It’s a strange thought.
What if the pawns on a chessboard actually knew their purpose?
To be moved.
To be sacrificed.
To protect the king at all costs.
Would they still agree to play?
Because that’s how Makerfield feels right now.
A constituency suddenly treated as politically valuable, not because of years of interest or investment, but because it suits a bigger strategy. An MP steps aside, a by-election is engineered, and local people become pieces in a national power game.
Democracy was supposed to give communities a voice.
Not turn them into pawns for political positioning.
The real question is this:
When politicians make their move, who are they really serving?
It’s a strange thought.
What if the pawns on a chessboard actually knew their purpose?
To be moved.
To be sacrificed.
To protect the king at all costs.
Would they still agree to play?
Because that’s how Makerfield feels right now.
A constituency suddenly treated as politically valuable, not because of years of interest or investment, but because it suits a bigger strategy. An MP steps aside, a by-election is engineered, and local people become pieces in a national power game.
Democracy was supposed to give communities a voice.
Not turn them into pawns for political positioning.
The real question is this:
When politicians make their move, who are they really serving?
It’s a strange thought.
What if the pawns on a chessboard actually knew their purpose?
To be moved.
To be sacrificed.
To protect the king at all costs.
Would they still agree to play?
Because that’s how Makerfield feels right now.
A constituency suddenly treated as politically valuable, not because of years of interest or investment, but because it suits a bigger strategy. An MP steps aside, a by-election is engineered, and local people become pieces in a national power game.
Democracy was supposed to give communities a voice.
Not turn them into pawns for political positioning.
The real question is this:
When politicians make their move, who are they really serving?
@RobKenyonReform@reformparty_uk
🚨NEW: Three teenage boys who filmed themselves raping two teenage girls in separate attacks in Fordingbridge have all been spared jail by judge Nicholas Rowland. They then sent the video around to multiple people.
Judge Nicholas said the boys were "very young, had low intelligence and had a limited understanding of consent."
One of the victims told the court "All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes."
She described how she felt “numb” and was shaking while the boys were “laughing and recording what happened” over the 90-minute ordeal.
Videos of the incident were later sent around and other people made jokes about the girl and she received messages calling her a "s**g."
https://t.co/ER5ojuCLqE
That bloke shouting at Rachel Reeves outside the petrol station was doing exactly what democracy demands.
Churchill said it straight in 1947: public opinion should shape, guide and control the actions of Ministers who are servants of the people, not their masters.
We don’t owe politicians polite silence when we’re furious about the results of their decisions. They work for us. If they forget that, a bit of raw feedback is the least they should expect.
That bloke shouting at Rachel Reeves outside the petrol station was doing exactly what democracy demands.
Churchill said it straight in 1947: public opinion should shape, guide and control the actions of Ministers who are servants of the people, not their masters.
We don’t owe politicians polite silence when we’re furious about the results of their decisions. They work for us. If they forget that, a bit of raw feedback is the least they should expect.
“Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time; but there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, continuously rule, and that public opinion, expressed by all constitutional means, should shape, guide, and control the actions of Ministers who are their servants and not their masters.”
Churchill 11th November 1947
Forget Andy Burnham, the true King of the North has risen in the unlikely form of a van driver, whose blend of heckling, rap and poetry left Rachel Reeves rattled and the internet in stitches.
Naturally, he has become an instant sensation.
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@reformparty_uk@GeorgeUK Congratulations Robert at being selected as the @reformparty_uk candidate for Makerfield!!!
We, the people, are all rooting for ya man!!!
@reformparty_uk@GeorgeUK I present the next MP for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon!!! A proper working class man. Not a charlatan like Burnham who is has never had a proper working class job in his life!!!