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@michaelnixon70 My kids got all 3x saved hard and worked hard.

You seem to forget we booted the Tories out for giving us none of those for 14 yrs.

@RyanShorthouse Nah! It’s about trying to boost his poll ratings!

Utterly disagree. The UK’s important role in the Middle East is not about projecting the UK’s influence or boosting the PM’s poll ratings. Government is not all about bloody political positioning. It is about working with our allies to stop an utterly pointless escalation and stabilising the region to protect lives and livelihoods.

@WorkElizab Young Frankenstein

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@ThrillaRilla369 Absolutely

Trying to prove a point Have you ever had to work more than 55 hours in a week

@ThrillaRilla369 What about freeserve?

If your first email ended in @ yahoo, @ hotmail, or @ msn… you have seniority on the internet.

@GuidoFawkes But why do we have taxes on imports? Should all trade not be free?

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@TimesRadio @Jo_Coburn Note: A great statesman is an obvious person and doesn’t need a whole army of propaganda merchants telling us he’s a great statesman. He even does it himself!

"Britain may not be a country at the forefront of events, but it is one determined not to be left out of them." Sir Keir Starmer's trip to the Gulf in light of the Iran conflict signals his desire to be seen as an "active statesman," says Times Radio's @Jo_Coburn.

@TimesRadio @Jo_Coburn Or to appear to be seen! Photo opportunity but no real role other than waffle!

@Steven_Swinford @Peston This is about dropping any pledge that your energy will be cheaper. It’s all about independence now even if that costs a fortune.

Sir Keir Starmer has said that he is "fed up" with households and businesses seeing their energy bills rise because of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin The prime minister told @Peston Britain needs greater "energy independence" to reduce its exposure to the international markets As @DPJHodges says it's quite the quote - he's directly accusing Trump of pushing people's energy bills up and comparing the impact of his actions to those of Putin "I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses' bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world and saying to families across the country, saying to businesses across the country: 'We've just got to be, we've got to put up with being on the international market.' "We need energy independence, and the only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we're not going to get it on the international market."

@DeborahMeaden Do you live near it? Do you think good homegrown food is equally important?

No idea why these guys don’t like clean air, energy security and a future for the next generations…and…

@itsD3lay And the bottom end of Spain and Portugal

@itsD3lay Africa

Que parte de la tierra es esta????

@drrkhalid1 @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @10DowningStreet And by jetting off to Saudi to try and infer he had a role in the ceasefire! 😂😂😂

‼️🔥🚨Breaking In a moment of global tension, Keir Starmer showed that real power isn’t measured by missiles, but by wisdom and restraint. Peace is always the braver choice. 🕊️ @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @10DowningStreet

@albieamankona Will you say the same to Civil Servants who’s pension fund is the same?

Nobody has a “RIGHT” to a state pension. It is a benefit paid for by the tax payers at the time you receive the benefit and it is subject to the same checks, balances and affordability criteria as every other benefit provided by the state. Whoever told you national insurance was invested in a personal pension pot for you, lied. It’s a tax, like income tax, VAT et al.

@DPJHodges I thought they were all in dock on layup! Brilliant systems if they can track Russian subs from there!

Oh no. Please don't tell me the Government's now going to pretend the reason we didn't have a single ship in the Med was because we were chasing Russian submarines.

@LDS_Dems And they spend less on Military. So if they have to spend more on military they would have to increase taxes.

Gonna let you in on a secret... Europe isn't able to afford universal healthcare because they spend less on their military They are able to afford universal healthcare because it is cheaper per capita than the idiotic American system They can afford it because it is cheaper.

@SunderlandLolly @GMB The point is you don’t survive on the state pension. It’s designed to be supplemented with a work place or private pension. If you rely on state pension alone then you have additional benefits top it up.

Sonia Sodha says: "The state pension is at the right rate now, compared to wages". WTF?? £11.5k is not enough to live on! (It's only HALF the minimum wage). Someone who says it is enough to live on knows they will NEVER have to survive on it! #gmb @GMB

@AndreasSteno But will you? A huge increase in defence spending plus a rapid increase in arms. Is that really going to happen? There will be plenty of hot air expended!

I get that many Americans don’t want to de facto pay for NATO anymore. I get it, I understand that the US paid more than others for a long time. It is all very well understood. We can take care of ourselves. It is ok. You don’t need to lecture us day in and day out about it.

@DylanRatigan Fantasy land! Europe will have to massively increase defence spending if they are to leave the protection of the US. Never going to Happen!

You know the moment is coming when Europe is going to insist that the American NATO bases leave — and the Americans will freak out and demand they must keep their troops in Europe to protect everyone.

@VeryBrexitProbs This is the European bases where American troops are based to defend Europe?

Trump thinks Europe needs NATO more than America does. His generals know better. Here’s what the US loses without it. 1. Its European base network Over 50 US military bases across Europe housing 84,000 troops. Ramstein in Germany is the largest US air base outside America and the hub for every US operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is home to the only US F-35 wing in Europe, the same base the F-15 shot down over Iran last week flew from. These aren’t gifts to Europe. They are America’s front door to the rest of the world. 2. The geography it can never replace The US sits thousands of miles from every major conflict zone on earth. Europe puts American forces within striking distance of the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, the Arctic and Russia’s western border. No aircraft carrier replaces an entire continent. Without European bases America is projecting power across two oceans from a single landmass. That is not a superpower posture, it is an island. 3. Its intelligence network GCHQ, MI6 and European intelligence agencies feed directly into US operations. Five Eyes gives America more global surveillance reach than any other arrangement in history. Lose NATO and that pipeline closes. 4. Two allied nuclear powers The UK and France have independent nuclear arsenals. Outside NATO those weapons are no longer guaranteed to be on America’s side. That is two fewer nuclear powers in your corner. 5. Its arms export market European NATO members are America’s biggest weapons customers. F-35s, Apaches and Patriot missiles, hundreds of billions in contracts. If Europe goes it alone they buy European. Lockheed Martin and Boeing lose their biggest export market overnight. 6. The dollar’s global dominance NATO helps underpins the security order that keeps allies trading in dollars and holding dollar reserves. Collapse that alliance and the shift to alternative currencies accelerates. No single advantage matters more to American prosperity. 7. A trillion-dollar insurance policy 31 other countries have a legal obligation to fight for America if attacked. The only time Article 5 was ever triggered was to defend the US after 9/11. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan answering that call. No other country on earth has anything close to this. 8. Its seat at the head of the table NATO makes America the leader of the free world. Without it the US is just another big country with a big army stranded between two oceans with no allies. China and Russia would celebrate for a decade.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Without NATO, America doesn’t gain independence. It loses an empire.