@BladeoftheS Clearly you don’t understand the difference between climate and weather. You also don’t understand the difference between an outlier and an average.
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@CmdrSpace
Outspoken geeky academic. Points out the obvious flaws in politician's arguments. Photographer.
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For those not paying attention June is the sunniest month in the UK and July is the warmest.
It's going to get a lot hotter.
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@flcro @TomCARR89143229 @KirstieMAllsopp True, at that level of income, blowing a few hundred on a kitchen gadget probably isn’t an issue. We tend to discuss any purchase over £100.
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@CmdrSpace @TomCARR89143229 @KirstieMAllsopp It’s one sort of marriage. When a couple is earning about £300k pa between them, and one at any rate is working about 15 hrs a day 6/7 days a week, the subject probably doesn’t come up much. They probably feel they deserve a few luxuries. Or she did.
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If Nicola Sturgeon didn’t question/notice expenditure in her home, in her own kitchen, then what the heck was going on with taxpayer’s money, did this reckless attitude to expenditure impact the entire Scottish government?
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@TomCARR89143229 @KirstieMAllsopp I bought a coffee machine. A few hundred £ bean to cup one. *Before* I bought it, I asked my wife if it was ok and what the budget was. This is a normal marriage.
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@KirstieMAllsopp That is bizarre, are you suggesting that when her husband brought a Coffee Maker to the house she should have said ‘where did that come from and how much did that cost?’
FFS grow up, £400K over 12 years equates to £650 a day approx!
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@BladeoftheS You clearly don’t know anything about foster care.
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107,000 children are in care in the UK, more than 40% are in the private sector which charges an average of £384,020 a child and makes £80,000+ profit per child that goes straight to shareholders
While Foster Parents are given just £15,000 a year even though they do a better job
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@BhattiLaib9960 Share the costs with someone or get a better job.
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How am I supposed to pay
$1,600 rent
$250 power
$110 water
$280 internet
$130 car insurance
EVERY MONTH
while making less than $18 an hour??? 🤨🤨🤨
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@sipeachem @higgyboson @AngelaRayner £240k for 5 staff is just under £50k each. When on-costs are factored in, that’s somewhere between £30k and £35k average salary each. That’s about right.
If she wants to then accept £250k in addition, for a leadership bid, that’s her business. It’s been declared, unlike the £5M
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@higgyboson @AngelaRayner She has five staff
So do Farage and Jenrick
BadEnoch has 23……and she’s not even in government.
See here:- publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsecret…
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I posted this during the week but I'm doing it again because it's absolutely staggering.
@AngelaRayner can claim £40,000 in direct office expenses and a further £240,000 for "staff costs" etc.
She's also been gifted another quarter of a million quid from "supporters" to cover even more "office expenses".
In total it comes to over £500,000 per year.
Or £10,000 PER WEEK.
FOR OFFICE EXPENSES.
A UK pensioner is expected to survive on just £12,500 PER YEAR.
That's just 9 days worth of Angela Rayners "office expenses".
Are you OK with that?
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@higgyboson @MariaHutchings @AngelaRayner 240k in staffing, absolutely.
The £250k gift could be to pay for a leadership bid…
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@DrewIsSharing We got one last summer from Argos. Used it about 2 weeks last year. Currently using it. It’s cheap but it works.
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I’m from the UK…. If you can afford it, buy an AC unit.
“But it’s only for 2 weeks in a year”
No it isn’t. It’s from now until the middle of August.
An AC unit costs like £325 from Argos.
Best purchase I ever made in the UK.
SPD64@SPD64
Please be patient to UK content creators We are currently being hit with a pretty intense heatwave, meaning we'll probably be working a tad slower, have less energy and may even need to take a break from our PCs to prevent them from overheating Also none of this "Well we have it hotter over here" bs: - UK heat is built different - Most of us don't have ACs since we rarely NEED them for most of the year - Our houses are built to keep heat in due to how cold our weather can get - We aren't as used to hot weather given how 80% of the year, UK weather isn't hot We're not trying to dispute who has it worse/hotter, we just want patience and understanding 🙏
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Someone posts something totally stupid, then disables comments when they get hammered. This is the point one should press the delete button.
Bonnie🫡and Clyde 🏴@ElznGaz
Today is 31 degrees in Lincolnshire UK & no wind .. not even a breeze yet these disgusting wind turbines are spinning no problem & why ? It's because they are ran by a diesel generators they are one of the biggest cons going & you all need to know it's one big corrupt con at the British people's cost .... Wake up people Of couse do your research it's not hard to find it's all true 🤬🤬. @RupertLowe10 @potus
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@JamesMac_Fit Then you gotta police it. Ask to see it every now and again, until you can trust them (much older). Accept they will make mistakes, and talk to them rather than shout at them when you find stuff.
No phones in bedrooms. Set an example by not being glued to it yourself.
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@JamesMac_Fit They need a phone in secondary school. Everyone else has one and not having one at the start of year 7 will:
a) make it harder to make friends
b) make them a target for bullies
Secondary kids can be properly cruel
Get it in primary, so they can learn from you and not other kids
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Dads... I need your advice.
As a young dad myself, I’m genuinely worried about my son growing up addicted to screens, phones, games, etc.
It feels like EVERYTHING is designed to grab their attention these days.
So I want to ask:
- How do you actually manage screen time in your house?
- What’s worked for you?
- What’s failed?
Would appreciate real answers from people who’ve been there 🤝
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No tax on overtime has become a litmus test for whose side you’re on.
Reform are workers.
Labour and the Tories are now for benefits street and Belgravia.
Sun Politics@SunPolitics
Nigel Farage vows to abolish tax on overtime in major offer to Brit grafters #Echobox=1779613672" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thesun.co.uk/news/39196782/…
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@zatzi Barnett formula. Introduced in 1978, and then decades of Conservative administrations failed to reduce it.
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Why do English taxpayers give £23.5bn to Scotland to fund their benefits system?
Daily Mail@DailyMail
SNP: We'll never cut back £7bn bill for benefits trib.al/t5tSMBa
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People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves.
You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job.
This will be a huge boost to recruitment.
Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧
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@TheWinterRoad @DeveloperAdiict @tickerade @DavidHHeadley I don’t have that. My contract doesn’t have stated hours, but expects me to perform XYZ for £. No overtime. No hours stated. That’s kind of the point of being salaried.
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@DeveloperAdiict @tickerade @CmdrSpace @DavidHHeadley I’m a salaried employee and it’s part of my contract that I may have to put in additional hours without extra compensation. That’s part of being salaried.
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Sounds attractive, but how would HMRC distinguish between normal earnings and hours worked beyond 40 a week for salaried workers, business owners, teachers, doctors, managers and anyone whose hours aren’t clocked? And how much would it cost the Treasury?
It’s all bullshit. Like the rest of their announcements.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
🚨Important policy announcement: Britain was built on the hard graft of people who go the extra mile. A Reform government will ABOLISH income tax on hours worked beyond 40 hours a week, for incomes below £75,000 a year. It’s time to REWARD hard work, not punish it! 🇬🇧
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@andrewslinn @johnbestwest In my field, it’s both employer and employee that benefits from performance.
Employee benefits from improved chances later on in the career. Build momentum, do well, and people back the winners. It’s pretty cut throat and not paid enough, but there are plus sides.
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@CmdrSpace @johnbestwest Ask yourself this, who does it benefit having no hourly rate & ambiguous working hours? Your or employer? Don’t sell yourself short, that’s all I’m saying pal.
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@v_j_freeman I’d increase the tax free threshold. Easy to administer, using existing IT systems with no extra staff needed, helps everyone (but those on the lowest income the most).
This is just noddy politics from a party about as useful as a chocolate teapot
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Given unpaid overtime is much more common than paid overtime I can’t see why a very expensive bung to a small % of the working population would be a good idea. If I had £5bn to splash around I’d cut the base rate of tax or NI. Benefitting c.27m vs Reform’s 3.2m
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Reform UK have announced a plan to make overtime tax-exempt. I'm sceptical this makes sense - more soon. But an interesting question: if you were the Chancellor, and you were making a £5bn tax cut... what tax would you cut? What would have the maximum positive impact?
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@DeveloperAdiict @tickerade @DavidHHeadley Indeed. It’s an ill-thought out policy. It doesn’t work for lots of people, and for those that it does, it creates a tax loophole. To administer this is costly, which juxtaposes against their policy of reducing civil servants.
Better just to increase the tax free threshold.
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@tickerade @CmdrSpace @DavidHHeadley You seem ignorant because alot of salaried employees put in over time without compensation.
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@andrewslinn @johnbestwest Minimum wage: Simple calculation. People sleep. They commute. They don’t work 7 days per week.
Working time regulations: the only one they may fall foul of is rest between work periods
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@CmdrSpace @johnbestwest So how does your employer prove they are following employment laws? Min wage, working time regulations etc.
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@andrewslinn @johnbestwest So I should quit or get agro for not performing, good plan.
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@CmdrSpace @johnbestwest Anything above & beyond your contracted hours invoice your employer for. If they don’t pay don’t do it. Know your worth, don’t give your labour for free.
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