Graham Cowell

@cashflow_king94 Sad thing is you’ve all fallen for an untrue statement. The right amount is here gov.uk/income-tax-rat…

In 2010, the basic rate band was £37,400. In 2026, it's £37,700. A £300 increase. In 16 years. Inflation in that time? 58%. If it had kept pace, the band would be £59,000. Instead it's £37,700. That gap? Over £21,000 of income now taxed at 40% that shouldn't be. The result? 4 million extra people paying higher rate tax. People earning £50,000 are now "higher rate taxpayers." In 2010, that same salary was firmly basic rate. This is fiscal drag. The biggest stealth tax in British history. And they didn't even have to change the rates. Did you know this was happening?

@ALTHEPAL10 @Hot_Pepper76 And so he says that’s why it has never been played live. Preparing to tour, Cat Stevens people asked Rick to tell them how to play the twiddly bits between verses. Rick refused because they never paid him for the session.

@Hot_Pepper76 Did you know that Rick Wakeman played piano on the original recording? Here he is playing the instrumental version. Absolutely incredible. youtu.be/VebVIXSQFC0?si…

“Morning Has Broken” wasn’t written by the singer. It’s a hymn by Eleanor Farjeon set to the Scottish folk tune “Bunessan,” which Stevens discovered in a hymnbook and recorded for his 1971 album. Can you name him?

@SophieMcDLaw Yeah, but that argument was lost under Thatcher and many years of ‘hire and fire’/zero hours contracts pegging wages well behind house price inflation. If employers had paid decent wages we wouldn’t have needed a minimum wage.

@pellsglenn @Nigel_Farage Except that we already can by the 2007 UK Borders Act.

Don't allow any Labour, Lib Dem or Tory politicians to offer their condolences to victims of this terrorist attack in #Huntingdon. These very same people stopped the @Nigel_Farage bill the other day in parliament which would have allowed us to deport foreign criminals.

@leeharris Straight out of the Trump playbook. Remember “they’re eating the cats!!”?

I don't get this. Can someone please explain why leftists are having a meltdown about Farage saying there are migrants eating swans, when we appear to have evidence that it's actually happened? To say it's a "total lie" is clearly... a lie.

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@afneil Simple, batteries and fed into the national grid where it is stored in the same way as other generated electricity. Power stations don’t just produce what it wanted at that instant you know 🤷‍♂️

Childish tweet. Unless you can tell me how much of that wind-generated electricity is being stored for days when the wind isn’t blowing. Or blowing so strong the turbines have to be shut down. I look forward to your answer.

@afneil And as of now today solar is generating 31% of our energy. Over the last year generated as much as we used fossil fuel. A bit more effort and we wouldn’t need gas!!

Wind is this morning meeting less than 5% of our electricity needs and a mere 3% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised — simply because there is so little wind. Yes, I know there are days when wind generates much more. But, until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days, that is frankly irrelevant. The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous. Yet politicians and the Grifters of the Green Blob continue to lie about this on an industrial scale.

@BainzyC Already living without them. Never used any of them. 😁😁

Could you live without Deliveroo, UBER, JustEats and all of these home delivery services? Or are you too lazy now?

@AllisonPearson @Keir_Starmer Allison, that’s a net migration figure, not an immigration figure, that figure in 1991 was 329,000. You’ve conflated two totally different statistics.

In 1991, total legal immigration was 44,000. In 2025, illegal migration is higher than that. 44,000 is now one tenth of the numbers allowed into the UK. The pressure on housing, NHS, cohesion is catastrophic. Who gave permission for them to wreck our country? @Keir_Starmer

@beverleyturner Fact check it, Trump has only increased the gifting limit before paying tax to $15m, not removed it completely frostbrowntodd.com/one-big-beauti… There’s a word for what he said!!

This felt a bit like a school assembly when the Headmaster asks you to stand up and give your name because you wrote a nice poem... 😂

@SandyofSuffolk The figure relates to households with at least one foreign national, so includes settled EU citizens, households where one partner is Uk citizen, the other isn’t and others we have invited here. These aren’t the migrants I think you’re implying.

To everyone who's spent years telling me migrants can't claim and don't get benefits, turns out 1 in 6 people on universal credit aren't British. I'll keep logging on today to check for your apology.

@RupertLowe10 And if you bother to check here, you will see we have reciprocal arrangements for Social Security with many countries gov.uk/government/pub…. But again, that truth doesn’t fit your narrative does it?

Over 1 million foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit. 1.06 million - absolute insanity. We cannot afford it. The country is BROKE.

@RupertLowe10 No, we’re paying that to households with at least one foreign national - so UK citizens with , for exam, Thai brides are included in the 1 billion. We are also paying 30 billion a month to UK national households.

We pay one billion pounds a month in benefits to foreign national households. Let's just stop doing that.

@doreentony @JoshSnaith @Keir_Starmer @grok Read the grok answer, it’s between 57% and 68 % of the number, not a drop in the ocean, but you probably won’t believe that either

@JoshSnaith @Keir_Starmer @grok He won't say how many because the amount he's allegedly returned is a drop in the ocean to how many still here ileagal and costing us the tax payer millions but he doesn't care about us or the country

Since the election, we’ve returned 30,000 people with no right to be here. And we won’t stop there. Now, we will be able to return migrants arriving via small boat back to France – smashing the business model of people smugglers.

@RupertLowe10 Presumably you’ve changed your tune as the 5% non-white and all the immigrants in the town are now English as well. Don’t you welcome Scots, Irish and Welsh in Yarmouth?

Why I love Great Yarmouth. I’m not going to pretend I grew up in Great Yarmouth or spent my entire adult life working in Great Yarmouth, because I haven’t. By a bizarre chain of events, I am the area’s MP and it is now my absolute favourite corner of England. Has it been forgotten and let down? Absolutely. Would I change anything about the local people there? Absolutely not. They are the proper, decent English men and women that make this country so fantastic. Absolutely zero BS, and that’s why I love them. It hasn’t been infected with London’s wokery and nonsense. It remains proper England. It’s like stepping in a time machine, going back a few decades. People still say hello. Everybody knows everybody. I’ve never seen anything like it. A genuine community. They care about each other and their town. I love it. Of course there are issues, we all know about them. I want to talk about the positives. Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Caister, Bradwell, Hopton, Hemsby, Martham, Scratby, Belton, Burgh Castle, Winterton, Ormesby, Fleggburgh - I could go on. Such a unique and beautiful little part of the country. So much of it now relies on tourism, and I am doing my absolute best to encourage people to come and visit our area - for a weekend away, with or without children, it is absolutely perfect. The racecourse, aquarium, theme parks, beaches, waterways, pubs, circus, the history of the place and so much more. Affordable, so much to do and fantastic fun. It is proper England. It is the single greatest honour of my professional life to be the area’s MP, and I’d like to think I have done my small bit to help put Great Yarmouth back on the map. We all hear MPs moaning about what’s wrong so much, but sometimes it’s important to recognise what’s right too. And there is so much right about Great Yarmouth. I hope you will consider visiting to see why I love it so much.

@basilthegreat Been to London recently, Oval, Vauxhall, Pimlico, Kings Cross, Paddington, Camden. Walking and public transport. Tube clean, no threats, same as six years ago when I worked here daily, only quieter. What alternate reality narrative are you pushing?

A man confronts Sadiq Khan about the state of the London Underground, the graffiti and the fare dodging. Sadiq Khan and James O'Brien laugh at him

@Nigel_Farage @darrenpjones That’s the same video you posted last time you made the same comment. Is it on a weekly repeat as you’re at your keyboard often as you are in your constituency?

These were the scenes in Dover yesterday as 919 illegal immigrants arrived. Perhaps @darrenpjones can tell us where all the women and children are?

@RupertLowe10 This is benefits paid to households with at least one foreign national. How many of those households have at least one British national in them, how many are as a result of Brexit and how long those foreign nationals have been in the UK. Or does that not fit your narrative?

One billion in benefits for foreign national households a month. One billion. Up from £461 million in March 2022. There is a simple solution. STOP PAYING IT. Stop paying foreign nationals hundreds of millions of pounds in benefits every month. Just stop doing it. If you’re a foreign national - you come, you contribute, you integrate, you speak the language, you pay your taxes and you work. If you don’t do that? You go home - not a complicated principle. We’re paying indolent foreigners to sit on their backsides and contribute nothing, but take plenty. Why? How is that helping the British people? Here’s a clue - IT’S NOT. Just say no. The answer is no. You can’t have benefits. There will be mass self deportations. There needs to be an almost complete blanket ban on foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit - other than a very small number who have financially contributed for many years. Other than that, no. No benefits. Sorry. We shouldn’t be afraid to say this... Go home. If you can’t contribute, go home.

@Nigel_Farage The article stated households with at least one foreign national, not migrants. It didn’t say how much of that is claimed by households with at least one British Citizen - wonder why?

On the day that we learn migrant benefits cost us £1bn a month, many hundreds are currently crossing the English Channel. Labour are ruining our country.