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darren retweeted
Rip-off capitalism.
Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1.
£8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees.
PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m.
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🚨🚨NETANYAHU'S POLICE INTERROGATION TAPES JUST LEAKED AND THEY REVEAL HE PERSONALLY FUNDED HAMAS. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.🚨🚨
1,000 hours of secret police interrogation footage of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Now public. Banned in Israel. Going viral globally.
Here's what's on those tapes:
💀 Netanyahu personally arranged for Hamas to receive $35,000,000 EVERY MONTH from Qatar
💀 This was done IN SUITCASES OF CASH — because even banks refused to cooperate
💀 He personally begged Qatar, a country with no ties to Israel, to give money to his "enemy"
💀 He was doing this while ACTIVELY under corruption investigation
💀 His own words: "under the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally"
💀 Total transferred to Hamas with his blessing: OVER $1,000,000,000
Let that sink in.
The same man who stood up after October 7 and declared "Hamas is a monster, we will annihilate them" was the one keeping Hamas alive with suitcases of Qatari cash.
⚠️ His strategy, from his own transcript: keep Hamas in Gaza, keep Fatah in the West Bank, PREVENT them from uniting — so there would NEVER be a Palestinian state
⚠️ Without a Palestinian state, Netanyahu stays in power — no peace deal means endless war means he stays "Mr. Security"
⚠️ He needed Hamas to survive so he could keep winning elections by being the only man who could "handle" them
Now watch what this means:
→ Netanyahu funds Hamas for years → Hamas grows stronger → October 7 happens → Netanyahu declares war → 46,000+ Palestinians die → War delays his criminal trial → He seeks a pardon
→ The monster he fed attacked his own people
→ And he's using that attack to escape justice
The corruption trial? 3 charges. Bribery. Fraud. Breach of trust.
His court just REJECTED his request to delay hearings — TWICE in one day.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for him for war crimes in Gaza.
His own aide was arrested for taking Qatari money.
And now his police interrogation tapes show he was the one sending Qatari money to Hamas.
The same Qatar he "hates." The same Hamas he "fights."
⚠️ He publicly called Hamas the enemy
⚠️ He privately funded them for years
⚠️ His bombing of Gaza kills tens of thousands
⚠️ His war delays his own criminal conviction
This isn't a war on terror.
This is a man running out the clock on his own criminal case using 46,000 Palestinian lives as cover.
And the world is just starting to understand it.
darren retweeted
This is a huge, huge moment.
When, in three years of genocide, has an important politician in an important western country spoken so clearly?
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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🔴TONY BLAIR: Gaza [Via 👉@MaxBlumenthal]
'Did YOU know that Blair's son, Nicky, has set up a #weapons company that reportedly raked in part of a $2 BILLION+ contract with UK Ministry of Defence❓
All the while, Blair pressures Palestinian resistance factions to disarm.
Tony Blair seeks to impose Netanyahu's "total victory" on Gaza in direct violation of the 10/25 ceasefire deal signed by Kushner and Witkoff, who are seated in the front row. Another shameless display of perfidy.
Blair mentions the National Committee for Administration created by the Board of Peace to govern Gaza. But he and the Board have done nothing to pressure Israel to allow it enter the besieged strip.
Worse, the Board has not lifted a finger to initiate reconstruction or humanitarian aid. Its entire focus has been on advancing Israel's agenda of permanent occupation and dispossession.
For every $100 the Board of Peace claims to have raised (out of a total of $7 billion), only $1.75 has gone to Gaza. To whom did the rest of the money go?'
🔴TONY BLAIR: Gaza [Via 👉@MaxBlumenthal]
'Did YOU know that Blair's son, Nicky, has set up a #weapons company that reportedly raked in part of a $2 BILLION+ contract with UK Ministry of Defence❓
All the while, Blair pressures Palestinian resistance factions to disarm.
Tony Blair seeks to impose Netanyahu's "total victory" on Gaza in direct violation of the 10/25 ceasefire deal signed by Kushner and Witkoff, who are seated in the front row. Another shameless display of perfidy.
Blair mentions the National Committee for Administration created by the Board of Peace to govern Gaza. But he and the Board have done nothing to pressure Israel to allow it enter the besieged strip.
Worse, the Board has not lifted a finger to initiate reconstruction or humanitarian aid. Its entire focus has been on advancing Israel's agenda of permanent occupation and dispossession.
For every $100 the Board of Peace claims to have raised (out of a total of $7 billion), only $1.75 has gone to Gaza. To whom did the rest of the money go?'
darren retweeted
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.
The survivors have been living in tents for three years.
Those tents are now being flooded.
The West has condemned them to these apocalyptic conditions.
This abomination must end.
darren retweeted
🇺🇸Pete Hegseth: "We didn't start this war. Iran started this war 47 years ago. We didn't start it. They did."
🇮🇷Abbas Araghchi 🔥: "Shut up. How many missiles have we fired on US soil in those 47 years? Zero 💪
How many of your leaders were killed or injured by Iran? Zero💪
The war started when you started bombing us." 🔥
Araghchi is a strategic genius 👏
darren retweeted
The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered.
It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps.
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🚨Authority Led by Burnham as Mayor Paid Nearly £1m to Anonymous Recipients
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority — led at the time by Andy Burnham, who was then Mayor of Greater Manchester, has funnelled nearly £1 million of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries since 2024 in a series of secret payments.
The total breaks down into clear chunks: £83,000 in rent paid to a hidden landlord, thousands more handed out in anonymous consultancy fees, and a £210,000 capital grant given to a property developer whose name was fully redacted from the public ledger.
When journalists asked questions, the authority called the missing developer name a simple “human error” and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Ordinary citizens who make a small mistake on a tax form face investigations and heavy fines. Yet when this body hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an unnamed developer, it is dismissed as a clerical typo.
This is how the modern political class operates — using the language of bureaucracy as a legal shield to move public money into private, hidden hands.
They are not running an open city. They are protecting a shadow ledger with your cash, and they do not want you knowing who is actually cashing the cheques.
For a man who now sits in Downing Street preaching accountability, the fact that this level of secrecy happened on his watch as Mayor is not just embarrassing — it is yet another troubling incident from his past that raises serious questions about the standards he claims to represent.
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Now I wrote about the second part, and to be honest- it is even worse:
teapaw.org/feli_campbell/status/2…
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.
darren 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.
darren retweeted
So, it turns out Manchesterism is just plain old political corruption.
I'm shocked. 🙃
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.
darren retweeted
Andy Burnham has appointed the US consultancy giant BCG into the heart of Downing Street to draw up his 10 Year Plan for the country.
Last year they worked with Donald Trump on his plan for a 'Gaza riviera' to permanently ethnically cleanse Gaza.
There are no words.
darren retweeted
"We were expecting an announcement around the steps to public ownership"
"What we've got is an announcement to shore up the current system"
💯 @CleanIlkley
Public "control" can't work without PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8wy…
darren retweeted
Burnham gets donation from EY in July.
Burnham does not bring Thames water under SAR.
EY win £15m Thames Water contract in November.
EY (Ernst & Young) gave Andy Burnham a donation in kind (worth £16k) of the secondment of a staff member to his team in July this year.
Nice return on investment for them!
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