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@ShadowsideWhisp @LeeHurstComic And Reform has already said it wants to get rid of the Working Time Directive.

@LeeHurstComic Watch overtime rates fall so the employee isn't any better off. The company makes a saving though.

So how would someone game the system with Reform’s new no tax on overtime policy? You have an employee on £36,000 per year. This is their wage which they are fully taxed on. Your employee asks for a pay rise of £2,000 a year. The pay rise would give them £1,600 net take home and they would pay an extra £400 in tax. Instead of a pay rise, your employer offers you £1,700 as ‘overtime’ spread out over the year. The employee is now £100 per year better off. The employer saves £300 per year plus pays slightly less National Insurance too.

Did BBC News coverage fan the flames of a leadership challenge to the PM? Join us on Saturday at 07.45 on BBC1 @BBCBreakfast or 15.45 on the News Channel. Or watch on the @BBCiPlayer from midnight tonight. Here's a taste of viewer Judith Brown's opinion:

@IP2guy @DOPreston Do you think Sudbury is close enough for me to rent out the house for the week 🤣😂

@Nagood01 @DOPreston I'll start getting Portman Road ready 🥳.

BE UPSTANDING FOR QUEEN DELTA F*CKING GOODREM! 🇦🇺 #Eurovision

@DOPreston @IP2guy I believe the back up location is Ipswich 🤣😂🤣

@IP2guy I will invite Preston to host. 😬

@DeptfordWife1 There are already too few seats. It was great on the Shenfield Metro to be able to find a seat, now they expect more to stand.

The trains should’ve been designed with luggage in mind. Nothing more annoying than this

@DeptfordWife1 They used to be quite regularly seen on the number 26 bus at around 06.45-07.00. They'd get on at Liverpool Street and get off around Trafalgar Square. Spoke to one who told me, TfL changed contracts a while ago, loads of staff left and they never replaced them.

Actually saw a ticket inspector on the Underground earlier this morning. Can’t really recall ever seeing one on the tube itself. 5+ people moved further down the train to exit as it was pulling into St James’s Park lol

@DeptfordWife1 @NJ_Timothy As someone who has worked for the Prison Service for over 20 years, his party completely destroyed the Service by cutting 25% of staff, then failing to build spaces for more people going to prison and for much longer sentences. Howard was all about punishment not reform.

@NJ_Timothy And then his party voted to cut 20,000 officers

Delighted to see the great Michael Howard yesterday. The best home secretary of my lifetime, he saved my Party as leader. Michael refused to accept rising crime as inevitable. He freed the police and sent more criminals to prison. I agree with him: prison works.

@DeptfordWife1 @Urban_Connector It also depends where you're getting on. The district line starts at about 05.40 on a Sunday from Zone 6 in the East. I guess in Central London you're waiting that 1 hour 20 minutes for that first train to get to you.

@Urban_Connector Depends which lines. Some will have been going 24 hours

Did not know the Underground didn’t start until 7 on Sundays. Apparently Google Maps doesn’t know either

@DeptfordWife1 @jcartlidgemp Oh god that's my MP, total chocolate teapot. Interestingly, on Newsnight yesterday, Gove said the triple lock needed to go. Couldn't believe my ears!!

@jcartlidgemp Welfare includes the triple lock btw

“Starmer cannot defend Britain with an ever expanding welfare budget.” Not my words… so who said that?

@samueljenkinson You'll struggle to get a Premier Inn in Central London for £150, sometimes £200 a night!

Not being funny but this isn’t 2010 anymore. 200 quid a night is not a crazy price. Especially as the leader of a fucking country.

@alphafox Absolutely staged nonsense 🤣😂

I’m not so sure on this one: 🤔

@Gudge62 @sulm955 @RobertJenrick Not to mention, you move existing public sector workers you need to then pay their and their employers' contributions into a pot. Unlike now where their contributions fund already retired pensioners or just go back into the general taxation pot. I.agine having to fund both!!

@sulm955 @RobertJenrick Often pension contributions are offset by lower wages than in the private sector. If you want to decrease public sector pension contributions then you would need to increase wages or people will jot go into the public sector.

Defined benefit public sector pensions are the British state’s second largest liability. They’re about £2.4 trillion - around 100 per cent of GDP. The old parties have ducked this for years. Most of the media won’t talk about it either. But Reform UK will not dodge this mammoth issue. Richard Tice has already announced that a Reform would close Local Government Pension Schemes to new entrants. And today Reform UK launched a review of whether new entrants for any defined benefit scheme should be permitted to such schemes. Reform UK have already announced £40bn of yearly savings. In the coming weeks, we’ll be saying more about the true cost of the Boriswave and unskilled migration we’ve had - and how Reform will stop it blowing a hole in the country’s finances. And we will commit to more savings in the coming months. It’s because we are the only the party with a plan to cut wasteful spending that we can credibly commit to keeping the triple lock. So, yes: we’ll balance the books. We just won’t do it on the backs of British people who’ve paid in their whole life. Instead, we’ll save tens of billions by resetting Government spending so it puts the British people – and only the British people – first.  Politics is about choices.  And we choose the British people. We will every time.

@abprivx Looking good 🔥🥵

Going grey

@J50Claret @DeptfordWife1 @ahazard_hunter The driver is also partly in the wrong side of the road. Even if it is just a wheel width.

@DeptfordWife1 @ahazard_hunter Indeed. If the driver were on their test then causing another vehicle to slow down would be a fail.

@JRLOakley Definitely not Joe, especially with inviting pics like that 🥵😂🤣

Im nearly 40. Am I too old to date now?

@manfromhell_eth @PLaupati @Azariel91 I've seen loads of videos like this and you're right, one gets slapped and with seconds another 6 or 7 fly on from the sidelines and attack 🤣😂

@PLaupati @Azariel91 They always attack together 😂

Russian woman visiting Thailand writes a check her flat ass can't cash. 😂 Leave people alone! 🤷🏾‍♀️

@LindaSWilkinson @btharris93 Not true, when you adjust for the cost of living in each country the UK comes around the middle of pile... almondfinancial.co.uk/pension-breake…

@btharris93 We have the lowest state pension in Europe as it stands. Would you like to live on it? No, I doubt you would.

It’s depressing how easily many of the UK’s fiscal problems could be solved (by scrapping the triple lock and liberalising planning) but we simply choose not to because the pensioners would get mad.

@JRLOakley As you should Joe! And thanks for the pic in the shorts 🥵🤭😜

Im 🏳️‍🌈 and im proud of it.

@commonsense1191 @testosteroneHAV @PolitlcsUK @guardian 2016 was the lowest number of civil servants since WWI. You'll not get back to that level, the Government admitted it cut too many frontline prison, immigration staff etc. They've now hired more and still need more. Role on people moaning again because of waits for documents.

@testosteroneHAV @PolitlcsUK @guardian Based on... Around 2016: Headcount ~418,000; payroll ~£9-10 billion range 2025 (latest as of March 31, 2025): Headcount 549,660 Estimated total civil service salary costs ~£21 billion

@LoftusSteve @DoubleEph Can we have infrastructure please, maybe Stonehenge, plus three other non-London items?

@DoubleEph It's never been anything but people. It was plain old white paper and then the Queen and then historical figures. I think it should stay as historical figures and it was a mistake for the BoE to broaden the options, but not quite the story going around.

I made a mistake yesterday that I think others have fallen for too. The BoE is not replacing Churchill and other historical figures so not to cause offense to certain groups. The notes change every 10 years and those involved in voting chose Wildlife. That's it.