@alimcforever: Andy Burnham Another Shill Using the mining heritage as the backdrop for his leadership campaign. He references the coalfields. He references the working people. He references the forty years. He does not name who governed those forty years. He does not name what he voted for during those years. He does not name what he signed off. He voted for Iraq in 2003. He voted against a judicial inquiry into Iraq. Twice. He signed off the privatisation of Hinchingbrooke Hospital — the first NHS hospital in England run entirely for profit. He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. He called BDS "unjustified spitefulness." He called the Balfour Declaration "British values in action." Asked whether Gaza is a genocide, he said he cannot judge things of that enormity from where he is as mayor of Greater Manchester. (Parliamentary record; LFI hustings 2015; BBC, May 2026.) #manchester #makerfield #labour #uk #politics