@LoftusSteve In fairness I think Reem great as she is has muddied the waters with this idea the state pension should be means tested.
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Kipling and Christ
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Kipling and Christ
@KiplingChrist
Former Tory now floating voter. Oppose the left takeover.
Joined Kasım 2017
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Again, how is "the triple lock is unsustainable" being confused for taking away pensions?
Nadia@confidencenac
When did this country, especially on the left, become so ignorant and cruel that it begrudges a Granny a yearly pension amount of £12.5k? Take a hike!
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Kipling and Christ retweeted
"I am an Iranian who lives in Tehran… In case I'm dead tomorrow, I just want you to remember this. Please. Shut the f*ck up and don't use me against America or Israel to try and convince them to stop. We asked for this..."
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Kipling and Christ retweeted
Isn’t the bigger scam here the Greens pretending you didn’t celebrate the Oct 7th attacks and describe a rabbi as an “animal”?
Mothin Ali@MothinAli
He's not going to get a free run anymore, Farage and his band of scam artists are going to be challenged at every step, there is now a credible opposition to the far right! join.greenparty.org.uk
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‘Muslims can pray without fear but I may be arrested for giving Easter sermon’.
Sums up the state of the country. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…
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The surest way to make us less competitive is to have our businesses regulated by a foreign power with no obligation to take our interests into account.
I’d have thought this so obvious it required no further consideration.
L-inglizi@Cantwara_
@danielmgmoylan @CockertonMark What’s your angle? What do you gain out of making sure the UK cannot be competitive in any way, shape or form? Is there something you are not telling us?
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I believe that Britain has to be far more muscular in standing up for our Christian identity - just as Islamic countries protect their own way of life.
Don’t apologise, or appease, or compromise.
This is our country, and we will do things our way.
Don’t like it? Leave.
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For the first time ever the welfare bill is going to exceed all the revenue raised via income tax.
Had we remained on a pre-Covid trend we’d be spending £80-100 billion less on welfare than we currently are.
We have to start talking about cuts to welfare in the c.20-30% region.
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Mate, Allah Akbars aren’t us. You’re not us.
We are not the same.
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
“His people aren’t us… his people are the wealthy elite.” @MothinAli cuts through Farage’s ‘man of the people’ act.
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@Adriatica1972 @lukerobertblack Yeah we need to cut both forms of welfare.
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@KiplingChrist @lukerobertblack The triple lock gives the OAPs a 4.8% rise this year.
Universal Credit standard allowances will increase by 6.2% in April 2026.
8.4 million UC claims with an average payment of £1030 pcm
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The Reform Party’s attitude to people under the age of 65:
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@LordBriRobert1 @Battsby @WitchEnd You don’t have a right for it to be uprated by a set percentage. That is a policy choice and it was different pre 2010. I am very fortunate but my generation is not mainly because current pensioners have discovered they can just take from their own kids.
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@KiplingChrist @Battsby @WitchEnd I have a right to my pension.
You should be grateful for the chances life has afforded you, rather than blaming your misfortune on other people.
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Many working people simply did not and do not have the luxury of 'deciding' whether to save or not.
Lin Mei@linmeitalks
Can I ask why, if a pensioner has worked all their life, they only have the state pension to rely on? Didn’t decide to save ? Put away for a rainy day ? Sounds like poor planning to me. And yes if your children have flown the nest and you, or you and your spouse are knocking around in a 3 or 4 bedroom house you bought decades ago- SELL it. You’ll have more than enough to live on.
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@DrCalumMiller Iran has been attacking the west since the revolution. They were stockpiling fertiliser to do an attack in London.
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@DemetriusRO6 The leader was appointed by the Shah and removed by the Shah. He was not a democratic leader and was widely disliked.
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The UK controlled Iran's oil for decades getting 84% of the profits.
When Iran tried to take it back in 1951
The CIA & MI6 launched a coup.
They overthrew democracy, restored the Shah, and secured the oil.
That's the real history they don't teach.
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@LordBriRobert1 @Battsby @WitchEnd You genuinely think that post covid you had a right to a 10% state pension uplift?
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@LordBriRobert1 @Battsby @WitchEnd State pensions are a transfer from my generation to you so we have a say in how much you get. You don’t have a right to a triple lock that gives you a 10% increase in a year when we get 2%. You cut the metric for your own parents pensions when you had to pay.
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@KiplingChrist @Battsby @WitchEnd I have "millennial" children, so I'm under no illusions about how difficult it is to get on the housing ladder.
My children both have mortgages & work very hard.
Neither of them resent me or my wife our State Pensions.
I never resented my parents theirs.
Maybe it's who we are?
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@CecPodd @SebastianPott10 @SirDanofC If you read this blog comparing people in the eighties to today it explains the position of younger people now very well on why we are much poorer because of housing costs. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/waspinomics-…
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@SebastianPott10 @SirDanofC Without looking l'll trust you. But take away property prices and an 18 year old today has twice the spending power l did. Not everything is worse. Although, l'd rather earn £200 now as an 18 year old rather than be enslaved into a default low wage system.
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All well and good but scrimping and saving will not buy a house today. You need 5-6 times two salaries not 3 times one salary. By all means ditch the takeaways and new clothes but it isn’t going to make a dent into a quarter of a million quid.
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.
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@Kaleidicworld @watling_samuel It was much safer in the fifties and then we had a forty year crime explosion.
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The nostalgia for the 70s leaves me at a complete loss. As a small child in the mid-late 70s I used to be terrified when my mum took me into Wigan town centre and the brooding sense of violence you always felt was just round the corner. There were good things back then but the idea the UK was a haven of peace and tranquility is laughable.
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In the 1970s, Britain had the third or fourth largest rates of child murder in the Western world.
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat
🇯🇵 In Japan, primary school children walk to school and are completely safe Britain used to be like this Our children should be safe in public
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@MRed78 @SandyofSuffolk It is not subsidised. The extraction of oil is actually taxed at insane levels. In contrast we rig the entire energy market to give renewables guaranteed prices decades into the future and because we have so many renewables we now have among the highest bills
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@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk That is total and utter bollocks.
Oil is the most subsidised commodity in the world, and if we are still using it in 50 years the planet will be well and truly fucked and future is very bleak.
It's kind of odd how certain people are cli ging to something so painfully obsolete.
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The trouble is young people have been told for years "you can be anything you want to be", when you can't. They've seen a handful of people make millions from being an influencer. They've all gone to university thinking it'll be a gateway to a better job when, really, if you're not exceptionally bright, you may as well not have bothered.
The majority of people have to settle for run of the mill boring jobs. And young people are resentful. They're waking up to the fact life is hard graft and to get anything you have to work hard, long hours, and forego many things that, until adulthood, were handed to them on a plate.
They're lashing out because too many people like teachers and their soft parents haven't prepared them for life in the real world. It's coming home to roost that life isn't all unicorns and gap years.
They want what nan and grandad have. Now. Now!! They forget how nan and grandad got it and it wasn't by sitting on their bums on Playstation.
Welcome to planet earth young 'uns.
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Kipling and Christ retweeted
Tragic news from Sweden: Assyrian activist Ninos Aphrem, aged 28, was murdered on his way to work. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
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