Strawman

Aim high, vote Lowe. Make party manifestos legally binding contracts.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Remember this?

Seventeen point four million of us do. We remember the stench of your panic as we dragged your bloated union to the ballot box and watched it bleed legitimacy. We remember the slack-jawed horror on your faces when the 'provinces' you treated as tax farms dared to reject their masters. Tantrums, threats, contempt all of it.

Enjoy the 'closer ties'.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

When you work for 45 years you pay up to 40% Income Tax on every single pound you earn

Then you pay 20% VAT on almost everything you buy with that already-taxed income

Then you finally pay off your mortgage, having paid thousands in interest and stamp duty along the way

Then you pass away & the government swoops in to slap a 40% Inheritance Tax on what you want to leave behind

And NOW they are tightening the rules on gifting & family farms, making it impossible to pass down security

And the money you worked your whole life to secure for your kids gets swallowed up by the state treasury anyway

Is this the biggest scam no one seems to be talking about?

[American Warrior for Christ @johnrackham82]

Ever wonder why no Arab country wants to take in Palestinians?

Because when Egypt did it, the Palestinians tried to overthrow the government and had to be expelled by the Egyptian military.

Because when Jordan did it, the Palestinians tried to overthrow the government and had to be expelled by the Jordanian military.

Because when Kuwait did it, the Palestinians tried to overthrow the government and had to be expelled by the Kuwaiti military.

That's why.

Please tell me again how Israel is the problem.

[BruceUnfiltered @BruceUnfiltered]

We've somehow ended up with an unelected Prime Minister from the very party that spent years hammering the Tories for doing exactly this, and now a convicted fraudster has been handed the number two job. If you want an honest, unfiltered take on how far British politics has fallen and what it says about the state of the nation, this one's for you.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Doing political commentary in Europe knowing that the government is actively out to get me and that I’m being targeted with mercenary spyware, forces me to weigh every word I say.

Not because I want to break the law, but because I know the law has been designed to break me.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Andy Burnham just promised to 'govern for all' outside Number 10. Here's what he didn't mention...

Andy Burnham is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Read that sentence again. Let it settle in your bones. The man who covered up the industrial-scale rape of 250,000 British children. The man who left a hospital where 1,200 people died without a public inquiry. The man who wasted £100 million of your money on abandoned schemes. The man who wants 10,000 more asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. The man who put terrorist-sympathising smear merchants in charge of Number 10.

This is not politics. This is the capture of a nation by a machine of betrayal. This is the complete file on how Andrew Murray Burnham failed his way to the top.

PART I: THE NHS BODY COUNT

Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Between 2005 and 2009, between 400 and 1,200 people died unnecessarily. Patients drank water from flower vases. They were left in soiled sheets. They died of thirst and neglect in a British hospital.

Andy Burnham became Health Secretary in June 2009. The families of the dead had one demand: a statutory public inquiry with full legal powers to compel witnesses and evidence. Burnham received 81 requests for this inquiry. He refused all 81. Instead, he appointed a limited independent inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC. Held in private. Without the power to force testimony. Without the power to demand documents.

This was not incompetence. This was strategy. A limited inquiry admits failure without exposing the full rot. Burnham could express regret without revealing responsibility. He could promise change without delivering justice.

The families called it what it was: a cover-up. Julie Bailey, whose mother died at Stafford, called Burnham "grossly unsuitable" for leadership. The inquiry he refused could have saved lives. He chose his career over their children.

But Mid Staffordshire was not the only body count on his watch.

Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. Mothers and babies died. The Care Quality Commission, the regulator, found catastrophic failures. Then something strange happened. Baroness Young, chair of the CQC, gave evidence that pressure to "tone down" criticism "peaked under" Burnham's tenure as Health Secretary. Professor Sir Brian Jarman accused Labour ministers of "suppressing" work exposing problems. He called the Department of Health "a denial machine."

The pattern repeats. The regulator pressured. The criticism suppressed. The bodies buried. The minister promoted.

Then Hinchingbrooke Hospital. The first fully privatised NHS hospital in Britain. The process began under Burnham's watch in March 2010. The shortlist drawn up on the eve of the election. The contract signed by the Coalition in 2011. The hospital returned to the NHS in 2015 after Circle Health pulled out. Burnham now attacks Conservative NHS privatisation. He started the process himself.

This is the Burnham Method. Adopt the popular position. Act contrary in power. Express regret when safe.

PART II: THE PROPERTY CORRUPTION

The Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund. £983 million of public money. The largest housing fund in the country. The promise: affordable homes for Mancunians. The reality: a feeding trough for developers.

Burnham's administration directed over £600 million to a single developer. Renaker. One company. Sixty percent of the entire fund. The £140 million loans were approved despite "inconsistent" viability reports. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority failed to obtain asset and liability statements from the developer. A report into these failures was suppressed for 13 months. The duty of candour was ignored.

Aubrey Weis, a wealthy landowner, challenged these loans in court. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled for the GMCA in 2025. The Court of Appeal heard the case in June 2026. Days before the Makerfield by-election that would make Burnham Prime Minister. The timing was not accidental. The corruption was not theoretical.

Then the donations. The 2026 campaign. £1,400 from Citybranch, a property developer. Burnham claims he never met the donor. The man who controlled £983 million in housing funds cannot remember meeting a property developer who gave him money.

The revolving door spins faster. James Purnell, Burnham's chief of staff in Number 10, was CEO of Flint Global. A lobbying firm. Clients include Huawei, Apple, BP, Amazon, Uber, Glencore. The man who advises the Prime Minister on policy spent years selling access to the same corporations. Transparency campaigners warned of conflicts of interest. Burnham appointed him anyway.

This is how it works. Public money flows to developers. Developers donate to campaigns. Campaigns win elections. Lobbyists write policy. The circle closes. You pay for it all.

PART III: THE RAPE COVER-UP

Operation Augusta. Manchester, 2003 to 2005. Police identified up to 100 men collecting girls from care homes like takeaway orders. At least 57 children in Manchester social services care, some as young as 12, were being gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured. Police had names. Police had addresses. Police had evidence.

The operation was shut down in 2005. Not because the danger passed. Not because the men stopped. Shut down because senior officers and Labour councillors were more afraid of "inflaming community tensions" than of protecting raped children. The perpetrators were predominantly Pakistani heritage Muslim men. The victims were white British girls. The decision was political. The children were abandoned.

Andy Burnham became Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017. He commissioned independent reviews into historic child sexual exploitation in Manchester, Oldham, and Rochdale. The reviews confirmed widespread organised abuse. The reviews confirmed institutional failure. The reviews delivered no justice.

In 2024, the reviewers Malcolm Newsom and Gary Ridgway resigned. They alleged that authorities were "lawyering up" and obstructing the investigation. The duty of candour was missing. The cover-up continued.

Maggie Oliver knows the truth. She was the detective who blew the whistle on the Rochdale scandal. She worked with Burnham's reviews. She called the Oldham review "nothing less than a cover-up." She accused Burnham of failing to "grasp the nettle" on current failures. She saw the pattern: admit past failures to protect the present.

The numbers are staggering. The Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry Report, published June 2026, crowdfunded by 20,000 people, documented 250,000 young white British girls abused since the 1950s across 149 local authorities. The methods were torture. Girls as young as 11 collected from schools. Drugged with alcohol. Passed between men like currency. Taken to "red rooms" for daily gang rape. Trafficked to Pakistan. Forced to convert to Islam and marry rapists to legitimise pregnancies. Called "white trash" and "kuffar" by their abusers. The rape was racial. The rape was religious. The rape was targeted.

The institutional collapse was total. Police called victims "prostitutes." Social services placed children in trafficking hubs. NHS recorded genital injuries in children then discharged them without safeguarding. Schools excluded victims instead of protecting them. Taxi licensing renewed permits for drivers who transported children to rape houses.

Burnham's response? He called critics "desperate." He dismissed Reform UK's allegations as "smears." He stood by his record. His record is 250,000 victims and no justice.

Then there is Bev Craig. Executive Member for Adult Social Care in Manchester from 2017 to 2021. While Burnham commissioned his reviews, Craig oversaw the same adult social services that the Lowe Report says undermined parents, placed children in trafficking hubs, closed cases despite clear exploitation indicators, called victims "prostitutes," offered contraception instead of protection. She knew where the bodies were buried because she helped bury them.

In December 2021, council leader Richard Leese stepped down after 25 years covering the Operation Augusta period. His chosen successor? Bev Craig. The woman who oversaw the failures became the leader. Then Burnham's Deputy Mayor for Economy. Then the Labour candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor in July 2026. The coronation complete. Burnham to Prime Minister. Craig to Mayor. The rape gang inquiry investigating their city while they seize national power.

PART IV: THE OPEN BORDERS BETRAYAL

"Open Borders Andy." "Open Borders Burnham." The Reform UK nickname that sticks because the record supports it.

The double game is simple. Tough talk for election cameras. Soft reality for policy. In 2024 and 2025, Burnham made sceptical noises about mass migration. He supported some of Shabana Mahmood's reforms. He talked about ending hotel accommodation. The Critic saw through it immediately: "Suspect on immigration." "Embraces state multiculturalism." The nickname fits the record better than the messaging.

The record is clear. Burnham opposed longer waits for permanent settlement. He backed attacks on Indefinite Leave to Remain reforms. He supported ending "no recourse to public funds" restrictions. He wants asylum seekers working while claims are processed. This creates a magnetic pull factor for illegal entry. Why risk the Channel when you can work legally while waiting?

Then the bombshell. Reform UK's Zia Yusuf revealed Burnham's plans. Direct relocation of more than 10,000 additional asylum seekers from overseas. Specifically high-arrival nationalities like Sudan and Eritrea. Reversal of delays on permanent status for the post-2021 "Boriswave" cohort. Potentially granting benefits and family sponsorship rights to hundreds of thousands at catastrophic fiscal cost.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority under Burnham spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on schemes helping migrants, including refugees, access housing, benefits, and services. Your taxes. Their priority. While British citizens sleep rough. While veterans wait for housing. While your grandmother waits for a hip replacement.

Nigel Farage has publicly blamed Burnham for the North West receiving a disproportionate share of asylum seekers. The "Open Borders Burnham" label is not rhetoric. It is description. The North West has cheaper housing costs. Long-standing Home Office policy places asylum seekers where rent is low. Burnham did not create the policy. But he did not fight it. He welcomed it. He built his "progressive" brand on it.

As Prime Minister, Burnham avoided immigration entirely in early speeches. He listens only to "insane open borders backbench MPs." Same soft policies. New face. Worse crisis. The borders remain open. The boats keep coming. The bill keeps rising. And Burnham is in Downing Street.

PART V: THE ISLAMIST SOFTNESS

Prevent. The UK's primary counter-terrorism safeguarding tool. The system that identifies vulnerable individuals at risk of radicalisation. The shield against Islamist terrorism.

In 2016, as Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham called Prevent "toxic." He compared the reporting duty to internment in Northern Ireland. He said it made Muslims feel spied upon and unfairly targeted. He argued it risked creating the conditions for extremism to flourish. He wanted it scrapped or overhauled. This is not criticism. This is dismantling the main tool against Islamist radicalisation.

Then MEND. Muslim Engagement and Development. A group later named by Communities Secretary Michael Gove as having an "Islamist orientation." MEND hosted speakers supporting physical punishment for Jews, gay people, and minority sects. The Labour Party cut ties with MEND. Burnham did not. He endorsed MEND campaigns. He spoke at MEND fringe events. He platformed the group while it spread extremism.

Then CAGE. The organisation that praised "Jihadi John." The group that defended individuals linked to extremism. In 2021, Burnham co-hosted an interfaith iftar with the Ramadan Tent Project. Keir Starmer had withdrawn from the same event due to the group's CEO backing CAGE. Burnham stayed. Burnham hosted. The Muslim vote matters more than counter-terrorism concerns.

The Manchester Arena bombing. 22 May 2017. Salman Abedi. Islamist terrorist. 22 dead. 1,017 injured. The worst terrorist attack in Britain since 7/7. Burnham's response? Community cohesion. Avoid "Islamophobia." Prioritise relations. Do not confront. Do not name. The "Islamist-appeasing" accusations stick because the pattern is clear: the Muslim vote over border control, community relations over confronting political Islam, cohesion over courage.

The grooming gangs connect here too. The 250,000 victims. The predominantly Pakistani heritage perpetrators. The honour/shame clan codes. The targeting of white British girls as "kuffar." Burnham commissioned weak reviews. He avoided statutory public inquiries. The Muslim voting blocs of Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale mattered more than raped children. The pattern repeats. The community protected. The victims abandoned.

PART VI: THE STATE CAPTURE

July 2026. Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister. His first appointments reveal everything.

Alison Phillips. Board member of Hope Not Hate Limited. The private company arm of Hope Not Hate. The same Hope Not Hate that faced Charity Commission investigations for political activity. The same Hope Not Hate that employed Liron Velleman, convicted of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. Phillips made Director of Transition in Burnham's Number 10. Her job: avoid the "early mistakes that befell Starmer."

Matthew McGregor. Former Director of Campaigns and Communications at Hope Not Hate. Made Director of Political Strategy in Burnham's Number 10. The man who ran smear campaigns now controls government political strategy.

Think about what this means. A man who ran Hope Not Hate's operations now controls the Prime Minister's political strategy. A woman who sat on Hope Not Hate's board while they faced regulatory investigations now controls the Prime Minister's transition. Anna Turley, former Hope Not Hate director, is already Labour Party Chair.

Hope Not Hate is not a charity. It is the continuation of Searchlight, a communist militant operation founded in 1964. It uses charitable status to launder taxpayer money into political warfare. It employs convicted child sex offenders. It uses blackmail, deception, and alleged drug supply to manufacture sources. It collaborates with the BBC to target political enemies. It spreads misinformation during civil unrest.

And now its operatives run the British government.

PART VII: THE METHOD

The Burnham Method is consistent across every scandal. Five steps. Recognisable. Repeatable.

Step One: Adopt the popular position. NHS defender. Civil liberties champion. Hillsborough campaigner. The man of the people.

Step Two: Act contrary when in power. Privatise NHS services. Implement ID cards. Suppress inquiries. Waste public money.

Step Three: Use limited inquiries. Avoid statutory public inquiries. Appoint friendly reviewers. Control the scope. Control the timing. Admit past failures to protect present power.

Step Four: Surround with lobbyists. Burson Marsteller. Flint Global. James Purnell. The revolving door spins. Access is sold. Policy is written.

Step Five: Express regret when safe. Years later. When politically convenient. When the damage is done. The apology tours begin.

The contradictions are stark. NHS defender who presided over mass death. Civil liberties champion who implemented ID cards. Anti-surveillance while voting for ID cards. Pro-union while appointing a chief of staff from a union-busting firm. Anti-privatisation while starting the Hinchingbrooke process. Pro-inquiry while voting against Iraq War investigations. Anti-war while voting for Iraq. Transparency while surrounded by non-transparent lobbyists. Man of the people while a career politician since age 24 with a Cambridge education.

PART VIII: THE MONEY

June 24, 2026. The day after the Makerfield by-election made Burnham Prime Minister. Two companies incorporated. Same day. Same address.

Office of Andy Burnham Ltd. Company number 17299283. Director: Andrew Murray Burnham. Correspondence address: 71 to 75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ.

Andy Burnham for Leader Ltd. Company number 17300460. Director: Andrew Murray Burnham. Correspondence address: 71 to 75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ.

Both verified by RAPID FORMATIONS LIMITED ACSP on June 19, 2026. Both active. Both controlled by the Prime Minister.

The funding tells the story. March to April 2026. £20,000 from trade unions. £10,000 from Fire Brigades Union. £5,000 from Communication Workers Union. £5,000 from Unison. The union paymasters. Then £1,400 from Citybranch, a property developer. The developer donor. The man who controlled £983 million in housing funds cannot remember meeting a property developer who gave him money.

The MPs' expenses scandal adds texture. The £215,000 London flat purchased in 2005, part-funded by taxpayer ACA claims. The IKEA receipt including a bathrobe, claimed as a "genuine oversight" and repaid. The spousal involvement. Marie France van Heel, his wife, "regularly in touch with fees office to negotiate claims." The June 2006 refusal when the fees office rejected covering both London and constituency mortgages as it breached rules. The 2010 leasing out of the flat when mortgage claims were banned, joking it was to avoid divorce.

The 2023 speeding conviction. 78mph in a 40mph zone. 95% over the limit. £1,984 fine. Six points. Rules for thee, not for me. The public safety champion endangering the public.

PART IX: THE FABIAN WOLF

The Burnham Method is not accidental. It is Fabian strategy, perfected over 140 years.

The Fabian Society was founded in 1884. Britain's oldest socialist think tank. The intellectual engine room of the Labour Party. Their strategy is "permeation" the slow, relentless infiltration of every lever of power until socialism becomes the default setting of British society. Not through revolution. Through a thousand quiet administrative changes. Laws. Regulations. Cultural shifts.

Their original coat of arms: A wolf in sheep's clothing. They have since changed it to a tortoise ("slow and steady progress") but the original symbol tells the truth.

Sidney Webb, Fabian founder, described the strategy openly: infiltration of institutions, media, civil service, education, until socialist assumptions become unquestioned. Every Labour Prime Minister has been Fabian or Fabian-aligned: MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Brown, Starmer. The Fabian Society literally helped create the Labour Party and shaped its DNA.

Andy Burnham is the latest vessel. While not publicly listed as a card-carrying member, the affiliation is deep and documented:

Contributed to Fabian publications: "Leading Labour: The Fabian Essays" (August 2015) alongside Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Kendall
Keynote speaker at Fabian events: Regular addresses on homelessness, mental health, and devolution
Fabian policy influence: The "Burnham approach" to devolution is explicitly praised in Fabian Society publications
Ideological alignment: Described as "soft left" the Fabian sweet spot between revolutionary socialism and Blairite neoliberalism
The Fabian Burnham Method explains everything. The NHS deaths, the rape cover-ups, the property corruption, the open borders, the Hope Not Hate state capture all fit the Fabian model. Not dramatic revolution. Quiet administrative betrayal. A thousand small failures that accumulate into catastrophe. The wolf eating the sheep while wearing its skin.

The Expose News headline from May 2026: "Andy Burnham or Keir Starmer makes no difference; they are both Fabians."

They are correct. The leader changes. The Fabian agenda endures. Burnham is Prime Minister now. The wolf is in Downing Street. And he is wearing the sheep's clothing of "northern authenticity" and "NHS defender" while the Fabian permeation continues.

THE CONCLUSION

Andy Burnham is not a politician. He is a catastrophe wearing a suit. He is the Fabian wolf in sheep's clothing. He is the man who covered up the rape of 250,000 British children. He is the man who left 1,200 NHS patients to die without a public inquiry. He is the man who wasted £100 million of your money on abandoned schemes. He is the man who wants 10,000 more asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. He is the man who called Prevent "toxic" while terrorists plotted. He is the man who put Hope Not Hate operatives in charge of Number 10. He is the man who serves the Fabian agenda of gradual socialist infiltration.

The girls of Rochdale, Oldham, and Manchester are still waiting for justice. The families of Mid Staffordshire are still waiting for answers. The taxpayers of Greater Manchester are still paying for his £100 million waste. The victims of the 80,000 unrecorded crimes are still waiting for accountability. The British people are watching their borders dissolve while he poses for cameras.

Burnham is not in Manchester anymore. He is in Downing Street. And he brought his record of failure with him. The Fabian wolf has entered the fold.

The question is not who Andy Burnham is. The question is: how long will you let him stay?

SOURCES

NHS Scandals and Deaths:

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (Francis Inquiry 2010)
Julie Bailey, Cure the NHS, statements on Burnham's "gross unsuitability"
Baroness Young evidence to CQC on pressure to "tone down" criticism
Professor Sir Brian Jarman statements on Department of Health as "denial machine"
Hinchingbrooke Hospital privatisation timeline (Department of Health 2010, Circle Health contract 2011, NHS return 2015)
Property Corruption and Renaker:

Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling (2025) and Court of Appeal hearing (June 2026)
Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund documentation (£983 million total)
Electoral Commission donation records: Citybranch £1,400 (2026)
James Purnell appointment and Flint Global client list (Huawei, Apple, BP, Amazon, Uber, Glencore)
Rape Cover-Up and Grooming Gangs:

Operation Augusta police files (2003-2005)
Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry Report (June 2026, 219 pages, crowdfunded £600,000)
Maggie Oliver whistleblower statements to Times Radio and The Telegraph ("cover-up," "failed to grasp the nettle")
Malcolm Newsom and Gary Ridgway resignation from Burnham's reviews (2024)
Bev Craig career timeline: Executive Member for Adult Social Care (2017-2021), Council Leader (December 2021), Deputy Mayor (2021-2026), Labour candidate for Mayor (July 2026)
Open Borders and Immigration:

The Critic, May 2026: "Andy Burnham's immigration double game"
Reform UK and Zia Yusuf statements on 10,000 additional asylum seekers and reversal of permanent status delays
Nigel Farage statements on "Open Borders Burnham" and North West asylum dispersal
Burnham support for asylum seeker work rights and ending "no recourse to public funds"
Islamist Softness and Prevent:

Andy Burnham 2016 statements as Shadow Home Secretary calling Prevent "toxic" and comparing to internment
Michael Gove House of Commons statement on MEND "Islamist orientation"
Burnham MEND fringe event attendance and endorsement records
Ramadan Tent Project iftar 2021 and Keir Starmer withdrawal
Manchester Arena bombing inquiry and Burnham "community cohesion" response
Hope Not Hate State Capture:

Companies House: Office of Andy Burnham Ltd (17299283) and Andy Burnham for Leader Ltd (17300460), incorporated 24 June 2026
Alison Phillips appointment as Director of Transition, Burnham Number 10
Matthew McGregor appointment as Director of Political Strategy, Burnham Number 10
Anna Turley Labour Party Chair and former Hope Not Hate director
Charity Commission investigations into Hope Not Hate (2024, 2025)
Liron Velleman conviction (January 2026) for attempted sexual communication with a child
Fabian Society Connection:

Fabian Society: "Leading Labour: The Fabian Essays" (August 2015)
Fabian Society publications praising "The Burnham approach" to devolution
The Expose News, May 2026: "Andy Burnham or Keir Starmer makes no difference; they are both Fabians"
Sidney Webb "permeation" strategy documentation
Fabian Society coat of arms history (wolf in sheep's clothing)
Personal Corruption and Expenses:

MPs' expenses scandal documentation (Telegraph 2009): bathrobe, spousal involvement, £215,000 flat
Companies House: Leigh BPT Limited (08786493), dissolved, Burnham director 2013-2016
Speeding conviction 2023: 78mph in 40mph zone, £1,984 fine, 6 points
Electoral Commission: trade union donations 2026 (Fire Brigades Union £10,000, Communication Workers Union £5,000, Unison £5,000)

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Do I have any sympathy for Rachel Reeves? After what she knowingly inflicted on millions of farmers, small business owners, hard working British men and women?

No. I have no sympathy, whatsoever. Zero.

She is responsible for so much unnecessary pain. The embarrassment she is feeling today doesn’t even scratch the surface of the shame and hardship millions of Brits have endured directly because of her incompetence.

Bankrupt businesses, livelihoods destroyed, so many sleepless nights, laying off decent colleagues, family companies closed after decades in business? Directly thanks to Rachel Reeves.

She’s not fit to be a parish councillor, never mind chancellor.

Her talents would be better suited to mindless admin in a dead-end HR department.

Too many times I have sat in the chamber listening to her talk ‘business’, and it is genuinely terrifying that she was ever in charge of our economy. I couldn't care less that she's a woman or that she cried in Parliament.

She is incompetent.

What a sorry judgement Rachel Reeves is on British politics in 2026.

I look forward to the day when individuals of her talent find their correct level in a genuinely capitalist society - cleaning other people’s shoes.

What I would give for a Chancellor with actual business experience - employed people, built businesses, generated opportunities. Done something.

That is exactly who a Restore Britain Government will deliver.

[Watchman @watchman_raw]

This is not entertainment. This is real Britain. This is urgent‼️

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

This is damning. Read it all. Burnham is a deeply cynical and shifty individual. Truly a nasty piece of work. He doesn't belong in Parliament, let alone Downing Street.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Rachel, you boasted about being the first woman Chancellor and you have been appalling.

The sheer stupidity of your Budget caused thousands of businesses to close, hundreds of thousands of jobs to be lost.

The interest repayment on our debt rocketed because you were criminally useless and the markets knew you didn’t dare cut public services.

You have let down your sex and damaged Britain.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

LOL - this is unravelling even faster than I thought possible. Fucking clowns.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

When you look past the two tier judiciary, the cost of living increases, the diminished relationship with the US, David Lammy, the failure to implement the Supreme Court ruling on women only spaces, the restarting of the trial of puberty blockers, the closure of 100 private schools, siding with Hamas, the murders of Wayne Broadhurst, Henry Nowak,Rhiannon Whyte, the hosepipe bans, the pissing rain, the appointment of Peter Mandelson, the Chagos Islands surrender, the battle to bring an Egyptian terrorist to the UK and give him citizenship, the prosecution of veterans, the bombing of UK sovereign territory in Cyprus with no response, closure of our last blast furnace, youth unemployment that would shame a Spaniard, the Chinese Embassy being hooked up to MI6s servers, twenty Ministerial resignations, the return of James Corden from the US, Mrs Browns Boys recommissioned, the a303 remaining unwidened, the tax take hitting a record high and still borrowing grew, a third of our electricity coming from foreigners, GB Energy, taxing farmers to suicide, rape gangs being replenished in every town and city, apart from that Lewis it has felt we've just lived through a golden age. You pillock.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Er … remember when remote control of your heating was a “conspiracy theory”?

Well now it’s government policy.

By the end of 2027, licensed companies will be able to remotely reduce or shift heat-pump heating to “balance the grid”.
And the infrastructure is being built into the system.

(Don’t worry you won’t HAVE to use it, except if the government decides it’s and ‘emergency’)

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This speech by @marcorubio mostly flew under the radar, which is really unfortunate.

Take the time to listen. This is Churchillian, this is Reaganesque. Our future is bright, America! #48?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Usual obfuscatory nonsense from BoJo. Here are the actual legal net migration stats for the relevant years:
2019: +184,000 (pre-pandemic)
2020: +93,000 (so almost 100k despite pandemic restrictions)
2021: +467,000 (post-pandemic bounce)
2022: +891,000 (now he’s lost control of the numbers)
2023: +848,000 (his successors fail to get control of what he left behind)
2024: +331,000 (falling at last — but still about 150,000 pre-pandemic 20199)
And that, mes enfants, is the Boris Wave.

[David Starkey @DrDStarkeyCBE]

And there we have it. Tomorrow Andy Burnham will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, having blazed a singular trail to No. 10 that avoided ever having to defend, let alone stand on the Labour manifesto of the 2024 general election.

Already, the total unfitness of the man for high office is beginning to be noticed, with a particularly striking online meme comparing his cringe-Dad antics to those of David Brent. Just how quickly his twee and cloying bonhomie falls apart on contact with the realities of political power we'll find out from next week.

For my guest this week, @michaelmurph_y , Burnham is an even more dangerous figure to put in charge of the country than Sir Keir Starmer. The two represent either side of the same coin: while Starmer's dour legalism represented the underlying mechanics of the British state in all its brute force (the man was never more at home than when clamping down furiously on dissenting speech), Burnham is the smiling, matey facade that that state presents to the public; the tie-less, "call me Andy" school teacher who sits on a chair backwards to explain how he "gets it".

But while Starmer included in his team some people who did recognise the priorities of the British working class, for example Morgan McSweeney, Burnham has swept to power on the back of the worst instincts of the already spectacularly inept Parliamentary Labour Party; a gang of charity-sector charlatans so clueless about the real world that they'd be more at home in a playschool.

We must prepare for a very rough couple of years with this man at the helm. The world is rapidly becoming more dangerous, Britain is exposed and our enemies know it. The one possible silver lining we can take is that when Andy Burnham fails, perhaps the public will finally realise that that failure will not just be his own, but the failure of the entire Labour Party.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Absolutely ludicrous & unsustainable, this must change asap.

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

So is the British media really going to ignore a major speech by Trump on Thursday ?!

Not only did he list off a plethora of achievements us British could only dream of ....

Record investment
Huge jump in employment
Inflation - largest decline in six years
Tax cuts in the great big beautiful bill
No tax on tips or overtime or welfare for seniors
Stock markets booming
Used to pay highest price for prescription drugs in the world and now the lowest - drug prices coming down 70/80%
Every child in America has access to tax free investment accounts

Borders are completely secured - zero illegal migrants

Crimes in cities at lowest crates since 1900s

Record investment in armed forces

Rebuilding trust in elections

BUT ..... ‼️👇🏼‼️👇🏼‼️
He talked about China and their direct involvement in American politics and corrupting elections , media and politicians ‼️ something I've suspected with our own country and I wish proper investigations would be looked into.

Are the British press really going to ignore this?!

BBC
sky
Channel 4

Seriously?!

Trump is cleaning up America - whilst the U.K. are in the Biden years and in rapid major decline

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Mr Starmer,

You say you have made Britain a better place. I beg to differ, let’s have a look at how you have made Britain better shall we?

▪️tried to cancel elections
▪️arrested 12,000 ppl a year for posts
▪️300,000 businesses closed
▪️125,000 increase in unemployment
▪️Unemployment up to 4.9%
▪️Vacancies at lowest level since 2021
▪️Borrowing higher than forecast
▪️Inflation rose again after falling
▪️NHS waiting list still over 7 million
▪️Record Channel crossings
▪️Heat pump rollout stalled
▪️AI data centres priority grid connections
▪️Offshored emissions
▪️increased subsidies to wind farms
▪️Lied to Trump about free speech
▪️27 More quangos and regulators
▪️Expanded facial recognition policing
▪️Online Safety Act censorship
▪️operation scatter of illegal migrants
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake £22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️£500 million to foreign farmers
▪️£3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed £8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️gave Peter Mandelson a job
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave £millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave £50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave £500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️ Anti Muslim blasphemy law
▪️stabbing up
▪️Called ordinary people far right racists
▪️Rapists allowed out of prison early
▪️tried to cancel most jury trials
▪️digital ID by stealth
▪️gave £148 MILLION to Pakistan in aid
▪️added to Labour peers in HoL
▪️over ride local planning for solar farms
▪️Hired Mandelson as US Ambassador

So er …. I’m struggling to see what’s better for the average working person paying your salary.

Good luck in your new job at the UN.

We see you 🔥

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

1. Transfer the tens of billions earmarked for net zero to defence and supply chain resilience, to create a major industrial/defence sector, thereby creating skilled jobs in UK, rather than China (as net zero does)
2. Radical tough love welfare reform to get 1m people of working age into work, thereby cutting the welfare bill and increasing the tax base. Coupled with massive expansion of German-class STEM skill apprenticeships.
3. Radical reform of planning laws to stop nimbys/greens from thwarting every major infrastructure development. Put judges/courts in their place when it comes to such matters.
4. Put rocket boosters under high-speed rail link between Leeds-Manchester-Liverpool. Brook no opposition/delay.
5. Unleash North Sea oil/gas + slash energy bills by removing all green levies. New breed of gas-fired and smaller nuke generating stations.
Much more to suggest. But this should be good for starters.