Greg Barnes

The story going around on X is that net migration is only down because Brits are fleeing and balancing it out. That's not true. Inflows are down. Outflows also slightly down. Brit nationals leaving is flat. Immigration still too high.

@AFCMattxx @EtihadPapers @funwithchimer That makes two of us then

@EtihadPapers @funwithchimer More kids than England goals

(🟢) Phil Foden confirms he’s expecting his 6th child as he’s about to clock 26 years old in a few days❤️

@Strandjunker Pretty loser behaviour to want something to fail because you don't like trump when his country is only 1/3 of the host

FIFA is panicking: World Cup hotel cancellations are surging as global fans ditch the U.S., citing soaring costs, visa bonds, and Trump’s dictatorial behavior. Turns out nobody wants to pay $1,000 a night just to experience an authoritarian simulation.

@jaygordoo Yeah but we still need to stop all the illegals coming in and attacking women, don't we?

I absolutely love being British. I love being told Britain has a “pure” culture by people whose surnames came from Vikings, whose language was shaped by Germans and French, whose religion came from the Middle East, and whose favourite food is a curry. I love hearing about “foreigners ruining the country” from people proudly living in a nation that spent centuries invading, colonising, occupying and redrawing half the planet. I love being lectured about “British values” by people raging at migrants while sitting in houses built by Polish workers, eating food delivered by immigrants, watching American media and drinking tea imported from Asia. I love hearing “go back to your own country” from people who worship a brown man from Judea every Sunday and somehow still think heaven has border control. I love the patriotism too. Nothing screams strength like panicking because someone speaks another language in Tesco. And I especially love the history lessons from people who think Britain was founded in 1945 by white people called Gary and Dave. Rule Britannia, apparently.

@RealAlbanianPat Monster raving loony splitting the vote with the loony labour party 🤣🤣

@TheRealJamieKay So are you a theocratic Christian nationalist or something?

Funny how these ‘patriotic Christians’ never seem to follow this part of the Bible. Leviticus 19:33–34.

@NotThatHughes Need to keep going don't we?

And nobody's life has improved one bit

@elladorn_ Plenty of work out there if you are willing to look. Start your own business from your bedroom if you have to. Be positive not negative

"Bedroom generation" very funny. Are we implying that there are enough (real-life) jobs for these 16-24 year olds, reachable for those who don't drive (etc), willing to hire without experience, & that young people are just refusing to take them?

@TheRealJamieKay Jesus literally called a foreign woman a "dog". Matthew 15

If Jesus turned up in Britain today talking about helping refugees, feeding the poor and loving outsiders, half the far-right accounts would call him woke.

@Denicio @hoezeth Very little if you live with your parents still. My nephew started a car detailing business from his parents home with almost nothing. Now he does it full time as a job

@Gregbarnes234 @hoezeth Starting a business requires money. You can't save money (and nobody will lend it to you) on a min-wage job.

Actually mad how everyone is just ignoring the fact that there are no jobs

@Martial_Glory Don't give them the idea to make a Team Africa. We'd be finished ffs

Africa is not a country.

@DamianLow3 Literally saw this on the news yesterday. But we can at least all be glad that immigration is slowing down

What the media aren’t covering… Net migration down 48% Immigration down 20% Emigration down 6% Asylum applications down 12% Returns and deportations up 7% Arrivals by small boat down 41% - 1st Jan - 20th May

@HatScarfShirt Nothing stopping people starting their own business. If you have the mindset that somebody else owes you something the you'll always be poor

Buses are shit, driving lessons cost a fortune, insurance companies screw you if you pass, younger people are screwed on minimum wages lower than their colleagues…it’s not a bedroom generation, it’s a locked in generation who can’t afford the key to get out.

@ianeditz Yep started a business when I was 19 and grew it till I was 25. Try it.

Hope over experience

@Ellski_Mae Time to start your own business. Plenty of money of their if you're prepared to go and get it

People are applying to hundreds if not thousands of jobs and getting ghosted. The job market is abysmal, wages are low and the cost of living is only getting higher. We can’t afford to get our own flats/houses or cars despite trying. Half of us don’t even have a pension. +

@sophielouisecc So time to go and start your own business. Living from mum's house makes it very cheap and easy to start a business and can even do most of it online

Most of these bedroom generation want jobs Applied to hundreds of jobs Got rejected / or ghosted Got demoralised / gave up

> be HR Department > Spend years creating complicated hiring processes, endless DEI trainings, and mandatory workshops > Convince everyone you're essential for "company culture" and "talent management" > Meanwhile the best people get hired through simple referrals and direct outreach > Top talent leaves because of the toxic bureaucracy you helped create > Layoffs still happen and you can't stop them > Companies that keep HR minimal still build great teams In practice, HR often creates more problems than it solves. HR in 2026 still desperately trying to justify their existence is getting really pathetic. You think traditional HR is actually necessary or mostly just expensive corporate theater?

@RealZackHellard If there are no jobs then it's time to go and make a job. Be self employed. Do something rather than nothing. Nobody owes anyone else a job

My friends have applied for hundreds of jobs, one recent graduate applied for over 500. They are lucky if they receive a formal rejection rather than simply ignored, never mind an offer The issue is that there simply are no jobs, both entry level and especially at graduate level

@HarleyShah Too expensive to employ people. Government is taxing first jobs to oblivion

How is everywhere understaffed but there are also no jobs

@maxcownie_ Well it is too much cos average Joes in Makerfield can't afford to pay more for tradesmen so the government is actively destroying small businesses.

A guy who’s been gifted £5m nodding along that £12 an hour is too much to pay someone. *it’s also bollocks as the apprentice min wage is £8.