Given the current debate around co-option to the @niassembly it would seem pertinent to remind everyone of who has leveraged the mechanism the most.
Those who are shouting about removing co-option have deployed it 50 times.
For the avoidance of doubt that is
Sinn Fein
SDLP
Alliance
Perhaps @NewsLetter_Pols@News_Letter@BelTel@irish_news
Could incorporate these facts into their reporting.
The full picture is always better rather than selective outrage.
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'Migrant Street', Stoke Heath, Shropshire.
Brand new houses. Promised to local families as social housing.
Left empty for a year.
Then handed to asylum seekers while 1.34 MILLION households rot on the waiting list.
This is my force area. I policed it. And I am furious. 🧵
@RupertMyers I think it all kicked off over the new housing development where all the home were being given to immigrants. Average house price was 250k.
Bad pr so they had to be seen to be doing something.
@GusLogie1971@allianceparty Question @AdamPollock given there are circa 20 working weeks left for the assembly before the next election, what is the likelihood of this being passed in the current session?
@FightHypocrisy1@PaulGosling1 Paul hasn’t figured out that didn’t immigrate by moving from Leicester to stroke city.
So grasping the concept of democracy is well beyond his capabilities.
Convicted child abusers Jeffrey and Eleanor Donaldson were inspired to become born again Christians by a paedophile.
https://t.co/3g0WktPmW9
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There are economies in the world which basically work: high income, sky-high social capital, world-class education, efficient services, low crime, high happiness, clean streets, functional everything. At least two of them, Hong Kong and Singapore, were British creations, back when we still had sane and competent politicians and bureaucrats instead of a captured civil service that ditched numeracy in the Treasury for diversity quotas.
That was the promise of Brexit: ditch the straitjacket, cut taxes, restore sovereignty, and become the Singapore of the Atlantic. Low tax, high trust, open but orderly, ambitious on the world stage. The so-called smart people sneered it was impossible, stupid, even dangerous. Instead they offered us Manchesterism.
WTF?
As if any sentient person on Earth wakes up thinking, “Yes, Manchester, that’s the glittering future I want for my children.” No one believes this. Not even the most committed Labourites in private. It’s garbage politics: the globalist endgame dressed up as progress, wheeling yet another mid-range, mid-competent, thoroughly biddable satrap onto the stage. It is genuinely humiliating. Brezhnev, for all his senility and stagnation, had more tangible accomplishments than Burnham.
Look at the record. Finances? Not healthy by any serious high-income standard. A £1 billion-plus budget now, yes, after central tweaks, but saddled with £1.6 billion in debt (up sharply), persistent gaps, heavy social care pressures, and reliance on reserves or central props.
Health? Life expectancy and healthy years lag the national average with grotesque deprivation gaps, higher preventable mortality, obesity, and services stretched to breaking.
Crime? Elevated violent and knife rates in known hotspots — Moss Side, Longsight, parts of Salford — creating patchwork safety: fine in the centre by day, avoid certain estates at night.
Youth? Rising NEETs and gang pipelines where opportunity died.
Native housing? Priced-out locals renting into middle age while home ownership slips away.
Happiness and life satisfaction? Dragged down by the lot of it, lower in the North West than in more cohesive places.
We invented better models once. Brexit was the chance to revive that competence and ambition. Instead, the “smart” people gave us Manchesterism: mid-tier outcomes, strained services, visible decay, and lectures on net zero while the basics creak.
It humiliates a nation that once exported order and prosperity. We could have been serious again. We still can if we reject this midwit self-fart sniffing managerialism and remember what we once built.
Can people stop giving this obvious monetised ragebait account attention? I doubt whoever runs it is even a muslim. It's just there to post provocative shit under every political thread in order to farm clicks. Block it.
We can’t fund our own defences but we can spunk £23m on a terrorist-aligned group whose enclave has been flooded with more aid than it is humanly possible to consume.
I know this because I have sat in Kiryat Gat and seen truck after truck enter Gaza with my own eyes.