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Ali Holgate retweeted
Andy Burnham confronted live on @LBC by an angry local over the plan to house over 1,200 young migrant men at the barracks near Piddington.
Ex-forces Steve from Upper Arncott told him his kids are worried, and so are plenty of other children, about whether they can still walk to the park. Women and young girls are worried about walking around at all.
“Why are you not listening to the villagers? And also why are you allowing 1,200 single males to wander around, unsupervised and not monitored?”
“They should be confined to the barracks. Why are they not going to be?”
Burnham said he has to do it to get people out of hotels, and that he does listen: “I do listen and I have been asking questions of the Home Office about the precise arrangements related this particular location.”
He said he has to deal with it in a way that’s “fair to everywhere”. Then the usual: crossings are down, returns are up.
Then the answer that actually matters. He won’t do anything:
“I am looking at those issues but I wouldn’t want to give you the impression today that it can simply be cancelled because we’re not in that position.”
So despite the lip service to local concerns, he won’t take any action. At a minimum he could make sure they are monitored and confined to the barracks, exactly as Steve said. He could do that. He’s CHOOSING not to.
What country have we become where young children can’t go to the park because the government is deliberately dumping 1,200 strangers right there? It’s scandalous.
Ali Holgate retweeted
Hidden army”? Not hidden. Ignored. And by “army”, do you mean the unpaid carers quietly replacing huge parts of the social care system every single day - with no proper rest, no sick leave, no shift ending, and little financial recognition? We’re in plain sight. @YvetteCooperMP
We welcome today’s announcement by Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to appoint a new champion for unpaid carers. It's been almost 20 years since there was last someone appointed by the UK Government to specifically champion the needs of carers , so we look forward to working with them to ensure the voices of carers and services who support them are heard.
Ali Holgate retweeted
Maximum monthly State Pension.
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
Guess which is unaffordable?
Ali Holgate retweeted
Remember all the triple lock really does is keep an old age pension (which many have spent between 40-50 years paying into in with NI contributions) up with inflation so pensioners can afford to pay their heating & food bills. We also have one of the poorest pensions in Europe.
Ali Holgate retweeted
In 2005, the UK minimum wage was £5.05 an hour and a Freddo cost 10p. So one hour of work could buy you roughly 50 Freddos.
Fast forward to 2026. The minimum wage is now £12.71, but a Freddo is around 39p.
That same hour of work now gets you just 33 Freddos.
Your wage has gone up around 152%.
The price of a Freddo has gone up 290%.
If wages had risen at the same rate as Freddos, the minimum wage would be almost £20 an hour.
Yes, I'm measuring the state of the UK economy in chocolate frogs.
But that's the point. Everything keeps getting more expensive while wages struggle to keep up, and too many people are working full-time and still finding it impossible to get ahead.
Something has gone seriously wrong.
Ali Holgate retweeted
Hello @StephenMorganMP (for Portsmouth South)
Will the 140 people who pitched up uninvited in your constituency on a boat from Normandy last night have to wait until Christmas?
Or will they be well fed and in a warm bed by tonight?
Ali Holgate retweeted
It is, of course, a good thing that mass arrests are now taking place over alleged widespread criminal activity in connection with the horrific crash on the A66. But why should it take the deaths of two brave police officers to finally spark a serious response from authorities? Criminal activity was apparently taking place on a mass scale, over a long period, and in plain sight (including on social media platforms). Why wasn't it tackled before now?
Ali Holgate retweeted
You know - if you have to give men a leaflet to tell them how not to rape women - they probably shouldn’t be here.
Behaviour guidelines for life in UK published for asylum seekers bbc.in/4x4VHXz
Ali Holgate retweeted
I’ve been saying for about a year on air and I’ll say it again here…
Conversations about whether illegal migrants should be in hotels, HMOs or camps in quaint English villages are all a deliberate red herring and distraction.
It’s designed to get you bogged down in the weeds.
The real conversation and goal of the government should be about stopping them arriving in the first place - NOT how we agree they should be managed when here.
I don’t think it’s a conversation they want. So they drag you into pointless debates instead.
It makes no difference societally whether these men are staying at the Ritz or in a Bolton HMO.
The expense doesn’t matter. It’s all fake anyway.
What matters is that they’re here. Free to roam. A risk to everybody. And they should never have arrived.
Ali Holgate retweeted
I'm from an inner London, multicultural BRITISH family.
My immediate family are descended from immigrants from Ireland, Jamaica, Italy, Cyprus, Poland and Newcastle (😁).
And all of us to a person want mass undocumented immigration stopped.
It's got nothing to do with race!!
Ali Holgate retweeted
Thames Water's finance director given a £1,000,000 signing on bonus.
Water industry depravity hits an all time low. Their contempt for customers and the environment clearly knows no bounds.
When are govt going to intervene and put a stop to this? @andyburnham @angelaeagle
news.sky.com/story/thames-wa…
Ali Holgate retweeted
This was Marble Arch yesterday, thousands of people closing off a public area for a prayer.
Men and women separated.
Sadiq Khan told The Telegraph a few days ago “This is not an act of domination.”
I’m not sure what else you’d call it.
Ali Holgate retweeted
The UK gets 8 bank holidays a year.
France gets 11. Italy 12. Austria 13. Spain around 14.
You work more days than almost anyone in western Europe, your pay buys less than it did fifteen years ago, and they keep moving the retirement age further away.
Who exactly is this arrangement working for?
Ali Holgate retweeted
Bank: "Sorry, you can't afford a £750 a month mortgage."
Also bank: "But paying your landlord £1,200 a month so he can pay his mortgage is fine, no problem at all."
Make it make sense.
Ali Holgate retweeted
Carer's Allowance was introduced in 1976 and turns 50 this year. Whilst the world has changed beyond recognition, the benefit has stayed largely frozen in time. Carer's Allowance no longer serves its purpose and needs to catch up with modern life. ➡️ bit.ly/4a2Y6bQ
Ali Holgate retweeted
I left school at 15yrs & went into full-time employment.
Married at 19yrs & went on & had 2 children.
We paid taxes all our working life
We eventually paid our mortgage off, helped our children get on the property ladder.
I certainly am not prepared to allow this government to take everything we have worked hard for in order to pay for others that just stroll into this country & are given everything for free.
There are a lot of others in the same situation who’ve always done right by this country.
We as a family have not taken a penny in benefits from this country.
This government needs to get their priorities right & start treating UK Citizens with the respect they deserve.
