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@TrussellUK Ummm it is not designed to make comfortable living. The idea is to get out to work again for a comfortable life. Those that cannot work with proven reason are well provided for by the state.

Some people think £98 a week Universal Credit is enough to live on each week. But after: Bills £34 Food £40 Transport £20 Toiletries and Cleaning products £15 It’s impossible.

@doqholliday All my 3 nephews and niece’s have got themselves onto the property ladder in their twenties, just as we did. It is entirely possible if you focus hard and make the right life choices involving sacrifices you will prosper from moving foward. Stop making excuses.

If you're a boomer in your 60s and 70s and you own property and are well off but your children are struggling and can't even buy a home, what the hell are you doin? Your time is over. It's their time. Help them. Be a good parent, do whatever it is you need to do... sell the house if you need to, give them some kickbacks to help buy their first home, etc. Life is short. Be a good parent and don't squat on stuff that doesn't matter. Give them their time.

@L11573Lloyd @Helen_Whately Totally different situation, everyone wants the help to go to those that really need it like you mate

@Sicloudstorm @Helen_Whately If you are able then you should definitely be working - I have worked for 40 years non stop and will have to claim disability very soon and feel I will be labelled with the lazy bastards.

Alarm clock Britain is sick of paying out for Benefits Street. Why bother working when you can get £30,000 or even £60,000 on benefits - untaxed. So what's the Government doing about it? Nothing.

@joshsimonsmp You the Labour party cannot agree on governing the UK. Plain and simple, there clearly was no agreed and effective plan having had 14 years to develop one. Scabbling around in a last ditch panic attempt doesn’t convince the electorate now.

I'm tired of politics driven by fear. Ppl are sick of managerialism, process and risk aversion. Always avoiding the worst means you may never achieve the best. I want hope back. Leaders who take risks, shoot for the best, because sometimes, we might just get there.

@JamesMelville Isn’t the main focus of British renewable energy to make ourselves self reliant and bring energy cost under control?

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

@afneil So back to 1978 then. Young people go research how this worked out. Economic growth is what we need not a lame ass nanny state again.

OK — you tell me — how do you nationalise energy, water and ‘housing’ (whatever that means) without borrowing tens of billions more to do so?

@pcl100 @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk @ZiaYusufUK Fucking public sector strikes, make us working in the real world sick. If you don’t like your job leave. Cunts.

@Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Nigel @ZiaYusufUK has just declared that a Reform government will remove the right to strike from UK workers. We see you 👀

More brilliant Reform activists out in Makerfield again this morning. We have hit the ground running.

@ZiaYusufUK If they strike against the electorate’s choice they should be removed from public service!

Good luck to them. Our legislation will mean they’ll lose their jobs and their employer pensions if they do this. And save the taxpayer huge sums in redundancy pay! Everyone wins!

@ZiaYusufUK A desperate move to martyrise Burnham as the saviour of Labour. He talks a good talk of fairness but the reality is Tax and Spend on a colossal scale. We just need serious GROWTH now that has to be the focus. Then we can do the soft stuff!

Andy Burnham abandoning his post as Mayor, and triggering an election in service of nothing other than his own ambition. Using the people of Makerfield as his pawns. Big mistake.

@joshsimonsmp He talks a good talk and presents a lovely concept of fairness. Problem is we are not in a financial position to make this a reality without tax and spend in excessive amounts. GROWTH is what uk needs all focus on now and in the years to come we can make the softer promises

For Westminster, this is a good summary of what people are saying on the doors in Makerfield. From a constituent of mine on a Reform page: "I'll probably get slated for this especially in this forum but hear me out. I've spent my whole adult life wishing that someone like me, from a working class background and from the North was leading our country. All I've seen in my lifetime is public school boys telling me how things are and to be honest, coming from a family of little to no wealth, it makes my blood boil. To have the chance of a prime minister who is born and bred in my neck of the woods. Understands the environment I grew up in if nothing else. And, more so, has a chance to take that top job and maybe, just maybe, make decisions that make a difference to people like me. That's what @AndyBurnhamGM represents for me. This feels like a one time in a generation chance to get someone in who isn't part of the establishment and may do things differently than has been done before. If people vote Reform, it won't put them in power. If they won it would merely be something to brag about but wouldn't make any fundamental difference to mine or your way of life. Alteratively, if Andy wins, it's likely he'll become our new prime minister and maybe, just maybe, we'll feel the difference. If not, vote Reform in the next general election and I'll join you. Peace out 📷"

@zarahussain999 Absolutely outragious, anyone would think it was actually cruel and totally unnecessary

A new Muslim halal food court in London. No pork or alcohol allowed and they have a prayer room. These are the type of places certain Restore Britain and Reform supporters want to ban. It’s part of Rupert Lowe pathetic manifesto

@toffael @AndyBurnhamGM Digital ID will sort filth like you

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@Clyde_Ghost @tolethorpe @stellacreasy It is clear welfare desperately needs reform. A proper vision for the UK jobs of the future for youth to aspire too and would be good for eveeyone to see. Feels like a fog to me in all honesty.

@Sicloudstorm @tolethorpe @stellacreasy Well, @tolethorpe has made some very strong points, but we also have a lopsided economy. 21% of the working-age population is economically inactive, and we have failed to address this for decades as well. Untapped markets aren't eluding us, they're remaining untapped.

The opportunity in the kings speech to reset our relationship with Europe now cannot be lost - but that means ripping up the red lines on the single market, customs union and freedom of movement that will keep holding us back. Join me in the Labour Movement for Europe fighting for our future in Europe in this Parliament. labourmovementforeurope.uk/redlines?splas…

@DotcottonA72604 @SandyofSuffolk Sweet! Was just messin 💜

@Sicloudstorm @SandyofSuffolk It's a beautiful Market town withbits famous castle, lovely church and lovely surrounding countryside. All shops are independent, except for the Co-op supermarket.

If any of you have ever visited Framlingham here in Suffolk, you'll know the small town is always bedecked with Union and St George's flags and bunting. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It's been like that since I've lived here, 22 years. And now? Some dickhead has complained. 🙄 The Town Council have said they'll try to make sure the flag display is 'balanced'. Whatever that means. But what sort of dickhead would complain? 🤔🧐

@L11573Lloyd @Helen_Whately I am sick of every lazy cunt that can work but chooses to claim whever the fuc they are from. ‘Sickfluencer’ culture is a cancer of the economy. Worked all my life with all manner of mental health horseshit. It is called life.

@Helen_Whately WRONG- we are sick of paying foreigners not brits who have paid into the system but I guess we all suffer because of government failed immigration policies.

@TurftwinJackson @Telegraph @Phoebejoy1611 Nipping off for a quick vape

@Telegraph @Phoebejoy1611 It’s like asking if you would rather get a kick in the Bollox or a kick in the teeth. However the final nail in the Labour coffin would definitely be Rayor, can you imagine her meeting world leaders 😂

❓Who would you rather have as prime minister?

@DavidDavisMP The amount of young kids on the streets during school time is astonishing. And Labour think no breakfast is the problem.

The State has failed our young people. By the age of 11, one in four young children are not sufficiently literate. As a result, many get no benefit from the next stage of education. We must restore meritocracy and give our young people the futures they deserve.

@theenglishwitc1 @IanTaplin12 @stellacreasy It may be mainly Nigel not sure it is clear policy. Concerning in any case.

@Sicloudstorm @IanTaplin12 @stellacreasy Haven’t seen them so would need to research.

@theenglishwitc1 @IanTaplin12 @stellacreasy Well said. I do want to believe this. Views on Reform’s ultimate Crypto plans for uk banks?

Yes we can cope with it on our own. We have a huge number of home grown and trained doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who can’t move on with their careers or even get jobs in the NHS because they’re given to foreigners. And yes of course we can thrive but we need a govt strong enough to provide the environment to grow, which we don’t currently have.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Imagine her on the world stage, disappearing round the back wall for a quick vape.

Angela Rayner: “I have been exonerated and have always acted with INTEGRITY” Anyone believe her