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@DeborahMeaden Nice, with heavy metal contamination in your spuds should be nice and tasty.

Here you go…they can create better environments for potato and veg…

@jonburkeUK Not true

* Solar panels are 90%+ recyclable and their copper components are 100% recyclable. * Land hosting solar panels can boost biodiversity. * Land hosting solar can easily be converted back into to land for food production or, indeed, be used concurrently for food production.

@jemmm85517813 We all need to take action to stop this

7 square miles of solar panels all shipped from China with micro cracks with potential of leak of toxic chemicals into soil…Prime farmland ruined…That is our destiny if we do not stop this desecration.

@LaindonFEMINIST Another fruitcake

I am so happy we have a Labour Government. I am pleased with what they’ve achieved and continue to achieve. Our country is being fixed. Our citizens are better off overall. Keir Starmer has lead us very safely and well throughout Trumps illegal war. I’ve no complaints

@DeborahMeaden The land also gets contaminated so when/if they are removed nothing will grow properly without huge clean up and decontamination. Good quality Farmland is no place for these things.

No idea why these guys don’t like clean air, energy security and a future for the next generations…and…

@Ed_Miliband Did you know (stupid question), that once solar panels have been put on farmland that land cannot grow anything ever again? Look at the US potato farmers reports on this.

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…

@RobertJenrick Mmmm, how do I get onto Universal Credit I wonder 🤔

No. Working people are being taken for a ride. Under a Reform UK government you won’t be able to use benefits to get discounts like this.

@LBC Actually it should be coming down now.

Price of diesel passes 190p a litre as outlook remains "highly uncertain" for UK drivers lbc.co.uk/article/diesel…

@DeputyGrocott I’ve not posted any letters or cards for over a year now.

£7.20! 4 stamps! Wow!!

@Artemisfornow I've decided to wind down my company after 30 years and try and retire early. It feels like the right time now to step off and out of this crap.

Pay attention … Labour has created a taxpayer funded “jobs police”! It has the power to force entry into private businesses, seize documents and arrest people.. and then Labour told it to go and find new ways to expand its own powers. Which isn’t terrifying at all 💣

@albieamankona Well Albie, you are talking nonsense as the tax and NI I have paid over 48 years is far more than I will get back. Also, I never ever had a problem paying it for the older generation or ones in need. I do have a problem paying for lazy, work dodging, entitled arses.

For every £1 boomers pay in tax, they will receive £1.20 in benefits. The state pension should be scrapped. No ifs, no buts, scrapped.

@BenGrahamUK It’s not even proper chocolate!

In Britain shops are security tagging bars of Dairy Milk now. We’ve reached the point of lawlessness where chocolate needs anti theft protection. At what point do we tackle the root issue?

@davidkurten I meet up with a friend for a monthly walk and coffee with a sandwich. We now take a flask and a homemade sarnie in winter and a bbq sarnie in summer. Saves us a tidy sum and no queues. We also found that most cafe takeouts can’t even fry an egg properly

Is it just me, or does £7.50 for a coffee and a croissant in a cafe seem extortionate?

@shivmalik Yes I can. I am also planning to invest for the £2K a week it’ll cost me if I need to go into a care home. The harder you work the luckier you get ;-)

Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.

@boabythebold @A1an_M In addition, employers pay NI your salary too so they are getting a double take

@A1an_M If NI was only for pensions. It is not, nor ever has been, a single persons private insurance fund. Even still, governments use of this has been corropt without doubt!

I asked grok this question: "If a UK employee started work in an average paying job 46 years ago, and retired today, still in an average paying job, and they and their employer paid NI all of the time, how much would that NI money have grown to by age 67, and what weekly pension could it buy, if it had been invested in a UK stockmarket tracker during those 46 years?" Grok's answer: Approximately £930,000 lump sum, which could buy a single-life level annuity paying roughly £1,400 per week (or around £900–£1,100 per week if inflation-linked/RPI-linked). Bear in mind that the full state pension for someone retiring today is about £230 per week. Just shows you what might be possible if employees' NI was actually invested in a pot for the future, rather than squandered by the government of the day, and if governments didn't operate on the basis of futile hopes that there will be enough NI payers 40 years from now to cover all the pensions when they are due. The right time to start a scheme like this to gradually phase out the existing Ponzi-based state pension scheme and stop being a hostage to our future demographics was decades ago, but the next best time is right now.

@justaphag6 @SandyofSuffolk The good and the bad news is that your future is in your hands. Go out and make it instead of waiting for others to do it for you

@SandyofSuffolk no. you didn’t begrudge them because you had a future. something that can’t be said for today’s youth.

Pensioners get free prescriptions. Pensioners get free public transport. Pensioners get their benefits locked. Pensioners get “OAP” discounts at most establishments. 1 in 4 Pensioners are Millionaires. Young working people get fucked, taxed, and then fucked again.

@A1an_M @hackenbush2022 In addition to the 30+ years and your still working you still have to pay NI on your earnings both employers and employees too if you run a small company and pay yourself. I’m still paying both after 47 years so far.

@hackenbush2022 10 years will get you the minimum. You need 30+ years NI contributions to get the full state pension.

To all those saying it's not true that if you pay National Insurance to the government you are promised a State Pension in return, here it is in black and white on the government website. Today. Now. The promise is still being made. gov.uk/new-state-pens…

@JohnFen92959409 @ReemAmirIbrahim My Dad paid into the system for 51 years and then passed. He had his pension for 2 years and 50% of his teachers pension also disappeared and Mum had to struggle for her final years.

@ReemAmirIbrahim People have to work longer and longer. The retirement age keeps going up so workers have to pay NI contributions longer and spend less time in retirement. That reduces cost to the system. Ah that also means skilled workers working longer means employers don't have to recruit

When Greece had a sovereign debt crisis in 2010, its deficit was at 15.4% of GDP. If policy does not change in Britain, our ageing society will push borrowing to above 20% and debt above 270% of GDP by the early 2070s. We are diving into a crisis.

@DeborahMeaden I love dandelions to me they are not a weed

And that spraying one dandelion can kill 100 bees.

@marydejevsky Public Sector Johnnies have pensions that in a DC would need funds of millions to achieve the same pension. IIRC, a third of my council tax goes towards their pensions!

as per basic internet search: annual cost to taxpayers of triple lock by 2030 - £15.5bn cost 2025-6 of gold-plated public sector pensions - £37bn which is bigger, more urgent cost to curb?