Andy Connor

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Politely fried tf outta my man

Valencia before he became a RB?

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

4 frame comic. a street journalist, off frame, asks someone with long hair exiting the subway : miss! do you think it's fair for biological female athletes to be forced to compete with transgenders? she replies : that's not a question. every year, new studies show that trans women have no inherent athletic advantages over cis women. science and research have settled this already.* *a meta-study published this month in the british journal of sports medicine reviewed 52 studies with 5252 trans athlete participants. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198 what's unfair is how female athletes, cis or trans, must endure constant, unrestrained sexual misconduct throughout their formative years to simply get a shot at competing at an elite level. just last month, a report* showed that 88% of surveyed u.k. elite athletes of the int'l women's sports collective reported sexual misconduct, and 40% reported sexual abuse. 93% of the time, perpetrators were cis men. *"Women’s experiences of sexual misconduct working in UK elite sport," summary report by Lindsey Simpson, 2026

That's not a question.

To understand how much Alex Massie actually cares about women's safety: when I called out his transphobe-in-arms Nick Cohen for multiple acts of sexual misconduct against cis women, which eventually got him sacked, Massie went berserk at me.

Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.

Alex Massie trumped up a fake campaign in the times to claim hundreds of rape convictions for women in the justice system were actually trans women despite the numbers covering several hundred more convictions than there are trans women in prison for any crime.

'People who wear suits to work are more aspirational than Bus/train drivers and factory workers' doesn't sound very Labour. Or at least it didn't used to.

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Fuck Trump.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck ChatGPT for being the largest funders of the modern day gestapo & and a fucking rapist, murderer & paedophile!

Added to the boycott list indefinitely. 👊❌️

"We need politicians who will tell it straight..."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

Insisting boys must be strong is “gender ideology.”

Telling girls to be nurturing is “gender ideology.”

Assuming that kids ought to grow up to be heterosexual and get married is “gender ideology.”

This gender ideology is everywhere. It just goes unnoticed because society mandates it as “normal.”

Horrific new Epstein files accuse Trump of orally raping child, then beating her Newly released Epstein files contain graphic allegations against Donald Trump, including child rape and violence. The documents are explosive

Newly released Epstein files contain graphic allegations against Donald Trump, including child rape and violence. The documents are deeply disturbing

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This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.

Wonder why that is.

Inside Zack Polanskis night in Heaven

Can't even go out for a dance without these guys having an opinion!

Gorton & Denton is Greens Vs Reform.

We must make sure hope wins.

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Infantino's Fifa making money out of selling low-level games to data collection agencies and, beyond, legal and *illegal* bookmakers. Great work by @samindrakunti.bsky.social and @stevemenary.bsky.social for @playthegame-org.bsky.social.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

As close to 400 as possible. Ideally more, but England do tend to lose wickets in groups

Manchester Evening News headline 'Anthony Joshua to lose £32m prize money after Jake Paul victory' and then goes on to clarify that this just means he'll pay tax like a responsible UK citizen.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.

When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.

Happening under a Labour Government.

A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism

Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC

This story has just disappeared out of view. Why? It has it all: a PL club owner, gambling, aristo black sheep/Farage aide whose mother was the King's girlfriend and dad went to school with ex-prince Andrew, what more do you want, dear British media?
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For years, S*n 'journalists' covered up the sexual abuse by a famous cis man while telling everybody to hate trans women in order to protect women.

This isn't even the first time this has happened.

How so many cis people don't see what's happening is revealing.

This is the only reason I can think of no one mentioning dropping Crawley during series, no one to replace him. 60+ tests and average of 30 doesn't warrant that level of faith!

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters

His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed

A 43 year old married father of two

He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland

No experience with guns

He was walking past

He has two bullets in his arm

I fucking hate this shit.

This is bullying and abuse. If you’re part of a system like this, you’re a twat.

Don’t do it