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Grenville Child retweeted
I think we need a Royal Inquiry into the Prime Minister's 'private' wealth.
643 people sent me a DM yesterday about my post exposing how Andy Burnham’s Manchester council machine secretly intercepts emails from the public.
I believe this new revelation is going to trigger an even bigger shockwave.
Manchester City Council is currently fighting tooth and nail to keep a massive urban regeneration contract hidden from taxpayers.
The corporate partner is a Hong Kong-based developer called Far East Consortium. The funding is a staggering £120 million of public money, including £34.1 million handed over directly by Burnham’s combined authority.
Here is the specific detail that exposes the absolute arrogance of the modern political class.
When a local resident filed a request to read the document, the Chinese developer actually consented to its publication. It was the British council that intervened, heavily redacted the contract, and officially branded the taxpayer’s request for basic transparency as "manifestly unreasonable."
We are operating in a geopolitical environment where foreign powers routinely use infrastructure and property investment to build leverage inside Western cities.
Yet local Labour authorities are handing nine-figure sums of public wealth to Chinese-linked conglomerates, while deploying the full weight of their legal departments to keep British citizens in the dark.
They are perfectly comfortable outsourcing the regeneration of a major UK city to foreign capital. They are just terrified of the people funding the project ever seeing the actual terms.
Grenville Child retweeted
Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.
And they stink.
They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.
The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.
Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.
It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.
As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.
I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.
What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?
Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).
Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.
We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.
There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.
Grenville Child retweeted
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, the #RussellBrand trial for Complainant 5 (C5) did NOT have 'loads' of 2009 evidence. The Prosecution had to rely largely on UNVERIFIABLE present-day testimonies regarding an UNWITNESSED incident 17 years ago.
❌ NO 2009 HIV CLINIC NOTES
The NHS destroyed the actual 2009 clinical notes for the appointment many years ago. Contrary to popular belief, the nurse's statement was written in the present-day and was her UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTION of the appointment 17 years ago. She did not examine C5's alleged injuries and she was not subject to 'hard cross examination' by Brand's KC.
❌ NO 2009 MEDICAL REPORT
C5 DID NOT seek medical attention from a GP or a hospital for her alleged injuries in 2009 so there is no expert medical report of them. Contrary to popular belief, the jury relied on the UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of her injuries by her lay friends and family in their present-day written statements.
❌ NO 2009 RECORD OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
The Prosecution did not produce 2009 evidence of her social interaction with friends and family (letters, emails, texts, voice mails etc) describing the rape. Contrary to popular belief, the jury relied on the UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of the discussions that happened 17 years ago by her friends and family in their present-day written statements.
❌ NO 2009 PHONE RECORDS
Neither side had phone records from 2009. Contrary to popular belief, the messages read in court such as 'you treated me like an animal' and Brand apologising were NOT the actual messages but C5's UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of what was messaged 17 years ago.
❌ NO CROSS EXAMINATION BY THE DEFENCE OF ALL WITNESSES
The supporting present-day witness testimonies were not 'all subject to hard cross examination' by Brand's KC. Contrary to popular belief, they were mostly written statements read out in court by the well-spoken and educated Riel Karmy-Jones KC. Not only a Tier One Leading Silk but a former English and Drama graduate who attended Drama Studio London.
❌ NO 2009 POLICE REPORT
C5 DID NOT report the rape to police in 2009 so there is no 2009 police report or investigation. Contrary to popular belief, the police report and the police interview referred to in the trial relate to her 2024/2025 police interviews.
Grenville Child retweeted
Over the last week, millions of people read my posts exposing how the British entertainment industry covered for Russell Brand and David Walliams. Today, the sheer hypocrisy just shifted from the television studios straight into Downing Street.
Andy Burnham and Lisa Nandy have proudly announced they are hauling senior media executives into a government summit to put a stop to abuses of power.
They want you to believe the political class is finally stepping in to clean up a rotten industry.
So, look at the exact historical record Labour is desperately trying to rewrite right now.
The very politicians staging this moral intervention are the same people who spent a decade aggressively courting these exact predators for political clout.
Ed Miliband literally went to Russell Brand’s flat in 2015 to beg for his endorsement on camera. Andy Burnham was posting public support for him online. David Walliams was a celebrated Labour insider until the party quietly suspended him five minutes ago to save face.
Downing Street is now sending out spokespeople to claim it was a long time ago and nobody in politics knew what was happening behind closed doors. It is a complete insult to the public's intelligence.
Westminster and the media establishment shared the exact same VIP green rooms, the same lavish charity galas, and the same open secrets.
The political class happily turned these men into untouchable cultural idols because it generated cheap youth votes and favorable headlines.
Burnham hauling TV executives into a government meeting today is not an act of moral leadership. It is a panicked political cartel coordinating their alibis.
I'm sorry but they are not convening these summits to protect young women. They are doing it to protect themselves before the public realizes the politicians enabled the exact same monsters.
Grenville Child retweeted
Let’s break this down:
Woman number 5 - licked his arse in a toilet on all fours within 5 minutes of meeting him
Went to his house for consensual sex
Told a friend there wasn’t much to her story and she was as guilty
Paid to see one of his shows 6 months later.
#RussellBrand
Have to say Kemi's dig at Burnham about his relationship with Brand was not needed and showed her up for what she is, when you lose an argument losers usually resort to insults.
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Grenville Child retweeted
📰"TREASONOUS" @RupertLowe10 sits SILENT, allowing a motion to redefine “English” to pass UNOPPOSED!
BORED and more interested is his phone, was he waiting on Alistair to tell him how to vote? 😏
Tragic? Embarrassing? I'm lost for words 🤣 help me out 👇🏻
Grenville Child retweeted
Not a single report has been made to the police about David Walliams.
Not one.
But the medis is already tried and convicted him.
If any woman does now make a complaint to the police he can't possibly hope for a fair trial.
This is just wrong.
Grenville Child retweeted
THIS IS PC TIMOTHY PEEL
He has been allowed to walk free from court on a suspended sentence despite being convicted of possessing an extreme pornographic image, possession of an indecent image of a child and making an indecent image of a child.
But guess what? He soon breached his sexual harm prevention order after sending texts to a teenage girl. But again he was allowed to walk free on a community order!!
The justice system is a complete fucking disgrace.
Grenville Child retweeted
We have entered an age when the court of public opinion has supplanted the court of law.
Trial by media now carries the weight of conviction. The ancient principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ has been abandoned.
It is an inversion of justice that would have made even Pontius Pilate blanch.
Grenville Child retweeted
A man has been convicted over a drunken Facebook "joke" from 2024.
Reform councillor Glenn Gibbins's post sat there for two years. Nothing happened until he got elected. Then: police, charge, trial, conviction.
Jo Brand joked about throwing acid at Farage. Jimmy Carr joked about Gypsies in the Holocaust. Neither was prosecuted.
Burglaries go unsolved, but there's always time for hurty words online.
Condemn it, argue with it. Don't criminalise it.
📰 @BBCNews
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxdd…
Grenville Child retweeted
So he touched a woman's breasts "without her consent" but then AFTER that happened, she willingly gave him a blowjob in the toilets. "I know I sucked you off willingly but just BEFORE that you touched my boobs without asking." 9 months in prison for that. RiDICKulous.
Grenville Child retweeted
Folks can I give some friendly advice? Thanks;
Today it appears that Celebrity David Walliams has been ‘Outed’ for ‘Allegedly’ doing something/things that we at this time know nothing about;
Plus there is currently no police Investigation yet he has been condemned & stripped & abandoned by many!
SM is NOT the place to try & hang draw & quarter people as some always try to do!
Plus it ‘can’ interfere with ‘Proper’ course of justice should that need to be the case!!🤷♂️
Grenville Child retweeted
Wes Streeting, this brave disabled veteran, Kevin Gray deserves an explanation and comment from a Labour MP. Do you support your Labour MP OR Kevin Gray? Please comment @wesstreeting @andyburnham
👇👇👇
Grenville Child retweeted
Is this true @BeaversLorraine?
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least the way Labour MPs are supporting the Troubles Bill, which mainly impacts Northern Ireland Veterans.
The nasty slurs directed at Mr Gray is the usual way many on the left deal with anyone with right wing views.
@andyburnham
@LucyMPowell
@AngelaRayner
@maitlis
@campbellclaret
@wesstreeting
@MikeTappTweets
@DanJarvisMBE
@DefenceHQ
@BritishArmy
@BritishVetGroup
Grenville Child retweeted
🚨Manchester City Council keeps Chinese developer’s regeneration contract secret despite being funded by public money
Manchester City Council is withholding most of its partnership contract with Hong Kong company Far East Consortium for the Victoria North regeneration project.
Large sections and key clauses remain hidden even though the developer agreed the full contract could be published.
Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which he led as mayor, has already given the firm £34.1 million. Nearly £100 million of public money is committed overall, with more approved that takes the total past £120 million.
Ben Rose (@benrose1976) asked for the complete document and was refused.
This is a scandal of public accountability. Taxpayers are bankrolling a massive regeneration deal with a Chinese developer while the council deliberately conceals the full terms that govern how their money is spent.
The developer itself consented to publication, yet the council still branded the request “manifestly unreasonable”.
It reeks of contempt for transparency.
Grenville Child retweeted
This cracks me up 😆
Rupert Lowe drew 1.7 billion views on X in the first ten months of the year, more than every other British politician and all but three world leaders, but 43 percent of those views, almost half, came from posts that Elon Musk reposted or commented on
Jock McMillan, founder of Knox Digital and a former adviser to Rishi Sunak, told the Financial Times that "Rupert Lowe is only relevant in British politics today because of Elon Musk," and that posts Musk quote-tweeted had almost 100 times as many views as those he left alone, with Musk pushing Lowe online 121 times since July 2025
Only Modi, Trump and Japan's Sanae Takaichi ranked ahead of Lowe's 1.72 billion, and he outranked Zelenskyy, Macron and Andy Burnham, while Lowe has declared more than £113,000 in earnings from X since the 2024 election
Lowe's reply to the FT was that Musk "has enabled free speech, which under our constitution should be a given here in Britain but, along with court trials, is under threat"
Almost half the reach from one man on the other side of the Atlantic
Grenville Child retweeted
🚨 MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS!!!
🇬🇧 “YOU ARE MY ENEMY.” — VETERAN ALLEGES THESE WORDS WERE SPOKEN BY A LABOUR MP. IF TRUE, IS THIS ACCEPTABLE?
If true, I am absolutely shocked and disgusted to read the account of how Kevin Gray, a military veteran and the newly appointed Chairman of Reform UK Blackpool North and Fleetwood, says he was treated by Labour MP Lorraine Beavers.
According to Kevin, he was approached by the MP while proudly wearing his Northern Ireland service medal.
He says she angrily confronted him over his involvement with Reform UK, using words including “Racist”, “Bigot”, “Fascist” and “Trumpism”.
Despite this, Kevin says he remained calm and extended an olive branch, asking:
“Can we get a coffee sometime without alcohol? I am not your enemy.”
Her alleged response?
“YOU ARE MY ENEMY.”
Let that sink in.
If Kevin’s account is accurate, a veteran wearing his service medal offered a civil conversation to his elected Member of Parliament, only to allegedly be told that he was her enemy.
Is this really the standard of behaviour we should expect from someone elected to represent ALL constituents, regardless of their political beliefs?
On Sunday, I had the privilege of laying a wreath at Blackpool Cenotaph as Reform UK’s Group Leader.
Earlier that morning, I stood alongside my fellow ward councillor, Shaun Brookes, who represents Labour. We put politics aside, as any decent elected representative should.
At the Cenotaph, I also spoke respectfully with the Labour MP for Blackpool South, the Labour Leader of Blackpool Council and the Leader of the Conservative Group.
Different political parties. Different opinions. But mutual respect and dignity throughout.
That is what Remembrance should be about.
We do not have to agree politically to treat one another with basic human decency.
Kevin served his country. He has every right to hold political opinions, join a democratic political party and participate in public life without being subjected to personal hostility.
And frankly, whether someone is a veteran or not, no constituent should be treated as an enemy simply because they vote differently.
I sincerely hope Lorraine Beavers MP reflects on Kevin’s account and takes the opportunity to respond.
Because public office comes with responsibility. You represent your constituents — not just those who agree with you.
We should be setting an example of tolerance, dignity and respect, particularly during Remembrance.
Political disagreement is democracy. Personal hostility is not leadership.
Kevin, thank you for your service. You have my respect and support. 🇬🇧
Assuming this account is correct, she should apologise immediately!
Lest We Forget. 🌺
Grenville Child retweeted
Wow, so disgraceful.
The shameless Labour MP needs to be held to account on this. It is totally vindictive. Spiteful, thuggish behaviour.
Will Andy Burnham take any action? I have my doubts.
Reform member and war veteran allegedly attacked by Labour MP Lorraine Beavers @BeaversLorraine
Kevin Gray alleges he was subjected to a barrage of insults simply for supporting Reform UK, despite remaining calm throughout.
Political disagreement is one thing, but this alleged behaviour from an elected MP is disgraceful. Veterans deserve respect, not contempt.
Grenville Child retweeted
She’s my MP and this is vile. Shes a disgrace!
@GBNEWS @PatrickChristys