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[Police Scotland Edinburgh @PSOSEdinburgh]

Road Policing officers are appealing for information following a serious crash in Edinburgh on Thursday, 11 June, 2026.

More here - https://t.co/J8BHzKJn0y

[Frau Blüchar @FrauBluchar]

Male politician urges Scotland's seat of democracy to break the law. If you can't see what's wrong with that, we're all doomed.

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@heraldscotland Oh do fuck off you grifting weirdo.

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@akuareindorf @cathydevine56 @EmilyThornberry It always strikes me that politicians who turn off replies when they post, are obviously aware that they have no sound argument to their position. Pathetic!

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

“New rules” @EmilyThornberry?

It’s statutory guidance. Surely you know the status of statutory guidance? Surely you understand it’s not law? And that if it’s blocked the law will simply remain the law? Incredible if not.

[Keswick boot co @keswickbootco]

Our good friends at cunningams would love your help in making this SHOP LIFTER famous ⚠️

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@salltweets @WomenAreReals What a farce!

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

EXCL @GBNEWS: Small boat migrant grooming gang child abuser Sharam Muhamadi is tonight on the run after he absconded during his trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

The Iranian was convicted today of facilitating the travel of Barnsley girls who were abused by an Iraqi migrant.

[@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc]

@MonicaLennon7 also doesn't meet the 40% of conveners must be women as passed in the last parliament

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@Fyrishsunset Big mortgage?

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@alexmassie @markthehibby I’m honestly having trouble keeping up with their lies!

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@joannaccherry @AudreySuffolk @CommonsWEC Depressing, yet predictable!

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@Fyrishsunset @clarechalmers5 Confirming, yet again, her narcissism.

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@Keir_Starmer What is your government going to DO about it?

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

This unqualified bore says his secondhand opinions are “not up for debate.” Yes they are. At a university all opinions are up for debate. If you cannot defend your opinions rationally, either they are indefensible or you are too stupid to defend them. In either case you have no right to force them on students who have expressed their wish to attend a lecture by doing so.
https://t.co/2HqOx6x2TP

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@bbcnews any reporting on this by you?

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Burnham Promised Affordable Homes. He Built Luxury Towers For Chinese Investors

Before Andy Burnham stood for Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017 he was explicit about what he would do with the region's housing investment fund. He criticised public loans for city centre and luxury schemes. He promised to renegotiate the fund so it would fully focus on the long term goal of an affordable home for all. Here is what he actually did.

Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority lent £578 million in public money to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. In March 2024 Burnham chaired a meeting that approved £120 million in loans to Renaker companies in the space of one minute. Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Since 2020 Whitaker's personal fortune has grown from £140 million to an estimated £698 million, making him one of the wealthiest individuals in the North West. He briefly registered his residency in Monaco before switching it back to Britain.

A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending him the money, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. Whitaker also received a £40 million dividend payout despite restrictions in the original loan agreement. The GMCA would not say whether it knew about or approved those payments. The terms of the loans remain secret. A Court of Appeal hearing on £140 million of those loans is scheduled for June 9. Nine days before the Makerfield by-election.

The China dimension is where the story connects to something considerably larger. The taxpayer backed developments were actively marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. A marketing event was held in Hong Kong just weeks before the GMCA approved a £69 million loan for the Contour development. Hundreds of flats in taxpayer backed skyscrapers have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings.

Angela Rayner, then Deputy Prime Minister, was simultaneously telling the Telegraph that it was a real frustration that international investors could buy up houses before local people get a look in. Her government's mayor in Manchester was lending public money to a developer marketing those same homes to Chinese buy to let investors in Hong Kong. Labour was pledging a stamp duty surcharge on overseas landlords while its most prominent northern mayor was facilitating exactly the investment it claimed to oppose.

For Makerfield voters the question is direct. The constituency sits within a region where 18,000 people have no permanent address and one in 61 Manchester residents is homeless. The man asking them to send him to Westminster promised in 2017 to focus public money on affordable homes for all. He then lent £578 million to a developer who built luxury towers now owned by Chinese landlords, extracted dividend payments despite loan restrictions, and left taxpayers exposed without conducting adequate financial checks.

For Britain as a whole the question is broader. The pattern of accommodating Chinese financial interests runs from the super embassy in London to the spy trial collapse to Mandelson's undisclosed relationship with China's finance minister. The Renaker story adds a further dimension. Public money, lent without adequate due diligence, flowing into luxury developments marketed directly to Chinese investors, by the mayor now seeking to become Prime Minister.

The Court of Appeal will hear the case on June 9. The voters of Makerfield deliver their verdict on June 18. Both deserve an honest answer.

"Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority lent £578 million in public money to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker."

[rantingredhead @rantingredhead1]

@DownWithTheSNP I reckon having a great hulking tranny for a dad is going to impact his sons life way more than which loo the wee one uses!

[Jo Marshall @JoFMarshall]

Q Manivannan, as an elected MSP for Edinburgh & Lothians East, is meant to represent all constituents, including the many Scottish women with legitimate concerns about sex-based rights.
Yet liking a protest post declaring ‘No TERFs’ sends a clear message: gender-critical women,those defending single-sex spaces, fair sports, child safeguarding, and biological reality, are not welcome.
Once again, women in Scotland are marginalised, criticised and ignored. This isn’t progressive; it’s regressive exclusion dressed up as kindness. It sidelines half the population’s concerns in the name of ‘inclusion.’
Scottish women have every right to speak up without being told they’re bigots for wanting safety and fairness. MSPs should foster open debate, not signal that dissenting women belong outside the conversation.

[Lisa Mackenzie @lnmackenzie1]

@bt_uk Utterly shambolic customer service at your hands. Trying to help a very elderly medically vulnerable customer whose land line and broadband have been cancelled. Hours and hours spent on the phone to no avail. Next stop complaint to the regulator and seeking media coverage.