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Rossendale West's prospective Lancashire County Council candidate, Jamie Rippingale, speaks to PoliticsJOE about his working-class roots, Labour cutting disability payments and the winter fuel allowance. Lancashire County Council #Rossendalewest #Rossendaleanddarwen Jamie Rippingale ➡️

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Karen1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Good luck Jamie, onward and upward!

The Liberation Project1 year ago

𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Scott Galloway, multi-millionaire professor, gives dire warning about the decline of American capitalism, expanding wealth inequality and far-right CEOs. ★ NEW ARTICLE ⬇️

Under a Tree1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU A kid!

SheildWall🔮🇬🇧1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU

freedomdad73🇬🇧🇺🇲🇷🇺🇮🇪1 year ago

@GusTay5999 @PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU The new labour

LORIAGNE GLAUCOMA! NOT SHOUTING!1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU VULTURES WAITING TO POUNCE.THEY CAN PISS OFF

Rob Mills1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Wonder why he hasn't currently got a job?

Martin Hepplewhite1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Yet Farage and Tice don't think Labour has gone far enough!!!

Phil Rees1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Ah yes, 'the party of the working class', that's run as a limited company by a couple of establishment millionaires who give their so-called members zero say. Naivety on steroids.

Ian Morton1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Disgraceful Labour cutting disability payments and winter fuel allowance Reform would abolish both and use it to pay for extra flights to America for Nige

RobJo1 year ago

@PoliticsJOE_UK @LancashireCC @JWRWHU Listen to the comments made by Richard Tice over the last week regarding disability benefits then look at the sheer hypocrisy of the comments being made

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James Melville 🚜

21,523 views • 10 months ago

Susanna Reid, "Hannah Spencer, winner for the Green party in Denton and Gorton moved you to tears" Carol Vorderman, "Yes" Susanna Reid, "I remember a time you were campaigning for Labour" Carol Vorderman, "No, I was never campaigning for Labour. Do you remember 18 months ago we had a 2 party system?" "I was part of a huge tactical voting website called Stop The Tories, now and along with another tactical voting website, over 6 million people typed their postcodes in, and that was directly responsible for stopping the Tories" "The Tories had the lowest number of MPs in their almost 400 year history, and I'm very happy about that" "Labour have thrown it away" Ed Balls, "What upsets you the most when you say Labour have thrown it away" Carol Vorderman, "Because they have e.g. the ridiculous announcement for the Winter Fuel Allowance, they went in so low" "We wanted them to stop corruption. Stop MPs from having 18 jobs. To stop foreign donations" Susanna Reid, "What do you say to people who say you should put your money where you mouth is and stand in Clacton" Carol Vorderman, "Why would I stand in Clacton?" Susanna Reid, "Against Nigel Farage and stop him. Do you think you could get enough votes in?" Carol Vorderman, "I don't live in Clacton, I'm not even sure I know if Nigel Farage knows how to spell it" "He's yet to have a surgery since the election" "Nigel Farage spent 140 working days doing other things" Ed Balls, "You are thinking of standing?" Carol Vorderman, "I would say I'm independent" "I think Farage is a total charlatan" "Farage is privately educated, he mixes with billionaires" "Hannah Spencer is very honest on how the money has been taken from the working class and given to the rich" "Farage is like a poundland Trump. Trump says fake news on a Monday, Farage says it on a Tuesday" Susanna Reid, "Would you stand as an MP? I've been asked so many times. I wouldn't say no now"

Susanna Reid, "Hannah Spencer, winner for the Green party in Denton and Gorton moved you to tears" Carol Vorderman, "Yes" Susanna Reid, "I remember a time you were campaigning for Labour" Carol Vorderman, "No, I was never campaigning for Labour. Do you remember 18 months ago we had a 2 party system?" "I was part of a huge tactical voting website called Stop The Tories, now and along with another tactical voting website, over 6 million people typed their postcodes in, and that was directly responsible for stopping the Tories" "The Tories had the lowest number of MPs in their almost 400 year history, and I'm very happy about that" "Labour have thrown it away" Ed Balls, "What upsets you the most when you say Labour have thrown it away" Carol Vorderman, "Because they have e.g. the ridiculous announcement for the Winter Fuel Allowance, they went in so low" "We wanted them to stop corruption. Stop MPs from having 18 jobs. To stop foreign donations" Susanna Reid, "What do you say to people who say you should put your money where you mouth is and stand in Clacton" Carol Vorderman, "Why would I stand in Clacton?" Susanna Reid, "Against Nigel Farage and stop him. Do you think you could get enough votes in?" Carol Vorderman, "I don't live in Clacton, I'm not even sure I know if Nigel Farage knows how to spell it" "He's yet to have a surgery since the election" "Nigel Farage spent 140 working days doing other things" Ed Balls, "You are thinking of standing?" Carol Vorderman, "I would say I'm independent" "I think Farage is a total charlatan" "Farage is privately educated, he mixes with billionaires" "Hannah Spencer is very honest on how the money has been taken from the working class and given to the rich" "Farage is like a poundland Trump. Trump says fake news on a Monday, Farage says it on a Tuesday" Susanna Reid, "Would you stand as an MP? I've been asked so many times. I wouldn't say no now"

Farrukh

720,557 views • 5 months ago

There’s only one antiwar, pro-worker campaign in this race. I am running for Congress as an independent antiwar socialist in WA state’s 9th district. There are two Democrats running against me. One is 29-year pro-war incumbent Adam Smith, and another is a candidate named Melissa Chaudhry. I recently attended a candidate interview. Adam Smith refused to attend. Clearly he prefers not to face my campaign which has relentlessly exposed his genocidal, anti-worker record. The other candidate, Chaudhry, would have working people believe that she is running a progressive antiwar campaign. But what are her actual positions? Nowhere has Chaudhry called for an end to military aid for Israel. The words genocide, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, or occupation don’t even appear on her website. I brought this up in the interview, and Chaudhry declined to respond. Nowhere does Chaudhry say anything about the need for universal public healthcare. Chaudhry also fails to say anything in support of trans and queer rights. When pressed, she admitted that she wanted to avoid offending a particular community. This is in the context of the horrific attacks against trans people by Trump and the right wing. Chaudhry is also silent about shutting down ICE and the detention centers. Her silence on all these crucial issues — the genocide, military aid to Israel, universal public healthcare, trans and queer rights, and ICE terror — is anything BUT progressive. Chaudhry recently assured a Democratic Party audience that she is a “team player.” It's clear what she means. She is happy to toe the line of the genocidal, anti-worker, anti-trans Democratic Party leadership to try to make a career for herself. The last thing working people need is another status quo careerist politician. Congress is full of them. What we need is a fighter for working people. If elected, I will use my Congressional office to build mass movements, like I did for a decade with my socialist Seattle City Council office, winning the nation’s highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax and landmark renters’ rights. Join us to build for the strongest antiwar working-class vote in this primary election that ends August 4th! #socialist #palestine #gaza

There’s only one antiwar, pro-worker campaign in this race. I am running for Congress as an independent antiwar socialist in WA state’s 9th district. There are two Democrats running against me. One is 29-year pro-war incumbent Adam Smith, and another is a candidate named Melissa Chaudhry. I recently attended a candidate interview. Adam Smith refused to attend. Clearly he prefers not to face my campaign which has relentlessly exposed his genocidal, anti-worker record. The other candidate, Chaudhry, would have working people believe that she is running a progressive antiwar campaign. But what are her actual positions? Nowhere has Chaudhry called for an end to military aid for Israel. The words genocide, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, or occupation don’t even appear on her website. I brought this up in the interview, and Chaudhry declined to respond. Nowhere does Chaudhry say anything about the need for universal public healthcare. Chaudhry also fails to say anything in support of trans and queer rights. When pressed, she admitted that she wanted to avoid offending a particular community. This is in the context of the horrific attacks against trans people by Trump and the right wing. Chaudhry is also silent about shutting down ICE and the detention centers. Her silence on all these crucial issues — the genocide, military aid to Israel, universal public healthcare, trans and queer rights, and ICE terror — is anything BUT progressive. Chaudhry recently assured a Democratic Party audience that she is a “team player.” It's clear what she means. She is happy to toe the line of the genocidal, anti-worker, anti-trans Democratic Party leadership to try to make a career for herself. The last thing working people need is another status quo careerist politician. Congress is full of them. What we need is a fighter for working people. If elected, I will use my Congressional office to build mass movements, like I did for a decade with my socialist Seattle City Council office, winning the nation’s highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax and landmark renters’ rights. Join us to build for the strongest antiwar working-class vote in this primary election that ends August 4th! #socialist #palestine #gaza

Kshama Sawant

32,896 views • 2 months ago

🚩Labour’s Marque candidate - Indian Rakesh Naidoo (considered by Labour Insiders to be a future candidate for PM) to lose Police job for duplicitous behaviour. Labours highest ranking new candidate who at no.13 is going to be forced to stand down from his Senior Police position over concerns that he failed to inform the commissioner that he was going to be a candidate for Parliament, while being a privy to the current Govt’s future policies, a deceit Commissioner Chambers this afternoon means his role is now untenable. Rakesh Naidoo’s whose list ranking nearly assures him a seat in parliament, is a senior member of NZ Police : Ethnic & iwi engagement i.e head of DEI. Naidoo moved to NZ to work as an advisor for none other than the hard left Human Rights Commission Race Relations. He also established himself into all other DEI garbage outfits such as Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Committee member; Sport NZ board and he helped establish NZ Police’s Ethnic Strategy. Naidoo was responsible for “diversity” in policing, community partnerships, and “full selves” at work campaign (something that Luxon still espouses). More concerningly, Naidoo was also heavily involved in the Police’s Work on hate speech crime the program ‘Te Raranga Weave’. Naidoo is NZ’s Sadiq Khan. He is married to Vanisa Dhir who explicity advocated for transgender-inclusive policies through her leadership of the National Council of Women NZ (NCWNZ). As president, she drove and publicly defended the organisation’s 2019 decision to expand from women’s rights to “all genders,” explicitly including transgender women, trans men, and non-binary people. NCWNZ voted to support the Gender Equal NZ movement for equality for all genders, not just women. Dhiru stated this was essential because “non-binary and trans people face discrimination as much as women do, if not more.” A gender-equal NZ “will not be achieved if non-binary and trans people are not able to express their identity fully and freely.” Dhir told RNZ. Below Laws discusses Labour’s list, noting that Greg O’Connor was gunned down for being white, working class, male, old and heterosexual. In the Top 15 spots, 12 on their list are women. Naidoo has stated that he ‘Views NZ through a lens of settlement, diversity, and inclusion’… this DEI Clown is dangerous, he’s wrecked the cops and now he wants to wreck the country. Labour has long ago left the blue collar workers for the blue haired wankers.

🚩Labour’s Marque candidate - Indian Rakesh Naidoo (considered by Labour Insiders to be a future candidate for PM) to lose Police job for duplicitous behaviour. Labours highest ranking new candidate who at no.13 is going to be forced to stand down from his Senior Police position over concerns that he failed to inform the commissioner that he was going to be a candidate for Parliament, while being a privy to the current Govt’s future policies, a deceit Commissioner Chambers this afternoon means his role is now untenable. Rakesh Naidoo’s whose list ranking nearly assures him a seat in parliament, is a senior member of NZ Police : Ethnic & iwi engagement i.e head of DEI. Naidoo moved to NZ to work as an advisor for none other than the hard left Human Rights Commission Race Relations. He also established himself into all other DEI garbage outfits such as Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Committee member; Sport NZ board and he helped establish NZ Police’s Ethnic Strategy. Naidoo was responsible for “diversity” in policing, community partnerships, and “full selves” at work campaign (something that Luxon still espouses). More concerningly, Naidoo was also heavily involved in the Police’s Work on hate speech crime the program ‘Te Raranga Weave’. Naidoo is NZ’s Sadiq Khan. He is married to Vanisa Dhir who explicity advocated for transgender-inclusive policies through her leadership of the National Council of Women NZ (NCWNZ). As president, she drove and publicly defended the organisation’s 2019 decision to expand from women’s rights to “all genders,” explicitly including transgender women, trans men, and non-binary people. NCWNZ voted to support the Gender Equal NZ movement for equality for all genders, not just women. Dhiru stated this was essential because “non-binary and trans people face discrimination as much as women do, if not more.” A gender-equal NZ “will not be achieved if non-binary and trans people are not able to express their identity fully and freely.” Dhir told RNZ. Below Laws discusses Labour’s list, noting that Greg O’Connor was gunned down for being white, working class, male, old and heterosexual. In the Top 15 spots, 12 on their list are women. Naidoo has stated that he ‘Views NZ through a lens of settlement, diversity, and inclusion’… this DEI Clown is dangerous, he’s wrecked the cops and now he wants to wreck the country. Labour has long ago left the blue collar workers for the blue haired wankers.

Holyhekatuiteka

25,021 views • 2 months ago

Keir Starmer Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the local elections held on May 7, 2026. Early results confirm Labour is shedding well over 1,000 council seats across England, with projections warning of losses nearing 1,900 from the seats they defended. This crushing outcome marks a damning midterm verdict on his government, barely two years after the 2024 landslide. Voters have turned away in droves, and the message is unmistakable. Starmer's time as leader is finished. Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has stormed ahead with hundreds of seats already won and forecasts exceeding 1,300 gains overall. The surge has hit hardest in Labour's former northern heartlands, including Hartlepool and Wigan, where traditional supporters have abandoned him completely. Persistent failures on immigration, with small boats still crossing daily, have exposed his weakness on border control. Combined with cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners and relentless pressure on household budgets, these choices have left people feeling ignored and betrayed. Starmer entered office promising competence and stability, yet he has delivered drift, broken pledges, and growing resentment instead. His approval ratings sit deep in negative territory, reflecting how few people now rate him as prime minister. Protests, banners, and loud public demands for his resignation have intensified, as the public signals that enough is enough. Even within Labour ranks, backbench voices are rising to question his leadership and to push for change. Prediction markets now heavily favour his exit before the year ends. Local elections may not decide government, but this result strips away any remaining illusion of support. Nobody trusts him to fix the problems he helped create or worsen. In truth, Starmer never grew into the decisive figure the country needed. He campaigned as a safe pair of hands but has governed as a reactive and out-of-touch administrator, lacking vision or courage on the issues that matter most. Two-tier decisions, slow economic progress, and tax rises have squeezed families while he appeared distant from everyday realities. The public does not merely dislike his record. They have rejected it outright. His time is done, and the pressure will only mount until he recognises what everyone else already sees. Labour now faces a stark choice: cling to a failing leader and slide further, or move on before the damage becomes irreversible. The coming days will test whether Starmer finally accepts the inevitable or continues to cling to power that the voters have already withdrawn.

Keir Starmer Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the local elections held on May 7, 2026. Early results confirm Labour is shedding well over 1,000 council seats across England, with projections warning of losses nearing 1,900 from the seats they defended. This crushing outcome marks a damning midterm verdict on his government, barely two years after the 2024 landslide. Voters have turned away in droves, and the message is unmistakable. Starmer's time as leader is finished. Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has stormed ahead with hundreds of seats already won and forecasts exceeding 1,300 gains overall. The surge has hit hardest in Labour's former northern heartlands, including Hartlepool and Wigan, where traditional supporters have abandoned him completely. Persistent failures on immigration, with small boats still crossing daily, have exposed his weakness on border control. Combined with cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners and relentless pressure on household budgets, these choices have left people feeling ignored and betrayed. Starmer entered office promising competence and stability, yet he has delivered drift, broken pledges, and growing resentment instead. His approval ratings sit deep in negative territory, reflecting how few people now rate him as prime minister. Protests, banners, and loud public demands for his resignation have intensified, as the public signals that enough is enough. Even within Labour ranks, backbench voices are rising to question his leadership and to push for change. Prediction markets now heavily favour his exit before the year ends. Local elections may not decide government, but this result strips away any remaining illusion of support. Nobody trusts him to fix the problems he helped create or worsen. In truth, Starmer never grew into the decisive figure the country needed. He campaigned as a safe pair of hands but has governed as a reactive and out-of-touch administrator, lacking vision or courage on the issues that matter most. Two-tier decisions, slow economic progress, and tax rises have squeezed families while he appeared distant from everyday realities. The public does not merely dislike his record. They have rejected it outright. His time is done, and the pressure will only mount until he recognises what everyone else already sees. Labour now faces a stark choice: cling to a failing leader and slide further, or move on before the damage becomes irreversible. The coming days will test whether Starmer finally accepts the inevitable or continues to cling to power that the voters have already withdrawn.

Vote Canada

29,585 views • 3 months ago

FLASHBACK TEXAS! 🚨 ALERT FLORIDA! The great Allen West has always been one of the bravest and most outspoken critics of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2011, Nezar Hamze—then the director of CAIR’s South Florida chapter—tried to publicly confront Congressman Allen West over his warnings about Islamic terrorism and the Quran. Watch what happened: Allen West stood his ground boldly and unapologetically—refusing to back down while Hamze tried to twist the truth about jihad, Islam, and terror. ▶️ In the video, Hamze demands that West show "where the Quran says to attack America." West calmly and forcefully reminds him: “Of course the Quran doesn’t say attack America—America didn’t exist then! But it absolutely calls for the killing of infidels. Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt and tell me otherwise.” 🔥 Allen West was right then—and he’s still right today. And guess what? 🔎 Nezar Hamze, the same CAIR activist who confronted Allen West, is now working inside law enforcement—as a high-ranking member of the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO) in Florida! (Deputy Sheriff with the Broward County Sheriff's Office) CAIR’s long game is clear: Infiltrate. Intimidate. Influence. Texas must wake up fast—and take a lesson from Allen West’s courage. We must reject Hamas-linked CAIR from our capitol buildings, our law enforcement, our schools, and every institution they are trying to corrupt. NO CAIR in Texas government. NO CAIR Capitol Day. Not now. Not ever.

FLASHBACK TEXAS! 🚨 ALERT FLORIDA! The great Allen West has always been one of the bravest and most outspoken critics of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2011, Nezar Hamze—then the director of CAIR’s South Florida chapter—tried to publicly confront Congressman Allen West over his warnings about Islamic terrorism and the Quran. Watch what happened: Allen West stood his ground boldly and unapologetically—refusing to back down while Hamze tried to twist the truth about jihad, Islam, and terror. ▶️ In the video, Hamze demands that West show "where the Quran says to attack America." West calmly and forcefully reminds him: “Of course the Quran doesn’t say attack America—America didn’t exist then! But it absolutely calls for the killing of infidels. Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt and tell me otherwise.” 🔥 Allen West was right then—and he’s still right today. And guess what? 🔎 Nezar Hamze, the same CAIR activist who confronted Allen West, is now working inside law enforcement—as a high-ranking member of the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO) in Florida! (Deputy Sheriff with the Broward County Sheriff's Office) CAIR’s long game is clear: Infiltrate. Intimidate. Influence. Texas must wake up fast—and take a lesson from Allen West’s courage. We must reject Hamas-linked CAIR from our capitol buildings, our law enforcement, our schools, and every institution they are trying to corrupt. NO CAIR in Texas government. NO CAIR Capitol Day. Not now. Not ever.

Amy Mek

38,713 views • 1 year ago

Reform supporters keep telling me I am lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear. Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin. An insurance-based system means you pay when you get sick. It means cancer treatment becomes a financial crisis as well as a medical one. It means missed payments risk your home. That is how private healthcare systems work. Can you afford that on top of rent food energy and council tax. Now imagine this after years of pressure on public services. Imagine what a Labour government might leave behind and then imagine Reform coming in on top of that with cuts. Because it does not stop at healthcare. Nigel Farage has also talked about cutting 68,000 public sector jobs. Those are British jobs. Processing benefits running borders staffing services keeping the country functioning. At the same time he has questioned minimum wage protections for young people. Lower pay fewer jobs higher bills. How exactly are people meant to cope. This is not about left or right. It is about consequences. Do not vote to make your own life harder. You have already had it hard enough.

Reform supporters keep telling me I am lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear. Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin. An insurance-based system means you pay when you get sick. It means cancer treatment becomes a financial crisis as well as a medical one. It means missed payments risk your home. That is how private healthcare systems work. Can you afford that on top of rent food energy and council tax. Now imagine this after years of pressure on public services. Imagine what a Labour government might leave behind and then imagine Reform coming in on top of that with cuts. Because it does not stop at healthcare. Nigel Farage has also talked about cutting 68,000 public sector jobs. Those are British jobs. Processing benefits running borders staffing services keeping the country functioning. At the same time he has questioned minimum wage protections for young people. Lower pay fewer jobs higher bills. How exactly are people meant to cope. This is not about left or right. It is about consequences. Do not vote to make your own life harder. You have already had it hard enough.

Daniel Lismore

111,092 views • 8 months ago

POSTMAN SERVED 42 YEARS. THE POST OFFICE SERVED HIM A PRISON SENTENCE Noel Thomas spent 42 years working for the Post Office. He started as a postman on Anglesey in 1965, then ran the Gaerwen branch with his wife Eira for over a decade. He had also served as a Plaid Cymru county councillor since 1986, the kind of man villages build community halls around. In 2006 the Post Office accused him of stealing £48,000. The evidence came from Horizon, a computer system with a talent for inventing crimes nobody committed. On legal advice he pleaded guilty to false accounting to avoid a theft charge and stop his legal bill climbing further. He was jailed for 9 months. The Post Office's opening move was sending him to HMP Liverpool Walton, locked in his cell 23 hours a day. After a week he was moved to HMP Kirkham, where he worked in the prison greenhouses. He was released after 12 weeks for good behaviour, fitted with an electronic tag as a parting gift. While he sat in prison the Post Office made sure he lost his council seat too. A man who had served the community since 1986 was disqualified from Anglesey Council over a shortfall a faulty computer system invented. His pension, earned over 42 years, was gone. The family sold their home to their own son just to keep it out of the Post Office's reach, then moved in with daughter Sian. In 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction, one of 39 overturned that day after the Post Office admitted it would not contest most of the appeals. Sir Alan Bates, the Craig-y-Don postmaster who built the entire legal fight against the Post Office, had been organising support for people like Thomas since 2009. After ITV dramatised the scandal in Mr Bates vs The Post Office in January 2024, politicians who had said nothing for years suddenly found strong feelings about Noel Thomas. Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie posted online about securing him a meeting with Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake Kevin Hollinrake MP. Thomas's daughter Sian told her on X to stop, said she had never met her, and called the sudden interest opportunism. Llinos Medi Llinos Medi AS/MP, then the Plaid Cymru candidate for the seat and now its sitting MP, made the same accusation in public. Anglesey Council later held a formal vote of gratitude for Thomas, with Cllr Bob Parry telling colleagues he would never forget the image of him being led into a police van. Last year Bangor University Bangor University gave him an honorary degree for exposing the truth. Weeks later the Gorsedd of the Bards inducted him at the National Eisteddfod. Wales gave him robes and a doctorate. The Post Office gave him a prison number. He is 77 now. 42 years handing out stamps and listening to a village's problems. 9 months in a cell for a crime a computer invented. 15 years spent clearing his name. A doctorate. A seat among the bards. The one thing nobody can give him back is the years he spent proving he never stole a penny. SOURCES: BBC Wales News Nick Wallis North Wales Live ITVWales and many others.

POSTMAN SERVED 42 YEARS. THE POST OFFICE SERVED HIM A PRISON SENTENCE Noel Thomas spent 42 years working for the Post Office. He started as a postman on Anglesey in 1965, then ran the Gaerwen branch with his wife Eira for over a decade. He had also served as a Plaid Cymru county councillor since 1986, the kind of man villages build community halls around. In 2006 the Post Office accused him of stealing £48,000. The evidence came from Horizon, a computer system with a talent for inventing crimes nobody committed. On legal advice he pleaded guilty to false accounting to avoid a theft charge and stop his legal bill climbing further. He was jailed for 9 months. The Post Office's opening move was sending him to HMP Liverpool Walton, locked in his cell 23 hours a day. After a week he was moved to HMP Kirkham, where he worked in the prison greenhouses. He was released after 12 weeks for good behaviour, fitted with an electronic tag as a parting gift. While he sat in prison the Post Office made sure he lost his council seat too. A man who had served the community since 1986 was disqualified from Anglesey Council over a shortfall a faulty computer system invented. His pension, earned over 42 years, was gone. The family sold their home to their own son just to keep it out of the Post Office's reach, then moved in with daughter Sian. In 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction, one of 39 overturned that day after the Post Office admitted it would not contest most of the appeals. Sir Alan Bates, the Craig-y-Don postmaster who built the entire legal fight against the Post Office, had been organising support for people like Thomas since 2009. After ITV dramatised the scandal in Mr Bates vs The Post Office in January 2024, politicians who had said nothing for years suddenly found strong feelings about Noel Thomas. Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie posted online about securing him a meeting with Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake Kevin Hollinrake MP. Thomas's daughter Sian told her on X to stop, said she had never met her, and called the sudden interest opportunism. Llinos Medi Llinos Medi AS/MP, then the Plaid Cymru candidate for the seat and now its sitting MP, made the same accusation in public. Anglesey Council later held a formal vote of gratitude for Thomas, with Cllr Bob Parry telling colleagues he would never forget the image of him being led into a police van. Last year Bangor University Bangor University gave him an honorary degree for exposing the truth. Weeks later the Gorsedd of the Bards inducted him at the National Eisteddfod. Wales gave him robes and a doctorate. The Post Office gave him a prison number. He is 77 now. 42 years handing out stamps and listening to a village's problems. 9 months in a cell for a crime a computer invented. 15 years spent clearing his name. A doctorate. A seat among the bards. The one thing nobody can give him back is the years he spent proving he never stole a penny. SOURCES: BBC Wales News Nick Wallis North Wales Live ITVWales and many others.

Artur Nadolny

25,948 views • 28 days ago