Gizzmo

Live, Love, Laugh and be Happy

[Kenneth Leitch @LeitchKenn47185]

@UNGeneva @antonioguterres It's a scam.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Could you ask your Labour colleagues who sent their kids to independent schools, why they did so. Could you ask the others, who can afford to avoid sink State schools by buying expensive homes near good state schools, why they did so.
Could you ask yourself why no other European country taxes education.
And could you then give your head a rattle: parents who elect to pay tens of thousands of pounds to educate their kids shouldn’t be demonised, but celebrated. They save the State the trouble of educating their kids, while still paying taxes as if the State was picking up the tab. Your vindictive VAT rise has closed more than 100 private schools, some centuries old. There is nothing noble about your self-justifying ideological vandalism.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🇪🇸 Meanwhile on the Beach in Barcelona

The Spanish Government saw this and thought - another 800,000 African Male Migrants will improve this scene.

You witnessing the collapse of Europe in real time.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This is the shocking moment an 80-year-old woman was deliberately blocked on the stairs at a Tube station by a man who refused to move, despite her clearly needing the handrail for support.

The woman calmly explained that she wanted to get up the stairs, but instead of showing basic decency, the man continued filming and told her not to touch him. It was obvious as well she needed to hold on to the handrail for support as well which makes it even more disgusting behaviour from this cretin.

When he smugly told her to “go round,” she replied: “I can’t.”

He snapped back: “You can, you’ve got legs.”

When she told him she was 80 years old, his cold response was simply: “So?”

Just let that sink in.

What has happened to basic manners, respect, and common decency in this country?

There was once a time when people were taught to respect their elders, help those less able, and show simple courtesy without hesitation.

Now you have to ask, have we lost that completely.

What’s your reaction to this story?

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Watch as this vile POS films and humiliates an 80yr old English lady trying to use the handrail at a railway station.

Anyone know the original uploader?

This could be your mum, nan!

Find him and make him infamous!

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

Call me a racist but I don’t want to live with these people. They are not good enough to live in my country. We import the Third World and become the Third World.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨Holy Sh*t! Elon Musk just retweeted the entire Citizen Vigilante movie after Britain and Germany de facto banned it!

The movie shows the reality of Europe and Muslim grooming gangs that are deleted by a white vigilante fed up with the rape of the continent and the politicians who allow it.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Appalling behaviour. What’s happened to the UK?

A man decided to film himself blocking an elderly woman from using the handrail on a set of stairs at a Train station because he was “relaxing”

I was brought up to respect my elders. What happened to that?

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..
You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.

As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.

You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.
When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.
This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.

When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.

He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.

At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.

Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment

[ANDY PUBLIC U.K @Andypublicuk]

If you “sue” the Police then this is what they will do to you..👮‍♀️😳😳

We believe you may be carrying a “knife”

Nottingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I am pulled up by Armed Police today in Nottingham on reports that I am carrying a “knife” but it’s funny that it’s the same firearms officer who I have an ongoing civil claim against ….also why aren’t they drawing their weapons if that’s the case? It all stinks from the start!
@GBNEWS @nottspolice

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨Holy Cow! The UK government just got caught hiding twelve new migrant centres.

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle furious at Labour for keeping MPs in the dark.

They can’t keep doing this in secret.
Britain is being transformed against the people’s will.

End the betrayal.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

He's a nasty piece of work and I deeply dislike him

But fundamentally, Lord Hermer is a bad lawyer

If he genuinely believes Chagos must be given away then I would disbar him for incompetence.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

5 invaders beat a 17yr old French boy to death and filmed the whole thing.

If it wasn't for 𝕏, you wouldn't even know it happened.

It's constant, and you'll only see it here.

This is why the powers that be attack Elon.

The world is watching.

Justice for Louis.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

This is Alexis Boon, Chief Constable of Hampshire police.

His officers took EIGHT MINUTES before they checked Henry Nowak for stab wounds.

Why? Because they thought he said something racist.

This man is not fit to wear the uniform.
He needs to be sacked in disgrace.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Exactly right. The Peter Principle has rarely had a more fitting subject.

For those who don't know: the principle states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. Burnham managed a regional transport network that remains twenty two years behind London. He presided over a housing fund that delivered less than five percent affordable homes. He broke a homelessness pledge within a year of making it. He scrapped a flagship clean air scheme after burning through £115 million. He left a flooding problem unresolved for a decade. And he is now seeking to implement that record nationally.

The country is not being offered a competent administrator with a proven track record. It is being offered the same administrator whose track record is documented above, rebranded as a Prime Minister in waiting, on the basis that he is not Keir Starmer.

Not Starmer is not a qualification. It is an absence of one.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Manchester Model. What It Actually Looks Like Up Close.

Andy Burnham is asking the country to trust him with Downing Street on the strength of what he calls the Manchester Model. Eight years of integrated public services and progressive governance that he says Britain should adopt nationally. Before the country decides, it should know what that model actually produced.

Start with the money.

£578 million in public money was lent by Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes. Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to the GMCA when seeking loans and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking exemption from affordable homes requirements. The Court of Appeal is considering judgment on whether the loans were lawful.

Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Whitaker's personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. The luxury towers were marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings.

Now the transparency.

In April 2026 the Information Commissioner issued a practice recommendation to the GMCA for failing to publish Freedom of Information compliance statistics. Greater Manchester Police, under Burnham's authority as Police and Crime Commissioner, was separately issued with an ICO enforcement notice for 850 overdue FOI requests, more than 800 over six months old. The oldest had been waiting two and a half years.

Now the transport flagship.

The Bee Network has absorbed a £30 council tax precept increase in two years to subsidise its operation. The £115 million Clean Air Zone was scrapped after £211 million in public funds was received and only £22.5 million returned. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains twenty two years behind London. The board of Be.EV, the company holding the Bee Network's public EV charging contract, includes Burnham's wife, who joined the company six years into his mayoralty and was appointed to the board as his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible.

Now the promises.

Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping by 2020. Rough sleeping rose. Today 18,000 people across Greater Manchester have no permanent address. He promised Platt Bridge a flood solution by 2018. The area flooded in 2015, 2021 and on New Year's Day 2025. The projected solution is now 2028. When asked on Question Time why he would not apologise, he said it was before his time. He became Mayor in 2017. The promise was made in 2018.

Now the politics.

Labour's candidate to replace Burnham as Mayor is Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, the body that accepted Renaker's low profit figures and granted the affordable homes exemption. The mayoral by-election on 30 July will be fought under the supplementary vote system rushed through the Lords two days before Burnham's Makerfield victory, designed to consolidate left of centre second preferences and lock out Reform.

108 Labour councillors lost their seats in Greater Manchester in May's local elections. The region Burnham governed for eight years delivered the most devastating local election result in Labour's history.

This is the Manchester Model. These are its documented facts. The country is being asked to implement it nationally. It should read the small print first.

Bev Craig. Labour's candidate to replace Burnham. Leader of the council that granted Renaker's affordable homes exemption.

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

Andy Burnham not even warmed the seat in Parliament & already its come out he gave his wife a 4 million contract for EV vehicles.

How much more corruption do we have to put up with?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Eminent Historian David Starkey says….

“He thinks the UK is at the stage of the equivalent of Charles the first or the reign of James the second”

“We are a state which has turned against its people, a state which has become the principal danger to the survival of the nation.”

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Climate has been utterly hijacked by enraged and misleading media sensationalism.

The world may be getting warmer in places, cooler in others - but its also getting greener. The expansion of plant life and global agriculture confirms it—exactly what we should expect to see in the fertile stages of a late interglacial warm period.

Local variations across regional climate zones worldwide are part of Earth’s natural variability, not symbols of a runaway crisis. Yet, you wouldn't know it. The media has become a babbling talkfest machine, droning on with messages of doom.

Look at the visuals they feed us: media headlines overlaying background maps smeared with blood reds and bright oranges, look at this image of France. Every report screams extreme. No wonder the public is tuning out.

The core science has a more balanced story. For example, rising CO₂ does not mean soaring temperatures. As mapped in this image, atmospheric CO₂ is strictly logarithmic. Each additional molecule has less impact than the one before it—a reality the scientific community itself acknowledges in its core equations. It means every doubling of CO₂ delivers a constantly diminishing increment of energy.

There are dangers along the way. CO₂ plunged to near-asphyxiation levels of 190 ppm during the Last Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago—dangerously close to the 150 ppm floor where plant life dies.

Nature itself restored the biosphere—and we are seeing that inbuilt resilience in action once again.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Mayor. The Contract. The Wife. The Questions Andy Burnham Has Never Been Asked.

Andy Burnham spent eight years as Mayor of Greater Manchester championing the Bee Network, his flagship public transport project combining buses, trams and electric vehicle infrastructure under a single integrated system. He has described it repeatedly as the model for how Britain should run its public services. He is now seeking to become Prime Minister and implement that model nationally.

His wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it.

Marie-France van Heel, known as Frankie, is a director of Be.EV, the Manchester based electric vehicle charging network backed by Octopus Energy Generation. Be.EV holds a contract with Transport for Greater Manchester, the body that delivers Burnham's transport policies, to operate and maintain TfGM's public EV charging network. That contract was awarded in 2019. The terms of the arrangement are not secret. Burnham declares his wife's role in his register of mayoral interests. He formally steps back from decisions relating to her firm. Those are the facts of compliance. They are not the end of the story.

It is worth noting what the Bee Network actually delivers in practice. Bus patronage is up and fares have been simplified. But passenger reviews consistently describe ghost buses, unreliable timetables and school services that were horrifically late following the January 2025 rollout. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains an estimated twenty two years behind London. The model he is proposing to implement nationally still needs years of improvement to reach the standard he has promised.

But the timeline is where the questions begin. Frankie joined Be.EV as chief marketing officer in July 2023, six years into Burnham's mayoralty and with the Bee Network already his flagship policy achievement. She became chief customer officer in July 2024 and was appointed to the board of directors in September 2024, as Burnham's mayoralty entered its final phase and his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible. She did not join a company that happened to hold a public contract. She joined a company whose entire commercial proposition in Greater Manchester rested on a contract with the authority her husband chaired, in a policy area he had personally championed for six years. Her role deepened as his power grew. That is the timeline. Draw your own conclusions.

This sits alongside a pattern documented across multiple stories. £578 million in public money lent to developer Daren Whitaker of Renaker, whose personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. A tribunal finding that adequate due diligence was not conducted before that lending. Luxury towers built with public money marketed to Chinese investors in Hong Kong. A confidential bilingual letter praising China's Covid response sent to the Mayor of Tianjin. A Court of Appeal hearing on £140 million of those loans with judgment reserved. And now a board directorship held by Burnham's wife at a company whose public contract flows from the transport authority he chaired.

Each element has an explanation. Interests are declared. Processes are followed. Steps are taken back. That is the language of compliance. It is not the language of scrutiny. And it is scrutiny, not compliance, that the office of Prime Minister demands.

Burnham is no longer Mayor. He is an MP and a declared leadership challenger seeking the highest office in the land. The question is not whether he followed the rules. The question is whether the full picture of his eight year mayoralty, who benefited, and under what circumstances, has ever been examined with the rigour that entails.

It has not. It should be. The public deserves to know before he reaches Downing Street, not after.

"[Burnham's] wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it."