Andy French

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

322 Labour members of Parliament have nominated Andy Burnham for leader.

He will become PM unchallenged. This is still unacceptable right @DavidLammy?

We need a General Election NOW.

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

I’ll happily discuss Nigel Farage triggering a by-election.

Right after we’ve discussed Andy Burnham triggering an MP by-election and then a mayoral by-election.

I’m just trying to establish whether taxpayer-funded elections are always a scandal, or only when Nigel Farage is involved.

The hypocrisy is deafening.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨 I've listened to Andy Burnham's 10 year speech, where he looks Britain's new saviour in Zelenski uniform, bragging about what a success Greater Manchester is with my mouth open.

You would be forgiven for thinking Greater Manchester was close to perfect, an example to everyone of how his fantastic policies have worked.

Does he seriously think most of Greater Manchester is a success? or that he contributed to a shiny business sector, 2 world class football teams and the largest Uni in the country? because outside that...

▪️Nearly 1 in 4 GM neighbourhoods are in the most deprived 10% nationally.

▪️Half of GM’s local authority areas are among England’s 30 most deprived.

▪️Manchester city is ranked 4th most deprived English local authorities.

▪️In 2024, 16.2% of jobs in Greater Manchester workplaces paid below the real Living Wage = 193,000 low-paid jobs.

▪️Temporary accommodation is around 5,915 households, with 8,600 children in temporary accommodation.

▪️Around 12,700 long-term empty homes were identified across the city-region.

▪️4 of the 10 highest recorded crime local authorities in England are in Greater Manchester

▪️Educational achievements are below national average

▪️Manchester city area above national unemployment levels

▪️1 in 8 working age people get PIP, above the national average

▪️The GM area has a lower household disposable income than the national average

▪️34% increase in rough sleeping

▪️Violent crime and sexual offences are above the national average.

▪️grooming gangs? or is we still ignoring these?

▪️Drug-related death rates in Greater Manchester are significantly above the national average

Oh and now lets talk about debt. Bravo Andy... to achieve some of the highest deprivation in the country under his leadership, GMCA now has about £1.4 BILLION of gross debt and an underlying borrowing need of roughly £2.5 BILLION.

So his speech on "Hopes and dreams" is actually more like 'No hope and nightmares', his leafy suburbs and shiny city buildings can't really hide the truth.

You're welcome.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Welcome to 'Clarkson’s Government' 🤣

[Alan @A1an_M]

So...

We're not allowed to buy air conditioners for our houses to cool them in hot summer weather, because we don't have enough electricity to power them, because the solar panels and wind turbines we installed to stop the planet getting hot in summer, don't work when it's hot and windless in summer, so we'd need to burn gas, oil and coal instead to power the AC to cool our houses, but we blew up the oil, gas and coal power stations to stop the planet getting hot in summer, but it's still hot in summer.

But it's still ok to install heat pumps in winter, heat pumps which are also air conditioners and use the same amount of electricity or more, but we still won't have enough electricity to power them on cold, dark, windless winter evenings, because solar panels and wind turbines don't work then either, and we blew up the gas, oil and coal fired power stations because they were making the planet too hot in winter as well as summer.

Have I missed anything?

🙄🤡🌍

[(((Evs))) @Tory_Brexit69]

Remeber this, Labour had 402 MP's, and not one of them was good enough to replace Starmer.

They had to have a by-election by a Labour MP resigning, to get someone in to replace him.

Thats the quality of the MP's running the country.

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Angela Rayner says when a party has a new leader that we must have a General Election, i agree with Angela we must have a General Election now.

Is @AngelaRayner right?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Always a tweet

[Emily Hewertson 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @emilyhewertson]

“No mandate. Nobody voted for this.”

Your words, @AngelaRayner.

I assume you will be calling for a General Election once the new Labour leader is in place?

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

There’s always a tweet…

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Let’s hope @ShabanaMahmood calls for a General Election now.

[Georgina-Libbie @georginalibbie]

Apparently putting all the illegal migrants in hotels has saved the hotel industry..

Cool well let’s save the airline industry and send them all back home to the shitholes they came from.

[Alex Albon @alex_albon]

This weekend I make history with 96 race starts for Williams, the most in the team’s history, overtaking the legend that is Nigel Mansell. It’s a surreal feeling to have my name alongside some of the true greats of this sport and this iconic team.

Thank you, Nigel, for your kind words and for allowing me to race with your helmet this weekend a gesture I won’t forget.

Proud of this journey with Williams.

[Andy French @toolfrog69]

@ListerLawrence @JeremyClarkson I owned two GSi models, a ‘98 Estate and then a ‘02 saloon and for the day they were great cars. MSD did the factory conversions and there was a little numbered plaque under the bonnet 🤣

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

The A-Team saves the day.

[jake @jakelchambers]

I’ve been a fan of @KemiBadenoch for years, and in recent weeks it’s become increasingly clear.

She’s the strongest Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher.

Conviction, clarity, and fighting spirit.

We’d all be better off with her at the helm.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

The mask has finally slipped.

Labour's own minister, Pat McFadden, has said it out loud: who can we tax to pay benefits to others?

That's what many suspected from day one.

Higher taxes. Less reward for work.

The game is up. This government is finished.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Andy French @toolfrog69]

@almurray @James1940 @NavyWingsUK Just Awesome 😎