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@NathanPerr55913 @theyellows Don't live local but try to see #Theyellows as often as I can. Guiseley away was a shocker. Big crowd there today as well. Just don't look like a side with confidence and the ability to win games when needed.

@theyellows Carden out! And a full rebuild of the squad is needed otherwise next year will just be the same.

Ben Hardcastle's goal the difference between the two sides.

@flcro @RajanBarot24 @David__Osland @snowleopardess I belive currently estimate of average annual UK pensioner income is £14664. That would still put us very low compared to other comparable countries, no matter how you spin it.

@RajanBarot24 @David__Osland @snowleopardess …on state pensions. It’s about 15% nowadays, while the other 85% have other sources of income as well, which means the average income is considerably above state pension alone.

When I started paying National Insurance contributions in 1976, the deal was that I'd get a pension providing for a basic standard of living in a then-unimaginable 50 years' time. But now I've finally got there, it's just half the minimum wage.

@MayRa02703866 @PeterHarry567 Only if you are claiming the pension though......

@PeterHarry567 If you’re over state pension age you shouldn’t be paying any NI.

To all the whining shots bleating about the old age pension. If the gov give me 150k which is 50% roughly of what I have paid in, ( they get 50% for NHS and benefits) I will fund my own retirement. Oh and only pay 50% NI from now on as I still fucking work!

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@TS1867 @SandyofSuffolk NI has been treated as just another form of taxation by successive governments for a long time. There is no ring fenced pot. That's the choice made by politicians, not us.

@HoratioKMH @SandyofSuffolk You paid NI for the welfare of others & yourself. Tax went elsewhere

£12,000 per annum to a British pensioner whose paid NI and tax for 45 years? Or £50,000 per annum to a family of Somalians who've never paid tax or NI. And never will? But 'refugees' welcome, eh? 🙄😡

I asked grok this question: "If a UK employee started work in an average paying job 46 years ago, and retired today, still in an average paying job, and they and their employer paid NI all of the time, how much would that NI money have grown to by age 67, and what weekly pension could it buy, if it had been invested in a UK stockmarket tracker during those 46 years?" Grok's answer: Approximately £930,000 lump sum, which could buy a single-life level annuity paying roughly £1,400 per week (or around £900–£1,100 per week if inflation-linked/RPI-linked). Bear in mind that the full state pension for someone retiring today is about £230 per week. Just shows you what might be possible if employees' NI was actually invested in a pot for the future, rather than squandered by the government of the day, and if governments didn't operate on the basis of futile hopes that there will be enough NI payers 40 years from now to cover all the pensions when they are due. The right time to start a scheme like this to gradually phase out the existing Ponzi-based state pension scheme and stop being a hostage to our future demographics was decades ago, but the next best time is right now.

@Georginatv5 @isnit0 @cfdownes_ We won't be getting any government out in May 26. These are local council elections. Do keep up.

@isnit0 @cfdownes_ Guys Stop the squabbling We need to all stick together and focus on our main common goal - getting our country sorted This government is ripping us apart Let’s get them out May26 and focus on what really matters

For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.

🚨The state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day — but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why we’re in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Here’s the truth: National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your “stamps” to build entitlement to your state pension — exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads. Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose. Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go — today’s workers funding today’s pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government). Why are we here now? • Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans. • Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised. • Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard. Now the gaslighting ramps up: “No one paid into a pot.” “It’s just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.” “The triple lock is unaffordable.” This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains. It’s perverse. Instead of admitting “we broke the funding model,” politicians pit generations against each other. The young aren’t subsidising the old out of nowhere — they’re paying into the same broken system their elders did. Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns — like Singapore’s CPF. Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself. Feel free to engage👇🏽 #TripleLock #StatePension

@starmerstie @treblewinners99 @magic_bhoy @Danosaur1 Contributory benefit and unlike other benefits, is classed as income for tax purposes.

@treblewinners99 @magic_bhoy @Danosaur1 It’s literally a benefit in law. ‘Google speech’ or not

Why isn’t the state pension means tested to the same level as say child benefit. If you’re getting an income of 50k a year why can you claim a state pension on top

Decline. Pot holes. Filthy road signs. Grass verges uncut. Worn road markings. Miles of cones with no work being done. Hundreds of millions of £'s wasted on projects that never see the light of day. Rising fuel prices. Bus routes being cut. Train fares continually rising. Crumbling schools and public buildings. Libraries closing. Cottage hospitals closing. Services being "streamlined" (closed). Foreign Doctors prioritised over British candidates. NHS dental services in tatters. Lack of "affordable" housing due to under investment by local authorities and the war on private landlords. Thousands of businesses closing due to the imposition of higher business rates, national insurance and increased energy costs. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants being housed in hotels and camps with little prospect of them ever being returned. Police forces being utilised as free speech gestapo. Massive cover up of crimes against women and girls. One thousand million £'s STILL being sent abroad in "foreign aid" EVERY MONTH with absolutely no requirement by the recipients to prove how it's spent. Blasphemy laws being passed by the back door - But only for one particular "religion". Unsafe streets. Increased risk of being raped, stabbed or murdered. Home energy costs escalating due to the lunatic policies of the "net zero" zealots. Reduced energy security due to reduction in home grown capability. Fly tipping on the increase due to increased waste taxes and ridiculous rules introduced by local authorities to limit the amount and types of "waste" they will accept. Introduction of stupid rules at household waste recycling centres where Mr Smith can drive his van to take his toaster to be recycled but Mr Jones isn't allowed in because he has his name on his van door. British Armed Forces reduced to the barest minimum. Navy with only 7 working ships. Sewage pumped into streams, rivers and the sea despite bills rocketing to pay for "investment projects" that never seem to happen. Summer water shortages due to no new reservoirs being built for decades despite the population growing by 15 million. Cost of living crisis. EVERYTHING costs more than it did the last time it was purchased. "Diversity is our Strength" rammed down our throats after the latest atrocity on our streets. Reward for failure, (for Them not us). White boys being portrayed as the primary demographic being "radicalised" in TV dramas, (conveniently ignoring the facts). Mixed race families being portrayed as the norm, (TV and film, advertising etc). Flag waving demonstrators supporting foreign dictatorships and terrorist groups allowed on our streets while union flag waving patriots are arrested for "incitement". And what reward do you get after 50+ years of hard graft funding all of the above? A few years sat in your house freezing to death. If you're lucky.

Curt Smith of Tears for Fears performing 'Mad World' with his daughter, on acoustic guitars, during the pandemic, in 2020. This might be the best thing you'll watch today.

Two weeks ago we had solar panels and a battery fitted. We have just completed our first full week with the system. Our electric bill for the week commencing 10th March 2026 compared to the same week last year has dropped by 71% from £31.71 to £9.05. We also have not received our DNO cert yet which would allow us to sell back into the grid. On sunny days our battery has been full by 11:30am meaning we don’t yet benefit from the excess free energy being produced. We are now going to buy an electric car and fill it with free energy. If only all of the UK could do this, it would go along way to reducing the countries high energy costs. @octopusenergy @g__j

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@RealDealPodz yes, i have been reading like this around 2+ years. but usually i use archive (dot) md. although ph and md both are similar

£10 returns £97 🔥 Premier League Darts Night 4: MVG returns, Littler firing, van Veen chasing max 180s. We’ve built it. The data backs it.

@theyellows First half we were second best all over the pitch,sadly. Unlucky with first goal, headed goal was a free shot,unchallenged. Better second half. Guiseley's centre half and MoM was outstanding. Nice chips.

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#USA #Curling #WinterOlympics #GBcurling USA women's curling team coaches are in gold medal place for synchronised coaching

@HughEdw31897368 Muck raking and 'wimmin's" issues....that's all she's got.

Didn’t take her long before Ridge mentions Mandelson while interviewing the School Standards Minister Georgia Gould. Ridge is totally uninterested in govt policy and school standards, just muck raking. Mandelson was sacked 5 months ago. #BBCBreakfast #skynews