Roy Bard

@jjack_95 @Frankie_1643 @eneribehave Many on Universal Credit get Local Housing Allowance, which is "help with rent". Those on standard Universal Credit get nowhere near the so-called living wage., as the monthly rates below show:

@Frankie_1643 @eneribehave Minimum wage on 40hrs per week is £25,396/year. Pension credit is only given to those who earn less than £227/week and those who are over state pension age. You don’t get help with rent if you’re on UC. Stop spouting shite online when you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Those on Benefits should never be receiving more than a person receiving the Minimum Wage for working 40 hours a week! Who agrees?

@otokyo__ @Matt_Pinner you got me on the mimeograph - but I think we called them Bandas in South Africa.

@Matt_Pinner 20 for me. I guess I am older than I thought... (for bonus points, we could have added: 21. Watched a Black and White Television 22. Used a slide rule 23. Read articles from Microfiche 24. Took tests created with a mimeograph

7 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?🤔

@Matt_Pinner I have definitely done all 20 - I'm sure I know plenty of people who have as well

"Her actions were pretty tough" - Trump on Renee Good ...... youtube.com/watch?v=JMtipQ…

@SootySec @KEdge23 Not one billionaire will have to consume less, whether or not Kevin misses out on a latte ........

@KEdge23 Does anyone else feel sad that Kevin will have to go without one additional Latte so kids don't go hungry? No, not me either.

Does anybody else feel cheated that they’re going to have to pay higher taxes and the income thresholds will be frozen for longer, all so Labour can scrap the two-child benefit cap and give more handouts to those who don’t want to work? It’s disgusting and unfair to workers.

@KsXotici8508 @BenjscottScott @RupertLowe10 The Royal family receives approx £1.29 taxpayer money per head of population,( based on a population of 68 million) according to grok

@BenjscottScott @RupertLowe10 "Which one am I referring, asylum seekers or the royal family?" Assylum seekers. We don't pay for the Royal family.

How to cut the welfare budget? Number one. Ban foreigners from claiming benefits. Number two? If you can work, you must work. If a healthy individual has repeatedly refused a job, then they should be put to work. Don't give them benefits, give them work. If they want their cash? They can litter pick. Clean up graffiti. Anything. Run council programmes to organise it. Get people working for their benefit money rather than sitting around all day doing sod all. It's fair to give people a reasonable amount of time to find a job they want to do. But if after months, they keep turning down work? Then no, that's not on. A life on benefits for a healthy individual must NEVER be an option. If they want to live on taxpayer money, then I say they can work for it.

@Th_Angelopoulos @RupertLowe10 "Most would not cope with lifting, continence care, dementia behaviours, medical routines, or end-of-life support." How many shifts would @RupertLowe10 manage?

lol You little political grifter, every part of your argument collapses the moment it meets the actual and factual reality of adult social care. First, the sector has over 100,000 vacancies. That isn’t because managers love “cheap foreign labour.” It’s because the jobs are built on low pay, zero-hours contracts, unpaid travel time, huge physical and emotions strain, and constant burnout. That’s why providers recruit internationally. They can’t fill shifts otherwise. The work is hard, and the conditions are poor. End of story. Your “solution” is to push people on benefits into one of the most physically and emotionally demanding jobs in the country. That’s not a workforce policy. It’s nonsense. Most would not cope with lifting, continence care, dementia behaviours, medical routines, or end-of-life support. You would simply create faster churn and even more vacancies. Now your big point about “foreign staff who can’t communicate.” There are already systems for that. If a worker genuinely poses a communication risk, staff are required to report it to the regulators: @CareQualityComm, @SSSCnews, @SocialCareWales, or @RQIANews. If they don’t, they’re putting residents in danger. If they’re lying, that’s misconduct. So if you actually believe these complaints, pass them to the regulators instead of using them for political theatre. Now, tell us; just over 30% percent of the entire care workforce is migrant labour. One in three. You want to deport them. So, Rupert, answer the real question: What happens the day you remove a third of the workforce in a sector already 100,000 staff short? Who covers those shifts? Who lifts those residents? Who manages dementia care? Who provides personal care at 6am to people who cannot move or wash themselves? Because the mythical “millions on benefits” are not going to fill those roles. If they were willing or able to do that work under current conditions, they would already be doing it. This has nothing to do with nationality and everything to do with labour economics. You don’t fix vacancies by deporting a third of the workforce. You fix them by fixing the job. The real solution is straightforward: make adult social care primarily a public service, with stable pay, proper contracts, training, and oversight, and keep private providers only as the premium option for those who want it. That model reduces vacancies, raises standards, and protects residents. Just in 3 regions in the UK, the past 3 years, private firms extracted £250m: cles.org.uk/publications/e… . If social care provision was nationalised that man would have stayed with the local authorities to bring the costs down or improve conditions or hire more staff. Your entire argument falls apart the moment you look at how the sector actually works. Once again: the system survives because of migrant workers. Remove them, and the sector collapses. You don't want immigrant care workers? Improve conditions. It's one or the other, and you clearly want to keep the same bad conditions, that will only get worse with your moronic deportation fixation, and force natives in jobs with poverty wages and even worse conditions.

Care homes. Same issue as the NHS. Too many foreign staff who can't speak proper English and aren't up to the job. Cheap labour. Easy visas. Disaster for Brits. Unfair and cruel on elderly residents who have severe problems understanding and hearing difficulties. Putting a foreign man in charge of their care with broken English and a very heavy accent is not right. How on earth are they supposed to understand what's going on with their medication or routine? I understand there are labour shortages, of course. What's the solution to that? The millions of healthy Brits who are currently sitting on benefits. If they want money, they can work for it. Slash the benefits bill, increase tax revenues and reduce immigration. The solution is so bloody obvious. Care home staff contact me with concerns about foreign colleagues who can barely string a sentence together. And elderly Brits are supposed to trust their care? It's not fair. Do we believe the qualification processes in some of these countries? Are the same people even taking the tests? I have my doubts. There is a flourishing criminal industry forging these documents - I am putting evidence together on this... Care home staff, and families, right across Britain have huge concerns - I will take them to Parliament.

@allyc375 @JamesEsses He speaks like MAGA and yet he claims:

As a psychotherapist, my opinion is that people should not be able to claim benefits for workplace anxiety. The treatment for anxiety is exposure, not avoidance. Allowing anxious people to avoid the very thing that causes anxiety traps them in a state of perpetual helplessness.

Watching @BBCnews and disgusted by party leaders decrying the #Maccabi ban as anti-semitic ..... thenational.scot/news/24721694.…

@cheekyniknowit @RupertLowe10 "Why can Jews not have their own state? Homeland?" Why can Palestinians not have their own state? Homeland?

@RupertLowe10 Chanting "zionism is a crime". Why? Why can Jews not have their own state? Homeland. I feel, even though its bombed constantly with bloody rockets, Israel is currently where I'd feel the safest!! Enough is enough. I'm sick of them all. People are in shock and mourning today

Not the day for a pro-Palestine protest outside Parliament.

@srebel24 @AndrewYearsley @unherd Not the billionaires, not austerity but the 4% of immigrants who enter by small boats ........

@AndrewYearsley @unherd 🤣🤣🤣that’s the biggest problem in the country 🤦‍♀️

It's long been assumed that national and international interests are naturally coextensive.

@Beth_MBGA @LeeAndersonMP_ "And ALL people wearing face coverings need stopping and searching ... innocent people dont need to hide." Perhaps you're too young to remember covid - or was that just for guilty people?

1. Carrying a knife in public is an intent to harm ... therefore, yes, they should carry the same sentence for GBH with intent. Min 5 years to life. 2. Stop and search works, it needs to be rampped up. And ALL people wearing face coverings need stopping and searching ... innocent people dont need to hide.

Knife Crime. I have secured my own debate in Westminster Hall on Knife Crime. The debate will take place on the 15th October. You can help by answering a couple of questions. 1. Should carrying a knife in public mean a mandatory jail sentence? 2. Should stop and search be increased? Any other comments are welcome. @reformparty_uk will ask all the right questions.

@PhilipDilley @johnmcdonnellMP @grok which UK right wing activists have called for civil war?

It really is not the far right though. What you find hard to accept is that most normal people are not enthusiastic socialists. They just want to live their lives without being controlled and interfered with by a massive state which tells them what they must think. That is the reality and I would respectfully suggest that you should consider that not everyone shares your own view of these matters and you should take this into consideration before trying to force your ideas on everyone. Is it possible that people might have their own ideas which do not coincide with yours, and that they have the right to do this?

Yesterday in London was a wake up call. Progressives in all our political parties,trade unions, religious bodies & civil society groups need urgently to start talking together about the campaign needed to tackle the rise of the far right & the organisational form that should take

@DeborahM1969G @johnmcdonnellMP so you're the same as anyone else on the right, however extreme?

@johnmcdonnellMP There is no such thing as far right we are just right.

@SueJonesSays @RomanRussy @johnnymaga The Utah governor refers to his room mate in this article. But it seems like we may have a wait before we know his real motivation or political leanings ....... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@RomanRussy @johnnymaga I'm basing that on the fact the Bureau announced his father brought him in after Robinson's confession to him.

The neighbor of Charlie Kirk’s assassin and his transitioning roommate spoke to the media today and confirmed it all: “I’ve never really seen anybody dressed all in black with a mask on.” “Random guys don’t hold hands and they definitely don’t kiss.”

In our millions, in our billions, we are all Palestinians .... youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10u…

@Public_Eye_XVA @allyc375 @DWPgovuk @tomhfh ie all those things you right wing ideologues keep cutting due to your arrogant belief that you know more than the people whose lives are directly affected by your bell curve beliefs.

@Public_Eye_XVA @allyc375 @DWPgovuk I think you're very wrong @tomhfh to think that work is healthy for all people with anxiety & depression or a number of other mental health conditions. There are other things that do help prepare, such as courses, day centres, campaigning & voluntary work which are more effective

Tom meet @allyc375 et al, and they will show you why you are wrong...not because they 'say so' but because they have shown to others including @DWPgovuk they tried very hard over a sustained period of years, and failed to hold down a job through no fault of their own🧐

“Israel doesn’t target civilians”

@BeresfordPeter 'affordable' is doublespeak and #Starmerites are masters of doublespeak, so an increasing number of people will have no homes, whilst members of another class will have more homes than they can possibly live in ......

lets hope affordable is really affordable. this could be great news for housing