Cassandra

We need a solution for social care. What we don't need is a replication of the NHS to deliver for social care. We know enough about the failings of the NHS to be clear it should never be repeated. Whatever solution we choose, it can't and mustn't be that.

The lack of understanding in basic economics with these people blows my mind. Saving a landlord £6k a year is not going to save a pub / club. Inflationary pressures and regularity costs are what is killing business: 1. People have less money to go out 2. Input prices are up 3. Customers can’t absorb them 4. Energy costs are up 5. Minimum wage is up 6. Regulatory costs are up If you want to help pubs / clubs you can help everyone at the same time, but you require economic policies that aren’t retarded. You have to just get the fuck out of the way of entrepreneurs and end the managerial state. Yes, there will be some cry babies saying life isn’t fair, but they’re still saying life isn’t fair despite all this. Fucking socialists, the dumbest fucks in the room.

@WasAcop @GaryLineker He can fuck off.

🚨Gary Lineker leads 120 millionaires urging a wealth tax from PM Burnham and claims the rich want to pay more.. Yet he challenged HMRC over a reported £4.9 million additional tax bill on his BBC and BT Sport earnings. If happy to pay more, why challenge HMRC? @GaryLineker gbnews.com/sport/football…

@Telegraph @jfwduffield

Britain’s scorching heatwaves are being driven by cleaner skies after pollution was stripped from the atmosphere, new research suggests. Spanish researchers and the Met Office have concluded that most of the extra heat experienced in Britain and Europe is linked to the fall in particle emissions in recent decades ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/2…

When you work you pay up to 40% Income Tax on every single pound you earn. Then you pay 20% VAT on almost everything you buy with that taxed income. You finally pay off your mortgage, having paid thousands in interest and stamp duty along the way. When you pass the government swoops in to slap a 40% Inheritance Tax on your Estate. Now they are tightening the rules on gifting & family farms. Your life’s work gets swallowed up by the state treasury - a huge scam.

@Michael57788258 @Hansford4Peter @jhansonradio But buses are cheap and why not a second hand push bike?

@Hansford4Peter @jhansonradio What? An electric bike that will get the lodger to work each day and save them a lot of money over a car/bus/train so they can then have enough money to pay the rent? I think that's sound planning and money management!

The problem with the entire cost of living debate is successive governments keep trying to fix the symptoms, not the cause. Capping bus fares here, removing VAT from energy bills there, etc. Those measures help at the margins but don't address the fundamental issue: lack of economic growth. Until a government is able to achieve sustained increases in productivity (which means rewarding work and encouraging investment - neither of which we're doing), the underlying problem won't go away.

@LeftFForward @jhansonradio 🤡

@jhansonradio Surface level analysis. High energy and food costs are often due to external factors and therefore growth will have limited impact on those stressors. Likewise, if we just go for growth using the traditional model, most of the gains will go to already rich asset holders

@Kopites_1892_ @Artemisfornow That’ll be coming soon.

@Artemisfornow Would you say the same thing if he upped it by the same amount? "Ah it's only £3 a day so why does it matter?"

King Andy’s 6.30am announcement day 3. Don’t get too excited… 20% of business rates for the average pub is £1000 a year…. Meaning they will save £3 per day and bring back er… “hope” apparently 🤡

@MercerCait It’s getting laughably pathetic now isn’t it, someone should really tell him.

Next April? 2 Pubs closing a day.

@liambyrnemp You don’t really think this do you? Clown.

A £2 bus fare will help every family in Hodge Hill and Solihull North get around – to get to work, to college, to wherever they need to be.

Shares in the pub chain fell by as much as 9pc in the wake of Wednesday’s update, as Sir Tim Martin, the chairman, admitted that performance was “likely to be below market expectations”. Sir Tim Martin has urged Andy Burnham to slash VAT for pubs and cut business rates 👇 telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@DCBMEP Agreed. For a lot of young people especially it is their only source of social life.

Wetherspoons is a key community service. It provides reasonably priced food and drink that allow people to get out and socialise. Now it is being crucified by high taxes.

@cookhamcockapoo @cheesedoff3 @andyburnham I live in a small city and the bus service is crap. Outside London and maybe Manchester most are. £2 fares will not improve the service.

@cheesedoff3 @andyburnham The trouble is those who bang on about using public transport are often people who live in cities and towns. Where there are regular bus services, trams and maybe underground.trains they do not understand rural living or travelling beyond the few miles across a city.

Just for the record @andyburnham - £2 bus fare isn't a shit of good if, like me, you need to go to work every day, and the bus comes through the village on a Friday at 9.30am

@christopherhope @TheAccountantUK @EdwardGarnier Why? Sexist shit, women do bad things too.

An interesting idea on how to stop dangerous offenders being released under the early release scheme in September from former Conservative minister @EdwardGarnier a few weeks ago in the House of Lords: "There are 3,650 women in prison in England and Wales. There are 12 women’s prisons and, as it happens, all 12 of them are in England. Of that 3,650, 2,500—that is about 70% of the women’s prison population—are in custody for non-violent offences. "Why do the Government not release them, or at least some of them, and redesignate some of the women’s prisons to house the rapists and child molesters that seem to be about to be released?"

@NoSecretLessons @GuidoFawkes

@GuidoFawkes So, nothing to do with politicians being murdered with a hammer then… it’s just the parrot jokes that are the problem is it?

Stella Creasy claims she is worried about “our democracy and public life” after claiming one of 50,000 feral parakeets in London was a lost pet parrot.

Absolutely brilliant from @NickFerrariLBC

@GayTory This is madness.

We’ve created a society of dependency and lazy twats. If I lost everything tomorrow I’d be in some form of work by the end of next week. That’s just what people used to do, not scrounge.

@GayTory @HeadWarriorTWM Me neither.

@HeadWarriorTWM It’s what was expected. I don’t understand how we’ve lost that expectation.

@stellacreasy But you are stupid.

You are someone who draws self worth from being rude to strangers. I’ll wager if we look up stupid in the dictionary it won’t be me listed ….🤷‍♀️