Logical Debate

@Mogwai32053 @RobertJenrick 🫣 my bad 🤣

@gaskell_da9138 @RobertJenrick I was being sarcastic because you know Reforms donors are landlords, don't you?

16,000 households get more than £60,000-a-year in benefits. It's got to stop. Reform is the party of workers, not welfare.

@Mogwai32053 @RobertJenrick Not really, It is just a form of public/social housing where the state or local council owns homes and rents them to people, usually at below-market or regulated rents. The Private market would still exist, healthily, but not at the expense of tax payers

@gaskell_da9138 @RobertJenrick Too much like communism.

@ClaireCoutinho The sad thing about this, it has tarred disabled people as benefit scroungers. Genuine ailments that cause huge restrictions to living an independent life, are now being branded as a scam.. I support helping the vulnerable in society, even if it means inequality of financial need

People can now get the equivalent of a £71,000 salary on benefits. Working people on £30,000 or £40,000 are asking themselves, why do I bother working so hard? This is not sustainable.

@texasrunnerDFW @BarbellFi UK, if you need care in old age you get put in to a care home or have at home care (social services can enforce) they then charge your estate approx £4k per person a month until you die. They allow a personal savings of 12k. My grandparents were charged £8k a month over 5yrs

@BarbellFi I feel like there are many people like this (not as extreme as this example perhaps) but people who don’t prepare much for the future or worry about money and figure everything will work out in the end And for these types of people, it somehow nearly always does 😂

Have a buddy who is 42 years old Spends 100% of his income Literally has $0 saved or invested When I asked him about his plan This is what he told me…. His parents own a $2 million house When they die he’s selling the house And that’s his retirement fund 😳

@sherlock_comms @McNolf @aswren

@McNolf @aswren Well yeah. Fact is that taking home £3k a month gets you a lot here, if you're not getting fucked by rent.

UK salary discourse is a guy on £40k a year calling someone on £60k a year the rich elite

@ElectionNight5 @wessiedutoit Tbf he has done a good job as Manchester mayor, but stepping up to PM is akin to going from running one regional branch to suddenly being CEO of the entire company. Same world, very different game...

@wessiedutoit And no one outside of Manchester knows anything about him. And Starmer is unpopular because of the cost of living. Maybe Burnham has a magic bullet. Hope he does.

People are building up Burnham so much that they're already paving the way for another crisis when he inevitably falls short of expectations. So much of the aura is based on speculative polling that claims to prove his popularity, but he hasn't made a single decision yet!

@CraigSpillard In this example, the landlord is not being “robbed” by tax. The landlord has bought an asset with too much debt and is relying on the tenant to cover both the investment risk and the tax friction. The issue is that an over-leveraged landlord has entered the market

Landlord charges £12,000 rent a year and is charged £6,000 per year on the mortgage interest. Of that £6,000 profit the government gets £4,536 the landlord gets £1,464 Of that £1,464 landlord has to cover repair costs, etc Is it the landlord or the government inflating rents?

@layxsnv In The UK it would be mainly C that is written and likely accepted on a school grammar test. We tend not to use the Oxford comma as seen in B.

Okay, where are the English scholars, which one?

@MarmoushEra Only spiderman

Sincerely which of them would you like to bring back?

@SandyofSuffolk I'm assuming that the resteraunt gets the meat wholesale and can charge at a small profit because they upset with chips and drinks etc once they have footfall. Butcher has to pay his bills on just the meat he sells and presumably would have less footfall then a resteraunt.

Why is everything so expensive in this country? Just been into my local village butchers and bought 4 lamb chops. £14. That's double what they are in Aldi but they're twice the size of Aldi's so that's ok. But in my favourite restaurant in Los Gigantes, Tenerife, you can get 6 lamb chops, chips, salad and a carafe of wine for 13 euros. And they import the lamb from New Zealand too. Is it just because our energy costs, business rates and employment costs are so high or is there a lot of greedy profiteering going on here in the UK?