@BedfordOnTour Have you been to Edgar Street lately? I've seen landfill sites that are more aesthetically pleasing than that place. They probably just wanted to create a sense of familiarity.
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You Bears
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HEREFORD FANS YOU HEARD OF
A BIN BEFORE
left it in a disgusting manner
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@Andrewj__01 @that_stocks_guy Your argument is also flawed as all pensions do are allow you to spread out income and defer tax payments. Are you happy to pay 40% on income now? If not then why do you think expect the same tax relief? It makes no senses
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@bearnotpear2 @that_stocks_guy why? I save 20% tax on my salary sacrifice, and pay 20% tax when I withdraw it from my pension.
Why should someone who earns more than me save 40% tax and still only pay 20% when they withdraw it?
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'Just put £60k into your pension every year to avoid the tax trap above £100k - hang on, why are our most productive taxpayers taking early retirement in their 50s??!!?!?!'
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@Andrewj__01 @that_stocks_guy The higher earner is as likely to pay 40% on withdrawal as you are to pay 20%. You are also ignoring the 25% tax free lump sum and personal allowance.
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@Mad_Pieman @GuyEmma68700 I think you badly misunderstand where subsidies flow. I'll give you a clue, it's not from the tax payer to independent schools despite what Labour would have you believe. They relied on people having a poor grasp of economics to help support their policy.
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@GuyEmma68700 They had a fair warning; it was a manifest pledge. If there cant maintian themselves without state handouts, then they could become actual charities
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Odd that having to pay tax,like any organisation that makes a surplus, so may have gone to the wall. As a govonor what charitable activities does your school do? Or just provide paid education
Joe Nutt@joenutt_author
@Mad_Pieman @Liberalscribble Indeed, and having been a governor in one for many years and worked in many, many more & extensively in the State sector too; I can tell you they do that very skilfully and way more professionally than you will find in the State sector. The all work hard to stay in the black.
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@Andrewj__01 @that_stocks_guy I’m pretty sure you’ve not thought that through properly!
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@that_stocks_guy Just ban salary sacrifice. And make the tax relief at base 20% rate
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@nickgray123 @that_stocks_guy I’m not so sure that will happen. Higher earners will only miss out on 2%. The far bigger hit will be to lower earners who will be hit with 8% NI on anything over 2k pa. Employers will also be heavily hit. 9k extra employee NI for every 60k pa pension saver they employ.
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@that_stocks_guy They'll be a bump in the retirement rate when the salary sacrifice change happens in 2029. Just another reason not to bother working and saving.
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@annaturley Show me a political party that has not the slightest clue how the private sector operates. You are destroying the economy and sending us back decades.
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What Labour governments do🌹
Trades Union Congress@The_TUC
NEW🚨| 9.6 million workers set to benefit from stronger sick pay as of today. * 1.2 million workers - majority low-paid women - get access to statutory sick for the first time. * 8.4 million will get sick pay from the first day of illness - instead of having to wait four days.
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@Sacha_Lord Labour are going to finish us all off if they carry on like they have been.
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In exactly a months time, it's the Local Elections
Local means exactly that; look at the work that's been done locally.
Here in Greater Manchester, we have some incredibly hard working Labour Councillors, who are getting results.
They deserve your vote to finish the job off.
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@stellacreasy @DeBarsham How many of that 59% are working full time and how many have refused additional hours work because they prefer to take taxpayer’s money instead of earning more themselves?
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@DeBarsham Hi jules- great to meet a fellow psychologist. Truth bombs are of course subjective and so ridden with prejudice. However, empirical data isn't- 59% of those affected by the cap are in work.
gov.uk/government/sta…
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If you think today’s decision to lift the two child benefit cap doesn’t help you, think again. Ending child poverty will in the end help us all. Here’s how.
Share to spread the word. #TrueLabour
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@fillypepper All these policies will deliver is rocketing levels of unemployment. This is what you get when the government's entire experience of the private sector is the square root of f**k all.
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@justinmadders If your aim was to make even more people unemployable you couldn't have come up with a better set of policies. Your total ignorance of how the private sector operates is shameful.
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It’s been a long journey but people are now seeing how a Labour Government can increase workplace protections
Labour🌹Unions@labourunionsuk
Just some of the new rights at work heading your way today thanks to a Labour Government, the Labour-union link and the New Deal for Working People: 😷 Statutory Sick Pay from your first day off sick, ending the three day wait without pay. 💪 New, simpler union recognition rights. Making it easier for workers to get unionised. 🧑🍼 Paternity leave and unpaid parental leave from your first day on the job. 📢 New protections for whistleblowers. Now let's finish the job and deliver the New Deal in full 🌹✊
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@ToryWipeout Literally every single one of them is a disaster for the economy. What on earth have we done to deserve such an inept government? They are clueless.
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- Pension increase
- Minimum wage increase
- Workers rights increase
- 2 child cap lifted
Just today, no fantasy, real tangible policies to help people.
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@nowak_paul At what point do people who actually bother to go to work get any policies that benefit them?
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Today millions will get sick pay for the first time, and from day one
Paternity leave from day one
Ending the two-child benefit cap will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty.
Union campaigning & a Labour government making a difference.
Progress made. More needed.
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@NotAMale1 @HoTPOfficial @ralirali Of course you can choose what fund your DC pension is invested in. You'd be mad to leave it in the default fund chosen by your employer.
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@HoTPOfficial @ralirali Much as I hate Labour, you’re just scaremongering - if you’re in your employer’s pension (DC), they can move you to another ‘large commercial fund’ (presume you mean a master trust) any time they like - you don’t get to choose and never have been able to choose.
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The Pension Schemes Bill is days away from becoming law. It affects 20 million of you.
Here's what it means for your pension:
- If you have a small pension pot from an old job worth under £1,000, the government can move it to a different provider without asking you first. You can stop this, but only if you reply to a letter.
- Pension schemes that are too small will be forced to merge with bigger ones or close.
-Your workplace pension could be transferred into a large commercial fund you never chose.
- All council pension funds must merge into 6 giant national pools.
The bill was pushed through by @leicesterliz and Baroness Sherlock.
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@josephpowell I read that quickly and was momentarily overjoyed that the Starmer had been sacked. Sadly not. The nightmare continues.
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I’m glad that this morning the PM condemned the disgusting comments made by Reform’s housing chief Simon Dudley. He has rightly been sacked.
The Grenfell tower fire was an entirely preventable tragedy that claimed the lives of 72 people.
The lessons that we learn from Grenfell must be the right ones.
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@bphillipsonMP @ObserverUK @RSylvester1 Tough to think of a more inappropriate person to be Education Minister. No obvious ability, no relevant experience and warped ideological views that justify harming children. History won't be kind to you.
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I took @ObserverUK out on a walk with Maisie to talk about:
▪️ Why I prioritise the early years
▪️ Childhood and parenting in an online world
▪️ My ambitions for families
▪️ Class, accents and being an outsider
Have a read below 🚶♀️
observer.co.uk/news/national/…
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Reform pretend to be on the side of working people.
The reality?
They’re led by snobby millionaires who have no idea how much cost-of-living support matters to families.
They’re not on your side.
Labour is.
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Surprise, surprise > UK minimum wage rise has not led to economy-wide impact on jobs, analysis says ft.com/content/6fcddd…
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@Patrici89225734 He and his government are economically illiterate. The only people supporting them are those who are party loyal regardless of the facts presented to them. He is destroying the country bit by bit.
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Keir Starmer and his Government have done somethings wrong and somethings right after only 21 months in power after 14 terrible years! What I like is that they have corrected the wrong things reasonably quickly and this morning they knew exactly what is right for our country!
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@Kdon0000 @Ed_Miliband It never hit our bank accounts in the first place as it was taken in the form of tax rises. Surely you’re not that ignorant to believe the Labour lies?
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Energy bills dropping 7% is real money back in real pockets. After everything families have been through with the cost of living the last few years this is the kind of update people actually needed to hear. Are you feeling it yet?
7% drop in energy bills starting today. Not a promise. Not a plan. Already happening. When was the last time a government announcement actually showed up in your bank account this fast?
GIF
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From today, energy bills will fall by 7% for families across the country.
We took the decision in the Budget to ask those with the broadest shoulders to pay their fair share, and today we see the result of that.
Vital cost of living support delivered by this government.
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