@clairebubblepop The issue is wage stagnation. Over the last 20 years the uk has seen no growth in real wages, but the US has grown by over 10% in comparison. It’s not healthy, and means we are pushing more people into need.
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So 1 in 8 Brits are claiming UC. Who are people blaming? Not the employers who don’t pay liveable wages. No not them it’s our fault for not getting a good enough job. Right, so who’s gonna do our jobs now? You know the simple answer is pay everyone a liveable fucking wage. Get me
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@David__Osland This goes beyond supermarkets, I saw a Nurse earlier saying she received UC. The issue is the area where the extra work needed to break free of UC is disproportionate. This is a factor of over a decades wage stagnation, and the productivity gap.
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I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.
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£2,500 fine threat for flying the England flag on St George’s Day
Households across Britain risk a massive £2,500 fine next Thursday for flying oversized St George’s flags on projecting flagpoles.
Councils can enforce strict planning rules that limit flags to just 2 square metres, even though the government has “relaxed” the rules for national flags.
Rooftop flags are mostly fine, but anything sticking out from the wall can land you in trouble.
Locals are furious: patriotism now comes with a planning permission form and the threat of a huge penalty.
Bureaucratic madness on England’s national day.
Unlike in America where they encourage flags...
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@TheChrisWray @JonathanPieNews Indeed there are examples, just not the one first posted. Although as we've heard not raising by the full 5% is being sold as a cut by Reform, so it's all meaningless anway.
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There's lying, and then there's lying to the point of making yourself look like a complete bellend.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
“Reform did not promise to cut council tax in the local elections.” “I’ve seen the leaflets!” Reform’s Zia Yusuf says he personally reviewed leaflets for the last local elections, arguing none of them said council taxes would be cut or frozen. @StigAbell
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@chinnychick The tide is turning slowly here. Whilst never suicidal I made a mess of a lot of things while I struggled to work myself out alone for fear of looking stupid. I have a son who echoes a lot of my younger traits, and he'll never be told to stop crying, but asked why and be heard.
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Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a post about a male suicide at least once, if not twice per week on my socials. Not just veterans but civvy blokes who were smiling in their pics, seemingly hiding everything that was unraveling inside.
From an early age little boys are taught that ‘big boys don’t cry’. Subliminal messages from childhood, amplified by social and gender pressures not to show weakness, to be the head of the family, to be the boss of the company. It’s a lot. A lot for anyone who has a good support network around them. But if that starts to crumble, due to divorce, new jobs, leaving the military etc life can get extremely heavy and lonely very quickly.
You are NOT alone. So many out there feel the same, social media is showing us this with the ever increasing authentic posts from those brave enough to share their struggles. Please don’t suffer in silence.
#mentalhealth #malesuicide
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If Reform/Restore had no migrants/pensioners or disabled people left to demonise, who would be next?
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@sophielouisecc I cannot recomend enough reading this: amazon.co.uk/dp/1802063277?…
To extend your argument should we allow children to drive and smoke? it's down the parents to stop it? When it comes down to something that is harmful for children, surely it is down the govt to act to protect them?
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It’s entirely right to reject a ban on social media for U16s
It is not the states job to police children’s social media usage
That is a job for parents and we should stop delegating parenting to the state
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🚨 NEW: MPs have voted against banning social media for under-16s for the second time Yes: 150 No: 256
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@TiceRichard Oooh a performative letter, it’s been a while since reform did this one.
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My letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard after his juvenile response to my serious question about defence funding.
Armed forces personnel, veterans and voters deserve better from ministers.
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@suespensley The issue to me is Farage's politics work to drive a change, but he's never shown he can deliver that change, all too often actively avoiding any responsibility or accountability. His work as an MEP was non existent, his filling of his party with opportunists all feels wrong.
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A lot of people saying they would never vote for Nigel Farage as they don't trust him,presumably once trusted the Tories or the Labour party whom have both proven to be untrustworthy, Nigel has never been in government (yet) to be proven either way so I don't understand the logic
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@LeeHurstComic Ok in theory, but we are in debt, and this is 10’s of billions in savings, conservatively 40bn, or 15% of income tax revenue. That’s a lot of cuts to find.
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Reform needs 5 headline grabbing, positive policies, that people can see benefits them.
We know immigration and Net Zero is destroying us, but voters need to vote for a positive as well, not just the removal of a negative.
Abolish the TV licence. This saves a family £180 a year.
Raise the Income Tax Personal Allowance to £20,000.
Raise the 40% tax band to £100,000.
Cut fuel duty by 50%.
Explain how it currently works, in all its gory detail and then abolish inheritance tax entirely.
How do we pay for all of this?
Cuts. The sums we waste are vast and we can stop wasting it.
If other parties try and say it’s un costed, point out how much they have borrowed recently and that they clearly cannot be trusted to know how to cost anything.
If Reform puts money back in people’s pockets, they will vote for them.
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@100kDiary That wasn't your implication. Plus the majority of those costs, except maybe the insurance level, will apply to the 2K honda. Yes PCP is a drain on money, but you pitch the 2k as all in, vs 5400 costs for the pcp car?
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@gotitverywrong Ah yes, nobody's ever taken out PCP on a used car.
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The biggest wealth destroyer in the UK, along with PCP, is everything else that comes with it.
£2,000 a year insurance.
£1,800 a year fuel.
£500 random repairs.
£400 tyres.
£300 MOT and service.
£200 road tax.
£200 parking permits and tickets.
That's £5,400 a year just to sit in traffic and wave at the bloke in the £2k Honda doing the exact same commute. Same school run. Same Tesco car park. Same journey home. The only difference is he's not lying awake in January dreading the insurance renewal.
Into an S&P 500 ISA:
10 years = £75k
15 years = £135k
20 years = £220k
Your car isn't transport. It's a tax on status.
🇬🇧 Chris | The £100k Journey@100kDiary
The biggest wealth destroyer in the UK right now is PCP car finance. People on a £32k salary will happily lock themselves into a £500/month contract for a Mercedes they will never actually own, just to sit in gridlocked traffic on the M25 and try to impress people in the lane next to them. Then they get to the office and complain that taxes are too high and the government is holding the working class down. If you put that £500 a month into an S&P 500 ISA instead of a rented German car, you'd be a millionaire by retirement. Stop blaming the Prime Minister for your own terrible capital allocation. Your car isn't an asset. It's an anchor.
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@SandyofSuffolk To some extent (surprisingly) I agree, there's an on odd middle ground where working just under the UC cut off is too beneficial, due to the wider benefits then available. The jump needed to be better off away from benefits often means working much more to simply stand still
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Stop saying employers aren't paying enough that's why people need their wages topped up by Universal Credit.
If you need your wages topping up because you're a bit short every month, get a second job or cut back your expenditure.
It may have escaped your notice but businesses are going bust everywhere because of high energy costs, high business rates, minimum wage increases and higher employer's NI contributions.
Employers can't pay more. Take some responsibility people. Stop expecting the state to bail you out!
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Keir Starmer had a go at Boris for using money from a donor (not taxpayers) to do up the flat in Downing Street, but now, Keir Starmer is happy to splash thousands of taxpayers money on doing up the flat in Downing Street. Labour are worse than hypocrites.
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The IMF just ranked Britain the worst performing major economy on the planet.
Not a war torn nation.
Not a failed state.
Britain.
Twenty five years of open borders, net zero ideology, DEI over defence and spending money we do not have.
They did this to us.
Not Putin. Not Trump. Not global headwinds.
The people we elected.
Every single one of them.
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@Jeniwren00 @JocastaMoney @gmcuk Look it’s clear we aren’t going to see eye to eye in this, our views differ greatly. Thanks for the debate.
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Men who have raped patients during medical examinations have been allowed to continue to practice by their professional body, the General Medical Council (GMC).
Does the @gmcuk truly believe that asking a woman to remove her religious face covering is a worse act that raping her?
The obsece cult of DEI.
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GP struck off for asking Muslim woman to remove veil so he could hear her properly during consultation. Dr Keith Wolverson, a locum GP at urgent care centres in Derby and Stoke, asked Mrs Q three times to take off her niqab while she described her daughter’s symptoms. He told her he couldn’t hear her due to “poor English” and needed to see her mouth movements. She refused for religious reasons but eventually complied; she later complained she felt “victimised and racially discriminated against.” Wolverson was already facing 17 other misconduct charges (including criticising patients’ English skills in notes). He was suspended in 2022 but kept working anyway and failed to attend the final tribunal hearing. The panel ruled he showed “flagrant disregard” for the process, had no insight, and posed an ongoing risk to patients. Another doctor erased for putting basic medical need above political correctness.
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@Jeniwren00 @JocastaMoney @gmcuk Because the tribunal found he’d done it unfairly. Given neither of us were there, we need to trust the tribunal had access to lots more information than us to make that call on the balance of probabilities.
This has gone on long enough now, I’m out, enjoy your night.
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@gotitverywrong @JocastaMoney @gmcuk So why should he be banned for asking a woman to remove her niqab? He did all the other 17 actions afterward this event. I know you probably believe I'm being racist, but I'm not. I have worked with a lot of Muslim doctors, my favourite consultant is Dr Marous Alsoud, Google him.
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@Jeniwren00 @JocastaMoney @gmcuk No, because he was allowed to work again despite 17 separate problems. However he decided to work while banned, so that’s what cost him. The other offences didn’t cost him his job, ignoring a ban did. With the respect your willful ignorance on this is getting beyond boring now.
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@gotitverywrong @JocastaMoney @gmcuk No, it's the fact that the woman with a niqab caused this problem. He had a 20 year + unblemished record. Have you read the GMC record? He had every right to ask her to remove the niqab for patient safety.
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