Bernard McGuin

Ex-Almondbury Ward Councillor, Husband, Father, HTAFC Fan working with Almondbury Ward Cllr Candidate Robert McGuin

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Thank you to all Almondbury Ward Residents who voted to Re-Elect me. It is an honour again to be a visible full-time Councillor to serve all residents who live in the Almondbury Ward regardless of how you voted.

[Harry Horton @harry_horton]

Count underway in Kirklees. The council is currently in no overall control. Labour hoped they could win a majority - but early results make that look tricky.

Here's Almondbury's Conservative councillor Bernard McGuin @terrierfree. His majority was 60. Now it's more than 1,300:

[Robert McGuin 🇺🇦 @robmcguin]

Almondbury by-election, Thursday 13 August. Born in Huddersfield. 36 years in the area. Family in Almondbury Ward. Robert has spent years campaigning with his dad, EX Cllr Bernard McGuin, to save Tolson Museum. Join over 2,200 residents, sign the petition: https://t.co/jsyjpzWxuB

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

@ThatG4m Michael Owen

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

I would think he could make it easier if had parked nearer the kerb. But I suppose that wouldn't make a good video.

[Lewis Junior @Lewis_Juniorr]

This guy is amazing 💪

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

@footballhq He ate up the midfield... Literally

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

@JuliaHB1 This is for England so in theory you do not have to be a UK citizen to ztand in English local elections either.

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Interesting video about Rachel Reeves...

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Arshad Khatana has the most abhorrent and shocking views.

So why has Rachel Reeves been “friends” with this fanatic for over a decade?

Why, as Chancellor, is she going round his house for lunch?

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

No one could put it better Keir.

[Penny @phughes76340646]

@10DowningStreet
Please don’t share this you may upset the precious one

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Funny

[A Moving Target @A_Moving_Target]

@TRobinsonNewEra I'm sure this is just a coincidence.

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Well thought out arguments by @DanielJHannan show why the Labour bill should be strenously opposed.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Some basics about Chagos for BBC reporters, Sky anchors and others coming new to the debate.
1. The Chagos Islands lie half-way between Africa and Indonesia, and host a key Anglo-American military base on the main island, Diego Garcia
2. France ceded the archipelago to Britain in 1814 separately from Mauritius; the islands were always a distinct territory, though, lacking suitable facilities, their administration was sited in Mauritius
3. To put the issue beyond doubt, Mauritius permanently renounced any claim to the islands in 1965 in return for a cash payment from Britain
4. It eagerly trousered the money, its first post-independence PM, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, explaining that he had been glad to sell any theoretical right to “territory of which very few people knew, which is very far from here, and which we had never visited”
5. Mauritius is indeed 1337 miles from the islands, and began to press its claim again only when it grew closer to China in the early 2000s
6. The barrister it hired was Philippe Sands, a co-founder of Matrix Chambers and a close friend of Keir Starmer’s, who has always been cagey about what conversations they have had about Chagos
7. Far from providing a mandate for the deal, the Labour manifesto explicitly promised the opposite (see graphic)
8. Starmer justifies the surrender by pointing to a non-binding resolution by a UN court, which included a Russian and a Chinese judge, and whose jurisdiction had been expressly denied in disputes between Commonwealth or former Commonwealth states
9. In November, a different UN body issued another non-binding resolution, this one ordering the transfer to be halted, but Labour did not change direction
10. The party may have a guilty conscience, for it was Harold Wilson’s government that removed the 1800-odd inhabitants from the islands after 1968 to make room for the base
11. Chagossians, who now number around 10,000, do not see themselves as Mauritians and overwhelmingly oppose the transfer
12. British and American generals have expressed reservations about the deal, warning that a future Mauritian government might lease adjoining islands to unfriendly powers
13. The base has proved its strategic value many times, lying as it does lies within reach of four of the seven global choke points that funnel maritime traffic: the Bab-el-Mandeb, the Straits of Hormuz, the Malacca Straits and the Cape of Good Hope
14. Mauritius has no navy and admits it cannot protect the territory
15. At the same time, it wants commercial fishing in the matchless marine conservation zone around the islands
16. A Freedom of Information Request shows that the payments to Mauritius will total £34 billion
17. Mauritius says that this money will wipe out its national debt and still allow tax cuts
18. Opponents of the Bill want Chagossians themselves to decide the issue in a referendum
19. If the deal falls, Britain will be under a moral obligation to allow Chagossians to settle the outer atolls (see video in next post)
20. Providing for a permanent settlement will cost (on the government’s figures) one sixth or (on the actual figures) around one fiftieth as much as Labour wants to hand to Mauritius
21. The transfer cannot go ahead without both parliamentary ratification and the formal approval of the US, neither of which has been secured

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

This is what a Green Party vote means in the UK. Be careful what a "protest" vote could lead to.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Dear people of Britain,

This man…

- Wants more immigration
- Wants more asylum seekers
- Wants heroin & crack legalised
- Wants men in women’s spaces
- Wants to bankrupt us over Net Zero
- Wants to stop wars by politely asking
- Will scrap our nukes

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Tell the writer to go and study English Grammar.

[Liberal Tear Creator™ @LibTearCreator1]

Just found his on my car, what should I do?

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

All 20 but I am 67 yrs old

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

10 for me!!….I feel confident nobody
Has all 20!!

How many for you?

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

I waslooking for it : couldn't find it anywhere, so blew bubbles instead

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Well most did not say anything.

[annie @ohhanxiety]

Be honest

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

On any other ordinary day I would find the time. Tomorrow I will look for an opportunity.

[Esakhanzz @Bestmodefit]

No word starts with 'O ends with 'Y

Prove me wrong?

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Public relations

[Genius Tech @Geniustechw]

What do you think this guy does for a living?

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Millwall, Portsmouth, Norwich City, Ipswich Town, Aston Villa, Birmingham City: off the top of my head without looking at the League tables.

[Oladoja @_onlyscott]

Name a football club without letter "E"

Impossible

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

What an awful teacher. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't be an artist.

[Bernard McGuin @terrierfree]

Losing an election

[Val @TrumpsHurricane]

What was Kamala Harris’s BIGGEST accomplishment ??