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@toryboypierce @Keir_Starmer @europeanunion Excellent. It is time. The country is so much poorer now because of Brexit. The fabulous wealth that Farage and his sycophants promised never has and never could materialise. Lies are just lies. No amount of lies will change that.

Never here @Keir_Starmer in Armenia agreeing to give @europeanunion £1bn a year. The arch remainer taking us back into Brussels through back door

@JuliaHB1 Absolute tosh. The Greens want to sort out the crises that Brexit created. Farage and the Brexit voters created the mess with the conservatives who also created over 400 migrant hotels, of which Labour has closed over 200. A Farage mess and blaming everyone else. Sound familiar.

This policy is genius. Everyone can get what they vote for - what's not to like?!

@NadineDorries Absolute tosh. The Green Party have never mentioned open borders. Absolute fabrication and a desperate smear campaign to distract from Farage's £5m accepted gift.

This is fair. If you vote green; you are voting for open borders and therefore won’t mind if illegal migrants are housed in your area whilst awaiting deportation.

@Benleo Labour has closed approx 220 'migrant' hotels and removed 60000 actual illegal migrants from the UK.

BETRAYAL 800 illegals into Britain over a weekend. 71,000 since Starmer took power. Home Office paying £15bn to house these people over ten years. A serious country would spend £15bn protecting its borders. Do they even want the boats to stop?

@CruickshankAnne @GiftCee Libraries closed, NHS chronically unfunded,600 police stations closed, 20000 police offers laid off, 30000 police support staff gone, hundreds of Crown Courts closed, youth clubs closed, eduction underfunded, council block grant drastically reduced, infrastructure underfunded etc

@GiftCee We had 10 years of low inflation, interest rate cuts, low unemployment and the Brexit vote all great until 2019 covid, Ukraine war that was the problem

I keep hearing chaos of the last 14years. Can someone please tell me the actual chaos. I have seen more chaos in the last 2 years, than I saw in the last 14 years. By the way Boris Johnson didn’t lie, all he said was “I was told rules were followed”

@Helen_Whately @Conservatives Most claimers work. You know that. Unless you are thinking about pensioners. They will not like it if you withhold their pension and make them work.

The state does not owe those who refuse to work a living. @Conservatives will end golden tickets to unlimited welfare. If any adult in a household can work, they must.

@amanbhogal @Nigel_Farage So he should back up his strapline statement. As usual with Farage and Reform voters, there is never any substance behind the nonsense straplines.

‘We’re importing terrorists, and I challenge the British Government to tell me I’m wrong.’ Exactly this! @Nigel_Farage is spot on. The dinghywallah invasion is a national emergency. This cannot go on. Britain Deserves Better.

@KemiBadenoch How? So there is 28 war ships and submarines on order. You want to pile more money into getting them built faster. Have you forgotten about project management and supply lines. So it's just another strapline to sound good but actually has no substance. Typical Tory nonsense.

The list is long, but surrendering the Chagos Islands was one of the worst decisions Starmer made as PM. Defence spending has to rise. So today I’m announcing that we would spend that money on building British frigates faster. That’s how we build a Stronger Country.

@GoodwinMJ Yep, the usual Reform strap line thinking. International students add approx 29bn to the UK economy each academic year, with a net economic benefit of approx 37bn per year. So spending 2bn, if nothing is paid back, to receive a 37bn benefit is good business.

Bonkers. 300,000 foreign nationals in the UK access student loans at a cost to taxpayers of more than £4 BILLION each year - much of which is unlikely to ever be repaid. Under a Reform government, foreign students will be banned from accessing taxpayer-funded student loans.

@MichelleDewbs @studaviesreform How? Teachers do not mention their political thoughts to pupils. They teach a curriculum. For example, I suspect that many are atheists or do not believe in a particular religion. They teach religion and pupils would never know their actual thoughts about religion.

@studaviesreform A recent poll showed circa 80% of the people teaching children identify as left/liberal. That is a problem because it results in political indoctrination

I went to a state school. I used to be against private schools. I used to think they were toffs & people who thought they were better than us. Then I matured. I now realise that in the main, the people who send their kids to one are just normal folk who have decided to prioritise best education for their children and often make significant sacrifice to do so. Alongside this, they also help fund the state education system, which they don’t use. Whatever problems state schools face, it certainly isn’t as a result of private schools. If anything, kids going private eases pressure on the state system. The closure of these schools are utterly tragic for the kids affected. The policy attempts to damage the private system are an act of societal self-harm. Anyone who celebrates it, is frankly, a fool. edp24.co.uk/news/26058426.…

@Katie_Lam_MP Illegal immigrants are being removed. 60,000 removed since Labour came in.

If people come to this country illegally, they should never be able to seek asylum. Instead, they must be removed - either to their home country, or to a safe third country. The Government clearly don't agree. As ever, they'd rather tweak a broken system than build a new one.

@SeddSezz Name the poll and source. Otherwise, it is probably made-up nonsense to justify a political opinion.

🚨50% of Labour voters support CUTTING WELFARE to boost growth. A new survey has found that Britons from almost all age groups, regions and political leanings favour cutting benefits to grow the economy. Especially now that we pay more in welfare than we receive in tax. The poll also showed that both Labour and Green voters support business tax breaks, drilling and fracking to boost our economy. Labour ignores the public to satisfy their own backbenchers!

@StevenJonMiller Most people on benefits already work, unless you are thinking about pensioners.

Yes OR No…?

@ZiaYusufUK Pathetic attempt to distort democracy. Just hold yo show low Reform can go.

Friendly note to Labour MPs ahead of the vote tomorrow to decide if Starmer should face an ethics probe: If you vote against it, Reform will carpet bomb your constituency to ensure all your constituents know you voted to save the most unpopular PM of all time. Vote wisely.

@LeeAndersonMP_ Let's throw it back. As benefits are capped at approx £486 a week for families in greater London, less elsewhere, the couple would not receive £50,000 in benefits.

Just throwing this one out there as I was asked this question earlier today. A couple both working with a combined income of £50,000 would pay £11,500 a year in income tax and national insurance, Another couple receiving £50,000 in benefits including Universal Credit, Personal Independent Payment, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Child Benefit would pay no income tax or national insurance, keeping the full £50,000. Should the non-working couple on £50,000 a year pay the same amount of income tax and national insurance as the working couple? Please leave a comment below.

@GrumpyShtroumpf @stuey_beef Absolutely sure. Everyone should look up the facts using reputable sources before repeating lies.

@KTM569111 @stuey_beef Are we quote sure they're not getting subsidised

Benefits were sold to the public as a last‑resort safety net: you pay in through your taxes and National Insurance so that if the worst happens, nobody is left with nothing. That social contract depends on one thing – the people funding it believing it is tightly focused on essentials, not optional extras. Yet we now have a system where being on benefits is increasingly tied to “perks” and “discounts” for non‑essentials – days out, attractions, “experiences” – at the exact same time as working families, taxed to the hilt, are cutting back on those very things for their own children. The basic question writes itself: how is it remotely fair that the people financing the system can’t afford these outings, but the system is being used to subsidise them for others? This isn’t an argument against a safety net. It’s an argument against a political class that has quietly rebranded welfare from emergency support into a parallel lifestyle infrastructure, while telling workers there is “no money” to ease their tax burden or improve their own living standards. That should not be happening in any serious, responsible country.

@RichardWellings Yep, that must be it. Roundabout numbers have increased too. I suspect that the government has a policy to force us all to drive round in circles. Clearly, there is no bounds to their wickedness.

The overwhelming majority of traffic lights are unnecessary, yet the number installed has increased massively over the last twenty years. It's suspected this is a deliberate policy to create artificial delays as part of the wider anti-car agenda. transportxtra.com/publications/l…

@stuey_beef Imagine if the post resembled the truth. No government funding is given to these companies to offer these discounts. It is a commercial decision of the company. If you strongly feel that these children shouldn't visit these attractions, lobby the companies to end their discounts.

Imagine being a family where both parents work full time, pay tax, pay their own full council tax bill, and still can’t afford a trip to the Tower of London or a day at the zoo. Next door, a family on benefits can take the kids to the same attractions for £1 or a few pounds a ticket – the Easter “treats” that are a major financial stretch for working households become “remarkably affordable” if you happen to be on Universal Credit. Ticketing platforms now openly advertise “Universal Credit days out” with massive discounts and special offers, while websites compile lists of the “top outings” for benefit recipients – the welfare state has mutated from basic support into a lifestyle loyalty scheme with its own privileges, perks and VIP access. Politicians claim this is compassion, but there’s nothing compassionate about telling low‑paid workers they must pay full price while funding other people’s beach huts, bargain spa days and cut‑price leisure memberships. That’s not social justice. That’s a state‑sanctioned insult to the people who keep the system running.

@_Unknown_D_ There not.

Why are socialists so offended by the idea that a business owner who has taken massive personal and financial risks to start a business, should be massively rewarded with wealth, should their business succeed?