Ben Cole

@NoContextBrits British tapas

What do you call this?

Blue sky is calling.

@anon_opin Trusting the government to do charity. I listened to @RoryStewartUK talk about the 40k spent on a brick hut and a couple of red buckets in a school in Africa, the reason they didn't just give the school the 40k is they were worried they would miss spend it.

The average person can't decide which is the best charity to support. Best thing to do is for everyone to give the government £50 extra a year in taxes and let them consider and properly invest in the most deserving causes. No need for sponsorships, shaved heads, and bakes offs.

@kentish_made Didn't they invite the royal family back near half a dozen times?

The Palace of Versailles has around 15 million visitors a year, and France hasn't had a monarchy for 232 years since they excuted all but one. So, for all the Royalists out there, bleeting on about tourism.....shhhhh.

@SarahLane101 @fesshole I know their situation, they've made multiple conscious decisions to cheat instead of leave. No sympathy.

@fesshole All the people giving this person abuse- you don’t know their situation. Give it a rest

Everyone, including my husband, keeps congratulating me on how much weight I've lost and asking how I've done it. Telling everyone that it's down to intermittent fasting because I can't tell them that I'm really just heartbroken over the end of my affair.

@KirstieMAllsopp Yeah, they are an arsehole. But you also think people can't buy houses because of a netflix subscription, so swings and roundabouts...

I must be getting old, because someone sitting on the train with their feet on the seats scrolling through Tik Tok reels at top volume with no headphones makes me MURDEROUS

@Eyeswideopen69 I can't, he owns a house he isn't using so he is renting it out to others. Better than it sitting empty.

Please explain why this is a problem. Using … words.

@MarkBuckland73 I mean it's pretty well polled, even with polls being shit. So it's hardly BBC bias. What you're saying basically, is everything I don't agree with is bias. The BBC is pretty well rounded, if not borderline right leaning (which is expected given the decade+ of tory leadership)

Fiona Bruce just said “the majority of the UK do not support Trump”. Absolute BBC biased bollocks. #bbcqt #BBCQuestionTime

@agentselfNSA You know it's posts like this that make people vote Trump right, the constant stream of you're an idiot doesn't change people's minds, because people aren't rational, you and I included. If you were rational you'd realise and adjust appropriately given the recent loss.

@boudicasarmy @RoryStewartUK At least he has resigned. Met police officers have been done for murder and rape and chief constables remained in post.

@RoryStewartUK Are you serious? You would be happy for him to remain in post despite his failure to ensure that a child sex abuser was reported? Despite the fact that his failure in post enabled this man to target and abuse other children? THAT’S your idea of a good public servant?

Very sorry to hear of the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury - I have worked with him for a long time and have always been struck by his humility, openness, care and sense of public service.

@ungagged13 @Nigelrefowens So you propose they well it off. To who? Ah the rich people who are avoiding tax. Good plan. Or we could be pragmatic, tax heavily the sale of an inherited asset and have a sensible sliding scale that allows NOT RICH small farms to stay afloat. I'd say anything under 700 acreas

@Nigelrefowens If a farm is really “worth” £3m why does the farmer need to work all hours and struggle to just survive The only reason the value of farms and farmland is so high is because rich people use it to legally avoid tax so the demand is high In reality the farm is worth little

Many seem to forget that many farmers are working all the hours going, just surviving to make sure we have food on our table. Many family farms wealth is only the value of their land which they see nothing of unless it’s sold. Passing the work on to their children shouldn’t be a worry or burden.

@FreyaQuinton Never happened at a rugby match.

@WalkerMarcus You don't inheritance public sector pensions though?...

“Gold-plated public sector pensions spared from Labour’s inheritance tax raid” But of course they are. Labour is basically the political wing of the public sector. It explains why ‘working people’ does not include farmers or anyone on normal payroll. telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/inhe…

@RoryStewartUK @RachelReevesMP @RestIsPolitics They have put it to 15%, the same as it was when the tories were in charge... the tories reduced it in 2023, which seems very much like they did it on purpose knowing they wouldn't get back in and they could create political chaos.

.@RachelReevesMP has raised spending and borrowing almost exactly as we predicted (and she denied) in this @RestIsPolitics interview. By 3 %. I’ve been relistening to the interview and trying to work out whether this was the plan all along…

In 2022 the Tories increased employer NI to 15 percent and there was no media meltdown. In 2023 they reduced it to 13.8 percent. Labour have put it back up to 15 percent. Media are deliberately exaggerating its impact on business. #trevorphillips #bbclaurak

@Scarborough_GB Yes, she will hopefully be shit enough to keep the tories out for a long time.

@archer_rs Don't discount the stupidity of the human race. People thinking he will loose, will only make people think they don't need to bother voting.

It now seems like that Trump is not only doing to lose but lose by a substantial margin.

@JohnLewisEU Small farms will have to be sold to big farms, feeding more property and land into a select few. And those who are already rich will have the land in trust and it won't effect them. These policies I don't think will have the right effect.

Has anyone herd a coherent response as to why farmers should be exempt from inheritance tax?

@fesshole Sounds like you've ruined your life and need to learn to take responsibility you cheating fuck. Fess up to your spouse not a bunch of strangers online.

Married woman having affair with married man that I was struggling to end. The rose tinted glasses fell off yesterday when I realised he doesn't trim his nose hair - that and he's also a manipulative narcissist who's pretty much ruined my life.

@R08ertSBrown @RWTaylors How would private medical insurance help you with a heart attack?

@RWTaylors I remember a couple of years ago having to go to the one by Merthyr, and it was a war zone.. literally a guy having a heart attack and was told to wait. I was there for 12 hours. I think it's the worst I've seen.. having medical insurance is a must if you can afford it in Wales.

The NHS in Wales is fucked! Here with my mam for over 5 hours 7 different people asking same questions. Then, to be told there's no beds to stay, so wait outside in the waiting room overnight! My mohters reaction 'fuck it let's go son I can't stay on a chair overnight let's go'