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@Matronincharge @Helen_Whately @FUDdaily Complete and utter bullshit. The only thing right in your tweet is "💯 wrong" which sums up every word before it.

@Helen_Whately @FUDdaily State needs to STOP liars from benefits. Know of one family - she’s on every benefit feasible, pleading bloody anxiety fgs, new SUV, just plain lazy, he works full time, over £60000 pa, just brought Mercedes + full carers allowance, house, council tax + all paid by us. 💯 wrong.

Thousands of households claim £50,000+ in benefits every year. You have to earn £65k for that income through work. It’s not fair and we can’t afford it. The next step in my plan to grip welfare and get Britain working 👇

@anon_opin The problem is things used to become rare and collectible. Now they're made to be rare and collectable.

Collecting physical media - books, comics, DVDs, video games - then not actually reading or watching them because it "damages the value" is such boomer shit. Learn from the people who put their retirement savings into beanie babies.

@mrstomlinstan @KernowDamo @dEEN1cKers0n *If they didn't hammer small businesses then profits would be higher.

@KernowDamo @dEEN1cKers0n You are missing the point that the state take with one hand and give with the other. If they didn't hammer small businesses then wages could be higher. It's the same money.

The most revealing thing in this post is that the worker’s need to live never appears as a real business cost. VAT is real. Business rates are real. Energy bills are real. National Insurance is real. Rent is real. Beans, milk, cups, insurance, accountants, card fees, compliance, all real. But the person making the coffee needing enough money to pay rent, eat, heat their home, travel to work and not rely on state top-ups? Suddenly that is “silly socialism”. No. That is the cost of labour. If your business model depends on paying people less than they need to live, then the state is not attacking your business by demanding higher wages. The state is currently propping your business up by letting taxpayers subsidise the gap between what you pay and what your staff need to survive. That is the bit you cannot grasp, or do not want to grasp. You say businesses fail because they are unprofitable. Fine. Businesses do fail. But “I can only make a profit if my workers stay poor” is not a serious moral defence of a business. It is a confession. You say a cup of coffee has to absorb lots of costs. Yes. Welcome to business. But you are treating wages as the flexible bit that must always be squeezed so your business model survives. Nobody says, “If you can’t afford coffee beans, just get the taxpayer to provide the beans.” Nobody says, “If you can’t afford electricity, tell the staff to sit in the dark and call it prosperity.” But when the unaffordable item is the person being doing the work, suddenly everyone is supposed to become very mature and economically literate about poverty pay. You also get VAT badly muddled. VAT-registered businesses can generally reclaim VAT on goods and services bought for business use, and the VAT registration threshold is turnover above £90,000. So this line about 20% VAT and inputs not being claimable is not the killer argument you think it is. The bigger point is simpler. Workers do not get to tell landlords, supermarkets, energy firms and train companies that their boss has “compounding costs” so everyone must please wait quietly while they are paid less than a living wage. The worker’s bills have compounded too. Their rent has gone up. Their food has gone up. Their energy has gone up. Their council tax has gone up. Their travel has gone up. Funny how “proper economics” always discovers pressure when it lands on the owner, but turns into a lecture on realism when it lands on the staff. The Green proposal is £15 an hour by April 2027. The real Living Wage is already £13.45 across the UK and £14.80 in London, calculated on what people need to live, not what a struggling employer would prefer to pay. And even before that, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that a single working-age adult on the National Living Wage was nearly £7,000 short of the gross income needed for a minimum acceptable standard of living in 2025. So spare us the sob story that £15 is some wild Bolshevik fantasy. It is much closer to the actual cost of surviving than poverty pay dressed up as realism. You say jobs will disappear. That is always the threat. Every time wages rise, the same people emerge to announce that civilisation will collapse because a cleaner, waiter, carer or barista might be able to pay a bill without choosing which meal to skip. Yet the Low Pay Commission’s latest judgement was that recent National Living Wage increases have not had a significant negative impact on employment. That does not mean every business has no pressure. Of course small businesses are under pressure. Business rates need reform. Energy costs are brutal. Rents are often obscene. Big chains can absorb shocks that small independents cannot. But none of that proves workers should be the shock absorber. It proves the economy has been built so badly that the smallest businesses and the lowest-paid workers are set against each other while landlords, energy firms, banks and large corporations walk away with the margin. Your welfare argument is even worse. Universal Credit is explicitly available to people who are working but on low incomes, and as earnings rise, Universal Credit is tapered down. That means low wages and public spending are already linked. The taxpayer is already helping cover the living costs that low-pay employers do not meet. So when you ask “where does the money come from?”, one answer is: from the business that uses the labour. That is not extremist. That is basic decency. Profit is not ugly. Profit made by selling a product people want, paying suppliers properly, paying workers enough to live, and still having something left over is perfectly defensible. Profit made by underpaying staff and then expecting the public to top them up through benefits is not heroic enterprise. It is a business model leaning on the state while pretending to despise the state. And this “read a book” routine is always funny from people whose entire economic theory seems to be: owners must be protected from hardship, workers must be exposed to it, and taxpayers must quietly make up the difference while being lectured about socialism. A liveable wage is not a luxury add-on. It is the price of employing a human being. If a business cannot pay rent, it cannot use the building. If it cannot pay suppliers, it cannot use the stock. If it cannot pay energy bills, it cannot keep the lights on. And if it cannot pay workers enough to live, it should not expect applause for creating jobs that keep people poor.

@abandonedgloves @Hellfyre777 @anon_opin I'll take the big single over a v-twin.

@Hellfyre777 @anon_opin 1000cc v-twin but yes basically

The bicycle is probably the most perfect machine ever devised. It's simple, efficient and almost anyone can ride and understand it. The last thing it needs is a heavy battery and a load of complex electronics shoved into it

@ExposedGreens Are you conflating jews and Israel?

🚨WOW: Meet Philip Notley, the Green Party candidate for St Nicholas in Stevenage. Two Jews were stabbed in London yesterday, and this morning Philip was on the doorstep telling voters that Israel shouldn’t exist. More “respect and tolerance” from the party that never stops lecturing everyone else about it. Will you suspended this vile disgusting man @ZackPolanski?

@TheNewsAgents Some people vote the wrong way because they're idiots. Too many vote the wrong way because they're bullied and threatened.

"No one votes the wrong way because they've had a pint... It'd be amazing to meet an MP who didn't smell of alcohol back in the day" Green MP Hannah Spencer has sparked debate after criticising MPs drinking inside Parliament – so, should it be banned? thenewsagents.co.uk/article/should…

@bryan_onymous @anon_opin What are you building that's 7m tall?

@anon_opin 3 microns times 8,000 pieces adds up

Lego is overpriced. I can buy almost identical stuff from China for around a quarter of the price. I really doubt those extra microns of accuracy that Lego has is really worth the four-fold price increase.

@Answerguesser40 @anon_opin A lot of Lego sets still have stickers. A lot of compatible brands have printed parts.

@anon_opin It's not. I've got loads of AliExpress bricks and they're largely indistinguishable, except for the janky stickers.

@israelseen @NYCMayor Twat alert.

@NYCMayor Once again, this anti-Semite, Jew hater lies about Israel's right to intercept these rogue boats heading toward Gaza for political purposes only.

Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers. My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers. This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.

@kes2379 @SophiePrestonHa I think you could benefit from an English teacher.

@SophiePrestonHa That Teachers needs sacking. There to teach .....fostering holistic development, delivering national curriculum subjects (English, maths, science), and adapting to individual learner needs. NOT,to be indoctrinated in their leftist ideologies hope your going to chase this up!!!

Out campaigning in Hockley today with the Reform lorry, and something deeply concerning happened on Buckingham Road. A teacher standing with a group of school children actively encouraged them to boo and give thumbs down to our vehicle. Whatever your political views, children should not be used to push political bias or be influenced in this way by those in positions of trust. Our schools should be places of education, critical thinking, and respect — not political indoctrination. Quite frankly, this sort of behaviour is deeply inappropriate and raises serious questions about neutrality within our education system. Parents deserve to know what is happening, and children should be allowed to form their own opinions free from political influence. #Hockley #Education #PoliticalNeutrality #ParentsMatter #ReformUK #Essex #LocalElections

@WorldOfMarkyD @disclosetv Proud Zionist? Fuck off.

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia 🇮🇷 must banned as a terrorist organisation 🚫 AntiSemitism is an abhorrent evil, that needs to be treated with zero tolerance my thoughts are with UK’s Jewish community 😔 as a proud Zionist, I also reaffirm my support of Israel. (the state 🇮🇱 not Netanyahu’s Govt)

JUST IN - An "Iran-linked Islamist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI)" has claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack, as UK declares it a terrorist incident and Starmer calls an emergency COBRA meeting — Sky

@anon_opin You're conflating physical theft with real loses against IP theft with imaginary loses.

If you play AI-generated "music" or have AI "art" on the walls of your shop or cafe, it tells me that you're OK with stealing from creators and so I feel no moral compunction in shoplifting from you

@Tracking_Power Can you have a phone and laptop or only one? What if you have an Amazon Firestick or smart TV? They're computers. Can you let someone else delete your browsing history? No more than one social media account? Does that mean you have to choose between Facebook and Instagram?

Utterly crazy, outrageous, bizarre restrictions on Dr Rahmeh’s existence. All pursued by a Police force utterly colonised by the Zionist regime.

@LNSmithee @ECloskyWTSP @Ry_Bass If a ball hits you and bounces: Tough shit. You don't get to claim it.

😒 It’s not as cut-and-dry as TwiXter headline-skimmers are making it. The HR ball came straight to Weird Beard, and it hit him square in the chest, bouncing at the feet of the kids to his left. It doesn’t appear that he snatched it away from her possession, he just used his reach and size to grab the ball before she could. Nobody should be giving Weird Beard a hard time. 🙂‍↔️ Get a life. It’s baseball. Them’s the breaks. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. I was in my mid-30s before I caught my first ball at an MLB stadium. And as the patch the Candlestick Park usher gave me said, “I GOT IT.” 👇🏾Nobody handed it to me. And I sure as hell wasn’t handing it to a pouty kid—as a boy, I hadn’t acted entitled to balls other fans snagged. Kids have got a lot of time and a lot of games to see to get that lucky. That was MY time. 😤 #SFGiants

After a grown man wrestles a HR ball away from a little girl, @Ry_Bass is there to make the situation right. 🫡 to my guy.

@FLOTUS You married the political sickness in America.

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

@K9Reggie @RMTunion Why are MPs more deserving than doctors? It's not like you need any qualifications to become one.

So, the @RMTunion want an above inflation pay rise? Why are they more deserving than life saving Doctors? anyone can drive a train, after all, it’s automatic, if you fall asleep the train stops or if you fall asleep as an overworked Doctor, someone may die… Simples

@LeeAndersonMP_ Dear Lee Fuck off

Just throwing this one out there as I was asked this question earlier today. A couple both working with a combined income of £50,000 would pay £11,500 a year in income tax and national insurance, Another couple receiving £50,000 in benefits including Universal Credit, Personal Independent Payment, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Child Benefit would pay no income tax or national insurance, keeping the full £50,000. Should the non-working couple on £50,000 a year pay the same amount of income tax and national insurance as the working couple? Please leave a comment below.

@jdpoc I got fined for driving in a bus lane. Late at night, pissing down with rain, poor road markings in a strange town. And I wouldn't piss on a reform voter if they were on fire.

Man who was guilty of a Road Traffic Offence of driving through a bus lane, loudly complains that he is being ‘politically punished’.

@RafHM All those words, just to say you're a twat.

The puritanism of the Greens. Infused with as much zealotry as the killjoy Roundheads Is this odious woman trying to curry favour with her Islamist overlords? Enjoying booze is the cultural prerogative of every Briton - including Parliamentarians. That's why pubs near Parliament have division bells. Long may it continue. Cheers! 🍺🍹🍸🍷🥂🍾

@Mark___Taylor I agree with your point, but please think about the words you use.

The FBI is so desperate to make it seem like Jews are in danger they had to manipulate a literal retarded girl to come up with one single case.