James Baroque

Baroque music, Harpsichord, Recorder, Flute and Viola, also Politics

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Good morning from North East Fife. An absolute belter of a morning here. Not a cloud in the sky. But it’s absolutely baltic here today. One week until the oil heating goes on. Jumpers on! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Dubz @DubhainZ]

@feli_campbell

[Caesar’s Mum 🧡🎗️ @LisaKni12114900]

@feli_campbell Burnham also authorised loans to his wife’s company which have never been repaid. He’s as corrupt as the rest of them.

[David Smith @David177220]

@feli_campbell Why do you think he has created No10 north .. It’s so he can keep an eye lid on all the dealings

[Peter Lawton @PeteLawton]

@feli_campbell Burnham’s corruption being exposed daily! The PM has dark secrets which show he has deceived the taxpayers of Manchester!

[Heather🌸 @SusanStOswald]

@feli_campbell I dont live in Manchester but when I heard that Burnham's wife was in charge of a Manchester EV charging company I thought it all sounded a bit iffy. Yes, she is obviously bright and experienced, but just too cosy for my liking! But it would appear that "cosy" is how Man works!

[Wilf The Bison @BisonWilf]

@feli_campbell Combined Authorities are designed for fraud, there is no real financial accountability by design.

[Marco Robinson @marcorobinson7]

@feli_campbell I know about this other scams including room for a night for the homeless where they would put 10 people in an Airbnb studio and charge £80 a night each … all between the property developers… scam central

[Brunhylde Lingus 💚🤍💜🇬🇧🇮🇱❌ @bunny_lingus]

@feli_campbell "human error" is the default defence of any Labour politician caught out in prima facie fraud.

[Democratic Power in Action @dpiaAvatar]

@feli_campbell Manchester is becoming the third world and its politics is following suit.

[ben rose @benrose1976]

Latest update:- today Manchester City Council refused again to publish what it agreed with Abu Dhabi about Central Retail Park. Clause 9 of the 2015 agreement is still blacked out, heading and all. MCC's letter and the agreements are here:-
https://t.co/iXAJoxXTfL
#ProjectCleanCity

[Highland loon @highla10413]

@feli_campbell Is this to be investigated or kicked into the long grass as was the "grooming gangs"

[ben rose @benrose1976]

Part of the same pattern:- https://t.co/huj9bo4dW6

Ashfield council paid over £1m in fees to a firm where the chief executive's son worked. The Government ordered an urgent best value assessment within days.

Manchester's public bodies paid £13.71m to the firm where Sir Howard Bernstein's son worked. Sir Howard was Manchester's council chief executive for 19 years.

No assessment for Manchester. Why the difference?

#ProjectCleanCity

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

Third part, worst one: https://t.co/JOSHrrT47x

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.

Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.

Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.

They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.

When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.

Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.

If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.

But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.

This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.

I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

It’s no coincidence that ‘Children in Need’ started in 1980, a year after Thatcher came to power...
...and since then we’ve seen more children in need every year and now in 2026 there’s more children in need than ever.
Maybe time to realise that ‘Children In Need’ doesn’t work🤷‍♂️

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

It was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils marked 'HB' for Helping Bear, 'BB' for Brave Bear and a ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on.
But Eeyore was saying, 'This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me.' ~A.A.Milne

[Sara @Sara_Nordic]

Natural hair, natural body, natural bush. Is that still attractive to you, or have tastes changed?

[Anthony Swain @awswain]

@dave43law Thatcher did not know about Saville at the time.
Starmer did when he decided not to prosecute him.

Kemi makes mincemeat of Burnham on a weekly basis now.