Richard Dominy

Love this. Reform say instead of waiting for your useless local council to remove travellers who have set up pitches illegally they will make it a police matter with arrests and confiscations of caravans taking place. Question; Why didn’t the Tories do this. They had 14 years.

And there is the reality. All of the promises, all the rhetoric, all the empty, meaningless words. Welsh Water at its finest.

@MichaelAArouet For me this is one very good reason to stay out of the EU. UK has its own state pension issues going into the future but they pale in comparison to what is coming down the track for large parts of the EU. It may become the defining issue that fragments the EU causing a collapse.

This is eye-opening. Spain and Italy have some of the lowest birth rates in Europe. At the same time, they have a staggering amount of unfunded pension obligations of about 500% of GDP. Seriously, who is supposed to pay these pensions going forward?

@Macon012345 @Ye_Olde_Holborn Brown did an enormous amount of damage to the pensions of many people, something he still doesn’t acknowledge.

@Ye_Olde_Holborn Imagine trusting the state for 50 years... pensions died for me the day Brown stole them.. and theres no way im working to 67-68 they can F right off.

>>>Imagine admitting on a public platform that you worked for 50 years & didn’t save a penny of your earnings.

@Ye_Olde_Holborn Many current pensioners worked in jobs that had no provision for Workplace Pensions. There is a generation of pensioners who never had access to occupational or private pensions. Alongside them are a cohort of pensioners who have recent inherited wealth and private pensions.

@MissLauraMarcus Many current pensioners worked in jobs that had no provision for Workplace Pensions. There is a generation of pensioners who never had access to occupational or private pensions. Alongside them are a cohort of pensioners who have recent inherited wealth and private pensions.

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!

@PaulEmbery @AllisonPearson An example of the underlying issue; x.com/lukejohnsonrcp…

Nobody with an interest in British politics could fail to notice the decline in the calibre of our MPs. Just compare the candidates in Labour’s 1976 leadership election with those who are likely to be on the ballot paper next time. My latest piece (£). ⬇️ paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…

@AvonandsomerRob I suppose they could impose a car parking tax on the retail parks and shopping malls and at the same time make car parking free in the town centres. Would be interesting to see the effect over time.

Perhaps if councils made car-parking free in town centres people wouldn't go to retail parks and shopping malls?

@Gudge62 @crepycidon @MissLauraMarcus The two cohorts of state pensioners - those that are wealthy and those that only have the SP probably means that means testing ((ignoring assets) but basing it on pension income before tax will be introduced sooner rather than later.

@crepycidon @MissLauraMarcus Most of the current pensioners worked in jobs that had no provision for Workplace Pensions. There was no education or real knowledge of WP when I was younger, I was 30 before I worked for a company that had one.

@Gudge62 @crepycidon @MissLauraMarcus Yep this is the piece that most critics of the State Pension miss out or ignore. There is a whole generation of pensioners who never had access to work place or private pensions. Alongside them are a cohort of pensioners who have recent inherited wealth and private pension.

@barbaraanneken1 @SaulStaniforth Agree in work benefits have progressively over time distorted the whole welfare structure to the benefit of businesses and corporations. Government needs to send a message to the private sector that UC for people in work is unacceptable to everyone.

@DominyRichard @SaulStaniforth Companies should pay a living wage then people who make them money through working for them would not need governments to top up their salaries in welfare benefits. We taxpayers are subsidising shareholders

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

@Steven_Swinford @larisamlbrown Debt/gdp at 95%+ (3.5 trillion), debt interest payments 120 billion by 2030. Where is the investment going to come from to support the industry base and factories necessary to rearm the military?

Exclusive from @larisamlbrown Britain’s armed forces can only “think about” preparing for war as a lack of funding has left no money to buy new weapons until 2030, a former military chief has warned General Sir Richard Barrons, the co-author of the strategic defence review, told The Times that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had gone “backwards” since last June, when the review was published. He warned that a lack of investment was “depleting” the industrial base and driving defence firms abroad The army has only “just about” enough money for its conventional crewed platforms, such as tanks, helicopters and artillery, but not expendable, largely autonomous systems such as loitering munitions and kamikaze drones or AI-enabled assets thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

@PolitlcsUK Populous nonsense - the man is not a serious politician. All of his economic pronouncements so far are from the kindergarten.

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski has called for the Government to temporarily ban private jet travel amid potential jet fuel shortages "While ordinary people pay the price, the super rich are simply getting in their private jets at will – wasting huge amounts of jet fuel"

@GriftReport @TheGriftReport Violent conduct at a place of work is under most employment contracts a sackable offence. Why didn’t the BBC just sack the presenter? What were they thinking.

Violent BBC presenter broke female colleague's wrist in shocking attack but it was hushed up by bosses, he grabbed her by both wrists, crossed them over and violently threw her to the floor around 2014, a doctor's report confirmed the broken wrist but the BBC failed to call police or take any real action against him, instead they simply gave him bad shifts hoping he would quit while letting him carry on working for years, this is the latest BBC cover-up scandal following the Scott Mills and Huw Edwards cases, Source: @DailyMail

@liamrotoole Having read the article twice I still can’t work out why the service hasn’t started. There seems to be any number reasons being posted to provide cover for a dispute with rail unions. In the meantime nobody wants to be accountable least of all the DfT. Just sums up the UK 🫩

People can see it – but can’t use it : mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains The East West Rail project linking Oxford to Milton Keynes was finished in 2024. There’s just one hitch: no passenger services lrot.link/ns0wy0

@LlyrPowell Has anyone asked Morgan why when Health Minister she did this? What reasons has she given?

Half of Welsh nursing graduates can’t get jobs while Labour looks abroad for workers. How does that make any sense? Put our people first. Vote Reform this Thursday.

@simongerman600 @paullewismoney Why didn’t Reeves sort this out in her first budget? It would have won her plaudits and started to fix our appallingly complex and idiotic tax code.

Sometimes a well-meaning tax code turns out to be utterly idiotic. The UK is a nice example where parents in need of childcare are actively encouraged to not earn more money / remain below their economic potential. Urgent need for tax reform. Source: telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/inco…

@tomhfh How do you in a short space of time get to own both sides of that high street to be able to implement that vision?

This is how you save the high street. Not through punitively taxing online businesses, or extended parking gimmicks. But by allowing more people to actually live on the high st - finally making the shops beneath their feet more convenient than Amazon dot com.

@diversity999x Trouble is they’ll be out in 18months ready to go again. To free up prison space they should only be released to then work on public works such as road repairs, drainage, clearing, cleaning until the end of their full sentence.

Three men have been jailed for three years each after stealing underground cables worth £50,000, causing phone and broadband outages for thousands of people in Birmingham. Marian Agarlita, 37, from the Isle of Wight, and Sorin Condrache, 45, and Aldafin Poenaru, 49, both of Smethwick, admitted theft at Birmingham Crown Court. They were arrested at the scene in the city centre after alarms were triggered. The theft affected around 5,000 customers and caused significant repair costs. One man initially refused to leave the underground chamber. West Midlands Police described the group as skilled and organised.