Ex-Sapper rupert, father and general cynic. All views expressed are mine alone and not those of anyone else, or any other organisation. 🎗️
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Jerry Sisk retweeted
So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi?
All we wanted was a planning permission.
It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site.
My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were.
We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files.
We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home.
So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden.
It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built.
We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what?
My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why?
So we carried on asking questions.
Then they blocked my emails.
We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging.
We still are.
#ProjectCleanCity
@SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @JoshHalliday @rbrooks45 @DeclanGCarey @jackdulhanty
Jerry Sisk retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Islamists have attacked another Christian village in Ethiopia, slaughtering 50 innocent people.
Last week, Islamists massacred 60 Christians in a different region in Ethiopia.
Where is the outrage?
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MPs claim thousands in taxpayer-funded expenses on top of a £90,000+ salary, while enjoying heavily subsidised meals in Westminster - which we pay for.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are playing Russian roulette with the energy meter every time we boil the kettle.
Being lectured on "living within our means" by this lot is like taking dieting advice from a tapeworm.
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I’m at Leeds Civic Hall. @MothinAli is talking about Israel. It’s all about Israel. He’s talking about a fictional ‘genocide’ by Israel. He is telling Israelis what they are. He is telling them they shouldn’t exist. Israel Israel Israel.
He’s councillor for HAREHILLS in LEEDS
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Palestinian Tik Tok is now claiming that Israel is dropping snakes on Gaza.
Over 200,000 likes.
Genuinely the most low-IQ movement in history.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is from Pakistani account @Saba5670 captioned that Allah is powerful over everything, with no reference to Israel, Gaza or Palestine. It is a known AI-generated fake unrelated to any real event.
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This is government gaslighting to a high degree.
1. It’s not a new announcement. The Norfolk East and West offshore wind projects were announced earlier this year as part of the AR7 round of contracts.
2. No way does it bring down prices. Those behind it, energy giant RWE + global investors KKR, were guaranteed an above-market strike price of £91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices — indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth £97/MWh in 2026. This is v expensive energy.
3. What is new is that the costs of developing offshore wind have soared. So the government has now had to chip in £1 billion of the £12 billion investment needed from the National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. So more state subsidy on top of the massive subsidies for two foreign companies implicit in the price guarantees embedded in AR7.
4. Far from cheaper electricity this embeds high-cost electricity in the system for 20 years.
5. So much for the Chancellor’s Budget pledge to ‘only build new projects when they lower prices’. This does the opposite — and at enormous expense to the taxpayer and electricity user.
Gaslighting indeed.
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Tower Hamlets councillor reportedly part of group that called for Israeli player to be kicked out of West Ham
It has been revealed that local Tower Hamlets councillor Faysal Ahmed is a member of a Facebook group which posted a video labelling West Ham football player Manor Solomon a “baby killer”, and called for his dismissal from the team because he completed mandatory military service in the IDF prior to his football career.
Cllr Ahmed, who is reportedly the Council’s Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Life Changes, appears to be active on the Tower Hamlets Palestine Solidarity Network (THPSN) group. He is listed as a “Top Voice”, a role which is described as an individual who “consistently share[s] content your group values.”
We understand that the group also includes multiple other Tower Hamlets councillors.
Local councillors should be focused on local issues. Cllr Ahmed is meant to be looking after the borough’s young people, not apparently contributing to a social media group which is attempting to hound a player out of a football club because of their connection to the Jewish state.
With antisemitism at record levels and Jews increasingly pushed out of public and professional life, politicians should be putting out the fire, not fanning the flames.
Tower Hamlets Council must investigate the activities of any councillor who is purportedly a member of this heinous group.
@TowerHamletsNow
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Lucy Powell’s Russell Brand Excuse: 2015 Wasn’t the ‘Social Media Age’ order-order.com/quote/lucy-p…
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Last week I was in Israel, surrounded by joyous Jewish life. Today I stood at Auschwitz, where my Jewish friends prayed in the gas chambers for relatives murdered there.
I finally understand how the Holocaust became possible. And I am frightened by what I see around us.
“Never Again” is NOW.
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Latest reports are saying that, due to the flooding, Gaza is now roamed by giant man-eating clams.
We warned people this would happen but no-one listened.
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A 1994 map for an RAF study on the capacity of some (but not all) major RAF bases and where opportunities existed for consolidation.
Some bases were excluded, but this gives a sense of scale and fleet numbers 32 years ago!
Jerry Sisk retweeted
Labour has suspended David Walliams following allegations of predatory behaviour towards young women and girls.
Just when we thought his reputation couldn’t get any worse, we find out he was a Labour member.
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I just got a note from a Jewish mother in Leeds who took her kids to the Vue cinema at The Light for a birthday on Remembrance Sunday.
The staff member checking tickets was wearing a Palestinian badge, and she told him she didn't think staff should wear political badges that can make customers feel uncomfortable.
She says two managers were called, her family was refused entry, and one manager told her she wouldn't get a refund if she kept complaining.
@vuecinemas, can you confirm your version? Are your staff allowed to wear political badges on shift, and what happens to a customer who comes in with her children and says a badge makes her feel intimidated?
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Jews have contributed a fuck sight more to the UK than the cunts that are driving them out.
The frog boils slowly and we’re sleepwalking into 1938.
#Kristallnacht
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David Walliams never sexually assaulted me, proving he's also a racist | Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
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David Walliams has just been suspended from the Labour Party.
I don’t think the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 have bothered reporting the political angle.
I mean, why would they? He wasn’t in Reform UK.
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An Islamist militant pelted my proudly non-halal restaurant, Singh's Dining in Hammersmith Londonistan, with eggs; cleaning is underway.
Oh yes, it's Islamophobia Awareness Month 😂😂
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Those that read this or listen to the podcast by @samkileynews might like to reflect on the asymmetry between the deliberately restrained way that our Special Forces used lethal force in Northern Ireland and on the unconstrained, indiscriminate way of the IRA terrorists they sought to detain.
Reflect too on the extraordinary commitment, discipline, skill and bravery of those SAS men that dared to risk their own lives to seize these terrorists in operation after operation in ways that were designed to support the NI peace process.
And then ask, whether the actions of these same men, that only opened fire on armed terrorists when it was absolutely necessary - as at Loughgall, should have these previously investigated cases or inquests re-opened again, not on the basis of new evidence, but simply to satisfy a vexatious public relations objective set by the terrorists’ supporters themselves.
I hope that non-politicized common sense will be applied to the @UKLabour NI Troubles Bill as it is reviewed in the House of Lords and in ways that stop this utter nonsense.
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“Some men run from violence and danger. A few run towards it, so that others never have to”…..
The blunt and grim reality of conflict and soldiering is that the lives of soldiers can sometimes be traded for peace says former SAS boss. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
