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Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post.

Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree.

Now is the time to fix our democracy.

Sign the open letter: https://t.co/EP9Qme1n3K

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

There is no point in international football if you are more interested in how your hair looks than trying to win for the country you are playing for.

No one needs reminding of the last time England won anything on a football pitch and who won it for us.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

In a minute I shall get up and walk to get breakfast at a local cafe. I shall sit and watch an endless stream of women walk past the window. Those women will be fully clad in a burqa. One after another after another. Every now and then, I’ll see a woman walk by without a burqa but wearing a headscarf. Out of the few hundred that walk by in an hour, there may be one percent white British walk past. After that, I shall get on a double decker bus. It will be full of non British people who can’t speak a word of English. There are usually about two or three white people on the bus, out of sixty or so people. I will then get off the bus and onto the London Underground. This will be full of non white non English speaking people. I will then get off and walk down a London street and see maybe ten percent white people. In the whole day, I will have been in a minority of between one percent and ten percent. I’ll then mention this on here and be told I’m a complete racist and I haven’t seen this. Told I’m talking complete rubbish and that didn’t happen. I should be burnt at the stake for even saying such lies. Well, I’m telling you that’s what I’ll see today, because it’s what I see every single day in London. My photo of a typical day in London for reference. Tube station sign is written in the local language. There is one in English but very few here will understand that.

[Sarah White @sarahwhitetruth]

So let me get this straight. Two men managed to take nearly one million pounds of taxpayers’ money by falsely claiming to run a childcare nursery in Manchester between 2020 and 2023. I genuinely do not believe they would be capable of wiring a plug, yet somehow they were able to rinse the system for that amount of money.

And people still want to pretend the system works.

[Deport Foreign Criminals @peterstopcrime]

We've all heard of Stephen Lawrence. His name has been mentioned in parliament over 2,000 times by over 500 Lords, Ladies and MPs.
How many of the women and girls in the pic (it’s not even anywhere near a complete list), all of whom were murdered by first and second-generation immigrants since Stephen died, can you name?
Almost all of them have NEVER been mentioned in parliament.

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Another Rochdale Rape Gang Trial Goes Wrong

Another grooming gang trial in Greater Manchester has collapsed. Once again, the explanation offered to the public is two words. Legal reasons.

On 11 December, inside Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, a jury that had been hearing evidence for weeks was suddenly dismissed. Six men stood accused of raping and exploiting vulnerable schoolgirls in Rochdale in the early 2000s.

The prosecution had already opened its case. Recorded police interviews had been played. Witnesses had been called. And then, without warning, Judge Matthew Corbett-Jones told the jurors they were being discharged.

No further explanation. No transparency. No accountability. Just two words that have become the calling card of Greater Manchester's grooming gang failures. Legal reasons.

For those who have watched this region's handling of these cases for two decades, those words are depressingly familiar. They signal not just the collapse of a trial, but the collapse of public confidence in a system that repeatedly protects itself while abandoning victims.
This latest case should have been a moment of long-delayed justice. Instead, it became another reminder of how deep the institutional rot runs.

The Era of Abandoned Children
The six defendants;
Tahir Rashid,
Mohammed Saleem,
Sucklane Shah,
Itfaq Hussain,
Arshad Mohammed,
Amjad Mahmood

Faced allegations involving two teenage schoolgirls between 2003 and 2006, with additional charges dating back to the late 1980s. All denied wrongdoing.

These alleged offences occurred when Greater Manchester Police and local councils were already receiving reports of organised child sexual exploitation in Rochdale. This was the era in which children were dismissed as making choices, officers were told not to pursue so-called lifestyle victims, and institutions that would later become synonymous with the grooming scandal.

Decades later, those abandoned children stepped into court as adults, facing their alleged abusers, believing the justice system would finally hear them. One complainant, Girl C, told police she was 14 when defendant Tahir Rashid gave her vodka and raped her. She described missing school, taking drugs, spending time around the local snooker hall where predators circle vulnerable children the moment they know no one will protect them.

In court, Girl C faced the ordeal that awaits every grooming gang victim. Defence barristers systematically attacked her credibility, suggesting her account was a "figment of your imagination" and that she had "got it completely wrong" about the identity of her alleged attackers. When told her testimony was "simply not true", she repeatedly responded with quiet determination. "It's true." "We did." "No, there was."

For weeks, she endured the ritualised dismantling of her credibility that characterises these trials. She stood firm against lawyers paid to portray her as confused, mistaken, or lying. And then, with no explanation offered to her or the public, it all stopped.

The picture could not be clearer. Prosecutors said the two schoolgirls were "easy prey", targeted because they were already lost in the cracks the authorities had created. And then, mid-trial, everything stopped.

A System Built to Fail
When a judge halts a trial mid-course and dismisses a jury, it is never trivial. It almost always means evidence has been mishandled, disclosure failures have compromised fairness, or a legal argument has exposed fatal flaws in case preparation. A single undisclosed document can collapse a case that took victims decades to gather the courage to report.

But this collapse is not an anomaly. It is part of a long, painful pattern that defines Greater Manchester's approach to grooming gang cases. Operation Augusta collapsed because of withheld evidence and ignored children. The Oldham Assurance Review revealed victims known to services, yet no action was taken, and intelligence was ignored, lost or buried.

Even the Mayor's inquiries was forced to publish evidence of repeated that police error, poor record-keeping, and flawed investigations that undermined cases long before they reached a courtroom.

Operation Lytton, the force's long-running investigation into historic exploitation in Rochdale that encompasses this trial, is itself a response to these historical failings. The same failings that allowed exploitation to continue unchecked from the 1990s through the 2000s.

The phrase "for legal reasons" has become a legal curtain used to hide the mess behind it. Each investigation ends with the same two conclusions. The children told the truth, and the authorities did not act on it.

This is the context in which this trial collapsed. Not a clean, self-contained legal process, but the continuation of decades-long failure that keeps resurfacing because the root causes were never addressed.

What Collapsed Trials Really Achieve
A retrial will likely be scheduled. The victims will be asked to give evidence again. They will relive their trauma and wait yet again for justice that keeps slipping away.

Collapsed trials achieve one thing. Police failures stay buried. Disclosure problems remain undisclosed. Mismanaged investigations are never examined in public. Officers responsible for mistakes are shielded from scrutiny. No politician has to answer difficult questions. The public is expected to accept the official line.

Officials will frame this as an isolated misfortune. But the people of Rochdale, Oldham, and wider Greater Manchester know better. They have lived through children dismissed as unreliable, social workers begging police to take action, intelligence "mislaid" or never acted upon, and a system that looked the other way.

When a judge halts a trial that has been running since October, it does not feel like an isolated legal event. It feels like institutional rot seeping upwards from decades-old decisions.

The Questions Nobody Wants Asked
This collapse raises a question the system does not want asked. What went wrong this time? Was it evidence mishandled? Was it disclosure failures again? Was a key file missing, incomplete, or flawed? Was new material discovered too late? Was something uncovered that, if aired publicly, would embarrass GMP or the CPS?

These are not wild speculations. They are the precise failures recorded in every previous inquiry into grooming gang cases in Greater Manchester. The public is not unreasonable for asking whether those same failures have just derailed another trial.

History teaches us that when authorities suppress the truth, it is almost always to protect themselves.

The Human Cost of Institutional Failure
For the victims, the consequences are not abstract. A collapsed trial means they must return to court, relive their trauma, and endure months more uncertainty with their healing suspended in limbo. For them, this is not about "legal reasons". It is about whether justice will ever come at all.

Rochdale has already endured the shame of being told that its children were failed by those meant to protect them. This collapse reinforces a belief now deeply rooted in the community. The system will always protect itself before it protects children.

Every collapsed grooming gang trial leaves behind a silence. A gap where the truth should be. A void filled with official language designed to deflect scrutiny and maintain control.

How many more victims must come forward, how many more trials must collapse, before the British state confronts the truth it has spent decades avoiding?
If the system will not tell the truth, the public will drag it into the light.

I am Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs.

I cannot do this without you. I need you to stand with me. We’re running out of time. Without the numbers, they will win. It’s as simple as that.

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[Nigel A Swain 🇬🇧 @polanskiswain]

@TRobinsonNewEra Smashed it. Seems to be a theme.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

🚨Breaking News🚨

Brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, Muhammad Amaad, 26, five minutes ago have pleaded not guilty to the charges put in front of them at Liverpool Crown Court.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

It’s Lent and this is a Christian country. You wankers.

[Lilly inLondon @Lillyin_London]

@jomickane If it is true that he attacked Harvey the week before it’s even worse

[joy loving @lovjoyful]

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes https://t.co/ofHxf7DwQk

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Welcome to Keir Starmer’s Britain. This is unfair, it's wrong and only Reform will end it.

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

If a referendum was held tomorrow, would you vote to close the borders?

YES OR NO?

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@Furiosa24 So correct!!

[Deport Foreign Criminals @peterstopcrime]

2015 Imran Khan, 34 Grabbed a six year old child off the street and threw her in the boot of his car. Drove her a few miles away, made her play with his cock ( SIX YEARS OLD) and then dumped her in a wheelie bin, luckily she got out and found help!

Now what makes this story Crazier is he’s been done for it before, The registered sex offender was convicted in 2008 of abducting a 12-year-old girl in a car and sexually assaulting her. Khan, from Accrington, was jailed for nine years and released in 2013, said police

Sex offenders don’t learn, can’t be cured, Death, Deport or Prison are the only options that actually protect people.

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[Deport Foreign Criminals @peterstopcrime]

She hasn’t been here long but long enough to know how to rip off our benefits system and long enough to own a house outright

MUSAMMAT BEGUM,
The 24-year-old, who spoke through a
Bengali interpreter, claimed
Jobseekers' Allowance while failing to declare that she owned a house which she rented out.

You can just look at her and know she’s on the weekly marches

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If you want to see a change please give us a follow, give us a retweet , you’re not following a person or a political party, the only aim Atm is to get foreign criminals deported

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Support gives us the green light for action

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Mongol Rally: Crossing Europe, Turkey, and Russia's Sort of Terrifying Border https://t.co/HqHEjhXMaL via @globotreks

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Gorgeous Timo !! 💙