“We’re all appalled at the idea of our club being used to sportswash a country where homosexuality is criminalised, women need a man’s permission to have a smear test, and migrant workers are treated like dirt… Andy Burnham has recently spoken (in the Guardian) about the need to reckon with Manchester’s historical links to slavery via the cotton trade. Right now in Qatar, migrant workers are subject to horrific exploitation, and thousands died building the World Cup stadiums. It’s no good talking about the past if you don’t take action in the present.”
Much like woke pundit and Starmer cheerleader Gary Neville, despite his high volume of football-focused output, Burnham appears to have so far remained silent on the matter. It’s another case of Qat-ari got your tongue…
Tory Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has been banned from driving for six months and fined £1,639 for speeding, having been caught for the second time within five months. Speed cameras filmed Jenrick bombing it down the M1 at 68 mph in a 40 zone last August, shortly after appearing on Any Questions at Wakefield Cathedral. It comes just days after Labour’s Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham was also caught burning rubber at 78 mph and fined a whopping £1,984. Yet more braking news…
Some braking news has presented a major speedbump to Andy Burnham’s leadership hopes. Over the weekend, the Manchester mayor was fined a whopping £1,984 and issued six penalty points for driving at nearly twice the speed limit. Burnham admitted “I was going too fast”. He was driving at 78 mph in a 40 zone.
Of all people, Guido might ordinarily be able to forgive some indiscretion behind the wheel. However, Andy’s dual carriageway crime comes with dual hypocrisy. Firstly, he has previously been vocal on the dangers of speeding. In a 2020 tweet he urged drivers to “PLEASE, SLOW DOWN”:
A simple message from me to the people still driving around & speeding: PLEASE, SLOW DOWN. There are more people - particularly kids - out & about on the pavements than normal, walking, running & cycling. We can’t take any more unnecessary injury or death. https://t.co/CkrrmWYzL7 pic.twitter.com/62kCxo1oTv
— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) April 8, 2020
His behaviour marks quite the change of pace…
Burnham also previously drove the agenda against law-breaking in office – particularly slamming Boris Johnson. In 2022, he called for Boris to resign, saying his position “indefensible”. He criticised the Prime Minister for undermining trust and integrity in politics – insisting his criticisms weren’t party political. Boris was fined £50. Andy’s criminality merited a fine 40 times more…
Andy Burnham has insisted it’s “an annoyance” to “constantly” answer questions about his totally non-existent Labour leadership ambitions. Speaking to BBC Radio Manchester this afternoon, Burnham ruled out standing in the upcoming Lancashire by-election, and vowed to see out his second term as Mayor of Greater Manchester. “I love what I’m doing”, he earnestly reassures listeners…
“My heart is in this job. I’m focused on it. It kind of has been an annoyance constantly to be asked about that. But I’ve never changed that script. I’ve always said I’d do a full second term and I will. I am very, very likely to stand for a third.”
Poor Andy. It must be really frustrating, especially when he seemingly spent every waking moment of Labour conference trying to make headlines…
