@ChrisBarnes3D Surely the rent is more expensive than the mortgage payments?
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@EllardKing Isn’t the 2.1% based on a larger amount, like for instance, a 200k mortgage? Or does it not work like that?
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I don’t know why you’d say that, I’ve never done that in my life.
I have no problem with someone being wealthy, I am far from that. As long as they pay their fair share.
If people want to subscribe to media companies, buy from big business then that’s up to them. Just don’t moan about them making lots of money.
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@Alanwedgemaster @BladeoftheS And you sound like an ignorant Bootlicker !
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Stop asking the billionaires to be nice.
And tax them until there are no billionaires.
Everything is affordable and all we need to do is make the 0.00004% pay for it.
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@BitcoinSapiens It’s not been like that for many years, most houses/flats need tow incomes.
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Yes, a cashier at Starbucks SHOULD be able to afford rent, groceries, & bills on just that 1 paycheque alone. THAT'S WHAT JOBS ARE FOR.
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@Ye_Olde_Holborn People think it’s hard now, it was a lot harder 50 years ago. Most people had full time employment and part time work just to get through. Now there are so many opportunities for anyone to make money.
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>>>Imagine admitting on a public platform that you worked for 50 years & didn’t save a penny of your earnings.
Laura✡️Marcus@MissLauraMarcus
I’m a pensioner. So I benefit from the triple lock. I get the full state pension. Which is £965 every four weeks; so equivalent to £1045 a month. I get the full amount because I have 50 years of working and paying my stamp and income tax. I get no other pension. It’s not luxury!
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Hi Katy how do you feel about the tax payer paying your council tax, rent and heating expenses for your constituency home ? It’s all adding up to quite a perk of the job plus food and drink subsidies at work. Can we discuss this because it’s working people covering the cost 🤔
Katie Lam@Katie_Lam_MP
More than 600,000 households across the country are now getting paid more in benefits than the average family earns from work. And it's the working people who are being taxed to cover the cost. We can't keep squeezing hard-working people to pay for those who don’t work.
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Reform UK is a racist party.
Please don’t vote for a racist party.
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@tracyann4322 Surely if someone agrees a wage with their employer, that’s enough for them? Everyone has different circumstances. An employee could be a retiree, a student, someone wanting to make a bit of extra money etc. Some jobs, aren’t careers, they’re not going to buy luxury.
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Everyone says buy local opposed to the larger monopolised businesses, but so many small businesses on here are arguing their case for paying their staff poverty wages. Putting me off. If they would advertise the fact they pay a living wage I'd make the effort to go.
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@BladeoftheS The government would rip through 700 billion in a week, then what? You expect politicians to make good decisions?
When has a politician made your life better?
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If we can't afford things the first thing we should get rid of isn't pensions, Healthcare or benefits.
It is billionaires.
Do you agree?
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@miketheunderdog It’s really strange that some people don’t want small business around, they’d rather have big business, but for some reason they don’t want them to earn a profit.
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There are simply no good counter arguments to a £15 minimum wage.
Only wealthy, economically illiterate charlatans want you to believe otherwise.
And they are terrified.
ft.com/content/431a16…
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Thousands of households claim £50,000+ in benefits every year.
You have to earn £65k for that income through work.
It’s not fair and we can’t afford it.
The next step in my plan to grip welfare and get Britain working 👇
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@ukboomers @Alanwedgemaster dumb..there has to be a plateau where people can’t earn enough,because businesses can’t earn enough to pay rising wages and on top of that taxes, national insurance contributions, pension contributions, ever rising energy bills.. and we are seeing that with the hospitality sector
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If you can’t afford a rent increase from £1,271 to £1,500, you shouldn’t be renting.🇬🇧
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@HarrisonHSmith @RealCandaceO Her example of going to Germany is exactly what’s happening now.
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“Is denying the Holocaust more important than killing kids?”
Important question as to the morality of our future world.
(She doesn’t answer.)
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@callumreedie596 @ukboomers I rent, I don’t own a house. I know exactly what it’s like to struggle.
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@ukboomers @Alanwedgemaster well, not really? the increase in price for rent/mortgages is incredibly more high than the average wage going up by about 15p every few years. people are being fleeced and i think you know this. but you’re comfortable in your own world. people are struggling. really struggling.
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@PeterMcCormack Poor people know we can’t afford things.
The mega rich can afford things, but tell the poor we cannot afford things.
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Why is it always the mega rich saying we cannot afford things?
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Kuenssberg asks, how can we afford to pay people £15/hour LK, who earns around £400,000/year, doesn't ask, how can people afford to live on less than £15/hour? Neither does she ask, should we be subsidising the profits of businesses by topping up the poverty wages they pay?
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@ukboomers So all that extra money will be going in to your pocket 😂😂
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@ukboomers Any way, they will be able to afford it, wages going up to £15 an hour
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