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Anne Webb retweeted
We are ruled by idiots.
Do they not know every 15 year old revises GCSE’s on YouTube?
Do they not know that teenagers track their friends are home safely on SnapChat?
Do they not realise that - especially in rural areas with no transport - teenagers social lives are on… social media.
Do they not know that teenagers will find ways round - as has been shown in Australia.
This ban is illogical and damaging.
If I hear another parent say “it’s so hard to police them” I’ll scream. It’s a parent’s job. Take responsibility the children you are meant to be bringing up.
It is not the government’s job to look after your children.
But the government will now insist all adults provide ID to prove we are over 18.
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🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.
It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.
It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Just a couple of reminders of how much Starmer cares about the safety of kids.
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The State will give your children breakfast, help them choose their gender, and determine what information they are exposed to.
Some might say this overeach by the chunky jewellery class that did fuck all to protect children from predatory rape gangs.
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Now why would you disable replies on this, @sam_carling_ ???
Really pleased that my colleague Lauren Edwards is reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Terminally ill people deserve to have choice at the end of life, and I’m so pleased that Parliament will now have the ability to make a final decision on this Bill.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 14
And, of course, his first duty is to himself
Jun 12
Keir Starmer says it's his "duty" to remain as PM and will fight any leadership challenge
"It's not vanity. It's not stubbornness. It's duty"
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 13
Defeating Burnham is far far more important than anything else.
I’d hate to be the person that prevented the right from keeping him out of parliament.
Unforgivable.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 14
🚨 YOU HONESTLY HAVE TO LAUGH AT THE ABSOLUTE HYPOCRISY.
As I have been warning all week, Keir Starmer is desperately trying to lock down your internet and ban social media.
But look at what he is doing behind closed doors today. 🤡
He is literally begging Donald Trump for a special exemption from the new American ban on Anthropic.
Starmer wants to restrict exactly what you are allowed to see and say online, while demanding unrestricted access to the most powerful technology on the planet for his own government.
It is one rule for the globalist elite and a digital prison for the rest of you.
RT if you see right through Two-Tier Starmer and refuse to let them control us! 🇬🇧🔥
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 14
🚨NEW: A Daily Mail investigation claims a "shadowy" government unit, named RICU, intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 12
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When you think things can’t possibly get worse
When you pray they don’t
A 17-year-old girl is being treated in hospital after being stabbed in the neck.
Armed officers from Lancashire Police were deployed to the scene in Brierfield, near Nelson, and arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder.
The force said it had been called to Wood Street at 15:06 BST following reports that a girl had been stabbed in the back of the neck
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 12
Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.
Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.
I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.
This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.
We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 11
If you are of the view that millions of your fellow Britons are angry only because they have been “whipped up” by a few right-wing bogeymen, you truly do not understand your own country.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 11
Starmer has chosen his own job over the defence of our nation. He would have to sack Rachel Reeves in order to fund defence properly. He’s chosen not to do that because if the Chancellor goes, he goes. That is not patriotism. That is weak, selfish cowardice.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 11
This is the best analogy yet with a solution for the mess that the UK is now in economically.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it in my back garden and filled it with seed.
Within a week we had lots of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started… Building nests in the shed, in the eaves,in the fences and in my garden bushes.
Then came the shit. It was everywhere,on the patio,on the chairs,the table,windows..everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night And demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while,I couldn't even sit in my own back garden anymore. So I took down the Bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the garden.
Soon,the back yard was like It used to be ..... Quiet,serene.... And no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now let's see......
Our government gives out Free food,subsidised housing,free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegal’s came by the hundreds of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services,small apartments are housing 5 families,you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor,your child's second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box,I have to
press one to hear my bank talk to me in English,and people waving flags other than ”ours” are squawking and screaming in the streets,demanding more rights and free liberties.
Just my opinion,but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
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It has got nothing to do with you Khan. Sort out the problems in your own patch instead of shooting your mouth off. Nobody actually cares what you think. About anything, really.
We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.
My statement on recent events in Belfast.
ALT The knife attack in Belfast on Monday was truly horrific. My thoughts are with Stephen Ogilvy and his family, who deserve justice. Targeting and terrorising innocent people because of the colour of their skin, including setting fire to their homes, has nothing to do with justice or a desire to keep communities safe, however. It is racist mob violence, which has been organised, enabled and whipped up by those seeking to profit politically and financially from hatred, fear and disorder. Social media platforms who give money and reach to these individuals to promote their hate need to be held to account. They cannot be allowed to continue pouring petrol on the flames. The disgraceful violence is a direct consequence of the normalisation of vile, racist rhetoric across the UK, which needs to be challenged far more robustly in our political discourse. I welcome the steps the Prime Minister has taken to work with police and the First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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Anne Webb retweeted
Jun 9
Burnham facing fresh scrutiny as country's second-highest court hears his £140m loan deal for Manchester developers was 'obviously' unlawful trib.al/tOCCMlU
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Anne Webb retweeted
Call me old fashioned but I preferred our country before Somalians started trying to behead people in the street.
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Burnham's China Connection. The Letter. The Investors. The Pattern.
In early 2020, as the world was beginning to understand the scale of what was emerging from China, Andy Burnham wrote a letter. It was produced on official Greater Manchester Combined Authority headed paper. It was signed by him as Mayor. It exists in both English and Chinese versions. It was addressed to Mayor Zhang of Tianjin and classified as Internal Personal and Confidential.
The letter praises the speed at which the Chinese National Government mobilised to contain the virus and states that their timely response policies and the speed of containing the virus spread left a deep impression. The Chinese version is if anything more effusive. This was written at the precise moment the Chinese government was suppressing information about Covid, silencing the doctors who raised the alarm, and withholding data from the World Health Organisation. Burnham was commending their response while the cover-up was underway.
The letter is not an isolated courtesy. It references an ongoing relationship between Greater Manchester and Tianjin described as a continued relationship between our two regions. That relationship matters because it provides the institutional framework within which a pattern of Chinese financial engagement with Manchester has developed on Burnham's watch.
Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority lent £578 million in public money to developer Daren Whitaker of Renaker. The resulting luxury towers were actively marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. A marketing event was held in Hong Kong just weeks before the GMCA approved a £69 million loan for one of the developments. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings. Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent.
Meanwhile Manchester City Council, which Burnham's GMCA works alongside, selected Far East Consortium, a Hong Kong company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, as the lead developer for the Northern Gateway, the largest regeneration project in the city's history covering 350 acres and planned to deliver up to 15,000 homes. The construction of the first phase used China Zhejiang Construction Group Hong Kong, a subsidiary of the largest state owned construction enterprise in Zhejiang Province. A Chinese state owned contractor was building luxury towers in Manchester while a Hong Kong developer incorporated in the Cayman Islands was handed a £1 billion regeneration contract.
The pattern that emerges from assembling these documented facts is consistent and directional. A formal relationship with a Chinese city. A bilingual confidential letter praising the Chinese government's Covid response. Public money flowing to a developer whose luxury towers were marketed to Chinese investors. A Hong Kong developer chosen as partner for the city's largest regeneration project. A Chinese state owned contractor building the first phase.
Each element has an explanation available to it. Twinning relationships are routine. The Renaker loans were largely repaid. The FEC selection followed a competitive tender. The letter was a diplomatic courtesy.
But Burnham is not asking to remain Mayor of Greater Manchester. He is asking to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At that level the pattern of relationships, decisions and correspondence matters in a way it did not when he was managing a regional brief.
The letter exists. The relationship with Tianjin is documented. The Chinese investors are in the Companies House filings. The question of what a Burnham government's relationship with Beijing would look like is visible in Manchester. It has been for years.
"A Chinese state owned contractor was building luxury towers in Manchester while a Hong Kong developer incorporated in the Cayman Islands was handed a £1 billion regeneration contract."
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