@Emma_h_mua @RazerWithAKnee Entitled ! I live in London and I am from up north I also work in the property industry so know full well the price of property ...I hope your not planning on buying a million pound starter home FFS
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Steve Pigott
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Steve Pigott
@StevePigott7
knows everything about nothing and nothing about everything
Woking, South East Katılım Ocak 2021
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@StevePigott7 @RazerWithAKnee Do you know how averages work Steve? Houses down south and in other areas are 1million++++. Even for a crappy flat.
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My first house was £7500
I was earning £1560pa
My partner about £1350
Mortgage rate was double figures
No car
No colour TV
No phone (landline)
We got married & were gifted a 3 piece suite, a cooker, bought a dining table/ 4 chairs on HP & paid cash for a bed £50
We had fcuk all!
Emma H 🖤🗿七七@Emma_h_mua
@RazerWithAKnee Good for you. You clearly had some money to do that and houses were max 3x the annual salary. Now they're 9x the annual salary and most people are paying well over half their monthly pay on rent. You had it better. End of story.
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@AkkadSecretary Maths ...you taking his joint salary and comparing it against a single salary today...who taught you maths...always compare apples with apples...
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Income: £2,910
House £7.5k
20% deposit = 52% of pa income
12% interest rate on 30y = 25% pa income
vs 2026
Income: £38.9k (£30.7k after tax + SL)
House: £220k
20% deposit = 143% of pa income
5.76% interest rate on 30y = 40% pa income
It's not that complicated a complaint
Razer Sharp@RazerWithAKnee
My first house was £7500 I was earning £1560pa My partner about £1350 Mortgage rate was double figures No car No colour TV No phone (landline) We got married & were gifted a 3 piece suite, a cooker, bought a dining table/ 4 chairs on HP & paid cash for a bed £50 We had fcuk all!
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@Emma_h_mua @RazerWithAKnee Wtf average salary 36k x 2 =72kx9=648k disproves your bad maths given the average house price is about 300k ...or.do you expect to live in a 4 bed detached as your first house ?
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@RazerWithAKnee Your house was 7.5k..? Total??
Based on your income your house was 2.5x your salaries. They're now NINE TIMES THE SALARY AT MINIMUM.
So young people today don't even have the 'fuck all' you had. Well done, you're getting it!
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@PeterTatchell @metpoliceuk The far right are idiots but you have to admit the far left love a good walk on a weekly basis with their mates banging drums....why not go for a nice peaceful walk in the countryside and get some fresh air instead ?
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Met police allow far right march by Tommy Robinson in central London
But refuse to allow Palestine march in key parts of central London, where it has marched for years
Clear bias by @metpoliceuk consistent with its repression of Palestine protests. SHAME
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…
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@narindertweets Let's face it his arse is probably cleaner than half the humans that will sit on the chair in its lifetime 🤣
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I'm sorry, but how is it ok to put your dog on train seat meant for passengers? This is so unhygienic...ewwww someone will be expected to sit where dog bum has been?
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@Mikey1732 Always wondered why political parties never help singletons, they form a third of the working population but do get the shitty end of the stick on most policies ...
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I gain nothing as a result of this government. I’m in my mid 40’s, I have no kids, so I don’t benefit from free breakfast clubs, or the removal of the two child benefit cap. I work and pay sky high taxes and get nothing back. Labour isn’t the government for me
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@paul_d_stevens Wtf ! Who pays for it then ? Let me guess the old money tree but no your going to suggest we own a bank and can do what the fuck we want...to which the normal people just laugh at you but he'll this is twatter so who gives a shit !
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Welfare is not funded by taxes.
Whatever one thinks of benefits for multiple children, not one taxpayer is financially disadvantaged by the lifting of the two-child benefit cap.
Object to it if you must. But don’t use “but taxpayers?” as a reason.
mmtuk.org/education/how-…
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho
Many couples work hard, but cannot afford to have another child. Yet from this week, they’ll be paying more in tax so that couples on welfare with four, five, or six children receive more in benefits. This is not fair. It is not compassionate to make welfare pay more than work.
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@XelenX1 Yes I believe the old boss of the Train union lived in a council house...there you go mad isn't it !!
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Don't forget the obscene levels of expenses she claims! £4k a year on council tax! Does anyone else get to claim council tax on a £100k+ wage?
Hoss@Hossylass
Kemi mostly works a 4 day week (friday sittings are rare), and gets around 17weeks holiday a year, a very generous pension, and a golden handshake if she gets fired by her constituents. I suggest people remind her to reel her neck in when it comes to defining 'deserving'.
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Zack Polanski, "In Lewis the Greens have built hundreds of council homes over the last four years"
"And there are hundreds more in the pipeline"
"And the key here is that it's not just about quantity, it's the quality of the homes too"
"They have set p a future homes standard to make sure every home that is built is affordable, accessible - really key for disabled people who are far too often kept out of the conversation about housing"
"And also that those homes are sustainable and good for the planet"
"And then we have Bristol, a place that has built more affordable homes in the last few years"
"This is despite Bristol having a £43m budget shortfall"
"It is outrageous that we have a Labour government that was voted in on a promise of change, and are still forcing austerity in local councils"
"They say there's no money left, but we live in the sixth wealthiest economy in the world"
"50 of the wealthiest families in this county own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the countries"
"That's 50 families vs 34 million people"
"There is plenty of money and wealth in this country, and we need to see that wealth where it belongs: in our communities, in our council chambers, so they can be spent on the communities that are desperate for change"
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@THemingford Suspect the bloke that spent all the money and got us bailed out by the IMF was the cause of the problem..but hey facts and all that
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The cause of so many of the UK's problems today trace back to one person.
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@implausibleblog Who will we work with then ? Won't even be able to go on holiday to France by the sounds of it !
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Daisy Eastlake, "You said you would withdraw from the UK-Israel trade agreement, trade was worth £6.2 billion in 2025, do you accept policies like this come with an economic cost? And how would you plug gaps like that?"
Zack Polanski, "I don't think we should be putting a cost on people's lives"
"We've seen an ongoing genocide in Gaza. We've seen hundreds of people die in the last 24 hours in Lebanon. As well as schoolchildren who have died in Iran"
"It's totally unacceptable"
"So the first thing is that there is no price on this and that we are protecting human life"
"Second, what does economic sovereignty look like?"
"Are we relying on countries that have bad human rights records, or human rights abuses, or terror acts, as we see this rogue state of Israel doing at the moment"
"It's clearly important that we disentangle from that"
"Either more robust sanctions, or making sure we have an industrial revolution in this country"
"Whether it's building the wind turbines for the climate crisis, or the productivity of the future"
"That means we wouldn't be relying on countries committing human rights abuses"
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@broseph_stalin Jesus Woking council is bankrupt because they thought they could build housing ! Sounds like a great policy to fleece the tax payer with little chance of success !!
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Julia Hartley-Brewer loses it when I mention Britain had national rent controls from 1915-1988 building 300–350k homes a year. Since 1988, we built 200k a year. The Greens’ policy to reintroduce rent controls would finally let councils build again not treating housing as an asset
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@Tinebobagain Why would they bite the hand that feeds them 🤣🤣
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@jessalinecaine Can't have your cake and eat it as they say...splash the cash on hols or a house deposit..hols are great but don't moan you can't afford a house !
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More patronising comments from boomers - Travelling is one of the greatest things you can do! If you have the money and time to do it, you should
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
Right. Stepdaughter just told me the youngest grandson's girlfriend (20) who's been living at home for 2 years and working just 30 hours a week in M&S for 2 years has saved £15,000. She's not been paying her dad 'keep'. Sigh. Nice deposit for a flat you may think. But no. Going off travelling to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia and chucking her job in. 🙄 But the good news is....🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 youngest grandson has dumped her. 🤣
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@exRAF_Al 15yrsa ago everyone was complaining that the pensions were pants hence the triple lock what has changed other than society ...far to many young self absorbed people just thinking about themselves !
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Saying the triple lock should go is like saying universal credit or child benefit should go. I don’t think any of us would complain if a retired civil servant, on £50k a year pension, were treated *slightly* differently to a retired lady, silently living out her years in what I would refer to as traditional poverty, but the fact our politicians are corrupt scum should not penalise those who contributed to a system which promised to provide fair state retirement income benefits package.
Oliver Dean@the_olliedean
The triple lock is unsustainable. If Farage and Reform are serious about fixing Britain’s economic woes, they should U-Turn on their recent announcement and pledge to scrap it. My latest for @CityAM 👇
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@miriam_cates Suspect those that are better off would be happy to have all their NI contributions back, no state pension and ability boost to their private pension. suspect they would even leave a couple of percent in the pot to aid the disadvantaged, what they won't accept is being ripped off
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Is the state pension really so 'meagre'? Let's take a look...
The basic state pension is just £12,547 a year. But...
Only around 15% of pensioners rely on the state pension alone. The vast majority have other income from private pensions etc., which is exactly how our system is designed to work (and why the UK has generous tax breaks for pension contributions).
The small proportion of pensioners whose only source of income is the state pension are entitled to other benefits in addition, including pension credit, housing benefit and council tax support.
A pensioner with no other income, no savings, no disabilities, no care responsibilities and rent of £800 per month is entitled to £401.55 a week in benefits including state pension, which is £20,881 a year.
For comparison, a full time minimum wage worker has an after tax income of £21,364. Unlike a pensioner, a full time minimum wage worker is not entitled to free travel, free prescriptions, a winter fuel payment or senior citizens discounts.
£21,000 a year is not a lot of money. But the very poorest pensioners have similar incomes to low-wage workers. Given the greater costs faced by those who are working, it's perhaps not surprising that working age adults are now more likely to live in poverty than pensioners.
And at the other end of the scale, one in four pensioners are millionaires and still receive the basic state pension, paid for by current tax payers (including those on minimum wage).
No one (definitely not me) is suggesting that the state pension should be reduced for the poorest pensioners. But pension spending now accounts for half of the UK's social security budget and, given the urgent need to cut government spending, we must consider reforms like means-testing and scrapping the triple lock.
Miriam Cates@miriam_cates
“Reform’s commitment to keep the triple lock is the final nail in the coffin for the hope of pension reform from the Right. Britain’s young people are now condemned to pay through the nose for the retirement of the wealthiest generation in history.” ✍️👇 conservativehome.com/2026/04/08/mir…
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@LorenaKnobchop2 The discount is funded by the standard price the tax payer pays and the tax payer funds the benefits received...obviously a win win for the tax payer...
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To everyone kicking off that people on benefits are having cheap days out. The discount IS NOT government funded. Don't worry, your tax isn't paying for the disabled boy in no19 to visit alton towers. You're ok
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@ZoeJardiniere Where are you getting these polls from ! I work in the sector and I am yet to meet a landlord that wants his rent capped !
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@BladeoftheS Tell me you know nothing about geo politics and energy security in a single post...you probably want Russia to take it to facilitate your communist utopia !!
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The Falklands is a barely inhabitable hellhole, arctic cold, permanent gales, nothing to do.
Less than 3,500 people live there and it costs over £100,000 per person per year to keep them there.
It is time to stop pretending it is anything but a massive worthless drain on the UK
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Overblown comparison
Someone on £68k take home is living ten times better than someone on £22k
The UK is still one of the best countries to live and and work in
Zynx@ZynxBTC
The UK has a far flatter income distribution than the Communist Soviet Union. The UK take home minimum wage for working a full time job (40-hours) is now £22,555. At £100k salary, the take home is £68,558. That is a net income ratio of 3.04:1 We are now at the point where the wage compression and taxes in the UK means that the difference between minimum wage and a top 5% salary is a net income difference of only ~3x. In the USSR using the same comparison, this figure never fell below 5:1 It's actually even worse in reality because the person earning £100k in the UK often has student loans. Britain is nominally capitalist but functionally communist. China is nominally communist but functionally capitalist. Funny how that works.
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