Eric W

@Heccles94 It's because minimum wage is £15 that pints are £10

£15 minim wage doesn’t seem so crazy next to a £10 pint does it

@KeepyCash @GMB Well, theres always Rayner ..... maybe not.

@GMB Love seeing a working-class success story. Fair play to her - break the mould!

Leonie Hughes was written off by the education system at 15. Growing up in a home shaped by instability and addiction, she left school with no qualifications and no clear path forward. Now, after a decade of self-teaching, working low-paid jobs, and fighting for every step of her education, she has been called to the Bar.

@psmcg76 @meanbeany @stuey_beef If you invested properly, you could make £70k eadily

@HaikuHippy @meanbeany @stuey_beef A £1 million pot would only give a fixed income for life of aroibd £40K per annum.

The state pension is not a random government favour, it’s the back end of a 35–40 year compulsory “contract” where people are forced to hand over National Insurance on the clear promise of a basic pension at the end. Politicians and think tanks helped design an unfunded, pay‑as‑you‑go system where today’s workers pay today’s pensioners, then have the gall to call it “unsustainable” as if the public dreamt it up. If a private firm sold you a retirement product on fixed terms, took your money for four decades, then announced at 66 that you “didn’t really need it” and would henceforth be means‑tested or frozen, they would be in court for mis‑selling and fraud. The crisis here is not pensioners “leeching off the young”, it’s a political class that built a Ponzi‑style NI system, diverted the proceeds for other spending, and now wants to default on the people who kept their side of the bargain. You do not blame the victims of a defective product for believing the brochure; you go after the people who wrote it.

@realninawysocka Which constituency does this Green party canvasser represent ...

First thing that comes to your mind

@CallumLyon And pensioners have to manage on half of that.

How the fk are people working full time on minimum wage in the UK meant to actually survive alone? The maths just doesn't add up: Take home pay after tax, national insurance and pension contributions for a 37.5 hour work week (because let's face it, all these employers who really care about you don't pay you for your breaks so you're not getting a full 40 hours) is around £1700 You're lucky to rent anywhere nowadays under £800. Council Tax is now around £220 a month. Utilities are at least another £350. Then there's the weekly food shop, you're looking at a minimum of £70 a week. Just with the basics in this scenario you're left with £50 to last you the whole month. And that's without even adding transport or anything going wrong. Minimum.wage in the UK does not cover minimum living requirements. Something really needs to change. No wonder nobody wants to work anymore.

@Hel3nrose @simonwatt85 So, you're proposing pensioners sell those £1million plus homes. How many millenials can get that kind of mortgage? Secondly, those pensioners are now going for the same 2 bedroom the millenials are ... and they've got funds behind them, so a bigger shortage is created.

@HaikuHippy @simonwatt85 The point trying to be made is if millennials (et al) cant get into home ownership, it wont matter how many new workers are being born there will never be enough to pay any pension,for 68yr olds or 98yr olds(a generation older) who will still be paying rent.

Who else is fed up with people carping on about pensioners owning all the houses and sitting on large savings? Pensioners have paid a mortgage for 35 years so yes,they own their houses. They have to live on their savings for the rest of their lives. It's not rocket science.

@Heccles94 Count on me voting ... just not for the Greens

Greens could well be the real winners on May 7th. We need YOU to vote and make it happen. Don’t let the Fascists win!

@THemingford This is so naive, it's clear you've never run a business.

If you can't pay people what is needed to live on, you don't have a viable business. You're creating more net poverty than wealth.

@meanbeany @stuey_beef Bollox ... I know my total NI contributions to date, which amount to £340k. At best, I'll get around £160k back at £241/week.

@stuey_beef If you gave a private firm the same amount of money you pay in national insurance you would get about 20-30% each year of what the state pension pays. Noone is defrauding, its just not affordable, and ordinary tax money (not NI) is paying for it.

@Hel3nrose @simonwatt85 By then, the baby boom will have long since ended in a baby bust and all those boomers will be long gone. Birth rates are falling, so there won't be many pensioners anyway..

@simonwatt85 I believe what you call ‘carping’ is what they would call ‘pointing out’ that only a tiny proportion of millennials onwards will find themselves in the same position as yourself,and this is a catastrophe for the economy. We cant afford to pay pensioners rents in 40yrs time

@DanielJMath1 Berwick-on-Tweed is south of the border, you wally!!

No you fucking haven’t. The Asda in Berwick is in Scotland.

@JDunlap1974 She gets the sentence he got

This man was a high school football star until he got charged with a rape of a 16 year old girl. The charge was eventually dropped after 16-year-old girl confessed that the rape never happened. Unfortunately, he spent 6 years falsely imprisoned and broke down when the case was moved to dismissed. Do you think this girl should face any consequences? And if so..... what?

@Heccles94 Even I don’t want to vote for the Greens...

Labour don’t want you to vote Greens. The Tories don’t want you to vote Green. Reform don’t want you to vote Green. That tells you all you need to know. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

@TheBritLad None.. I'd toss it out

You’re on a plane and it’s about to go down, THERE IS ONLY TWO parachutes. You keep one for yourself. Who gets the second parachute?

@Soaringeagle45 Shirley Feeney

Friday fun time! Name a lead character from a TV show past or present and see who can guess the show… Mine 👇

@Neccccy It's like a dead body they just can't stop kicking, just to make sure it's got no chance of recovery.

🚨 Rumours in Westminster growing that Angela Rayner is going to take over from Rachel Reeves as chancellor of the exchequer in May!!! Thoughts ???

@Soaringeagle45 He had the worst jokes ...

Vinny Barbarino

@GMB It'll be Plaid. Whether it's in coalition or on their own is the question. What should worry the people of Wales is that none of the Greens, Plaid or Reform can actually explain how they'd pay for any of the extra spending they plan/taxes they want to cut.

Labour has won every general election in Wales for over a hundred years. But at next week's fight for seats in the Senedd - that winning-run is expected to come to an end. The latest polling puts Welsh Labour in fourth place - trailing well behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK. @ashnahurynag reports.

@ASouthen91055 @higgyboson 1961 ... Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's

@higgyboson This sort of thing goes back to at least 1969 when we were expected to believe that Kenneth Williams was an Afghan Chieftain in Carry On Up The Khyber.

Why do film and television companys making historical dramas take so much trouble to get the details correct, such as the costumes, the buildings, the scenery, the interior decoration, the props and (more recently) the vehicles only to cast a black woman as the landlady of a Taunton pub in 1763 or a Pakistani man as the local magistrate in Shrewsbury in 1901 or a random Chinese kid in a school classroom in 1867 or an Indian bloke as the local vicar in 1568?

@NotFarLeftAtAll No

Is Hannah Spencer worth her salary of £98,599 ?