Ben Webb

@HomoSocialist @Percy_Bear_Esq If they’re rich pensioners its likely their taxes paying their pension through lifetime taxes.

@Percy_Bear_Esq I’d rather see my taxes not pay rich pensioners but there we are.

We are such a miserable fucking nation. Let kids have free travel during the holidays to see their mates, go into town, go swimming, cinema etc. Our taxes also pay for pensioners to keep warm, shall we stop that as well?

@XLilliputian @Simon_Nixon And Biden

@Simon_Nixon So why did Trudeau do it too?

A key point almost entirely ignored by most of the media. Without the Boriswave, there would be no hiding that Brexit was a disaster - which is why Johnson did it. But in the process, he handed Farage a great big stick with which to beat the Tory party to death

@NadiaWhittomeMP Less government spending and waste?

Net migration to the UK has fallen by nearly 50%. This has not made and will not make a single bit of positive difference to people’s lives. Because the problem was never immigration - it was 40 years of Thatcherism. So rather than endlessly blame scapegoats, why don’t we cut to the chase and put everything we have into fixing the real structural causes behind soaring bills and rents, stagnant wages, and the fact that public services are on their knees? Otherwise, we’ll keep paving the way for Reform and reach the end of this Parliament having run out of people to blame and with nothing to show for it.

@TheRealJamieKay I don’t think they were assisted by billion dollar ngos

One for the far-right to digest.

@RachelReevesMP We’ll press slightly less on your throat until Xmas,now you may bow

The war in Iran is pushing up prices at the pump, so we're stepping in. We are extending the 5p fuel duty cut until the end of the year- keeping costs lower for millions of drivers. We have the right economic plan to protect households and build a stronger Britain.

@KateWilton1 @DavidJFoord 2 % is not scientific, it was chosen and popularised

@DavidJFoord You never have zero inflation. 2% is generally considered an optimum rate.

Remind us why we need to get rid of the PM?

@brivael Always Ideology > data 🙄

Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle. Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche » pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années. Les chiffres bruts. 1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité. 2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%. 1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce. Qui a fait ça ? Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ». Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme. Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe. La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique. Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz. Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen. La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées. ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat. La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.

@Dan4Barnet Still governing through ideology not data

Right now some £10m homes are paying less council tax than a normal family home. It's not right and it's not fair. So this government is changing it.

@KaneEmerson Pointless without cheaper energy

We can either build data centres in Britain or elsewhere in the world. But it's clear that a British data centre is better for the world's climate than an American data centre.

@TherealNihal The independent - anything but

10 years on from Brexit and Reform have pulled off one of the greatest con jobs in UK political history. Shame how bigotry towards immigrants trumps economic self harm.

@dave43law No it’s shit government and a parasitic civil service who think immigrants are a solution

A message that part of the UK needs to learn

@LizWebsterSBF @MarinaPurkiss But you need a qualified heating engineer to fit it, not an incompetent handyman from the council

✅ @MarinaPurkiss exactly right! If you bought a boiler and it failed to heat your home, you wouldn’t spend 10 years insisting the boiler was secretly brilliant. You wouldn’t continue to live with it and try make it work!

@bmay Over regulation doesn’t align to dynamism or prosperity

Andy Burnham can apparently change Britain without reversing Brexit. I’m afraid it’s yet another fantasy, and one that ironically hurts the people who hate Europe the most. Politicians must stop pretending Brexit is compatible with a dynamic prosperous future. It’s horseshit.

@RachelReevesMP You have a strategy?

The IMF upgrading its growth forecasts for the UK and backing our fiscal strategy is yet more proof that this Government has the right economic plan.

@narindertweets Correlation vs causation

David Lammy isn't wrong here on Brexit- “Farage said it would bring down immigration, it hasn’t it’s got worse, Farage said we would be better off, we’re much much poorer, everyone across the country realises that, there were promises made and we should hold their feet to the fire”

@politixintheuk 🤣 London Economic, overflowing with non-partisan integrity

The government has hit one of its key NHS targets on waiting times, with 65% of patients being treated within 18 weeks, government reported! This is the biggest improvement in NHS waiting times in 16 years, and the first time since November 2021 that more than 65% of patients were seen within 18 weeks. Source: The London Economic

@SangitaMyska Where ideology trumps data?

One of my favourite signs at the Tommy Robinson counter-demo reads: radicalised by common decency #WomenAgainstTheFarRight

Walking with the Women Against the Far Right bloc marching in protest at Tommy Robinson’s ironically named ‘Unite The Kingdom Rally’. One of the chants: Unemployment and inflation are not caused by immigration!” #TommyRobinson @thenerve_news #StandUpToRacism

@SangitaMyska @thenerve_news They follow that with “it’s caused by uncontrolled government spending and regulations” right?……right?

@doublebelle @TorstenBell And far right of course

@doublebelle @TorstenBell Proud of mediocrity because to call it out is hate speech

The far right try to claim our flags but in truth hate our country. They despise what makes the rest of us proud & makes us British, from the NHS to our BBC. They peddle anti-British propaganda globally. Thousands may march today but millions more stand against hate & for Britain