The dumbest thing I did was be a 'good boy' for my entire working life: work hard and pay my taxes. 45 years of being systematically and arbitrarily robbed by criminals, some wearing blue ties, some wearing red, and even some sporting a splash of yellow.
I now struggle to pay my bills in retirement and I am still being fleeced via tax by the same clowns.
Meanwhile, these crooks choose to send cash abroad, squander it on insane initiatives such as 'net zero' and DEI, pay themselves tidy expenses, fund wars, and welcome with open arms anyone illegally entering the country, people they are happy to spend billions of pounds on whilst simultaneously making those of us who paid a fair whack into the system, struggle.
People often ask me why I don't vote any more ... and I think it should be fairly obvious. None of these 'senior politicians', across all parties, have any interest in the wellbeing of the common man or woman. They are only interested in their own self-promotion and pressing ahead with whatever harebrained agendas they support whilst in power.
It's only the window dressing that changes ... what awaits in the shop is always the same bullshit that shafts the good, honest folk of this country.
Andy Burnham just handed £350m of taxpayer money to a housebuilder that reported a £30m loss weeks ago, whose shares have crashed over 70% from their 2024 peak, and whose own suppliers are having credit insurance pulled because insurers don't trust the balance sheet.
That's not "boosting affordable housing."
That's socialising the risk of a company the market has already marked down as troubled.
If Vistry were healthy, it wouldn't need £350m turning up right as its finance chief has quit and its CEO is mid-overhaul.
Ask yourself: would you invest your own money in a firm insurers are fleeing?
Because that's effectively what's just happened with yours.
Remember when they sold us the slogan, “Go paperless, save trees, save the planet”? Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.
A beautiful little girl taken from her family by a female illegal immigrant in 2020.
No-one rioted, no-one protested.
Thank you for remembering Emily @AlanRobert90231
She would have turned 13 this year.
Heartbreaking.
Hi @andyburnham we pay £60 a month for Sky Sports and TNT Sports, yet that still only gives us access to 70% of the games.
Meanwhile, fans in Singapore pay £25 a month and can watch every single match.
This is the English league, yet English fans are paying more and getting less. Surely that can’t be right.
Please can you look into this and make the coverage fairer for fans in England?
We shouldn’t have to pay a premium just to watch our own league. No wonder many fans buy dodgy firesticks!
To put it into perspective, during the Bosnian war, it was reported that 20,000-50,000 women were raped.
The UN considered it mass rape as well as a genocide.
More rapes happened in Britain in a single year and we are expected to ignore it whilst we are gaslit about it.
Fuck the Metropole hotel in Blackpool
It has had migrants in there for 5 years but is now open to paying residents again after being paid by the Home office for 5 years to house rapists, murderers and thieves
Boycott this place, don’t give them a penny….. let it rot
I’m furious about this.
Jess Phillips has admitted she pretended to be sick so she didn’t have to answer questions in Parliament about Peter Mandelson and his Epstein links.
A sitting MP, paid by us, pulled a sickie to avoid telling the truth… and then laughed about it on stage.
These people do NOT work for us. They work for each other.
Apparently the government can’t interfere in individual cases such as PC Harper killers.
Well let me tell you, Andy. There was plenty of government interference whilst I was banged up.
Maybe ask your mate Yvette Cooper about her meeting with the prison governor at HMP Peterborough on the 24th July last year?
That according to her didn’t happen!!
She was happy to interfere in my case.
Maybe you could ask your pals why my childcare ROTL application was blocked from the off.
Could you also ask why I didn’t get a ROTL of any way shape or form, even though rapists and murderers get resettlement ROTL.
It seems the government pick and choose what they involve themselves in.
@andyburnham
A man who spent thirty years reviewing sports cars has taught this country more about its own food than every minister, union and campaign of the last fifty years combined.
Here is what five series of Clarkson's Farm put in front of the public, and not one line of it is opinion.
- A thousand acres, worked flat out for a year, made a profit of £144. Under forty pence a day.
- By year six the same farm was losing money, weather and prices turning a projected £37,000 into a five grand loss.
- A crop can drown in the field after months of work and take everything with it, and nobody is coming to help.
- The farmer is the only man in the food chain who sells at a price he does not set. The supermarket sets it. He takes it or he takes nothing.
- The council can shut his restaurant, refuse his car park and stop him selling his own food off his own land.
- The subsidy he was told to lean on can be closed overnight, the big estates first through the door, the small farms locked out.
- One outbreak of bovine TB can lock a farm down for months, banned from buying or selling a single cow, through no fault of its own.
- Rear pigs with real care and the butcher's maths can still make them a loss, so the animals go and the loss stays.
- The margins are so thin that a rich man buys farmland not to earn from it but to shelter money that earns elsewhere. The shelter exists precisely because the farming does not.
Now hold that against the story you were sold. Greedy farmers. Subsidised for doing nothing. Wrecking a countryside they are somehow also the custodians of.
There is no profit. That was the reveal. A show that set out to be funny accidentally filmed the slow strangling of the people who feed us, and the country watched it happen and finally understood what its cheap food actually costs.
Clarkson has now admitted the plainest part out loud: it is the television money keeping Diddly Squat alive, and most farms do not have a television show. Britain grows about sixty per cent of its own food and the average farmer is past sixty. That is why both numbers are heading the wrong way.
It took a Lamborghini tractor and a man doing it for a laugh. Fifty years of earnest campaigning could not manage it.
To reiterate, on a £5 pint, over £2 is made up in taxes.
The publican is left with around 15p profit.
That is what needs addressing.
Pubs can’t be Government cash cows any longer, they’re dying.
@Sacha_Lord@andyburnham
I sat through Axel Rudakubana’s Sentencing Hearing. Will never forget the cries of the parents of the little girls that monster had murdered or maimed.
The full list of the knife wounds he inflicted on each child was demonic. He didn’t just kill them.
The truth is Rudakubana should be executed. No society can tolerate its youngest citizens being massacred - he found a Taylor Swift dance class online and he deliberately targetted the female and the vulnerable.
He was radicalized online and he learned how to butcher.
No prison or hospital is sufficient. Rudakubana needs to go to hell where all the devils are.