david waltho

just a big kid at heart. A fisherman who shoots, retired gamekeeper.

[The Jackal… @ToonDazza]

I 100% agree @andyburnham - let’s all retweet and help Andy out……

#GeneralElectionNow

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

This is Linton-on-Ouse in England.
Population 1200.

The British state is planning to dump 3,750 migrants into this village and essentially replace them overnight.

Millennia of traditional rural life are about to be wiped out at the altar of open borders.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

🔥 The wildfire that burned 500 acres near Glossop last month tore across land the RSPB had rewilded.

Our chief executive @AndrewGilruth was blunt: rewilding had left "huge amounts of tinder dry dead vegetation which catches fire very easily."

Fuel is the one part of a wildfire that land managers can control. Heat and oxygen come from the weather — increasingly, from records like the hottest June ever logged.

The dead vegetation is the part gamekeepers and farmers have cleared for generations through controlled cool burning, set in cold, damp conditions to clear old heather without touching the peat below.

Since September, new rules have taken that tool off the table across much of England's uplands. The area of restricted deep peat has jumped from 222,000 to 676,628 hectares — the size of Devon.

Rewetting peat is a fair long-term goal. It does nothing about the fuel sitting on the moor this summer.

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[david waltho @davidwaltho]

@Wickes @Anne59230659

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Imagine this, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dragged kicking and screaming in front of a national inquiry into the cover up of the Pakistani Rape Gangs where he is forced to testify under oath and defend his own actions.

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

For 8 years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani grooming gangs. I, with the support of the people of Oldham, led the campaign that forced the National Inquiry. Now, with your help, we will force this inquiry to a place it does not want to go.

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham fronted a series of Assurance Reviews of which one was in my hometown of Oldham. It was a cover-up of a cover-up. It tried to bury the truth. Don't believe me? Ask Maggie Oliver. Even she has come to the same conclusion.

Despite Burnham's efforts to help hide what took place, we forced a national inquiry. Whilst previously defending the robustness of his now exposed cover up, Burnham is now trying his best to rewrite the truth of what he really did.

Unfortunately, as of yet, the national inquiry will not investigate Burnham or his actions and his deceit will go unchallenged. We hope to change this before the investigation starts in Oldham.

Once Burnham is in Downing Street, the pressure to protect him will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will try everything possible not to hold a PM accountable. Much of the press will look away, as always. This is why it is up to us to carry the truth.

Which is why I'm turning this community of readers into something more than what I can manage on my own. We need to grow and become an independent investigative outlet with:

- A professional website to reach larger audiences
- Video editing to make this work accessible to millions
- Research support so no lead goes cold
- In-person events to train people
- Resources to gather evidence and report from failed communities

Before Burnham reaches Number 10, Red Wall and the Rabble needs 2,000 more paid subscribers to help grow and become more than a one man operation. With your help, we can do in towns and cities across the country what we have done in Oldham.

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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.

Raja 🙏

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

England lost roughly half its breeding curlews between 1995 and 2021. One keepered dale in Upper Teesdale didn't lose any.

🐦 A new survey found about twice as many curlews on blanket bog managed by burning or cutting as on bog left alone — four breeding pairs per square kilometre against under two.

This is keepered ground. Gamekeepers cleared foxes and crows across most of the dale year-round, and curlews here fledged 1.0 chicks per pair — twice the rate needed to hold numbers steady.

📊 The dale carries 1,764 breeding pairs, close to 3% of the entire UK total. While the national population collapsed, active management held this one flat.

🌿 The same burning and cutting done for grouse breaks up an even sward and builds the structure nesting waders depend on.

🔥 Burning on blanket bog has been restricted in England since 2021. The authors are blunt: if cutting cannot reproduce what burning created, these curlews could fall too.

Read more on our website.

[david waltho @davidwaltho]

@YorkshireDna I survived a black hole

[Bob Connelly @curlybob69]

When it goes up, and it will, who will face the music, the politicians will be gone and the uncivil serpents are nameless but the damage will be done anyhow

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Dear @AndyBurnhamGM,

They weren’t “young women”.
They were CHILDREN.

Children who were raped, exploited, tortured, beaten, and murdered by gangs of Pakistani-Muslim men while powerful people like you turned a blind eye.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Taxpayers Deserve Transparency on Nature Spending: Our Letter to The Times

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Peak District Moorland Group Co-ordinator Richard Bailey shares the truth about Natural England’s evidence review on managed burning (NEER155) during the House of Commons EFRA Committee on wildfire risk.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

🪶 Twice as many curlew nest on managed blanket bog as on bog left alone.

That's from a new survey of Upper Teesdale appearing in Bird Study, where 1,764 breeding pairs were counted — about 3% of every curlew in the UK, in one dale. They turned up in all but one of the 114 squares surveyed, thickest on the rough grazing and grass-moor at middle heights.

The numbers have held steady for a decade. And the birds aren't just hanging on — they're fledging an average of one chick per pair, double the rate needed to keep the population stable.

The nest cameras named the predators too: badgers, stoats, sheep. That's the pressure licensed predator control is there to take off, and the data shows what happens when it does.

This is open upland managed by gamekeepers for red grouse. The curlew are the proof the management works.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Now remind me what was all that bonus ban nonsense all about?

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

"You (Natural England) haven't taken people in the upland community with you" - EFRA Committee Chair Alistair Carmichael summing up at this morning's wildfire meeting.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Fourteen years after Colorado's Hayman Fire, nitrate in the water was still running high. A wildfire's mark on a catchment doesn't wash out in a season.

💧 That should worry Britain more than almost anywhere. Around 70% of UK drinking water comes from peat-dominated catchments, and 72.5% of reservoir storage is fed by peatland water.

A new review pooled 23 studies across 28 burned watersheds. What fire put in the water:

- Sediment at 1,142 mg/litre, far past what treatment is built for
- Lead up more than 700-fold; copper more than 100-fold
- Nitrate still elevated 14 years on

📉 Stripping peat sediment and dissolved organic carbon is already the biggest single cost in UK raw-water treatment — before a single fire is added to the catchment.

And the UK runs almost no post-fire water monitoring of its own. Every decision about protecting our drinking water rests on data borrowed from forests on another continent.

Read more on our website.

[Angel Of England @AngelUKxx]

This didn’t age well

"Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity."

@NazShahBfd

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

The Government have quietly announced that they will push ahead with their Puberty Blocker Trial.

Children as young as 11 will be given drugs that can lead to loss of fertility and bone density.

No child can consent to this. The trial must be stopped.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

In December 2025, illegal migrants in the audience asked questions directed at @ZiaYusufUK.

The Telegraph has now revealed that Imix, a charity that works to “build support for migration,” reportedly coached them in advance.

They were plants, the BBC is yet again a disgrace.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Defra granted a licence to burn off a known wildfire risk on deep peat at Hurst & Chunal. Then a condition attached to it made the licence impossible to use in time — and the risk went unmanaged.

Permission in form, refusal in substance. That case sits at the heart of our submission to the EFRA Committee's uplands inquiry.

The problem isn't ambition. Government has targets for carbon, water and nature. It's that decisions are designed centrally, then shown to the people who manage the land only at the end.

So we're asking the Committee to recommend Defra:

- Co-design policy with farmers, keepers and graziers from the start
- Allow land-manager-led 25-year plans, audited and overseen
- Test every consent for whether it can actually be used
- Open a fast route for urgent fuel-reduction work

Not weaker regulation. Better — judged on what it delivers.

Members manage a million acres. Deadline to make your own response to the Committee is 26 June.

Read more on our website.

[david waltho @davidwaltho]

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