@miriam_cates I'd rather any future government commits to enforce deductions from pay into personal pension pots. Current system is not sustainable
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Ross P
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Ross P
@TheOfficialRodd
Data Engineer. Politics and Current Affairs. STEM. ITFC. SDP. Cricket.Born and raised in Suffolk.
Suffolk Katılım Kasım 2017
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No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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12% of children in the U.K. have been registered with a disability.
What on earth is going on?
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The Prime Minister and Chancellor are under pressure to take action to protect consumers from rapidly rising fuel prices after diesel hit its highest level since December 2022.
The government's emergency Cobra committee will meet today to discuss fuel supply contingency plans in case of shortage brought on by the war in the Middle East.
@SwainITV reports.
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@YvetteCooperMP Your statement is an irrelevance. You'd be surprised if the support for it in the UK. Who is 'we'?
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My statement with France, Germany and Italy on our united opposition to Israel’s death penalty law.
The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world.
gov.uk/government/new…
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For the first time ever the government has issued guidance to parents saying they should limit screen time for children under five.
The Minister for Children and Families, Josh MacAlister is questioned about these guidelines.
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The current state of the Royal Navy:
2 aircraft carriers — neither operational.
6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus).
7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational
5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?).
Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged.
Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy.
Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
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“Smash the gangs has been a total abject failure”
On English Channel small boat crossing numbers, Nigel Farage asks PM “what is plan B?”
Keir Starmer says the Reform UK leader has “absolutely no judgement” and attacks his stance on Iran war
#PMQs bbc.in/47UF06x
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@BBCPolitics Always helps if we want to actually rearm and make weapons etc
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UK sets target to boost steel making and cut imports bbc.in/47JuuPt
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Rayner - accidentally avoided £40k in tax, repaid the money, had to resign.
Tice - deliberately avoided £600k in tax, hasn’t repaid anything. 15x the money, infinitely more immoral. He’ll resign as an MP, right? He can just be a shadow MP going forward.
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The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.
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@BasilTheGreat He isn't dumb. However, he is a congenital bullshitter of the highest order.
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Keir Starmer says illegal boatmen are travelling from Africa and the Middle East to Britain because of climate change
Is he dumb or lying?
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I fear the Police are no longer the ‘force’ to be reckoned with x
Connie Shaw@_ConnieShaw
“With the greatest respect what do you want me to do, pull him off a horse?” Says the police officer when people ask why these chaps aren’t being arrested for chasing people on horses in the City of a Manchester. What’s the point
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@ZackPolanski I think you need to get them round the table and hypnotize them 'zack'
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These aircraft should not be allowed to land on British Soil.
Over 1000 civilians dead already after illegal war started by the US and Israel - and all this with no vote in the UK parliament about our role.
Charlie Peters@CDP1882
The first of several American B-1 heavy bombers has landed at RAF Fairford today after Keir Starmer gave the US permission to use British bases for strikes on Iran
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Far too many people never understood the lesson expertly displayed in this exchange.
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