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@PostOffice so you are closing Croydon town centre post office. Today at 12:45 3 people serving and 20 in queue. Your service is appalling. @CPhilpOfficial @LabourSJ @JasonForCroydon @RowennaDavis

@zarahsultana What they owe ? How much did they pay. Now they have gone how is UK better off. Please explain.

A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems. If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees. It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

@British_Airways today BA1454 why when you have a full flight is this a problem? Surely you want it on every flight ? Thanks by the way for not recognising frequent flyer, like to keep a low profile.

@Keir_Starmer Oh dream on. You lost the plot. Tax and spend is only mantra and growth is derisory and will be corrected shortly.

Job number one is easing the cost of living pressure that many people still feel. Today’s GDP figures show our economy is growing. That means more money back in your pocket. I know there’s more to do, but we are heading in the right direction.

@KarenQuinn1973 @GBNEWS I guess he was sold the dream of 4☆ hotels, free dentist and NHS access. Guess no one said the queue 4.5 million long. Oh well perhaps the human rights lawyers, state funded will get him compensation and free tickets to go watch Chelsea. @GBNEWS @LBC @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage

@GBNEWS Today, at Newton-le-Willows Community Hospital, a man has entered and demanded an appointment with the GP. This man is not registered with the practice and they had no appointments available. He has then gone on a rampage attacking staff and people on the premises allegedly with a crowbar and smashing up the hospital, GP Surgery and onsite Pharmacy. People were forced to hide and barricade themselves into rooms. Some have sustained injuries, and a police cordon remains in place. Police have confirmed that they have arrested a 20-year-old man after reports five people were assaulted at Newton-le-Willows Community Hospital in Newton-Le-Willows this afternoon (Tuesday 30 December). Just after 12pm they received a report that a man attended the hospital to request an appointment. At this stage it is believed that his request was declined and when he was asked to leave he became increasingly agitated and damaged a counter before assaulting several people inside the hospital, with a weapon (possibly a crowbar). Those who were injured are currently being treated by paramedics at the hospital for injuries, which are not life threatening. St Helens Neighbourhood Superintendent Sarah Rotherham said: “We were called to reports of a man behaving aggressively at the hospital who had assaulted a number of people. Officers attended immediately and the male was swiftly located and arrested. Paramedics attended at the hospital and carried out first aid to those who had been injured. I would like to take this opportunity for anyone who witnessed this incident at the hospital to contact us.” The male, who is originally from Afghanistan, has been arrested on suspicion of five counts of Section 18 wounding, affray and criminal damage. He has been taken to a police station in Merseyside and remains in custody. A police scene is currently in place and members of the public are advised to avoid the area while enquiries are ongoing.

@TLRailUK now you are running a weekend service on a Tuesday will you be charging off peak fares as I head to work ? @GBNEWS all right for some @RMTunion @ASLEFunion I hope your members have a wonderful extended Chritmas break.

@UKLabour And now TV licence given free to your benefit voters. This is outright vote buying.

got us feeling like Mark from Love Actually

@PostOffice @CPhilpOfficial @LabourSJ absolute rubbish in Croydon Post office today. Busy time of day. All self service out of order. Ticketing system broken. Snaking queue of frustrated customers. No wonder @RoyalMail is failing.

@Darcieboo2016 @SkyNews Very generous of you when I win it's normally less than £5.

@SkyNews When i win the Euromillions on Friday, I'll donate £10 million to them. Anything to ensure Labour never win again.

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@PatrickChristys @GBNEWS surely this deserves a mention ? This is more Pee taking by the Loony Left or extreme left wing government. Or @LBC @NickFerrariLBC

@RupertLowe10 @GBNEWS Empty trains ? Are the government officials doing this for fun or is this the final death throws ? @LBC @Nigel_Farage @10DowningStreet Where is minister for common sense ? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@EvacTony And when you retire, if you own your house, they will steal it off you through an accumulating 'wealth tax' whist those others will live on subsidised rent till they die.

I work often work in neighbourhoods where most who live there don’t work. While I'm up and at it at 7.30, you won't see them before 11, unless they're on the school run, in their PJs, then in their 25 plate car on pip, then straight back to bed. Old slippers and pizza boxes are strewn about in the streets, weed hangs in the air,  little kids play in gardens full of rubbish and broken trampolines. They've all got dogs, they've all got phones and everything else. I'm 50 almost, and working since before I left school is taking its toll. On Wednesday Labour are going to fuck me, you and every other worker over again to pay for this shit show, raising other people's kids and feeding and housing an invading army of people that hate us and abuse our women. We're fools to put up with this, history will view us as idiots if we do.

@TfL seems your busa drivers on the #119 route only charge people of certain ethnicities the fare. More 2 - tier UK. @10DowningStreet @RobertJenrick @gbnews.

@RupertLowe10 Did you add taxing revenue not profit if you are a private landlord ? But I think you miss the point @10DowningStreet wants us all on benefits so they can control us. Self reliance, sense of responsibility is being squashed from all sides. @Nigel_Farage @GBNEWS @RachelReevesMP

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for? We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal. Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck. Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on. Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working… VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money. Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax. Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness. Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax. Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done. Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar. You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant. More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest. How depressing. Time for a pint. Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure. You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go? You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed. Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless. What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news? Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right? Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously. And the final kick in teeth. Inheritance tax. After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings. Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company. Even after death, it continues. What are we paying all this money for? Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational? No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS. Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t. When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do? QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax. The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world. Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working. We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work. You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work. LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

@RupertLowe10 Don't forget heaven forbid you get a good job, earn over £100k (many civil servants) your marginal income tax rate goes sky high. Then all your allowances get kicked out. Robbery all round. The tax system is too complicated. Needs simplification...oh no jobs for bean counters.

@NS_1872 @sirwg202110 Don't think authorities will do anything. Been like this for years.

@sirwg202110 Under the Highways Act 1980, section 137 - “If a person without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or a fine”. Will be reporting this.

Another great way to unite Britain — a dominant prayer outside East London Mosque by the mob. And the likes of Sayeeda Warsi think this is perfectly normal.

@TfL beggars on the @ElizabethLine not a great sight for visitors to the #UK #ElizabethLine this evening. Anyone notice ?

@RachelReevesMP @LBC @Nigel_Farage So Ms. Reeves, it seems you will tax the wise virgins for planning for the future and reward the foolish virgins for being spendthrifts. Will you re-write Bible now too ? @10DowningStreet @GBNEWS @PatrickChristys

@RachelReevesMP here is an idea for you - tax unearned income - like lottery winners - that should get you enough money a year to pay for a few more illegals. @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick @GBNEWS @10DowningStreet

@Nigel_Farage here is an idea for you - once Asylum is granted, as it often is, any return to the 'home country' for a 'holiday' should remove the right to stay in UK. Remove second passports from asylum refugees.