Nellie the Elephant

@trollymcgolly3 @SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ Looks like you slipped through the condom.

@SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ They should stop after the first mong.

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.

@dannynolan64 @SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ Apparently it's the GP's that are being naive by allowing their expertise to be coersed by healthy people.

@SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ You think everyone 'on the sick' is sick? How charmingly naive of you.

@_cliver_1 @SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ Really Clive? I take it you don't trust your GP to diagnose you correctly, nor any specialists you may be referred to? Interesting.

@SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ all you have to do nowadays is scream my kids are neurodivergent give me a bigger house a free car and lots of cash and there you have it

@BigTed360 @linda_munro874 @SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ If they 'churn out more "sprogs"' they have more mouths to feed, clothe and take care of. Children don't arrive without costs. Why is additional income available for 'recreational supplies'?

@linda_munro874 @SpiderUncensor @LeeAndersonMP_ Because the British taxpayer has no choice than to feed and clothe them for the lazy fuckers. Plus the more sproggs they churn out the more money they’ll get to spend on their recreational supplies.

@HarryFletcher1 @LeeAndersonMP_ I bet you're thrilled that 'unpaid' carers only receive £87 per week and have additional earnings capped at £240 a week (if you have time to work as well as care, as many carers do nearer to 24/7 hours, not the expected 35hrs pw.

@LeeAndersonMP_ No one on benefits, apart from the British born disabled, should get more than the minimum wage.

@laila_22100 Hope and disappointment

What is he drinking?

@WorkElizab Both.

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@Jenny_1884 Me. Can't afford one anyway.

Who still won’t be buying an Electric Car even though they are intentionally putting fuel prices up?

“Nobody wants to work anymore.” Wrong. People just do not want to: - Work 60 hours and still be broke - Miss their kids growing up - Get raises smaller than inflation - Save in a currency printed out of thin air - Answer emails on weekends - Get replaced the second margins get tight - Spend half their paycheck on rent - Need debt just to survive - Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income People do not hate work. They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.

@Darth_Trader1 @iAmJoshHunt And for good measure - just to ensure that families who might consider taking care of loved ones themselves can't afford to do so - Carers Allowance is £87 per week. Retirement age is rising, and many people need to work full time until age 67

@iAmJoshHunt This is the new reality and it will get worse as the UK credit card is maxed out. Too many are approaching retirement with serious savings shortfalls. Those who have been sensible rather than profligate will bear the brunt.

A lot of people are banking on inheriting their parents’ house as their retirement plan. But their parents are going to need that house to fund their own care. Social care costs can run £50-100k a year. A five year stay in a care home can wipe out the entire value of a property. The wealth transfer that an entire generation is counting on may never arrive

@DebiEvansMatron This! Waited many months for my son to see a skin 'specialist' at the hospital for his autoimmune flare-ups. I said that he has all the symptoms of MCAS. She asked, "What's that?" 😶

To anyone who still thinks the #NHS is a U.K. national treasure. Take it from many of us old school British trained Doctors and Nurses it’s certainly NOT. In fact what it has become imo is dangerous. Totally unrecognisable from when I trained. Patient safety gone. The term ‘nursing’ is disappearing to be replaced with ‘care’ and ‘carers’ 🤔😏😥 What I, as an old school nurse is observing & hearing from other’s is a TICK box ✅ industry and a grossly UNDERskilled and often UNDERqualified workforce attempting complex and life changing procedures. Basic nursing care appears to have vanished 😥 DO YOU KNOW WHO IS LOOKING AFTER YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES IN NHS OR CARE SECTOR, what they’re trained in? Where they’ve trained! 🤔🤷‍♀️ Ask the question

@sueatcraven @SoftLadyMary @Elizabe13014545 Grasp what, sorry? I have earned 43+ years NIC's. I still have to pay NIC's until I reach my SPA of 67 (8 years to go) although it won't increase my pension in any way as I already qualify for the full amount as per HMRC pension checker.

@Lixy_Cat @SoftLadyMary @Elizabe13014545 When you grasp eventually NICs is a payroll tax, earn it pay it up2 state pension age you might understand. Ask yourself why NIC qualifying years 4a full state pension were reduced from 39yrs before 60 to 30, now 35yrs before 66 for full new state pension if never contracted out.

I worked for 32 years but when I retired you needed 40 years for a full pension so I did not qualify. Now a person who has never worked but has 35 years of credits through benefits will get a full state pension.

@AnneRepton @Elizabe13014545 Do you claim pension top-up? That opens the door to additional benefits that people on full state pension don't qualify for.

@Elizabe13014545 Same here. I worked for 32 years but only get part pension.

@sueatcraven @SoftLadyMary @Elizabe13014545 I'm not of retirement age just yet, but when I look at my pension forecast on HMRC it says that I will receive full SP and any NI payments I make now will not increase my entitlement as I already qualify for the max amount. But they do thank you for the continued payments!

@SoftLadyMary @Elizabe13014545 No one qualifies for a full new state pension if that what you mean until one reaches state pension age. NICs is simply a payroll tax for those of working age who work and earn above the NIC threshold. Sadly 13% men & 9% women don’t make state pension, try not to be one of them.

@ellithom @Elizabe13014545 You only need 35 qualifying years, also child benefit gives the claimant NI stamps during the claim. No idea why you aren't getting full SP - I would have questioned that. That said, those without 35 years contributions for full SP are eligible for pension to-up, which pays more

@Elizabe13014545 My working life was 50 yrs & three months. During that time I didn’t work (pregnancy & child care) for approx 14/15 months, with six weeks off for major op (in my forties). I don’t get a full pension. Two close friends didn’t work for over 25 years - full pension.

@tessia_6 @Elizabe13014545 @BraisbyI Did you claim child benefit when your children were small? CB gives the claimant NI contributions for those years.

@Elizabe13014545 @BraisbyI What is the point of working? Be lazy, sit at home and get everything have to you on a plate, even in retirement! I did all kind of jobs when my children were small to try and keep up my NI , but should have just said I had depression or some excuse to get the full pension.

@suzickles @Elizabe13014545 So you will qualify for SP top-up

@Elizabe13014545 Started work 16 straight from school paid ‘big stamp’ worked 70-80 rtnd 89 (Children DWP advised) redundant 2010 that’s 31 years by my calculation still don’t qualify for a full pension born 1953 so I guess a Waspi too, extra credits not a financial option, sticks in throat YES!!

@howardlloyd8 @Elizabe13014545 You know that a lot of women were stay at home mothers in the 1940's/50's/60's, right? Should they get a state pension or not?

@Elizabe13014545 1 of my sisters has NEVER worked with 7 kids of which 6 have never worked they all claim pip for pretend reasons have houses with central heating on ALL winter without worrying and 1 even has a new car.......it makes my piss boil!!

@Monkeyiobe @Elizabe13014545 She could have paid the 3 missing years of contributions.

@Elizabe13014545 32 years of actual work and you still missed the threshold 😔?? The Gorilla built a system where benefit credits count the same as payslips. Baby Monkey worked the clock, the system worked the loopholes. Ain't no way that's fair, but fairness was never really the design here.

@Cherbutt1 @RGAddons @Elizabe13014545 Yes, SP is w benefit. Look it up.

@RGAddons @Elizabe13014545 Both of which she paid for for 32 yrs. Pensions are not benefits.