I read the reports coming out of Manchester this morning and I am genuinely speechless.
Andy Burnham’s old political machine has just been caught secretly intercepting and censoring emails sent by the public to elected politicians.
What were those emails actually about? A resident was asking hard questions about the £55 million in taxpayer loans Burnham handed to Abu Dhabi property developers when he was Mayor, with zero affordable housing requirements.
Instead of letting elected councillors read the concerns of their constituents, unelected bureaucrats quietly diverted the emails straight to the legal department to be buried.
The politicians had absolutely no idea their personal inboxes were being filtered by the state.
The council claims they had to intercept the messages because of potential litigation. It is a complete lie.
Internal correspondence proves the city solicitor asked for this specific resident to be blocked months before any legal threat even existed.
You vote for local representatives to hold the system accountable. But the second a citizen asks where Burnham sent public money in a Gulf state property deal, his political syndicate builds a secret digital firewall to protect the investment.
This is not a functioning democracy. This is a captured corporate cartel running a cover-up for the Prime Minister, and the national media is letting them get away with it in broad daylight.
@LucyTCWife She is the reason I’m voting reform!! She’s said if Nigel gets in she’s going to India ! I’ll pay for her flight and chauffeur to the airport !
@DeborahMeaden Deborah ! I’m
Shooketh by a lot of your tweets! For someone I admire when it comes to backing labour I’m
Befuddled ! It’s a shit show and the leader is a fraud ! Please stop backing it !
The evidence from Olly Robbins is devastating to Keir Starmer.
It is clear that No10 not only made the appointment before vetting was completed, but that Mandelson was already acting as the Ambassador before the vetting - even seeing highly classified documents.
With this, and the 'constant pressure' No10 applied to the appointment and their 'dismissive attitude' to vetting Mandelson, it is now absolutely clear that 'full due process' was not followed.
Keir Starmer has misled the House.
@Iromg@Keir_Starmer Spent last month in Australia, talk of every uber taxi driver (bizarrely all Australians) was what’s happening in your country! That PM you have seems to hate your country ! They all think theirs is bad but Starmer makes him look like a hero !