
Ian Moss
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Ian Moss
@coty042
Beer fan. Never knowingly drinking monolithic piss.


In the new Eye, out today: an 8-page special by @rbrooks45 on the tens of millions trousered from the pandemic, the blind eye turned by government to blatant rip-offs, and the ruses used to try to keep it all secret. Do not miss it! In all good newsagents and supermarkets now.





My everyday personal story of the modern UK and its third world bureaucracy: I became eligible for my Old Age Pension in October - the lowest in the developed world at £220 per week. I had to make my claim online, through the Government Gateway. After going through this complicated procedure, the system told me there was a problem with my application and I had to phone. On about my tenth phone call in three days I finally got through to a helpful lady. After going through numerous details, she told me that the problem was that I was giving the wrong date of birth. I told her I knew my birthday and had for a great many decades. It is on my passport and on my birth certificate. She said it is not the date of birth she had on my record. A couple of weeks later I received a letter saying I must send my birth certificate. Unfortunately, having looked after it for 66 years, last year it vanished in the Passport Office when I had to renew my passport after it was stolen at Zurich railway station. So I had to apply for a duplicate birth certificate. This eventually arrived, and I sent it to the address specified in the pensions letter. Three weeks later I received a response saying that my birth certificate had arrived too late and my application has been closed. I must make a new online application through the Government Gateway. That new application has now been rejected for an inaccurate date of birth...


Thames Water refinancing scam. Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan. Company already has £19.5bn debt, another £3bn added, customer bills will rocket we ven more OFWAT doesn't protect people. End profiteering. Nationalise water archive.ph/9rIel





Has Lee Anderson been arrested for what appeared to be an assault on a voter this morning? Or is this more of the two-tier justice that kept Nigel's nephew out of prison and off the sex offenders register?

Highly paid FT editors advise UK govt to cut welfare spending; hurt the disabled, sick. poor, old. Silence on redistribution of wealth; higher wages, reducing corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich It is class war. archive.ph/eJcv3 ft.com/content/cd3624…



