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@Mikeggibbs If she could just sink into obscurity most won't miss her , but I dont want to have to pay for her upkeep, other than the usual retirement pension of £241 a week.

This weekend King Charles is floating a trial balloon to gauge public support on Camilla's role in a Post-Charles monarchy. The King has made his preference clear: that Camilla be granted the same respect as past "un-throned" widowed Queens. Queen Mary remained "Queen Mary". Queen Elizabeth became "The Queen Mother" maintaining a public charity role. They were still Queens while not *the* Queen. My two cents as a Canadian subject of the King: I wholeheartedly, 1000% support Queen Camilla maintaining a public role, including keeping "Queen" as part of her title, like past Queens after their King died. Unlike past Queens, Queen Camilla has had to constantly prove herself worthy. She has done so while suffering indignities no one else had to, like begging for God's forgiveness for adultery during her wedding in front of the entire world. That should have been the end of it. On the throne she has proven to be one of the best and hardest working public servants we've ever known, as witnessed recently in Canada. Here's to Queen Camilla, now and always. God Save Our King and Queen!

@ramthelinefeed @joncstone @ItsNotPiss Thatcher to blame when she deregulated the buses. Another Tory win.

@joncstone @ItsNotPiss Yeah but it original had an integrated timetables with the local bus services, but that was dismantled in the 1980s, I gather.

the Tyne and Wear Metro is so good and it's completely ridiculous that every big city in the UK doesn't have its own version

@helenstaniland They really hate women dont they.

In Cardiff at the #OneYearLater event. Women are discussing their needs for single sex spaces whilst a man in a dress is shouting 'have you ever seen a TERF with any style' through a loudhailer. The difference in the seriousness of the message is extremely stark.

It’s actually wild that Nigel Farage thought nobody would notice that the couple who won his energy bills prize draw were actually his friends.

Have I got it right that a man who wants to be the British Prime Minister organised a raffle for a year of free energy and turned up on a doorstep with flowers to hand the prize money to some people who support his party and who have met him several times? Is this all a dream?

@BladeoftheS She also said there is no such thing as society. Vile evil woman

Margaret Thatcher died 13 years ago today. Everything broken in Britain comes from Thatcher. Filthy rivers. Ripoff electricity. Landlords. Trillions in Oil/gas stolen. No Social Housing. All Thatcher's poison.

Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?

@Te_Sho @ZandiSussex Dear God, how vile, what warped minds would think this up. They need help.

@ZandiSussex Here are more: the one about Archie and Lily🥹🥹🥹.

This is one of the worst hate accounts … a William and Kate fan who makes a living off dehumanising Meghan and her children. She also colludes with the Royal Rota to drive the anti-Sussex hate campaign.

@Tinebobagain I was a civil servant for 24 years. My wages were deliberately kept lower than the equivalent private sector because I was entitled to a pension.

Why are none of the people screaming about the state pension, mentioning the public sector pensions? Massive amounts of money, and these people get two dips in the public purse. Why aren’t they being mentioned?

@TinaBit @ennui365 Apart from that she thinks men can become women. Deluded.

@ennui365 Sandi Toksvig is a wealth of knowledge and humor. She also had a project during covid (possibly ongoing) to update, expand entries on women in Wikipedia. She's worth getting to know.

@TheGriftReport Is that Lorraine Kelly, or Lorraine Kelly the actor playing the part of Lorraine Kelly for tax purposes?

@Farha0__ Thats the parents job before the child gets to school

@ruth_wishart Privatisation once again benefits the consumer. Paying over the odds for an inferior service.

Does nobody at Royal Mail see the rather obvious connection between very expensive stamps and less stuff being posted?

@Evilgenius222 @ruth_wishart Likewise. I live 3 miles from the sorting office, get post once a week.

@ruth_wishart We now only seem to get one delivery a week & all the post must get saved up at the sorting office so it all comes at once. And don’t think it’s cos we’re in the middle of nowhere….we only live 25 miles from the centre of London!

@OliverJBradshaw Perhaps instead of fighting amongst ourselves we should be asking where has all the money gone. Successive governments have funnelled money from the lowest paid to the richest with a regressive tax system, perks for croneys and businesses avoiding paying their share.

This weekend, boomers have been calling my generation entitled, ungrateful, and straight up lazy for questioning the state pension triple lock. Apart from a barrage of playground insults, the same old arguments kept coming: “We paid in our time,” “It’s your turn now,” “Just move somewhere cheaper,” “16% of you lot are out of work,” and “Stop buying coffee and going out.” Here’s the nasty truth they conveniently ignore. You talk about a fair “pay-it-forward” deal. But back when you worked, there were roughly five workers per pensioner. Today it’s 3.6. By the time we retire, it’ll be closer to 2.5. You had far more people sharing the load. That contract got stretched thin on our backs. You say you worked harder, faced 15% mortgages, had no luxuries, and Uni was basically free. Interest rates were brutal, sure. But you bought houses for 3-4 times your wages. Ours cost 8-10 times or more. Over-60s now hold 55% of the country’s entire housing wealth, nearly £3.84 trillion, mostly mortgage-free. Many of you enjoyed full mortgage interest tax relief (MIRAS) until 2000. We pay sky-high rents with zero tax relief while real wages have barely grown against inflation for 15 years. My generation was sold a lie, study hard, get the degree, land the good job, buy the house, pay your National Insurance, and the system will look after you. I know friends and colleagues who followed that script to the letter, straight-A students, graduate schemes, full time work from day one. Now in their late twenties, they’re still renting, saddled with £50k+ in loans, watching every spare pound vanish into rent and bills, while being called “entitled” for noticing the numbers don’t add up. “Just buy a house somewhere cheaper!” Sure, in towns where property is dirt cheap and jobs are non existent. Good careers don’t magically appear out of thin air. That advice is pure fantasy. “Just cut back on coffee and nights out”? As if skipping a £4 latte can magically fund a house deposit when homes cost 8-10 times our wages. Our money has far less purchasing power than yours ever did. We spend nearly 30% of our income on housing (up from 20% twenty years ago), and under-30s households devote 70% of their budget to essentials versus just 56% for over-65s. We’re not splashing on luxuries, we don’t want to live like hermits just to scrape by, and nor should we have to. You throw out the 16% youth unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds and call us bone idle. That’s not laziness, it’s a brutal job market. Job vacancies have tanked. We’re stuck in retail and hospitality roles that get cut first when times are tough, five times more likely to be on zero-hours contracts. Nearly a million of us (12.8%) are NEET simply because the jobs don't exist. Many of us are already paying National Insurance from the first insecure job we have, yet we’re still expected to bankroll your guaranteed above inflation rises. Work in Britain no long pays. The state pension already costs £138 billion a year, the second biggest single expense after the NHS. The triple lock alone will add £15.5 billion extra every year by 2030, three times the original forecast. Pension spending is heading from ~5% of GDP toward 7.7% in the coming decades, with more than half the extra burden coming directly from the triple lock itself. Waste exists elsewhere and public-sector pensions are far too generous, but this locked in, exploding cost is the elephant in the room, and they all need reviewing. I’m not pitting generations against each other or begrudging anyone a dignified retirement. But the system you defend hands one generation guaranteed rises no matter what the economy does, while the shrinking number of us paying the bill gets saddled with a heavier and heavier bag. I’m not against pensioners. I’m against a policy that’s mathematically doomed and dumps the heaviest load on fewer and fewer contributors. The truly entitled position is demanding a blank cheque forever while slapping down facts as “division” or “whining” or pretending our small treats are the problem. So go ahead, tell me exactly where I’m wrong. But this time skip the playground insults calling me and my generation entitled and lazy. I’m done being polite about a system that screws my generation while you demand a blank cheque.

@David__Osland What jobs can an 80 yr old do? What employers will tale them on. Most 80 year olds have health issues. Shes clueless.

Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to 80. Life expectancy for British men is 79.

@ukJ0N David Cameron claimed DLA for his disabled son. £25 billion in unclaimed benefits last year. Pip is not an out of work benefit or means tested. No disability? lucky you.

This will make your blood boil. James from Newcastle earns £200,000 per year with a disability, he applied to see if he qualifies for full PIP, and he does. Welfare Britain has gone mad. The system desperately needs complete reform and only Reform UK has the courage to sort it out once and for all. @talktv

@Akir_a997 No. There's a reason many 1950s housewives turned to drink and drugs through depression loneliness and boredom.

GIRL TO GIRL… be honest… If you could live on a little land, raise babies, bake bread, and love your man… would that be enough?

@Edwina_Currie Women weren't allowed to open a bank account , get credit or have a mortgage without a male guarantor until after the Equality Act. They were expected to stay at home, or do part time low paid jobs.

Many old women did not work when their children were young ..the first year over 50% of mothers were working was 1975, and most were part time. So, no company pensions, and not enough to save. You’ve no idea, have you..?

@2147mill So you just let the poor die if they have no emergency savings. Uc limit is £6k. How much treatment will that buy you?

Controversial opinion: The UK should have no NHS. We should take responsibly for our own health, our own emergency savings and not be so reliant on the state.