@stuey_beef Fuck anyone who went to Ireland and killed innocents.
Fuck anyone who killed any innocents anywhere.
Putting on a uniform doesn’t protect you from being a murderer.
Let’s go after his superiors also.
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A British soldier served in Northern Ireland. Risked his life. Followed orders. Came home.
He is now in his 70s.
Keir Starmer’s Government has decided he deserves to spend his final years in court.
The IRA got the Good Friday Agreement.
The veterans got Keir Starmer.
Remember that next time he talks about “values.”
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@moving_charlie I resent Rupert, but he’s played a blinder here.
He’s listened to what’s affecting a generation. He’s promised some things that will help.
Until other parties listen and respond like this people will see no other option.
The only other option for this generation is green.
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Fighting talk on housing. A new party enters the ring. A boomer bashes boomers.
Electable party or not, all housing policies influence the debate.
This is the most aggressive housing policy I’ve yet seen from a party, big or small.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
Owning a home is FAR more difficult for young men and women today than it was for my generation. That’s just a fact. Average earnings have not kept pace with average house prices - to suggest otherwise is ignorant. The gap has grown at an astronomical rate. The young have every right to feel pissed off, I’m angry for them. And I detest this patronising attitude of people my age that we just happened to manage it all so much better through ‘common sense’ and fewer avocados. There are millions of young Brits who work hard, take care of their money and dedicate themselves - and yes, they are struggling to find a proper home. They have done nothing wrong. In fact, they’ve done everything right but the system still failed them. I am ensuring that there is a political party to finally represent them - Restore Britain is that party. A party that supports the aspirational and committed young British men and women. Scrapping interest on student loans. Stripping back the power of empire-building planning bureaucrats who cruelly prevent sensible house-building in fair locations. Crushing the overbearing regulations that make building anything so very cumbersome. Overhauling leasehold rules which trap owners with mutating service charges. Ending the vindictive war on landlords to make sustainably renting a proper option. Slashing tax to hand back financial control. Entirely abolishing stamp duty for Brits. Because we will not tinker with the status quo, we will not conserve it, we will not reform it. We will fundamentally change how this country operates. The model must break. I will make you one promise. Restore Britain will break it.
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@travelingflying What are you on about? What world do you live in?
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@milty87 @john_ford77 @Dougmcg1 Exactly, I remember it when I was a kid. If supermarkets wanna save money by using further security that’s fine, but it’s nothing new that people shoplift
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@john_ford77 @Dougmcg1 Can confirm following a misspent youth in non-chain pubs this has been going on for donkeys years.
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Let's frame it another way.
People have become so poor they need to steal food.
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK
Britain has become so lawless that we now have to put security tags on £7.25 steaks. What has happened to this country?
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@Z1NGZ1NGZ1NGBAH @WovenDissent @john_ford77 @BackYouGo @Dougmcg1 What a fucking freak you are you sad sack of shit.
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@WovenDissent @john_ford77 @BackYouGo @Dougmcg1 When you say brown, do you include Africans?
They are brown but we call them black (nіggers)
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@WovenDissent @john_ford77 @BackYouGo @Dougmcg1 Ive only ever seen white locals do these in my pubs.
Do you have the stats for this or are you making shit up?
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@john_ford77 @BackYouGo @Dougmcg1 And let’s be clear, it’s migrants doing this
BROWN MIGRANTS mainly
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@OJLonTweets @Edwina_Currie You’re a bit of a cunt aren’t you
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I live in the Peak District. In a 3bed 400 year old cottage.
And the only people who’ll benefit from any growth in its value are HMRC via
Inheritance Tax, and (perhaps, if anything is left) my family.
Not me.
OJ@OJLonTweets
Sell the home you bought for £15k for £1.5m despite having done nothing for that windfall, and then we’ll listen to you.
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@GayleLeith @redrumlisa No they don’t and if you believe that, someone is lying to you.
The triple lock is unsustainable.
Pensioners who need support should get support.
Simple.
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@redrumlisa And of course the middle class would like to take that away.
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And the State pension was always designed to only give the working class a year or two at most & I think this is the crux to the middle class Millenial & Gen Zers anger over pensions they dont think the working class deserve a decent life. Nothing new they never did. Their anger is deindustrialisation has allowed the working class a few extra years
Ollyp3@ollyp3
In the most deprived parts of Glasgow & Dundee @theSNP strongholds life expectancy is below pension age - Males in the 20% most deprived areas have life expectancy around 67.8 years - Specific deprived neighborhoods historically show figures as low as the mid-60s (e.g., areas like Greater Govan or parts of the east end) - The intra-city gap can exceed 15 years between the most and least deprived neighborhoods (e.g., ~65-68 years in poorest vs. 80+ in affluent ones like Pollokshields West). Imagine the pension age is higher than life expectancy already in SNP voting areas.
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@flowerpotweller @SandyofSuffolk She’s deliberately inflammatory. She winds people up then blocks. She makes money off of it.
She has no basis in reality or for any good reason, she is simply here to make money.
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This @SandyofSuffolk blocked me ages ago. She’s now resurfaced to tell young people that they shouldn’t marry, shouldn’t eat, shouldn’t holiday, should commute for 3 hours, and should live in a shithole. If we forsake any of this, we are lazy.
The epitome of the eternal boomer.
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@_willow80 @SandyofSuffolk The statistics show that’s not the case and your refusal to hear that is part of the problem. You’re listening to the narrative that’s been designed to keep us ignoring the problems
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@StephanProwell @SandyofSuffolk British people as we’re all known have gotten lazy fact .Give me any British person struggling that is prepared to work hard and I change their life around as well as their mindset .Do this’s over and over again and we change their life around demographic
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Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?"
Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything.
And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates.
And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up.
Just so you know.
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@1966_andallthat @confidencenac They don’t finance their pension the same way. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a pension and it shouldn’t be as high as possible.
I’ve said the system is wrong.
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@StephanProwell @confidencenac Compare the UK pension to any other European country. The French would be burning the place down if they were on £12.5k per year.
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@GillardGlyn @OReganJJ @confidencenac If you’ve noticed I’ve been nothing but genuine in this conversation.
If you want to start flinging jokes that’s fine, but it shows to me that you don’t understand my point.
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@Rab_Dickson1 You were told you’d be entitled to it.
But if it continues growing at this rate, and wages stay stagnant, the state pension will eclipse minimum wage, eclipse median wage, within 40 years.
People’s entitlement at that time won’t matter, so it has to be changed.
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Let’s clear this up for the hard of thinking.
I have a very good pension.
I don’t need the state pension.
But I am entitled to it because I worked for it.
That doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion on how laughably shite the state pension is or how stupid young people can be
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@LordCharles111 Because that education leads to jobs that pay the pensions…
That’s the system.
The pensioners generation set up this system.
If it’s failing, then let us change it
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Why should older people pay for your education you ungrateful little cunt?
Reem Ibrahim@ReemAmirIbrahim
Why should young people have to pay for someone else’s retirement? If you live in a million pound house, and you can’t afford to retire, sell the house. Or don’t. I don’t care. You just can’t expect young people to pay for you!
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@_willow80 @SandyofSuffolk You know at most, 0.0005% of the U.K. It’s not sensible to base your political opinions on such a small sample as it doesn’t represent reality, just your life.
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@StephanProwell @SandyofSuffolk Strongly disagree,I know many people that complain but are more than happy to do the bare minimum…,,,it’s almost become British!Get off your ass dream big and go get it.Ffs my 16yr old studying for GCSEs is making 20k+ a yr at 16
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@OReganJJ @GillardGlyn @confidencenac junior doctors, who save lives, who should get more than many people, especially if we want them to stay, shouldn’t get more?
Junior doctors do not take 15% of public spending
I don’t begrudge pensioners, they’ve been forced into this situation. But it literally cannot last
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@StephanProwell @GillardGlyn @confidencenac How much do junior doctors get? 30%? And will soon strike for more. There are pensioners that have worked for over 40 years contributed tax and ni all their lives and you begrudge them 4%, which most will now have to pay tax on.
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@_willow80 @SandyofSuffolk It’s a documented fact.
There are people working hard, saving, trying, and they are getting nothing.
Yes it *can* work, but it should almost always work.
People aren’t disengaged because they’re lazy, it’s because it’s been made pointless for so many.
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@_willow80 @SandyofSuffolk You aren’t listening.
If we financially exclude 20,30,40% of people from being able to take part in society, we will cause social problems, crime, growing unemployment, homelessness, violence, hatred, it goes on and on and costs more and more
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@StephanProwell @SandyofSuffolk 1 percent of average,don’t be average bud and anything is possible.I left school with nothing worked hard dreamed big made dreams reality and now life’s easy ,too many people settle for average it’s like it’s built into brits
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@GillardGlyn @richardparke15 @confidencenac Back in the day when people couldn’t get work, the gov actually tried to make more jobs, better wages.
Now the gov is happy to pay more for people to stay trapped spending everything they have on living, and recouping the losses into businesses to make more money for the uppers
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@StephanProwell @richardparke15 @confidencenac Or perhaps get many of the idle millions sat at home claiming benefits to get of their arses and do some work.
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@daphnemorgan12 @confidencenac Indeed, if the government cared about making people’s lives better instead of just throwing money at people rather than addressing the underlying problems, then maybe we’d take steps in the right direction.
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@StephanProwell @confidencenac As are public sector defined benefit pensions. Or benefits. I could go on.
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