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I was in my doctors the other day, one person in the waiting room. Now you are allowed roughly five minutes with the doctor. I was seeing the nurse, where are all the other people who are seeing the doctor. Something really wrong somewhere.

@MrsEmmaWebber @thetimes No words. It’s absolutely shocking. Mental health services are broken.🙏🙏🙏

⁦⁦@thetimes⁩ 🙏 Nottingham victim’s mother: ‘Our jaws dropped at what’s come out’ thetimes.com/article/a10804…

@comments_connie There's been a co-ordinated pile on about the triple lock this weekend, aimed at demonising pensioners, and probably organised by politicians and activists. It's not organic and it's totally beyond contempt.

@comments_connie Let Them. Who’s bothered.

All the arguments about pensioners in the last few days is proof, if it were needed, that people feel they can say what the hell they like about older people, which they wouldn't dare say about any other group in our society. This is the UK in 2026!☹️

A former MP, arrested for sharing Amelia content on X/Twitter. Amelia being a fictional character, invented by the UK's Home Office. Another example of why the Freedom of Speech Bill (2026), released by @ASI this April, must be adopted. Bill here: adamsmith.org/research/the-f…

@KathyParr101 Maybe they follow each other like sheep. No critical thinking.

So many people tweeting the same derogatory comments about pensioners. Almost as if it's been deliberately co-ordinated ...

There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder. This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with. Thank god for parents like my mother She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving. These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.

@GriftReport Praying for you Paddy. 🙏🙏🙏

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Big Brother star Paddy Doherty leads tributes to his cousin and his three year old daughter after tipper truck crashed into pony and trap

@AnnaKirkpa86347 @OlooneyJohn Yes it does, I took four. Definitely doing something, I was not thinking straight. My husband gets pains in his legs when he takes statins. A GP friend told me quietly, he thought statins cause dementia.

@OlooneyJohn my relative has just been put on statins, when I expressed disapproval he said 'dont start with your conspiracy theories'. I ve never heard him swear but he s suddenly started swearing alot. Does anyone know if that medication changes your character please ? thanks

It’s interesting that you don’t pay for any prescriptions from the age of 60 not 65 or 67, when you should retire It’s very telling, isn’t it

The Man Who Paid In & The Man Who Paid Nothing. Meet Frank, the man who paid in. Frank turned 80 last winter. He grafted 52 years as a builder in Manchester, his hands and back are broken from laying bricks in pouring rain. Every week he paid his National Insurance. Never claimed benefits. Never broke the law. He raised two kids on a council estate, paid his taxes and did his bit for the country he loves. Now he shuffles to the post office in the same coat he’s worn since 2018. His old Nokia phone barely holds the charge. His State Pension is £241.30 a week, just over £12,500 a year, but after gaps, Frank gets less. He counts every penny. Some weeks it’s heating or eating. Last winter around 2,500 people in England died from cold associated causes. Frank keeps the thermostat at 15 degrees and wears jumpers indoors. "I’m not living," he tells his neighbour. "I’m just existing." His wife, Margaret, has been in a care home for two years, dementia stealing her away. Frank struggles to keep their old car on the road for weekly visits. One more breakdown and those trips could end. Every pension day is the same. Frank walks past the bookies where young fighting age men fresh off small boats shout, laugh and slap down stacks of cash twice as thick as his weekly pension. He keeps his head down, clutching his wallet, praying nobody follows him home. His street no longer feels like his street. Fewer familiar faces. Foreign languages. The corner shop is now a Turkish barbers. He feels all alone in the city he once helped build. Meet Ahmed, the man who paid nothing. Ahmed arrived on a dinghy last summer, one of 41,472 Channel crossings in 2025, mostly young men from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Sudan. He tossed his documents into the sea, then claimed asylum the moment the dinghy touched the beach. No passport. No papers. No contributions. The Home Office puts him in a hotel. Heating on full. Three meals a day. Security on the door.Ahmed strolls the streets in new clothes and the latest iPhone, using free bus shuttles twice a day, drinking and laughing with friends outside the same bookies Frank avoids. He broke immigration rules entering the country uninvited. Once granted asylum, the door opens to UK benefits and housing. Frank paid in all his life and obeyed every rule. He built the Britain that now houses Ahmed. Ahmed has paid nothing and doesn't obey the rules, he receives shelter, warmth, food, free transport and pocket money while Frank rations food, huddles under blankets to keep warm and constantly worries about money. Tonight as Ahmed relaxes in a warm hotel room with new Nike trainers by the bed, wondering what’s for dinner. Frank sits in his cold home wondering why a lifetime of hard work brings only deprivation. This story is repeating in towns and cities across the country. This isn’t fairness. This is a betrayal. #UKNews #UKPolitics #StopTheBoats

@SandyofSuffolk They don’t want to buy a house, because then they would have to give up all their holidays abroad, Costa coffees, posh cars, etc.. We had no carpets when we bought our first house, we had a bed because my MIL bought it.

You can buy a nice little house like this in Suffolk with a 5% deposit of £6,000. Nationwide, Barclays and others are offering good deals for first time buyers with only a 5% deposit. But then you'd have to forego your gap year in the Far East and Antipodes or your fancy wedding. Poor you. Boo hoo. 🤣

@WhiteBabyFac You won't but you might, I recommend you read a book by Marilyn French called The Womens Room. You might see the irony in your fairytale vision. Years ago it woke me up.

There are a lot of social advantages that would come from having an all male workforce, with all women being dedicated to taking care of their homes and families. Young children would all be raised by their mothers instead of having to go to daycare. Grandmothers would be much more available to help with the grandkids because they'd have no job/career obligations taking up their time and attention. The risk of infidelity would be much lower because men would always be surrounded by other men while at work, and housewives would be surrounded by other women in their neighborhood while the men are away at work. Businesses would likely run much more efficiently because men are more geared towards competition, meritocracy, and accepting blunt criticism. There'd be much less need for HR departments - men wouldn't have to worry about getting accused of sexual harassment by coworkers or tiptoeing around women's feelings. With an all male workforce nobody would be able to get promoted based on their sex appeal or by "sleeping their way to the top". With the labor force being reduced in size (since women all left the workforce) men's wages/salaries would be higher and it would be much easier for families to live off of one income. Instead of meeting romantic partners through college or work, you'd likely be introduced through family members. Fathers would have good relationships with other men through work, and could introduce good potential husbands to their daughters. Mothers would have good relationships with other housewives and would know their children well, and could introduce good young women to their sons. This would help young women avoid relationships with irresponsible men, and would help young men avoid relationships with women who aren't good wife material.

@Groves17Diana No she thinks we should bring back the workhouse. Workhouses were run by people with just this attitude.

@linmeitalks Also Lin Mei, look at the costs involved in downsizing, many homeowners are not cash rich, the costs involved in moving are prohibitive. Unless you think all the elderly should live in a one roomed abode?

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.

@linmeitalks Have you any idea of the logistics of the housing market and economy. Because it does not sound like it.

@offshorebella @therealmissjo Obviously security camera. Pretty good pictures.

@therealmissjo @buttonbox21 Who took these pics?

Last Sunday a woman was raped by 4 men at the Assembly Rooms in Bath, UK. These are the man that the police are looking to find. The woman described them as “Asian men”. I think we know what that means. Bath is known for its history, its Roman ruins, its tea rooms. Now it is known for “Asian men” raping unsuspecting women. Had enough of this yet?

@GlesgaPatriot @KOL5551 @TRobinsonNewEra Haha come down the lane I’ll make you speak English. Sounds like my Glaswegian dad. 😂😂😂

The original ‘Sharmota’ Video. Let’s make him famous @TRobinsonNewEra

@sirwg202110 @BarryTh02665142 Did anyone notice she said the Muslim community, that’s because that’s all she will help.

Previously a Conservative, Fajila Patel is now running as an independent candidate for the Bastwell and Daisyfield ward on Blackburn with Darwen Council.

@sirwg202110 @BarryTh02665142

@SandyofSuffolk They don’t realise how the world use to be, their world consists of Facebook, instagram. We haven’t changed it, they have, brainwashed by social influencers. My life’s shit, blame older people. 😢😢😢

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.