@BruceLeroyRVA @RachelReevesMP Bit unfair- it’s actually the whole of Europe :)
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In D.C. I have been working with partners to support safe passage for energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, to protect households and businesses from rising costs.
It is good news that it has been reopened, now we must see a permanent ceasefire and stability returned.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened. This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes. Today we announced our joint plan with France and other international partners to protect freedom of navigation. We need to see a return to peace and stability, and a permanent ceasefire.
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@RachelReevesMP Is this economic vandal seriously taking some credit for anything that has led to the reopening of Hormuz? The UK contribution is about as relevant as a fart in a tornado.
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@JohnCrookes7 I’m not. I happen to think it’s fundamentally important to know if our leader is a liar or not and whether he’s the type of person willing to sacrifice those around him to save his own skin. World events and personal integrity are not mutually exclusive.
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I think most people are now tired of the witch-hunt of our PM over the Mandleson affair which by comparison with other current world events is of no great consequence. They want him out because of his ongoing success in turning the country around after years of Tory corruption.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho Toothless, flaccid and gormless spring to mind. Two failures meeting to convince themselves they’ve any relevance whatsoever.
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🚨🇬🇧🇫🇷 Deep State WEF Degenerate Shills Keir Starmer meets Emmanuel Macron in Paris - to discuss how they can reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Both leaders are completely irrelevant and this is just all for show.
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@eurofounder You do realise that less money earned equals less tax collected? And that in countries like the UK 1 % of earner pay 30%!of the total tax take?
And that under half of people actually earn more for the country than they cost? And the wealthy are mobile? Ideology over sanity again.
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Netherlands just announced a new 120% wealth tax
It will apply to the ultra-rich who earn above €150k per year
So if you make €200k, you pay €60k on the €50k above the threshold
Dutch officials explained it is to "discourage wealth hoarding behaviour"
So beautifuly said
Finally someone in Europe has the moral spine to put an end this selfish accumulation of wealth
No human being should make over €150k a year
It is a vulgar and borderline pornographic amount
I hope more EU countries will adopt this progressive legislation
This is why Europe is, and always will be, light years ahead of America
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@Katie_Lam_MP I’m guessing this is another abomination that wasn’t in their manifesto?
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This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested.
So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money.
Disgraceful.
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@Katie_Lam_MP Set up a SIPP (takes 5 mins) and transfer your pension out of the workplace scheme. It’s a simple form and takes minutes to complete. Just leave at least a pound in the workplace scheme. Do what you like with your SIPP
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@maggiejet @stuey_beef Incorrect. I can nominate a charity as my pensions beneficiary in my expression of wish and it doesn’t then form part of my estate. You are correct about the will, but this approach and a will makes it work
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@GoingBackward @stuey_beef A Will can’t control your pension in any way. There are defined inheritance rules for pension funds. The scheme Trustees will decide. You can complete a nomination form to provide your preferences but it cannot go to a charity.
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You go to work for 40 years (I'm currently at 42).
You’re forced into auto‑enrolment. You play by the rules, you save into a pension on the promise it’s yours.
Then Labour strolls in, waves through a law that lets ministers tell your scheme where to gamble those savings – not for your benefit, but to prop up their economic “strategy” and vanity infrastructure schemes that the market won’t fund.
This isn’t prudence. It isn’t “modernisation”. It is a straightforward transfer of control from the saver to the state.
Hands off our pensions. Share this before they pretend nobody noticed.
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@innogy @Conservatives I hate Britain, anyone who tells the truth and anyone who makes a positive economic contribution to the country. Okay, let’s vote Labour
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Keir Starmer has repeatedly tried to hide the truth about Peter Mandleson.
Enough is enough. It's time for him to go.
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@Keir_Starmer I think parents are more worried about you ruining the country to be honest but it’s okay, your free breakfast clubs make everything better.
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I know parents are worried about social media and its impact on their children’s safety. They rightly expect fast action.
Today, I’m calling on senior leaders from X, Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok to step up.
I will do whatever it takes to keep children safe online.
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@robprogressive 1.9% pay rise for me. Welcome to the private sector.
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Why is it that MPs get a £3,300 a year pay rise
AND benefits get put up 6.2%
Yet the everyday person has had Council tax put up 5%, food & energy is WAY up & taxes are all up/thresholds frozen
I’ll tell you why. It’s called socialism
It’s taking money off those who work, & giving it to those who don’t work
It bloats the public sector until the wastage is so much & everything gets so expensive that the system implodes
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@ReemAmirIbrahim Yes. He’s paid millions in tax so deserves it at least as much if not more than anyone who paid less. He can choose to give it back, but no one has the right - after his contribution to the economy- to decide that for him.
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Should billionaires like Lord Alan Sugar get the state pension?
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@spectator The first generation of migrants had some real values and decency. This lot have no respect for anyone and I doubt will ever add any value to society but expect everything for nothing
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The Afro-Caribbean community is one of the best integrated of all migrant groups in Britian, and so this week’s scenes are particularly unfortunate.
We must surely ask why the teens rioting this week are so disengaged from any sense of British common life. Is this what anyone would have imagined successful integration would have looked like when the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain in 1948?
✍️ James Graham
Article | spectator.com/article/how-to…
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@Cal_III Right, so the people that built the country you were privileged to grow up in shouldn’t even have their meagre pension rise with inflation? Let’s just have a race to the bottom so we can all feel better eh?
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I’ve got pals who’ve completed masters at uni and can’t land jobs, housing has never been more expensive; highest tax burden since ww2.
But it’s ok. Reform have thrown a tea party for the wealthiest generation in history.
Ellie Hodges@elliehodges62
Pensioners tea party
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@blaiklockBP Well someone had to be contender for the dumbest statement of 2026…
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Over-55 homeowners have £3.4 trillion of property wealth.
£321,213 per household.
76% have no mortgage.
1.6% of under 40's own a house with no mortgage.
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@AlrxCox Is that their fault? No, it’s the fault of government for ruining our country. Rather than a race to the bottom our young people should have a government that gives them the same opportunity- not a bunch of idiots pinning blame where it isn’t warranted.
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The triple lock is honestly one of the worst policies ever thought of.
Many of the people who say the benefits bill is too high are the ones making up 48% of it.
That’s £150.7 billion so people who had the easiest housing ladder, the best savings rates and the best private pension rates can get a bigger pension than they ever paid in for.
It’s a joke of a policy and I wholeheartedly disagree with it.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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@Telegraph Let’s see if they use the same technology and effort to catch these people as they did the Liverpool riots. … hundreds involved and just six girls arrested. Thankyou Sadiq for ruining my city.
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The Metropolitan Police has told parents to “take responsibility” for their children after gangs of teenagers caused chaos in Clapham
Here's how the riots unfolded: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…
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@miriam_cates Wrong. From the National Insurance Act 1946 explanatory framework:
“A retirement pension will be payable as of right to every person who satisfies the contribution conditions.”
Just because gov relabel it as a benefit because so they can squander it doesn’t make it so.
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No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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@Layo_FH Is it by chance that this land of boomer cranks is one of the nicest places to live in London?
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