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stu bennett retweeted
Makes you think … we all know Russell Brand was a bad man .. but what about Hamoud..
Roy Keane not wearing a poppy. I believe in free speech but he makes his money in England taking money from English people.
He should not be able to broadcast over these two weeks.
stu bennett retweeted
Yes. Adam Hamawy, who associated closely with and served as a defense character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman (the Blind Sheikh, convicted of seditious conspiracy tied to the 1993 WTC bombing plot), won New Jersey's 12th Congressional District as a Democrat on November 3, 2026.
stu bennett retweeted
Reminder: just yesterday we learned that:
A) a former ISIS guard for a beheading squad came to yookay illegally on a boat, obviously because of the ECHR/HRA he can't be jailed or deported, living freely;
B) SAS guys sent on missions to deal with ISIS beheaders were then arrested for MURDER for dealing with them; they were lied to by the military police; they have been told they can never be clear of the charges (because the ECHR/HRA means any time some lawyer like Jolyon or Hermer wants to team up with nutters on a ECHR case, the government will be forced to investigate again and remember Hermer's friend *invented* war crimes to bring cases against British soldiers, but obviously wasn't jailed, triples all round in the Inner Temple).
So we're importing the jihadis at scale while prosecuting for murder SAS we rely on to defend us from the jihadis - and if you don't like this you're fascist and it's a reason to ban X in yookay.
No you will not see Kemi-kasi campaign on these issues because the Tories agreed with Labour for 25 years that this combination is 'defending civilisation'. The Tories imported many of the jihadis now in the news, and the Tories approved all the worst officials and lawyers in SW1 bringing the lawfare cases, including against those who were given medals by the Queen for stopping IRA terrorist attacks - they now have to beg for cash for lawyers in their 70s/80s.
And because Reform is a bin fire which can't maintain focus on anything for 2 minutes -- like Kemi-kasi -- you probably won't see anything sustained from them either.
stu bennett retweeted
It's now gone 11am, and I've yet to see a single national media outlet mention Alastair Campbell telling Zia Yusuf:
“You've got more chance captaining the Sri Lankan cricket team than you have of becoming Home Secretary.”
Yet last week, Raheem Kassam was dragged through the national media for calling Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer”.
Where's the same outrage for Alastair Campbell?
Where are the headlines, the condemnation and the demands for an apology?
The double standards are becoming impossible to ignore, and the credibility of British journalism is suffering because of them.
Raheem Kassam was dragged through the national media last week for calling Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer”.
Now Alastair Campbell has told Zia Yusuf, “You’ve got more chance captaining the Sri Lankan cricket team than you have of becoming Home Secretary.”
Will Alastair Campbell face the same media outrage and scrutiny?
Or do the standards change depending on someone's political allegiance?
This will be a very telling moment for British journalism.
stu bennett retweeted
Back in 2010, the minimum wage was £12,064 and the 'higher earner' band started at £43,875.
You only paid 40% tax once you were earning 3.6x the minimum wage.
There was clear incentive to progress, learn and aspire for more.
As things stand, you now start paying 40% tax once you earn £50,270 which is just 1.83x the minimum wage.
If it was the same multiple as 2010, the 'higher earning' band would be £98,841 and everyone below this amount would be paying 20%.
Someone on £98,841 is effectively losing out on £9714.20 net per year if the bandings had simply moved in line with previous multiples relative to minimum wage.
This is one of the reasons why the middle class is being eroded and why there's a cost of living crisis in the UK.
An increase to £13.20p/h equates to a minimum wage of £27,456, based on a 40 hour week.
Once you factor in employers NI and basic pension contributions, the MINIMUM cost to hire a 21 year old for a company would be £31,461.
This is before you factor in any overarching business costs like office space, laptops, phone, software, training, support staff, vehicles etc.
This is going to be devastating to SME's who cant put together a simple 12 month budget without the goalposts being moved & their margins squeezed.
It'll also be catastrophic to youngsters opportunities because businesses will simply not be able to afford to hire them.
What's also incredible is that anything above £50,270 is seen as 'high earnings' in the UK and is taxed at 40%!
We are governed by financially and economically illiterate morons.
This will not end well.
stu bennett retweeted
Footage from Whitehall shows pro Palestine protesters pushing and fighting with Metropolitan Police officers on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
In Gosport, local people protesting small boat landings were met with a town wide dispersal order, a face covering ban and 12 arrests.
Ordinary Britons get the full force of the law. Mobs marching on the anniversary of a terror attack get a set route and an escort.
@TalkTV
stu bennett retweeted
🚨 BEV CRAIG — THIS NEEDS EXPLAINING.
Bev Craig wasn't just “connected” to Manchester City's owners.
She was a director of Manchester Life while also leading Manchester City Council.
And who else sat in that company?
🔵 Martin Edelman — Manchester City board member
🔵 Simon Pearce — Manchester City board member and Abu Dhabi adviser
🔵 Sheikh Mansour — Manchester City owner, with majority control of Manchester Life
So Manchester's council leader was sitting inside a property company controlled by the same ownership network behind Manchester City.
Then look at the figures reported by BBC File on 4:
🏢 Council land went into Manchester Life without a competitive tender
📜 Six sites were given 999-year leases for £4.9m
💷 The council received £2.9m in 2023/24
💰 Sheikh Mansour-linked companies had reportedly earned over £39m since 2018
🏘️ Manchester Life's early developments delivered zero affordable homes
Craig declined the BBC's interview request.
And for years she was BOTH:
➡️ Leader of Manchester City Council
➡️ Director of Manchester Life
So here's the simple question:
Who was Bev Craig representing when decisions involving Manchester Life came before the council — the council, or the company she was also a director of?
Publish:
📄 Her Manchester Life board minutes
📄 Every conflict declaration
📄 Every time she removed herself from a decision
📄 Every land valuation
📄 Every payment between Manchester Life and the council
This isn't just football.
It's public land, public power and the same Manchester City ownership network sitting in the middle of it.
@MayorBevCraig @ManCityCouncil
#BevCraig #ManchesterCity #SheikhMansour #Manchester #PublicMoney
stu bennett retweeted
This was Burnham’s “promise” not to reopen Brexit on 18 May 2026.
Why? Because he had to win the Makerfield by-election, where two-thirds of his constituents voted to leave.
Utterly shameless and wrong.
BBC report here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21…
Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says PM Andy Burnham bbc.in/3TUr0pH
stu bennett retweeted
UK 2026 cases of more serious offences receiving less immediate custody than 2 years:
Callum Powell (nearly 3000 child abuse images, 178 Cat A): 12 months suspended
theargus.co.uk/news/26289497…
Clint Barnes (3 indecent assaults): 12 months suspended
devonlive.com/news/devon-new…
Bradley Wilks (GBH): 18 months suspended
warwickshireworld.com/news/c…
Thomas Fisher (strangling a child): 18 months suspended
somersetcountygazette.co.uk/…
The whole club is rotten & cursed from how we play, how opposition play against us, how we are reffed, everything.
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