Happily retired but still passionate about lots of thing. NOT the MP.
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Gill Mortimer retweeted
🚨War Heroes Booted Out Days Before Remembrance While Asylum Seekers Get Priority Housing
Around a dozen British veterans who served in Iraq and elsewhere are being turfed out of Stone Court in Torquay just days before Remembrance Sunday, after the government’s Reducing Veterans’ Homelessness scheme refused to extend their temporary funding, with eviction looming by March.
Referred by the Royal British Legion, men like PTSD-suffering Iraq veteran Scott Marshall and former sailor Maurice Quinlan—who had been sleeping rough—now face the street.
Marshall called it “disgraceful,” pointing out that asylum seekers who have just arrived are being given houses while those who put their lives on the line for the country are shown the door.
Gill Mortimer retweeted
The original report on Sacha Lord by @ManchesterMill, founded by @joshi, was brilliant. Lord got a Covid loan for his company, then wanted more. Each company could only get 1 loan so he faked info about another he had and got another loan. The Mill exposed him and he threatened to sue. But he was investigated and required to repay the loan. Which he hasn't done yet. Now he wants more.
@andyburnham defended him throughout. Lord was on the steps of Number 10 when Burnham muscled @Keir_Starmer out. And now Lord has flat-out lied again. In his application for a grant he stated that 2 companies were partnering him and providing cash. They both denied it when contacted by The Mill.
Shameless, blatant lies, that are easily discredited, from Burnham's best buddy. So we're back to the Tory grift and corruption. I wonder how much of it was going on in Manchester when Burnham was mayor.
We need to get rid of Burnham. #BurnhamOut
Andy Burnham’s friend and big donor Sacha Lord got a 35k government grant for his lobbying group last month despite his company owing 400k to the taxpayer for a Covid grant.
Amazingly, this one contained false claims as well. @ManchesterMill exclusive 🚨
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusi…
Gill Mortimer retweeted
Rishi Sunak left Labour with 2% inflation and the fastest growing economy in the G7. No Government is perfect but we had *two years* of Labour lecturing us about their 'inheritance'.
The economy is always worse off by the time Labour are done with it.
Gill Mortimer retweeted
NUMBER 10 NORTH!!
Just went through the Civil Service jobs page for roles at for No10 North. 47 roles being advertised. Total salaries £2889908. This is without any pensions, expenses etc. TWO MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHT POUNDS!!
Gill Mortimer retweeted
A hotelier could face up to 14 years for evading Labour’s tourist tax.
A pensioner’s killer, sentenced yesterday, could be out in under four years.
The wrong priorities, at every level.
Gill Mortimer retweeted
Inspector: "I'll be straight with you, there's been a complaint."
Farmer: "There usually is. What have I done?"
Inspector: "Your cattle were seen standing in a field in the rain."
Farmer: "Yes. They do that. They're outside."
Inspector: "The complainant felt they looked wet."
Farmer: "They're waterproof. It's the one thing the manufacturer got right."
Inspector: "I've walked the lot. Water's clean, feet are sound, calves are on their mothers, condition's good. I've nothing to write."
Farmer: "Write that, then."
Inspector: "There's no box for it. The form assumes I've found something."
Farmer: "Put me down as pending."
Inspector: "There's a second complaint. Someone filmed you from the lane shouting at a cow."
Farmer: "That was Mabel. She was stood on my foot."
Inspector: "And the footage of the shed?"
Farmer: "I've one shed and it's behind you. That film was shot in Yorkshire. The group puts its logo over a farm gate and the public fills in the rest."
Inspector: "You've seen the Arla business this week."
Farmer: "I've seen what comes after it. The farm gets suspended, the lorry stops coming, and by Friday the milk's arriving from somewhere that would fail every question you've just asked me and never get asked."
Inspector: "I'll put it down as no action."
Farmer: "You'll be back."
Inspector: "I'll be back. Somebody will see them standing in the sun."
Gill Mortimer retweeted
A giant poppy made from bales, built in a field at Crask Farm just outside Culbokie on the Black Isle in Scotland by farmer Myles Dillon, in tribute to everyone who has served in the armed forces.
Looks lovely x
Gill Mortimer retweeted
🚨BREAKING: It has been revealed charities that lobbied the UK Government to relax immigration rules have received over £1 BILLION in taxpayer funding
Mencap - £200million
Barnardo's - £192million
Praxis - £1million
The entire charity system is being scammed by traitors
Gill Mortimer retweeted
Is this Ramallah? Gaza City?
No, it's Birmingham.
Where bins go uncollected, more than a quarter of the adult population is economically inactive, and the benefits bill is higher than anywhere else in the country.
I will never tire in fighting this disgusting sectarianism.
Gill Mortimer retweeted
Not heirs to the throne. Not princes.
This is simply a father and son at a football match, close to each other. The teen son completely comfortable and secure enough to rest his head on his papa’s shoulder.
A beautiful moment that says so much about William as a father.
Gill Mortimer retweeted
Tories had 1st & 2nd Muslim cabinet ministers, along with 1st & 2nd ethnic minority leaders & PMs in Disraeli & Sunak. Now they have the first black woman leader who could be to their 4th female PM. This idea only the progressive left creates opportunity for every Briton is demonstrably bunkum.
Humza Yousaf, author of Under Fire, an important and painfully honest testament, could never have flourished in Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, still less the Conservatives. As a proud Muslim and supporter of the Palestinian cause, that would have been out of the question. In the Scottish National Party, which embraced multiculturalism as its southern counterparts drifted towards coercive liberalism, he rose to the top.
@OborneTweets: Humza Yousaf's private war
newstatesman.com/culture/boo…
