The Burnham coup is complete.
A few days ago, I was invited to the Houses of Parliament in London, and one thing was abundantly clear: the lobby are back in power.
Here are the individuals REALLY pulling the strings in Andy Burnham’s government:🧵
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary.
This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing a ministerial red box. Miatta Fahnbulleh has failed upward through every level of British public life, leaving wreckage at each step, and now she holds your energy security in her hands while the Serious Fraud Office investigates the last scheme she touched.
Stop calling it governance. Start seeing it for what it is: a protection racket where the connected destroy, confess, and climb.
THE ARRESTS
April 2026. The Serious Fraud Office raided offices across England. Four arrests. Three companies Warmfront, JJ Crump, South Coast Insulation Services accused of stealing £44 million from the ECO4 scheme. Falsified claims. Ghost installations. Vulnerable families left with damaged homes while contractors pocketed taxpayer cash.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown called it what it was: a "charlatan's charter."
Fahnbulleh didn't inherit this mess. She owned it. As Energy Consumer Minister, she was responsible for oversight. She admitted to Parliament it was "systemic failure" her own words after 30,000 homes had already been botched. After thousands of fraudulent claims had already been processed. After the damage was done.
She promised monitoring. She promised repair. She promised Ofgem would contact victims.
Then the SFO moved in.
In any functioning society, a minister whose scheme triggered a £44 million fraud investigation would be finished. In Britain 2026, she gets promoted.
THE PEDIGREE
To understand how we got here, follow the bloodline.
Miatta Fahnbulleh was born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1979. Her father, Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh Jr., served as Foreign Minister to Samuel Doe the military dictator who seized power in a 1980 coup, executed the sitting president, and presided over mass killings and torture. Dad wasn't a prisoner. He was the regime's top diplomat for three years.
Her brother? Named Gamal after Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian revolutionary who overthrew a monarchy and nationalized industries.
Her grandfather? Convicted of treason in 1968 for plotting to overthrow the Liberian government.
The pattern is not subtle. This is a family that serves regimes, plots revolutions, and names its children after insurrectionists. When the Doe regime turned on them in 1986, they fled to England and claimed asylum. The British state saved them. Forty years later, the daughter of a dictator's minister controls Britain's energy supply.
She attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School fee-paying, Catholic, elite. Then Oxford. Then LSE. The socialist who demands wealth taxes enjoyed private education while prescribing comprehensive schooling for your children.
But the credentials aren't the point. The ideology is.
She calls herself a "heterodox economist." This is not modesty. It is a warning. She explicitly rejects free market economics. She embraces state intervention, public ownership, and radical redistribution. In 2019, she wrote in Foreign Affairs that Britain should hit Net Zero by 2034 eleven years to decarbonize an entire economy funded by "wealth taxes and extra borrowing."
The Spectator was kind. They called it "posturing." It was delusion.
As CEO of the New Economics Foundation described by critics as "far Left" and "anti-growth" she proposed a "rising block tariff" that would punish larger families and people with bigger homes. Industry sources called it "a truly, truly dreadful idea." Claire Coutinho, Shadow Energy Secretary, said Fahnbulleh had "drunk even more of the green lobby Kool-Aid than Ed Miliband."
This is the woman now setting your energy bills.
THE PATTERN
Everywhere Fahnbulleh goes, systems collapse.
The Constituency Ghost. Elected MP for Peckham in July 2024. Failed to open a constituency office for over a year. No surgeries. No face-to-face access. She blamed her £39,560 IPSA budget and "security prerequisites." Every other MP manages these constraints. She was too busy being a minister. Too busy plotting. The people of Peckham were an afterthought.
The Winter Fuel Betrayal. September 2024. She voted to end universal winter fuel payments for pensioners. Previously, all elderly households received £200–£300 for energy bills. The new policy restricted payments to those on Pension Credit anyone earning over £218.15 per week was cut off.
She voted for this in Peckham. One of London's most deprived areas. Sixty-four thousand elderly people in fuel poverty, represented by an MP who called the cut "tough" while drawing her ministerial salary.
The Company. FAHNBULLEH LIMITED. Company number 07906000. Dissolved. She was director of a private company that vanished into the registry with no transparency, no explanation, no accountability. Just another shell in the portfolio of a woman who demands public ownership while obscuring her own financial interests.
The Hypocrisy. January 2026. Nigel Farage raised concerns about illegal working in Turkish barbershops businesses that were literally being raided by immigration enforcement. Fahnbulleh accused him of "dog-whistle racism." The facts didn't matter. The optics did. This is her method: cry racism, ignore reality, advance the career.
THE BLADE
May 12, 2025. The day she showed her truest self.
Fahnbulleh resigned from the government. Not over policy. Not over principle. She resigned to trigger a leadership crisis.
She stood before cameras and demanded Starmer set a timetable for an "orderly transition." She said Labour had not governed with the "vision, pace and ambition that our mandate for change demands of us." She criticized the Prime Minister for "decisions that have eroded public trust."
The statement was devastating because it was public. Calculated. Premeditated. Politico reported she "kick-started the rebellion that eventually brought him down." She fired the starting gun on Starmer's collapse.
Then came the rehabilitation. Six weeks later, Andy Burnham her ally, her patron appointed her Housing Minister. July 2026, she was promoted to Energy Secretary. The woman who destroyed the last leader was rewarded with one of the great offices of state.
This is not loyalty. This is not conviction. This is careerism so naked it should be indecent.
THE NETWORK
She is not alone. She is the product of a machine.
The New Economics Foundation is part of the Fabian ecosystem. She contributed to Fabian Society publications, co-writing "The economic alternative" with Alfie Stirling in 2019. It called for transforming institutions to deliver a Green New Deal. It demanded state intervention in markets.
The Fabian method is "permeation" inserting socialist ideas into every institution until they become the unquestioned default. She is the permeation made flesh.
She is also the protégé of Ed Miliband. She served as his economics adviser during his failed leadership. Described as the "brains" behind his agenda. Now she serves under him again two failures propping each other up while the country pays the price.
Guido Fawkes compiled her actual policy demands: wealth taxes, mass nationalisation of land/transport/energy, extending national insurance to investment income, caps on interest rates. This is not regulation. This is confiscation.
The Scottish Tories know it. In July 2026, they wrote demanding she scrap the windfall tax and ditch Net Zero 2034, calling it "strategically mad." Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce demanded a "fresh approach" and approval for Jackdaw and Rosebank oil projects.
She refused. She will always refuse. Because she does not serve the national interest. She serves an ideology.
THE CONVERGENCE
Now the threads meet.
The daughter of a dictator's minister whose brother is named after a revolutionary, whose grandfather was convicted of treason now controls Britain's energy security.
The "heterodox economist" who rejects markets now sets market policy.
The minister who admitted "systemic failure" while 30,000 families lived with botched insulation now oversees the entire sector.
The woman whose scheme triggered a £44 million SFO investigation now holds the red box.
The MP who voted to strip winter fuel from pensioners in one of London's poorest constituencies now decides your winter heating costs.
The traitor who triggered Starmer's downfall now sits in Cabinet.
This is not coincidence. This is design. The British state is being captured by a network of ideologues who failed upward through institutional decay, who mistake their credentials for competence and their connections for mandate.
THE QUESTION
The father served a dictator who executed his predecessor.
The daughter serves an ideology that would dismantle the economy that rescued her.
Both are dangerous. Both leave wreckage.
The SFO investigation is ongoing. The £44 million is gone. The botched insulation remains in 30,000 homes. The pensioners still shiver.
And Miatta Fahnbulleh dissolved company director, constituency ghost, heterodox zealot, regicide now controls your energy security.
The question is not who she is.
The question is: how much more does she have to destroy before the system stops rewarding her?
This is Burnham madness. He insists on flying to Manchester No10 in the government’s biggest plane at a cost of £30,000. Why not take the train like everybody else?
Jonathan Reynolds - Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde (Greater Manchester) since 2010.
Jonathan is the Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
Jonathan is a ‘Parliamentary Officer’ in the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel and was very much involved in the plots, coups and leadership bids aimed at removing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
The @MENnewsdesk found that no Manchester MP claims more in expenses than Jonathan. @SkyNews found that the highest rent claimed by any Labour MP for accommodation in London was from Jonathan.
Jonathan’s wife is also his senior Parliamentary assistant.
Jonathan has accepted the following donations and perks:
£720 in tickets and hospitality from @SRTRC_England for a football match at @SunderlandAFC ⚽️
£1,500 in tickets and hospitality from @ManUtd for a match at Old Trafford. ⚽️
£3,000 from Martin Littler.
£54,770.42 from @unitetheunion
£3,457 in tickets and hospitality from the @EntainGroup and @BetGameCouncil for a match at Wembley. ⚽️
£3,000 from Tony Blair associate David Claydon.
£1,500 in tickets and hospitality from Ernst & Young LLP @EYnews for The Chelsea Flower Show.🌺
£1,700 from Labour Friends of Israel for a trip to Israel. 🇮🇱 ✈️
£4,000 from The Indian High Commission for a trip to India.🇮🇳 ✈️
£10,545.58 from the Hong Kong government for a trip.✈️🇭🇰
£2,950 from Public First.
£2,000 from the @CommunityUnion
£750 in tickets and hospitality from @SunderlandAFC for a match at Wembley.⚽️
£1,428 in tickets and hospitality from the @IvorsAcademy for the Ivor Novello Awards.🎶
£468 in tickets and hospitality from @swfc ⚽️
£3,377 in tickets and hospitality from @Google for the Glastonbury Festival. ⛺️
(Labour had promised to increase the digital service/corporation tax from 2% to 10%. The day after Glastonbury it ditched the policy altogether.)
£466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for the FA Cup Semi-Final.⚽️
£3,960 in tickets and hospitality from @bpi_music for the @BRITs 🎤
£450 in tickets and hospitality from @pnefc ⚽️
£1,390 in tickets and hospitality for the Summit of Minds Festival in the French alps. 🇫🇷
£9,006.35 from the Lowick Group Ltd.
£1,400 in tickets and hospitality from @EFL for Carabao Cup Final matches.⚽️
£315.50 in tickets and hospitality from the @BBC for Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool. 🕺
£7,000 from @UsdawUnion
£5,000 from Lord Matthew Oakeshott.
£466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for a Europa Cup match.⚽️
£315 in tickets and hospitality from Anschutz Entertainment for an Elton John concert. 🎶
With his £150,000 salary, expenses (£67,307.91+ claimed since 1/4/24), donations, his wife’s £41,000+ salary, allowances and perks, Jonathan has done very well in his fifteen years at Westminster.
On 9th July 2025 Jonathan voted for the Universal Credit/PIP cuts that will result in further hardship down the line for people who are disabled and vulnerable. Jonathan also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to pensioners 🥶 and initially voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK. Jonathan also voted to scrap trials by jury and voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs.
‘The Labour Party - Working For You’.
@UKLabour@jreynoldsMP@McrLabour #LabourDoorstep #LocalElections @RachelReevesMP
Let’s not forget that Jonathan Reynolds did not only fail to finish his Solicitor training, but having failed to qualify, he still described himself as a solicitor (which is a protected profession). Another example of a government minister lying and misleading the public.