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From October 1 the typical home will pay £193.45 in electricity standing charges a year & £109.50 for gas. In the summer of 2021, the typical electricity standing charge was £91.25 & £98.55 for gas. @ofgem works for @edfenergy @eon_next @ScottishPower @SSE @npower_ng @BritishGas

@PeterStefanovi2 He is adding religious hue to elections. Pathetic.

Keir Starmer will meet senior figures from across public life in a bid to drive forward a “whole of society” response to antisemitism in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings. The PM will warn everyone has a responsibility to stand with Jewish communities as attacks on British Jews are “a crisis for all of us” and “a test of our values”. Starmer is set to convene meetings with leaders from business, civil society, health, culture, higher education and policing. He will ask attendees to reflect on how they can move forward “at pace” to tackle antisemitism in their respective sectors @itvnews

@Katie_Lam_MP Could we start by curtailing this welfare John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined. Using public purse for lobbying activities for personal gain

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.

@paullewismoney Read and re-read. No such tax exist today. It is likely to impact sales when introduced as businesses will pass it to on to consumers. Is your post a click bait or a typo or you purposefully misleading people?

Retailers use cost of living crisis to campaign for end to packaging taxes bit.ly/4eoySYt which they choose to pass on to customers

@Artemisfornow This is proper welfare spend. In addition to pension, they claim this. John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined.

What? … 625,618 households received more in benefits than the average UK worker's salary after tax and 16,000 received over £60,000 in welfare payments … DOUBLE the average annual take home pay for a worker in the UK after tax. This is not a functioning society 🤡

@IsfreeJane No one is asking for this welfare spend to be means tested or frozen John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined.

Like we haven’t paid in all our lives🤷‍♀️. Women, born in the 50s, were told we will get our OAP at 60! we didn’t, no notification. We were made to work another 6 yrs £40,000 stolen from each of us! Covid injections gave me a heart condition no treatment unless I can pay. NO NHS

@ChrisNineham Who wrote the script ? Morgan Sweeney, Josh Simons, Peter Mandelson or Keith Starmer, to be read out

It wasn’t one misstatement to the Times then. Here is Rowley again saying that ‘we set out with intent’ to march near synagogues. He knows this isn’t true. You have to ask why is he repeating this?

@SaulStaniforth Every £1 increase in minimum wage, the govt collects £0.42 in tax + NI ( employer+ employee) . Simplest way to lift people out of poverty is to reduce on income tax for anyone on minimum wage.

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?

@JohnWight1 You are wrong. We never blink a eye when it comes to welfare of these poor people John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined.

Always enough money for war and never enough for welfare.

@TheGriftReport He has no complaints on this welfare spend John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined.

Tony Blair’s institute has proposed a dystopian scheme to use your private NHS health data to slash state pensions, they want to replace the triple lock with a creepy “Lifespan Fund” where payouts are personalised based on your medical records and predicted life expectancy, the plan means healthier people who live longer would get smaller monthly amounts so everyone only gets roughly 20 years’ worth of pension no matter what, it would involve mandatory health checks and a government app basically playing Grim Reaper with your retirement savings, critics have slammed it as a shocking privacy nightmare and dangerous overreach that punishes people for staying healthy, this is vintage Blair – the same man who enjoys a lavish taxpayer-funded pension himself now wants to lecture and control ordinary Brits who paid in all their lives,

@JamesMelville This part of welfare budget cannot be touched. Others can die and MPs need their drink.

While the average pint in central London now costs £7 and some bars are now charging £10 or more for draught or bottled beer….there is one place in central London where the drinks prices are significantly lower because of taxpayer funded subsidised prices - the House of Commons.

@Heccles94 For £1 of wage rise govt collect £0.42 as tax + employee NI + employer NI

But yeh, raising the minimum wage by 20% is insane…

@RachelD1892 We are broke but we spend so much on the welfare budget John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined.

I just watched Starmer proudly announcing the UK will join a £78 billion loan to Ukraine. WTF!!?? We're broke, highest ever levels of debt, highest ever levels of tax, economy a total mess. Where is that money coming from when we simply haven't got it!? Something is very wrong!

@SaulStaniforth x.com/premnsikka/sta… And what about exPM collecting welfare benefits

Kwasi Kwarteng says the welfare bill is unsustainable. Kevin Maguire points out the welfare bill is about 10.6% of GDP, as a proportion that's lower than most other European countries, and the majority of it goes on pensions #GMB

@premnsikka How is this not part of welfare bill?

Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA) given to multi-millionaire former UK PMs in 2024-25 John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined. PDCA isn't means-tested

@CallumLyon For every £1 increase, govt collects £0.42 with tax + NI

@CallumLyon Successive increase in minimum wage is scam by the government to collect 20% tax. If it really cares about people, there should be no tax for those earning minimum wage and increase this tax free amount rather than minimum wage every year.

How the fk are people working full time on minimum wage in the UK meant to actually survive alone? The maths just doesn't add up: Take home pay after tax, national insurance and pension contributions for a 37.5 hour work week (because let's face it, all these employers who really care about you don't pay you for your breaks so you're not getting a full 40 hours) is around £1700 You're lucky to rent anywhere nowadays under £800. Council Tax is now around £220 a month. Utilities are at least another £350. Then there's the weekly food shop, you're looking at a minimum of £70 a week. Just with the basics in this scenario you're left with £50 to last you the whole month. And that's without even adding transport or anything going wrong. Minimum.wage in the UK does not cover minimum living requirements. Something really needs to change. No wonder nobody wants to work anymore.

@premnsikka f Govt really cares, there should be NO income tax for those earning minimum wage

@premnsikka Successive increase in min wages is being marketed as helping the not well off. However, the govt has ulterior motive of collecting 20% tax + NI (employee + employer) on it. If employees already on minimum wage for every £1 increase in minimum wage , govt gets £0.42 extra .

Will UK Govts wage war on poverty? High rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. 5-year-olds up to 7cm shorter than Eurpean counterparts. 1 in 4 young people have mental health condition. 3m people malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. leftfootforward.org/2026/04/waging…

@Normanjam67 Easier to buy a few that are in power. Politicians like Keir are happy to divide people on religious line to win votes.

The majority of us don't support Israel. Why does the majority of our politicians and media? 🤔

@RhonddaBryant What policies, Keir's plan of pitching one religion against another to win votes? Getting police chief to selectively speak about one assault and hide others to give religious colour to assaults?

It’s striking that all the news on the elections this week is about process, predictions and polls. I remember when journalists reported on policies.

@ferafestiva23 Successive increase in min wages is being marketed as helping the not well off. However, the govt has ulterior motive of collecting 20% tax + NI (employee + employer) on it. If employees already on minimum wage for every £1 increase in minimum wage , govt gets £0.42 extra

If I’m paying 5 employees £12.71 ph and have to increase to £15 I have to find an extra £29k+ a year (if you include NI and NEST etc based on 40hrs per week) does anyone think a business like a coffee shop can magic up an extra £29k + a year without putting up prices?