For reasons best known to himself, or rather because Jonathan Powell (a man with questionable links to China) told him so, Burnham will continue with the Chagos surrender.
This will costs taxpayers £47BN, anger Trump and blow up his spending plans.
For reasons best known to himself, or rather because Jonathan Powell (a man with questionable links to China) told him so, Burnham will continue with the Chagos surrender.
This will costs taxpayers £47BN, anger Trump and blow up his spending plans.
Lisa Nandy is flouncing off Twitter and taking her Department of "Culture" with her.
I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.
— Lisa Nandy MP (@lisanandy) July 2, 2026
A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.
It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.
Even Cadwalladr thinks this is bollocks!
1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 2, 2026
2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.
3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian
5) But Facebook is ok? Really? https://t.co/0tBJm3IfW6
Nandy had no problem using Twitter when it helped Labour get elected. She's posted on it over 10'000 times in total since 2009.
Now that she is facing scrutiny, she's suddenly decided the platform is the problem.
It goes without saying that her post announcing her flounce, has of course had the comments turned off!
This is stage one of the government's plans to try to shut Twitter down.
STARMER AND REEVES SCRAPE TOGETHER A PATHETIC £15BN FOR DEFENCE WHILE LEAVING BRITAIN COMPLETELY DEFENCELESS — BORDERING ON TREASON!
What a pathetic, spineless shower.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have just announced a whopping £15 billion increase for defence over the next four years. Ooh, get them! The great saviours of the realm!
Except it's well short of the £28 billion the military actually said it needs. There's already a £4 billion unfunded black hole in the plan, and £10 billion of this pathetic package is made up of fantasy cuts to road projects, energy schemes and other initiatives that will magically "never happen" — the usual Labour smoke and mirrors bollocks.
And guess what? Not one single penny has been cut from the bloated welfare budget. Priorities, eh? Keep paying millions not to work, but beg, borrow and rob Peter to pay Paul when it comes to protecting the country.
This isn't a defence boost — it's a surrender document. Our armed forces are hollowed out, recruitment is in the toilet, equipment is obsolete, and these clowns are still prioritising net zero virtue-signalling and unlimited migration over keeping Britain safe.
Their criminal mismanagement of national security borders on treason. While the world gets more dangerous by the day, Starmer and Reeves are busy gutting real projects to pretend they're serious about defence. Absolute frauds.
And poor old Andy Capp Burnham — the man being lined up as the next Saviour of the Red Wall — has been dropped right in the shit. Starmer's left him a stinking £4-5 billion black hole and a half-arsed plan that satisfies nobody. Good luck sorting that mess out, Andy. Maybe you can fund it by appointing more My Little Ponies to the Treasury.
Britain is weaker, poorer and more vulnerable because of this shower. They talk tough on the world stage while leaving our forces naked and our borders wide open.
Disgraceful. Treacherous. Utterly hopeless.
"Place-based cooperation – the latest buzzphrase from yesterday’s speech by Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham – is simply the new meaningless slogan of the lanyard-wearing Westminster class.
Burnham promises a grand devolution of power across the UK. Yet Scotland and Wales already stand as cautionary tales of where this path can lead: bloated bureaucracies, poor economic performance and governance failures that England would be unwise to emulate.
Even as senior civil servants work from home, Burnham glossed over the reality. Whitehall will retain control of the issues that matter most to voters. Apart from AI, mass migration, the soaring costs of Net Zero, and defence, central government will continue to dictate:
In short, the big strategic decisions stay in London. What gets devolved are the messy local consequences and the blame when things go wrong."