@PSwansborough Who said those people would have voted for you anyway? There’s a reason people are voting for Restore and not you. You’re shit. It’s your own backpedaling and betraying your voter base that has pushed people away.
Stop having tantrums. Sort yourself out.
Labour rushes through mayoral voting changes to block Reform
There’s never been such a morally corrupt Government as this one.
Labour tried to postpone local elections to avoid losing. Now they are fiddling the voting system in Manchester.
Shameful https://t.co/YpTCutjurK
If Vladimir Putin changed the voting system days before an election to stop his opponents winning, every British journalist would call it what it is: rigging the rules.
Tonight, Labour rammed through a last‑minute switch in the Lords so that if Andy Burnham wins Makerfield and quits as Greater Manchester Mayor, his replacement won’t be chosen on a simple first‑past‑the‑post ballot, but on the supplementary vote system instead.
Why now?
Because Labour knows the race to replace Burnham would be a straight two‑horse fight with Reform UK – and under FPTP, the candidate with the most votes wins, no second chances, no back‑room redistributions, no “stop Reform” stitch‑ups.
Under SV, Labour gets a second bite of the cherry: if their candidate can limp into the top two, they can hoover up second preferences from every other party and magic a “majority” on the second count, even if Reform tops the poll on first preferences.
This isn’t “modernising democracy”. It’s the governing party using its Commons majority and the unelected Lords to hurriedly doctor the rules of one specific contest because it’s terrified the voters might choose someone else.
When the establishment preached to the world about “rules‑based order”, they forgot to mention one thing: in Britain, the rules are “based” on whether Labour thinks it might lose.
When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did.
There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night.
Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down.
The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.
Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed.
The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access.
Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes.
This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway.
Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.
Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession.
The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that.
"Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."
Remember when Australia said the quiet part out loud!
free speech will have to go, in order to protect multiculturalism.
Now look at the UK, same direction.
Oh…
When I was 9 or 10 I was sent to the corner shop with my cousins for eggs and rolls.
Our mums told us to keep the change and get a sweet.
Shop owner short changed us considerably.
We protested.
He got violent, manhandled us out of the shop.
We shouted “rip off” and “thief”, then left.
He knocked on my auntie’s door the next day.
Said I called him a “paki bastard” and that he was hurt and offended by this.
She told my mum.
I absolutely categorically did not say this and told my mum that I didn’t.
“The man said you did”
This was the start of the summer holidays, I was grounded for the entire holiday, not allowed to leave the house.
He lied.
I’ve never forgotten.
He was a Pakistani Muslim, which I knew because I knew his son and daughter.
I could never ever understand why he lied.
Still don’t.
I was punished for being “racist” when I didn’t even know the meaning of racism at that age.
False accusations of racism are worse than racism in my opinion.
In my case, I had to spend the summer indoors,
In Henry Nowak’s case, he died a brutal, preventable death.
Spain now has almost 10m immigrants.
Nearly 20% of the population.
And dirty Sánchez has decided to fast track another 500,000.
Only @vox_es can save Spain.
ARRIVA bus in London today. Driver has his Keffiyeh scarf showcased in the driver seat window.
@TfL - Is he permitted to do this?
I'm certain an English driver would be disciplined for displaying a St. George Cross 🏴 or Union Jack in this manner.
Police “Twist” handcuffs to cause more Pain to 17 year old boy 😳👮♀️😡
Sheffield 🏴
The 17 year old boy who hit his head on a metal bollard after being “violently” arrested is on the ground explaining he is in a lot of Pain after hitting his head…an officer “Twists” his handcuffs to cause more pain and tells him to “relax” this is police brutality 😡
#police @TRobinsonNewEra@syptweet
🇬🇧 Meanwhile in the UK
After importing millions of South Asians whose culture is to simply dump rubbish anywhere everywhere…
Scientists & Experts remain completely baffled as to the 17,641% rise in Fly Tipping across the beautiful English countryside.
Evil is not a red-faced devil with horns.
Evil is a liberal woman laughing at the idea of little white girls being raped by foreigners.
This is the face of evil.
🚨🇮🇪 NEWS: A court in Ireland has heard how after a migrant named Riad Bouchaker stabbed multiple toddlers outside a nursery in Dublin, a group of local women formed a protective circle to keep him safe from furious parents
UNBELIEVABLE. Your entire life sold to a billionaire and you never got a vote. DIGITAL ID. Blair brokered it, the King read it out like a shopping list, and 2.96 million of you signed a petition begging them not to. They read it, smiled, and did it anyway.
Here’s this COCKY IDIOT, smirking down the camera, telling you it's only what he was elected to do. The sheer NERVE.
They tried to force this in 2006 and the country threw it back. So they got clever. You don't force a leash on a country, you call it child safety and let them clip it on themselves. Optional, they say. Until the bank needs it. Until the job needs it. Until you can't buy milk without it. Optional the way a cliff edge is optional.
Embedded so deep that pulling it out takes the whole system down. Surviving every election. Every Prime Minister. Every one of you who never agreed to a word of it.
That's not a service. It's a LEASH. Heavy surveillance with a friendly logo, built to watch you, price you, and switch you off the second you say the wrong thing. Once it turns, it never turns back.
Now watch him smirk through it. FIVE times he stood there and said it's not possible. FIVE. Like a parrot that learned one phrase and mistook it for genius, reciting his greatest hits to a country that stopped clapping months ago, taking a bow in an empty theatre.
Wrong every time, he sneers. No, sunshine. Wrong about the boats. The bills. The borders. The only thing he's right about is how much he adores the sound of his own voice telling you he's right.
Watch what he's smirking THROUGH. The most despised Prime Minister this country has ever recorded. Ministers bolting for the door. MPs begging him to leave. A man waist deep in his own wreckage, straightening his tie for the cameras.
He was elected to serve this country. Not gift-wrap your private life and post it to the highest bidder who filled Blair's pockets fastest.
A landslide, he calls it. Won on barely a third of the vote, the emptiest mandate in living memory, worn like a crown God lowered onto his head.
Biggest NHS drop in 17 years, he beams. For ONE month. While 7.3 million still rot on the list.
Highest growth in the G7, he says. For ONE quarter. The next month it shrank. Funny how he forgot that bit.
Then everything he left off the brochure. TEN things not one of you voted for. Not one in his manifesto.
Winter fuel torn off ten million pensioners. Biggest tax raid since 1993. The thresholds Reeves swore she'd never freeze, frozen. Energy bills up after he promised cuts. The family farm tax. WASPI women promised the earth, handed a shrug. Grooming inquiry sat on six months. Post offices for the chop. Chagos given away.
And the tenth, buried deepest. Digital ID, held up behind the children like a human shield, because who argues with protecting kids. Then they vote to come for your VPN, the one tool that let you slip the net, and bolt the last door behind you.
Here's the punchline that should make your blood boil. Australia tried this exact ban. Months later the children strolled straight through it. It didn't protect ONE child. It was never built to. The children were never the point. The contract was.
Blair gets richer. Ellison gets richer. Then they plug it into Europe so the same machine prints money across a continent. Every regime that ever pulled this used the same excuse. China. Russia. North Korea. Protect the people. Then own them.
The children were never the target. They were the costume. You were never protected. You were harvested, and told to say thank you.
So watch him smirk and call it a mandate. It was never a mandate. It's the biggest robbery in plain sight this country has ever seen, dressed up as the will of the people and sold back to you as kindness.
Once it turns, it never turns back.
I had an elderly friend coming. Him and his wife were harassed, shoved and pushed around by this feral mob and the police did absolutely nothing to help.
The whole plan was to make sure people couldn’t attend the debate.
It was like the police did a deal with the protesters.
🚨BREAKING: England fans, joined by some Americans, chanted "Keir Starmer's a wanker" at the World Cup against Croatia, despite threats from the FA
They waited until the end of game in additional time to avoid getting removed.
They speak for England! F*ck leftism. 🏴
🚨 Listen very carefully to what Tony Blair and Larry Ellison of Oracle are telling you.
Everything about you will be centralised as data, run by AI, from your genome to your behaviour. You will be watched & monitored constantly.
The Panopticon is being built without consent. And when it’s built they won’t need to bother asking you anything anymore.
Why do you really think they need those data centres 🚨