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Seems Labour's loss will be the people's gain. Good luck comrade!
@UKLabour Here is my resignation letter.
Cc @georgegalloway @jeremycorbyn @Nigel_Farage @DavidDavisMP @ABridgen
@georgeeaton @zoesqwilliams
Jess Phillips saying people turned a blind eye to Brands behaviour. That is of course terrible but there are worse things you could do like turn a blind eye to grooming gangs.
Two of the people in this tweet below have had their bank accounts blocked so far, @georgegalloway and @Nigel_Farage
@UKLabour Here is my resignation letter.
Cc @georgegalloway @jeremycorbyn @Nigel_Farage @DavidDavisMP @ABridgen
@georgeeaton @zoesqwilliams
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39 years ago I opened a personal bank account with Bank of Scotland in Byres Rd Glasgow. Yesterday without explanation or notice they closed my accounts. My parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into these accounts. The mortgage on our family home is paid out of them. The mortgage is with them. They haven’t heard the last of this. @LloydsBank @KRWLaw
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I no longer trust/believe in any of the mainstream political parties; the BBC; the Monarchy; the Church of England; the “police”; the “justice” system. But I STILL trust & believe in Jesus Christ, his global Church, & the innate genius & decency of the British people.
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I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.
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Burnham says new accommodation will be rolled out across England this winter, alongside more than 1,000 "settled homes" over the next three years, which No 10 claims is "fully funded" within MHCLG budgets
He will also hold the first ever national summit on rough sleeping this autumn to ask what society leaders can do to fully end rough sleeping
Burnham: "No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station. But we’ve seen it for so long that it feels like Westminster has started to accept it.
"I won’t accept it. That’s why my first instruction as Prime Minister was to end rough sleeping. And it’s why today we’re getting started with a national drive to get everyone in for Christmas.
"We did it in the pandemic. We can do it again. But it needs all of us. Government will put the money in. But I’m asking leaders in communities and sectors across society to play their part locally too.
"Let’s get people out the cold and let’s bring back hope"
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🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has announced £442m to get all rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas
"No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station"
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My uncle and aunt run a working man’s pub in Portobello that has been the subject of a corporation trying to persuade courts to force its closure in part due its low pricing of drinks which they say is anti-competitive.
So far the judges have always denied but it’s stressful.
It’s good that Andy Burnham is changing regulations to make it harder for ordinary pubs to face hostile takeovers from spivs and speculators seeking to gentrify areas or make a quick buck on HMO Landlordism.
Two new aspects to the #GroomingGang horror in the UK may start to be uncovered. Grooming gangs targeting young boys and the distribution of child sex abuse images.
youtu.be/AyKps32GuLg?is=mjPK…
Sadly Jason Arday became the poster boy for employment decisions based upon characteristics rather than merit. It has shown the harm this "kindness" can do to the individual, their friends, family, their organisations, customers, and society as a whole.
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I am saddened by news about Jason Arday. I saw his promotion as a symptom of a deeply dysfunctional university, and I don't resile from that view. We can't make windows into men's souls, but we can ask why Cambridge contrived to place a vulnerable man into an untenable position.
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The death of Jason Arday is tragic, and makes me so angry.
Even the most casual observer could see he was a vulnerable fantasist.
A number of people at a number of academic institutions have serious questions to answer. They put him into positions he was clearly not qualified for so they could have a black wunderkind to show off, they pushed him into the spotlight for their own benefit.
His exposure was inevitable, a case of when, not if.
His whole world fell apart.
The death of Jason Arday is very sad. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. If he decided to take his own life it is worth remembering that his death was enabled by a political idealology that values characteristics over competance and merit and that causes harm to many.
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Andy Burnham has given strongest hint yet he’ll scrap plans to curtail jury trials in England and Wales, abandoning one of most significant overhauls of Keir Starmer’s government.
“I have my concerns about the plan to restrict a jury trial, partly from my personal experience, particularly in Hillsborough. So I want to really look in detail at that proposal, and my instincts are that we need to find ways of not reducing access to jury trial.”
theguardian.com/law/2026/jul…
