Linda Cummings

Head of domestic management, miniature sculptor & disillusioned with modern day brainwashing.

[Linda Cummings @linsminis]

nickname38802889: As of this week, it seems that Durham High School is also very suddenly closing. Galaxy Global will not answer any email or communication from school or concerned parents. The headmistress has been absent from the school for 8 weeks w... https://t.co/NlNmlamPPW

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Sir John Major makes the essential point. Parents who send children to private school save the state money.

Labour’s tax on them has failed. Now the state has 2,000 fewer teachers than when Conservatives left office.

So we will reverse this futile, vindictive policy.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In yet another Orwellian move, the Government announced in a green paper this week that it wants to decide what news people can and cannot see, with plans to push approved outlets to the top of social media feeds.

Ministers should not be deciding which news sources the public read — especially in an era when three-quarters of under-25s say they get their news from social media.

As written in The Times, “In a state-sponsored ­regime in which inconvenient news was pushed out of view, would the grooming gangs scandal or the excesses of transgender ideology ever have come to light? You shouldn’t choose to trust ­everything you read online; but you shouldn’t trust the state to make the choice for you, either”.

This is dystopian.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.

Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.

A missed opportunity?

https://t.co/7WTmw8RXCV

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Madness. Putting solar panels over car parks, as is required in France, makes every kind of sense. It generates clean power, provides shade to the cars, and protects countryside from solar farms. But the Government has inexplicably rejected it.

https://t.co/TbfDeoV1UF

[Linda Cummings @linsminis]

Why is UK allowing Chinese co Galaxy Global to buy up our independent schools to asset strip them & close them down? Durham High School is their latest scalp. So many kids education disrupted

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Nobody voted for this. We need a General Election!

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Can someone explain to me who chose Andy Burnham to be British Prime Minister? He wasn’t even an MP. He was given a seat and being crowned immediately as PM. This is absolute proof that the electorate are of zero relevance in this country. Anyone who still believes Britain is a democracy is extremely naive.

[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.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

We were right all along…😁

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Green fields filled with cattle should instead be used to grow oilseeds and lentils, according to a new ‘Farming Roadmap’.

Utter nonsense.

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

- Miserable pipsqueak
- A demented Dalek on speed
- A foetus in a jar
These are just a fraction of the insults directed at @michaelgove by @UKLabour and its activists during his time as Education Secretary. All this pearl-clutching from Labour MPs in relation to @KemiBadenoch's row with @bphillipsonMP is pathetic. They need to get over themselves. @bphillipsonMP's class war has caused school closures, cost people their jobs and messed up the education of countless children, many of them with special needs. She deserves to be called out for it. 'Spiteful class warrior' is the least of it.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

If Bridget Phillipson doesn’t like being called a spiteful class warrior she should stop behaving like one. She thinks she can ruin people’s lives and avoid criticism because she was born on a council estate. Plenty of people born on council estates turn out much better than her.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’ll be glad to see the back of Lord Hermer.

He has resurrected the Chagos deal & determined to give it away.

He signed off the prosecution for Lucy Connolly.

Compared political opponents to Nazis for wanting to leave the ECHR.

Hounded brave British veterans.

Odious man.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

What Labour MPs like Bridget Phillipson fail to understand is that I could not care less about her upbringing and being raised by a single mom. All irrelevant.

The policies she has enacted have been destructive for millions across the country.

The latter is what I care about.

[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.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

What you did was cruel & vindictive. For what? Most private schools opened up their facilities to local, often rural, often lacking, communities. Those have gone along with all the jobs lost & the friends of those turfed out of their schools because normal families could no longer afford the increased fees.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Well said!

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

WELL DONE MILLIBAND JUST WONDERFUL!
Over a thousand wind turbines across Britain contain banned ASBESTOS in brake parts supplied by Chinese manufacturers .
The chrysotile asbestos banned in Britain since 1999 was found in lift and hoist brakes . A major and very expensive ( paid by the taxpayer ) clean up operation is now underway with costs expected to be substantial .
Not forgetting if any of those brake pads broke and the asbestos got into the ground the fibres don't break down they would stay in the soil for a longtime making the land contaminated meaning it couldn't be disturbed with digging or grown on . Dangerous stuff if airborne
The GMB union is demanding full details from the government .

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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