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So it appears that the IOPC 'witheld' evidence that could have exonerated some of these officers; what will happen to those IOPC investigators that behaved in this wholly unacceptable and damaging manner? Will this appear on their antecedents during future invstigations?
Graham Gallagher retweeted
This Wednesday, 11th November, our Prime Minister will yet again miss PMQs as he is on another jolly at COP31 in Turkey.
Since becoming PM in July, he has only been at PMQs five times.
Four months, five PMQs. Disgraceful. Will do anything to avoid any scrutiny.
Graham Gallagher retweeted
When in the EU they took too many of our fish and limited UK quotas. They banned our beef for too long. They kept us short of milk quota to limit our exports of dairy. They gave grants to close our orchards. Why would they help our food exporters this time?
It sounds like more political baloney from the resident liar Burnham- surely every force already has specialist rape investigation teams in place
A Labour MP texts:
“I cannot believe, or sadly I can, that the PM has said there should be a rape unit in every police force when he presided over the abolition of the Greater Manchester one when he was Mayor”.
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Disgusting - she deseves a substantial sentence and hopefully a strong poca investigation
Detective stole more than £85,000 from police force 😡
A former police detective who stole more than £85,000 from her own force while working in a team that investigated high-level drugs gangs has been jailed.
Acting as the exhibits officer and one of only a small number of people with access to a safe that contained hundreds of thousands of pounds, Michelle Kirsty Reason began siphoning off cash in January 2022, Derbyshire Police said.
According to the force, the 54-year-old spent the money - which had been seized from criminals - on a car, a holiday, and tickets to events.
On Monday, Reason pleaded guilty to theft and misconduct in public office and was jailed for four years and two months at Mansfield Magistrates' and County Court.
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Auditors are sad little boys with no life
I’m appalled that an ex-police officer could go to a newspaper in this manner, simply because an officer expressed the view that it was his choice whether or not to wear a poppy when challenged by him.
Police officers have quite enough to contend with nowadays, including so-called ‘auditors’ videoing them for clicks. The last thing they need is someone who should understand the pressures and difficulties of modern policing adding to that.
And I’ll wager he wouldn’t have approached an older officer in the same way, let alone submitted their photograph to a national newspaper simply because they had chosen not to wear a poppy.
There’s also a certain irony in someone who advocates for free speech and individual rights, trying to undermine another person’s right to make a personal choice. Surely those principles work both ways.
I hope this young officer is being supported 🙏🏼💙
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Graham Gallagher retweeted
Forest Green Rovers have apologised for failing to commemorate Remembrance Day at a home game, labelling it as 'human error' and a 'mistake'
No other club forgot. Dale Vince is a cunt
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This is Judge James Newton-Price KC who remanded Danny Tommo in custody.
In January 2024 a jury found GP Mohan Babu guilty of sexually assaulting three patients. One was dying of cancer.
Babu was sent home on bail for ten weeks. Then the judge jailed him for three and a half years. Under the normal rules, he'd have been out around January this year.
Tommo, an anti-immigration activist, has pleaded not guilty. He waits in a cell until March.
Tommo hasn't even been tried.
Tragic situation but a primary function of the police is to protect the public
The mother of a man shot dead by police after breaking into his former home in south-east London armed with a crossbow and a sword has told an inquest her son was having a mental health crisis at the time.
IT worker Bryce Hodgson was shot after entering the property in Bywater Place, Surrey Quays, armed with the weapons on 30 January 2024.
Jaqueline Hodgson told Southwark Coroner's Court that her son was shy and "non-violent", and that the actions were "entirely at odds" with the person he was throughout the rest of his life.
Mrs Hodgson also told the jury that his family wanted to understand what happened to him and whether there were any missed opportunities to stop it.
'Utterly shocked'
Her son had a happy childhood, she said, but his life changed at the beginning of 2023 when he became increasingly anxious, jurors were told.
Speaking of events leading up to her son's death, she said he had received a criminal conviction and and had begun to experience anxiety about his health.
"We were and remain utterly shocked by what happened," Hodgson said, saying her son's actions were "completely out of character".
Describing him as "quiet and unassuming", "emotionally naive" and that she "cannot recognise" the person involved in the incident.
"Bryce will always be loved and missed by his family and his friends," she said.
At the time of the incident, Hodgson had been banned from entering Bywater House, having previously been prosecuted for entering a woman's bedroom without consent while he was living there.
He was convicted of stalking and given a suspended sentence in July 2023, the court heard.
Earlier in the hearing, coroner Dr Julian Morris described how the tragedy unfolded: "In the early hours of January 30 2024 he returned to 27 Bywater Place.”
"He was carrying various weapons including a crossbow and a sword.”
"Local police who attended first attempted to control the situation but were unable to do so.”
"Members of the Metropolitan Police Service firearms unit were tasked with attending and did so soon after.”
"Following their attendance two shots were fired."
Medics from both the land and air ambulance tried to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead at the scene, the court heard.
The inquest is expected to take around four weeks.
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Graham Gallagher retweeted
We should not forget Lisa Nandy called for The British Army to be replaced with a “gender balanced and ethnically diverse” peace force.
In her defence, Lisa Nandy is incredibly stupid.
On Remembrance Sunday Lisa Nandy has claimed that no one in Britain has had to fight a war since WW2.
What about the 7,193 British soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in conflicts ranging from the Korean War to Afghanistan?
While she erases their service, the country will never forget their bravery.
Remembrance Sunday is a sacred day, not to be cynically used by Labour to justify closer ties to the EU. Whatever the merits of their argument - and I believe reopening the Brexit wars is both a colossal waste of energy and a strategic disaster when national sovereignty is more important than ever - this is not the day for it.
It’s disappointing that Nandy and Andy Burnham, who presumably agreed to this, have failed so badly to meet the moment.
Graham Gallagher retweeted
When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
Hey @TPisshead - you are either a liar or stupid. Your post is factually incorrect. The vote you refer to related to a vote on numerous issues including income tax rises, it was those that some Conservatives voted against👍
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Graham Gallagher retweeted
For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:
1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.
2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.
3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.
4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.
5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.
6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.
7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.
8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.
9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.
10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)
11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.
Graham Gallagher retweeted
I read the reports coming out of Manchester this morning and I am genuinely speechless.
Andy Burnham’s old political machine has just been caught secretly intercepting and censoring emails sent by the public to elected politicians.
What were those emails actually about? A resident was asking hard questions about the £55 million in taxpayer loans Burnham handed to Abu Dhabi property developers when he was Mayor, with zero affordable housing requirements.
Instead of letting elected councillors read the concerns of their constituents, unelected bureaucrats quietly diverted the emails straight to the legal department to be buried.
The politicians had absolutely no idea their personal inboxes were being filtered by the state.
The council claims they had to intercept the messages because of potential litigation. It is a complete lie.
Internal correspondence proves the city solicitor asked for this specific resident to be blocked months before any legal threat even existed.
You vote for local representatives to hold the system accountable. But the second a citizen asks where Burnham sent public money in a Gulf state property deal, his political syndicate builds a secret digital firewall to protect the investment.
This is not a functioning democracy. This is a captured corporate cartel running a cover-up for the Prime Minister, and the national media is letting them get away with it in broad daylight.
