Ralph
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This is just more Islamophobic dog whistle from the Conservative Shadow Cabinet. Firstly you were in govt 14 years, why didn’t you? And secondly, I do not know anyone with 4 wives. Maybe David Haye but he’s a in a throuple.
This notion men want 4 wives to get £78k is absurd.
Helen Whately MP@Helen_Whately
Polygamy is illegal in the UK. But if you’ve married 4 wives overseas and moved here, you could claim up to £78,000 in benefits. Paid for by British taxpayers. That is absurd. Conservatives will end this.
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@aisha_IMO @WBradbury2020 @HasAhmed_ I doubt it. Regardless, there isn’t a sum that justifies bringing in people with utterly alien cultures who want to change our way of life. I’d pay to not have that happen.
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@RafeNotRalph @WBradbury2020 @HasAhmed_ Lol. Like I owe you an itemised statement. 🙄 Why don’t you check the criteria for investment in the country? I assure you I’ve invested more than you’ve probably earned in your lifetime. As for what I stand for, a quick glance at this very thread shows you exactly what!
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@aisha_IMO @WBradbury2020 @HasAhmed_ What have you “invested”. It has better be a rather significant sum if you want to spread that subversive and utterly alien nonsense. Why do I live in Britain? Because I have ancestry in this land dating back thousands of years. I need not explain my right to the likes of you.
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@RafeNotRalph @WBradbury2020 @HasAhmed_ What’s it to you? I invested in this country. Why do you? To spread hate?
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@WBradbury2020 @HasAhmed_ Actually, no. When practiced correctly it doesn’t hurt women. In fact it ensures a dignified societal status. Unlike being married to one & using other women without a dignified commitment. Men are only allowed multiple wives IF they can ‘afford’ them all from OWN income.
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@HasAhmed_ It affects a maximum of 10 households in the UK. This is an informative thread (worth reading from the start).
x.com/MonkEmma/statu…
Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺@MonkEmma
You read that right! There are fewer than 10 households in the UK claiming housing benefit where the claimant is recorded as having more than one partner! 17/
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@Landeur White people don't breed enough, so let's blame it on the Muslims. You do realise that most European countries have birth rates below the replacement rate, so even without immigration, there won't be enough people to sustain the economies which you so cherish.
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Austria is toast.
No democratic way out of this in 5/10 years.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Muslims now make up a major share of the younger generation in the Austrian capital. Among students in Vienna’s public schools, 42% identify as Muslim. 🇦🇹
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If your idea of the working class is a boomer caricature, then no, we’re not. If it’s the actual working class—tenants, precarious workers, people in debt, minorities, anyone under 65—then the Greens dominated. If your idea of class politics is just nostalgia, then no, we didn’t.
Nick Tyrone@NicholasTyrone
The very idea that the Greens are the party of the working class is laughable.
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@KevinEFC1878 ok well go and have a conversation with him then!!!! i don’t care i love birmingham 😍🥰🥰🥰😙😙😙🤩🤩🤩🤩😛😛😛
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Remember, the Queen was married to her cousin!
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Sweden has just BANNED cousin marriage and close relative marriage! 🇸🇪
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@BoiledFrog45 They’ve been here for over 20 years. You can’t deport people with kids born here. Absolute madness. Just plain performative cruelty.
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This is bonkers. My neighbours in London, first gen immigrants, both worked in vital jobs (social care & mental health nursing), lived in social housing & raised a family in it. Absolutely *insane* to suggest deporting them or anyone like them.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
Robert’s answer is not Reform policy. As the person responsible for our deportation plan I want ensure people know where we stand: If a foreign national lives in social housing at taxpayer expense, they automatically fail our economic test and will be deported.
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@AlexanderGaell You’re in my land you foreigner. Get the fuck out before we deport 150+ million European invaders on the land my blood built
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It always makes me laugh when I see Lee Anderson using a bacon sandwich to declare his Britishness to the whole world.
Leavened bread - Ancient Egypt 🇪🇬
Bacon - Ancient China 🇨🇳
Butter - Türkiye 🇹🇷
Ketchup - USA 🇺🇸
Brown sauce - British, but made in The Netherlands 🇳🇱
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it’s cool how white people live in an entirely different city to us
Aunt Leonie@leonielaugh
clapham common is the fucking tea you guys london fields is officially cancelled
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Rachel Reeves to tax cash held in stocks and shares ISAs in major savings raid
gbnews.com/money/rachel-r…
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@ApoStructura UK legit has the worst housing situation I've ever seen
It's all tiny and looks like shit, and for the same cost you'd get a damn mansion in the US lol
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So here's my thinking:
The obvious one: Vanguard S&P 500 and Vanguard FTSE All-World are essentially the same fund. The S&P 500 makes up 65% of All-World. Holding both is a bias towards being bullish on the US. Which I am. But is it pointless?
My JPMorgan Nasdaq fund's top 10 holdings?
Identical to the top 10 of my S&P 500. Apple. Microsoft. Nvidia. Amazon. Alphabet. Three funds. Same stocks. Different labels. But JEQP is capped upside - that's the trade off for income (I'm fine with this).
The Nvidia problem: Nvidia appears in at least 5 of my funds. → JPM Nasdaq → Vanguard S&P 500 → Vanguard All-World → VanEck Semiconductor → VanEck Quantum Computing
I didn't choose to have a 5% Nvidia position. It just crept in.
What I'm thinking of doing about it:
Scrapping the S&P 500 entirely.
Boosting All-World to 12% - my only index fund now. Increasing JPM Nasdaq to 17% - it earns its place via covered call income.
Redirecting the rest into funds with genuine zero overlap - Defense, Uranium, Gold.
Every fund now has to do a job no other fund is doing.
My S&P 500 is actually outperforming All-World (9.47% vs 7.75%) which makes me not want to hard to pull the trigger.
But holding duplicates because one is up more recently is just performance chasing with extra steps?
What do we think? Essentially I'm holding a lot of MAG7 through various funds and doubling up.
🇬🇧 Tom - Investor £120K@2147mill
Saturday afternoons job is thus: Go through my entire portfolio and see where I am doubling up and what I can thin out. I shall let you know my findings.
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@fawncashew @finance420_ @rawespresso hope you're right but idk. I can see any non right-wing party introducing taxes or maybe more limits on the ISA, what they did last budget could be the start of a slippery slope.
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Maxing your UK Stocks and Shares ISA every year for 10 years.
£20,000 a year × 10 years = £200,000 contributed.
At an average global market return of 7% real per year, that £200,000 compounds into roughly £280,000 in today's money.
Leave it untouched for another 20 years. Same 7% real return. The £280,000 becomes around £1.1 million.
All of it tax-free. Forever.
£20,000 a year is uncomfortable but not impossible for a couple with both partners earning a decent UK salary. Most people skip it because the early gains feel slow and the discipline feels punishing.
The ones who do it spend their fifties not worrying about money.
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