Brian Embleton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇭🇵🇭

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Palestine Action activists sued: “I smashed up these guys’ business, and I can’t believe that they want me to pay for the damage!” theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

European VAR is as shit as Premier League VAR #PSGLIV

@StevenF1871 @patmurphybbc I also saw Alan Hudson against West Germany and he was sublime that night so it was a travesty he didn’t get any more caps.

@StevenF1871 @patmurphybbc I saw him play his last international against Italy and he wasn’t very good that night so I’m not entirely surprised he didn’t get any more

My favourite player. Brilliant in the air, superb on the ground. No one ever intimated him.

@iAmJoshHunt Pensioners pay tax.

By 2042 there will be roughly 2 workers for every pensioner in this country. Those 2 workers also have to fund the NHS, schools, police, defence, infrastructure, and their own lives. There is no tax rate, no policy, no political party that makes those numbers work without something giving. The argument isn’t about left vs right anymore. It’s about maths. I’m not attacking pensioners here. They should feel as aggrieved as anyone at how badly this country has been failed by the political class.

@annaroseridgway @lisakeb007 If pensioners sold their houses to buy smaller 2 bed houses what will first time buyers buy?

@lisakeb007 They would have a million pounds if they sold their expensive houses and downgraded

25% of pensioners are millionaires. 55% of welfare spending goes on pensioners. Why don’t we: 1) means test the state pension, millionaires don’t need benefits. 2) increase the amount we give to the pensioners who need it the most. 3) stop the unsustainable triple lock.

@ChrisJa31284374 @Kerikal_816 @GiveUsAQuid They aren’t

@BrianEmbleton @Kerikal_816 @GiveUsAQuid What poverty are they living in

Why don't 𝐲𝐨𝐮 "give £100 to someone poor"? Typical socialist, always telling other people what to do but (although you'll doubtless deny this) doing nothing yourself. 🙄

@Kerikal_816 @ChrisJa31284374 @GiveUsAQuid So all those children allegedly living in poverty in this country aren’t actually living in poverty then.

@ChrisJa31284374 @GiveUsAQuid I would define poverty as someone who can't afford things that are essentials, such as food, water, clothing, shelter, etc. That's why, earlier, I kept making a comparison between multi billionaires and people who struggle to afford food.

@RachelReevesMP As it’s relative poverty who have to put into poverty to do this?

Today we are lifting 450,000 children out of poverty with the end of the two-child limit.  This Labour Government is achieving the biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records began.  Change promised. Change delivered.

@the_roose1 @boomer_ish Many of us have funded our children through university and are now funding their house purchases. When we die they’ll get what’s left of our estates and in some cases less 40% inheritance tax

@boomer_ish This isn’t true, boomers can gift their children however much they want tax free, so long as they don’t die in the seven years following (and it tapers out along the seven years too)

The young complaining about the dramatic increase in house prices and getting on the ladder is fair comment. Just imagine boomers could help their young by passing on that wealth. Oh wait. They tax that at 40%.

@BenedictSpence Says the man who’s venting his fury at having to pay for something

Hell hath no fury like a Boomer who’s been asked to pay for something.

@shivmalik Here’s a 3 bed in Cambridge for £495,000 but if you want the 3 bed detached with over 1,000 sq foot then expect to pay more. Other more reasonably priced properties are available.

Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.

@DoctorWho080804 Can you point me to where I did that?

@BrianEmbleton Then don’t complain about being cash poor and asset rich

Approaching a third of pensioners have assets in excess of £1m. Carol almost certainly knows several.

@DoctorWho080804 Who’s complaining about having no money? I have plenty thanks and I’m sitting in my quite modest home.

@BrianEmbleton @MostlyVV @SimonMagus Then don’t complain about having no money even though you’re sitting on a massive asset

@RachelT1722 @Jenny_1884 Negative equity doesn’t mysteriously disappear. It gets lumped on to your mortgage and you carry it with you until your mortgage is paid off.

@BrianEmbleton @Jenny_1884 And the market meant you'd get your next property cheaper too. Negative equity and house price drops don't last long. After 25 years you have no housing costs.

When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.

@RachelT1722 @Jenny_1884 I really enjoyed the negative equity when I came to sell my first house.

@Jenny_1884 It's interesting every boomer says "we had 15% interest" well you all couldn't have bought at exactly the same time! 15% interest rates didn't last for 25 years! Also 15% on a small amount is better than 5% on a big amount!

@Maureywu5 @MostlyVV @SimonMagus Nothing stopping them starting a family. I’ll gladly contribute to their child benefit and free school breakfasts out of the taxes I pay.

@BrianEmbleton @MostlyVV @SimonMagus Passed down when they’re 50-60yo lmao? What a perfect time to start a family

@Maureywu5 @MostlyVV @SimonMagus “Extort”? Do you know who their wealth and possessions will be passed down to when they die? Yep, you guessed it the younger generations. Although I’m someone of your moral rectitude would refuse any such ill gotten gains on a point of principle

@BrianEmbleton @MostlyVV @SimonMagus But they still want to extort the most wealth from the younger generations

@GaryCB1888 Mummy is starting to worry wondering where you are.

@BrianEmbleton Your baldness must be an escape hatch for any brain cells that you had.

@MostlyVV @SimonMagus Perhaps they regard their abode as a home rather than a house and don’t want all the stress of moving with the possibility of having to dispose of treasured possessions.

Could move to the same town just a cheaper house. The bottom line is they would rather live in their house and be poor than use the equity. Ive had a number of boomers admit this to me in person. My neighbour in upminster was living a million £ house long since paid off. No intention of selling. Rather live off pension and have his big house for family gatherings.