month.
Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.
Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.
Robert Jenrick under investigation.
Nigel Farage under investigation.
Richard Tice dodging taxes.
Where are the so-called media? @BethRigby@Peston@bbclaurak@ChrisMasonBBC
There would be breaking news reports every 15 mins had it been Zack Polanski or Keir Starmer.
Says the leader of the party who cut public spending and forced austerity on the country. This is what you get when you don’t invest in the country and cut spending right back. Where’s the police Kemi??? Oh that’s right. You got rid of them all.
Right so Keir Starmer has reduced immigration by over 70%, kept us out of the Iran War, massively boosted defence spending, reduced NHS waiting times, and started growing the economy again.
But we should sack him off for Burnham in under 2 years because Manchester has £2 buses?
Nigel Farage, "At Michael Barrymore's house they removed all the ashtrays, on the basis that they chuck all the fags in the pool."
Can't imagine the outrage if they found a clip of Zack Polanski saying this.
Imagine there will be silence because it's Nigel Farage.
Self serving arrogance from Labour.
They think it's fine to put their own self interest above that of the country.
Labour are unfit to govern.
https://t.co/K9v0RrpgS3
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...
HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.
Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it
So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?
Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.
The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.
This grifter must not become prime minister.