Adrian Marsh

@TheNorfolkLion Whereas I will vote to keep out Reform

I’m going to be honest: if a general election is called tomorrow or soon, I’ll support whichever party has a realistic chance of getting Labour out. It doesn’t matter who. We cannot survive many more years of a Labour government.

@bagshaw2112 Terry

Today’s Guess The Celebrity . this young man has a heavenly Birthday today - loved and missed by so many people . But WHO IS HE ? Level - Easy !!

@bagshaw2112 Going 84 based on Dr Who. But could be 63.

The TV GAME QUIZ What is the year - Tv teaser! What was the year ? Monday Retro - Television

@omgsidewalks After hundreds of years of so-called progress, we still have people who struggle with basic essentials.

Capitalism has somehow convinced people that working full time and still being broke is completely normal.

@Zero_4 The wrong kind of waves.

“The water in the Channel is a bit wetter this year”

@Sylviaswimsalot In the navel Every breast you take Yes Sir, I can bogey In the hair tonight You tummy are everything Come on Eye-leen Golden Brow Knee'd you tonight Purple Brain

Jawline, Jawline, Jawline, Jawline 🎙🎶 #ASongOrMovieForFaceFeatures

@ammacj @BBCBreakfast @joelynskey @bbcalba We should really be asking why none of the independent channels put in a bid. Perhaps it really isn't commercially viable.

There’s #BBCBreakfast @BBCBreakfast @joelynskey wrong about Commonwealth Games not being on ‘free to air TV’. They were on @bbcalba And why not say BBC refused to put in a proper bid for them?

@John_Stepek @BenRamanauskas John always back on the Tweet Bro never misses a beat

@BenRamanauskas Afraid it doesn't scan Ben, never getting that in rhyming scheme, maybe an elaborate emo lyric

Britain spends over 5 times more on Welfare (including for pensioners) than we do on Defence.

@richardcalhoun Not necessary to leave ECHR.

No, the acid test is first to leave the #ECHR .. they have said they are not going to do that.

@BenGrahamUK It's a FPTP election against 33 candidates that would normally lose their deposit anywhere. Of course he should win with a landslide. Will he get more votes than 2024 though?

The first Clacton poll suggests Nigel Farage is heading for a historic landslide. I've said for weeks he'll win with 70%+, and nothing has changed my mind. Britain is in a mess. This isn't the time for comedy candidates.

@henrywinter His inability to "read the room" means he is unsuitable.

Arrogance, naivety and bad advice led to Gianni Infantino’s ill-conceived plan. Arrogance, naivety and bad advice are surely why Infantino has not tendered his resignation yet. He's discredited, UEFA’s ratcheting up the pressure and his exit's inevitable. Just a question of when.

@dave43law If he can't win a FPTP election landslide against 33 candidates, none from any parties posing a real threat, and no celeb independents, then he should give up.

Farage urged to ‘come clean’ after facing new questions over £5 million gift Report casts fresh doubt on Farage’s defence for not declaring a £5 million gift from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@owenjonesjourno Raining here in Edinburgh.

Do Londoners remember this thing we used to have called “rain”?

@GitAwkward @DaveKent101 Blair had his children at a state school the other side of London. He knew it made sense! But the original change was 1988. Schools were given powers to basically set their own catchment. I don't think Blair changed that, although he did bring in specialist academies.

@QuestionerMoney @DaveKent101 IR35 was introduced by Gordon Brown and getting rid of the local catchment areas and it was "unfair" was again Bliar and Brown.

People sometimes ask me why I detest Labour? Much of that goes back to their destruction of Private Sector Final Salary Pension schemes in 1997. In 2008, 10 years after Gordon Brown carried out his disastrous ACT Pensions grand larceny by removing tax relief paid to pension funds. This was found by the Taxpayers Alliance to had cost an average of £17K on every person's pension pot. In just 10 years, this had cost Private Sector Final Salary schemes £175 BILLION. Hence their closures ever since. Had this grotesque theft of peoples' pensions not taken place, then the pension system in the UK would be much healthier, without people having to work into their late 60s.🤨 As a final insult, this tax does not raise any money these days anyway because many UK pension funds stopped investing in UK companies, so as to avoid this tax. All the while Public Sector worked continue to enjoy Final Salary Pensions, paid for by Private Sector workers on smaller DC pensions. Absolutely obscene.

@GitAwkward @DaveKent101 Ok, but IR35 was tightened far more recently than Brown. Affected a lot of self employed working contracts.

@HarryDecote @MitzisLapdog @DaveKent101 You should still get the original terms for the years before the change. Unless all your years were after the change.

@MitzisLapdog @DaveKent101 It changed , same as the final salary bit . Dont advise me on the law I was employed as a solicitor thanks !

@MitzisLapdog @HarryDecote @DaveKent101 Shouldn't it be 2/3 final salary, assuming 40 years / 60? Maybe not 60, depends on the scheme. Less if you take the lump sum.

@HarryDecote @DaveKent101 Unless you have your own special pension all to yourself there has never been a Civil or Public sector pension that gives 3 times final salary on retirement. Old Classic: 40 years service with salary of £40k would give pension of £20k, lump sum £60k, not lump sum of £120k.

@LeRef5 @HarryDecote @DaveKent101 I don't think we're talking NICs here, which are as you say. It sounds like a scheme such as teachers get, which is partly contributory.

@HarryDecote @DaveKent101 You didn't fund it. You made a contribution to those receiving pensions at the time. There no lot of money with your name on it

@HarryDecote @DaveKent101 Career average is fairer. I knew someone who got a big promotion just before retirement, meaning his pension was based on a salary he had for less than a year. That's a massive funding shortfall.

@DaveKent101 MY Public Sector pension changed from Final salary to Average Pay in 2008 so he got us as well . My lump sum also went from 3 x my salary to a third

@Kensaunders @DaveKent101 Public sector will strike over that. Private sector, not a whimper.

@DaveKent101 Would have been fairer to put public sector on the same footing as private ie force them to end final salary for all public sector.. make them have dc schemes