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@dom_lucre Has Boris Johnson visited this place in the last few years?

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This Indian baby who was born with White skin and blonde hair who was born into a dark-skinned family is being considered a miracle from the Gods and some of the locals are already viewing him as a divine being.

@Ed_Miliband @neso Ruining the countryside

1/ Today as we approve Springwell Solar farm, set to be the UK’s largest approved power‑producing solar farm, @NESO have confirmed a new solar record, with over 14.4GW of clean power generated at the peak. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

@donnyfarmshop @Nigel_Farage @danny__kruger @ZiaYusufUK @LeeAndersonMP_ I did wonder if it was selective reporting.

@PennePipstop @Nigel_Farage @danny__kruger @ZiaYusufUK @LeeAndersonMP_ Lease has to be revised because it was so bad. Labour's SY Mayor blocked £160m gainshare monies till it's sorted. Reform need to know what is in the new lease before approving the £57m loan. Elections are just around the corner in Barnsley. Poster says airport reopen & it's not.

@Nigel_Farage @danny__kruger @ZiaYusufUK @LeeAndersonMP_ just seen a news program saying Reform aren’t going to allow the funding for Doncaster Sheffield Airport. Funding needs to be given to get this airport off the ground. The North are sick of being deprived of funding.

@Nigel_Farage When we were in Antigua we were told that they had been given a lot of money by the UK and but it never seemed to get to the people, whilst those in charge seemed to become more wealthy. Says it all, in my opinion.

All of the countries on this list should stop insulting us. We will not be held to ransom.

@sciencegirl People trying to force others to live by their values.

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

@ScaryEurope @ByrneBarry How is this radical, it’s just common sense.

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@BenedictSpence It’s just a label, so that it can be taken away, at will. I know you like that idea.

On my way to tell all the Boomers the UK state pension is a benefit.

@BenedictSpence The problem is that if old people had assets and sold them to live when they had retired, there wouldn’t be any left to fund their care home. So the government would have to pay for that instead. These costs are staggeringly high.

I’m here all day if anyone fancies a scrap.

@michaelkeen82 @richdevon2017 @YodaAJediMaster @gab110159 @EssexPR No, it wasn’t.

@richdevon2017 @YodaAJediMaster @gab110159 @EssexPR but it was still free

🚨 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A UK Government’s welfare bill now exceeds the government’s income tax revenue. Income Tax revenue - £331 BILLION Benefits & welfare - £333 BILLION

@LynnClark1 Definitely not worth saving money. Spend it all.

Okey dokey Dear Boomers Sell your home Live the high life 🥂 Go on those cruises you’re accused of Spend it ALL!! Then get put into a home for your dotage & the taxpayer will pay £2K+ a week for your care (much higher than your meagre pension with triple lock) Enjoy!! 💋xxx

@cryptodude999 In the past most 30 year olds had been working for 14 years, nowadays it’s probably closer to 7 years. Of course, they’re not as financially stable.

Since boomers fail to understand basic economics, Average house prices have increased 8x since then, while wages have only risen by about 20%. The share of 30 year olds who were married and homeowners was close to 50%, now it’s less than 15%. Their success and young people's struggles today are both part of a systemic regime. Do not feel bad.

@BenedictSpence What are you having to pay for children?

Pensioners will call you heartless for not wanting to fund the retirement they failed to prepare for, and then shrug when you ask them how we should pay for children.

@technopopulist The younger people that we are told don’t exist in the numbers that are needed in this country? If so, then they are hardly going to cause problems.

There’s a narrative starting to harden that we’re going to cut welfare for younger people to keep funding pensions for the elderly. You can almost picture the Greens watching this unfold in real-time and thinking their moment has arrived. What surprises me is how few boomers seem to grasp how politically toxic this is likely to become. The welfare state plainly isn’t working as it should. It creates perverse incentives, traps people in the wrong places, and often fails to deliver where it matters. But that isn’t how a lot of younger people will interpret what’s happening now. They’ll look at the hand they’ve been dealt and compare it to what came before. More secure jobs back then ("Fordism"), and a labour market where you didn’t need a degree just to get on the ladder. Housing that bore some resemblance to wages/savings; and, in the background, decades of rising asset prices quietly doing the heavy lifting. Whatever the problems with welfare, and there are plenty, this will be seen as a generational tilt in one direction. By 2029, we may be looking at the last election where older voters hold the balance of power over left-wing parties. You have been warned.

@liambyrnemp @LBC Populists are winning because the other parties aren’t working for the people they are supposed to be serving. It’s nothing to do with money.

In case you missed it... Great conversation with Andrew Marr at @LBC last week, on the dark money network funding populist politicians. £173 million. Five years. Four donors, two based offshore. This is the dark money buying British politics, pouring cash into media companies, think tanks, and populist parties. The public has a right to know who is bankrolling our democracy, and the Rycroft Review is a serious step towards reining it in. Why Populists Are Winning - and How to Beat Them, is out now. Get your copy here: m.cmpgn.page/wpbppt

@RupertLowe10 @BurnsideWasTosh Instead of comparing to average income, compare it to household income and compare strip out London and South East, that will paint an entirely different picture.

Owning a home is FAR more difficult for young men and women today than it was for my generation. That’s just a fact. Average earnings have not kept pace with average house prices - to suggest otherwise is ignorant. The gap has grown at an astronomical rate. The young have every right to feel pissed off, I’m angry for them. And I detest this patronising attitude of people my age that we just happened to manage it all so much better through ‘common sense’ and fewer avocados. There are millions of young Brits who work hard, take care of their money and dedicate themselves - and yes, they are struggling to find a proper home. They have done nothing wrong. In fact, they’ve done everything right but the system still failed them. I am ensuring that there is a political party to finally represent them - Restore Britain is that party. A party that supports the aspirational and committed young British men and women. Scrapping interest on student loans. Stripping back the power of empire-building planning bureaucrats who cruelly prevent sensible house-building in fair locations. Crushing the overbearing regulations that make building anything so very cumbersome. Overhauling leasehold rules which trap owners with mutating service charges. Ending the vindictive war on landlords to make sustainably renting a proper option. Slashing tax to hand back financial control. Entirely abolishing stamp duty for Brits. Because we will not tinker with the status quo, we will not conserve it, we will not reform it. We will fundamentally change how this country operates. The model must break. I will make you one promise. Restore Britain will break it.

@_Unknown_D_ Over a 35-year career, many UK workers pay roughly 7–9 years of salary in tax & NI. The state pension is only about ⅓ of the average wage. It would take 20+ years of pension to break even

‘But but we paid in to the system’. The system is paying you back way more than you are paying in 😂😂

@jessxheritage @Vitality_UK On a positive note, it will make it easier to switch provider, as the rewards aren’t as good, other providers may be better options.

@PennePipstop @Vitality_UK Also 25% off appears to only be on the vitality menu? So it’s not even for the full menu?

@Vitality_UK am I right in thinking that with the new 4 week streak reward with PizzaExpress, you will have to buy a meal to get one free with your reward voucher? It hardly seems fair to have to pay out to get something in return, when it’s supposed to be a reward.

@DanielJHannan Funny that, because my timeline is full of young people who are on benefits, saying they can’t afford to give old people a pension.

My timeline is suddenly filled with posts along the lines of “We can easily give pensioners a better deal if we cut immigration/scrap DEI/end foreign aid/find some other footling saving.” Most of them look like bots, which raises the question: Who wants to push this narrative? Some unfriendly foreign power, presumably. For the avoidance of doubt, of course we should cut immigration, scrap DEI and end foreign aid. But that will barely make a dent in the budget. The biggest spending items are health and social security, and pensions are the biggest element of this latter. Politicians who don’t want to tackle these budgets a don’t want to cut spending. Every British party is currently failing this test.

@isnit0 @FUDdaily Are those numbers adjusted for inflation? This looks like a pretty simplistic model to me that doesn’t tell the full story.

For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.