@emmybooth My water bill has doubled in two years for the same usage. If someone had told me 20 years ago I’d be paying £75 a month for water I’d have laughed at them. Not funny now :(
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I am so fed up with bills I can’t justify and nor should they 2 years ago £30 a month for my water last year £65 and one year later a 25% increase now £81 a month????! I feel like refusing until wages go up by
25% too - council tax nearly £300 a month this is fucking insane
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@UKLabour You did change it - you made just about everything worse. But it’s okay the economy, law and order, cost of living, tax burden, business confidence, business rates are all fucked because you introduced free school dinners. Great work .
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Labour was elected to change this country.
That is what the public want, and what they deserve.
Tough days like today don’t weaken our determination to deliver that change. They strengthen it.
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@Glinner @CamillaTominey As usual Gary shows an embarrassing degree of understanding when exposed to actual facts. He’s only good for peddling irrelevant fake economics based on an ill founded ideology that would ultimately make us all poorer.
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What happens when a vibes economist meets the real thing.
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@TobiasByfield Why is it perceived as a threat when Green voters are encouraging asylum seekers? Surely it’s a positive for them to have the people they want in the UK in their area - anything less would be hypocritical wouldn’t it?
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This is actually unbelievable. Here, Zia Yusuf (Reform's 'Shadow Home Secretary') is effectively *threatening* voters by saying they will place migrant detention centres in their constituencies if they don't vote in a Reform MP or a Reform Council.
This is absolutely disgusting.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
Important new Reform policy:
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@darrenpjones Wealth is created, transferred, or taken. Inheritance is transferred effort. Investment returns are delayed or risked effort. Truly unearned wealth is what you gain without contributing—fraud, theft, coercion, or pure windfalls like lottery wins so, politely, ur talking bollocks
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What is it that the Conservatives and Reform don’t like about a Labour government standing against unearned wealth?
What is it they don't like about raising money for our state schools, our hospitals, our police, and to lift children out of poverty?
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@UKLabour Do Labour know no shame? Like anyone cares while you’re dragging the reputation of the country into the gutter.
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NEW: Fresh questions for the deputy leader of Reform after investigation reveals he failed to pay almost £100,000 in tax, benefitting his investment firm…
…which then gave big donations to Reform UK.
This isn’t going away.
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@maggiejet @stuey_beef No offense taken. The upshot is : check with your pension provider they’ll accept nomination to a charity (else change to one who will). I have enough to leave so out of principal would rather a charity received 100% of my pension than my heirs potentially lose 80% in tax…
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@GoingBackward @stuey_beef Needed to say it twice 🤣that’s what I said (re trustees). I accept I don’t know much about SIPPS.
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You go to work for 40 years (I'm currently at 42).
You’re forced into auto‑enrolment. You play by the rules, you save into a pension on the promise it’s yours.
Then Labour strolls in, waves through a law that lets ministers tell your scheme where to gamble those savings – not for your benefit, but to prop up their economic “strategy” and vanity infrastructure schemes that the market won’t fund.
This isn’t prudence. It isn’t “modernisation”. It is a straightforward transfer of control from the saver to the state.
Hands off our pensions. Share this before they pretend nobody noticed.
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@PreetKGillMP Mandelson was high profile. Are we seriously to believe that the guy reporting into David Lammy didn’t bother to tell his boss about a failed vetting and decided to go it alone all of a sudden after years in the job? It makes no sense because it didn’t happen
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I do not accept the claim that Keir Starmer is a liar. He is not. I have known him to be serious, measured, and guided by a strong sense of public duty.
We must challenge one another robustly on policy, but do it in a way that strengthens public confidence not erode it
Liz Truss@trussliz
I hope the media is beginning to get it. The British system is dysfunctional. The bureaucrats are in charge and withhold information all the time. I have no sympathy for Starmer - he is an inveterate liar and he and his mates Blair and Brown created the unaccountable albatross we have today.
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@hwallop @KirstieMAllsopp The irony is hilarious - take a 10 second pan of a bunch of white people and proclaim “nothing to see here”
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London. A hotbed of crime, terrorism, Sharia Law and murders. Awful city. Terrible.
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@maggiejet @stuey_beef Again, incorrect. This is only the case for some older pensions. Most modern schemes and especially SIPPs allow nomination of a charity although it is ultimately decision of the trustees.
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@GoingBackward @stuey_beef A Will can’t control your pension in any way. There are defined inheritance rules for pension funds. The scheme Trustees will decide. You can complete a nomination form to provide your preferences but it cannot go to a charity.
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@BruceLeroyRVA @RachelReevesMP Bit unfair- it’s actually the whole of Europe :)
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In D.C. I have been working with partners to support safe passage for energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, to protect households and businesses from rising costs.
It is good news that it has been reopened, now we must see a permanent ceasefire and stability returned.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened. This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes. Today we announced our joint plan with France and other international partners to protect freedom of navigation. We need to see a return to peace and stability, and a permanent ceasefire.
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@RachelReevesMP Is this economic vandal seriously taking some credit for anything that has led to the reopening of Hormuz? The UK contribution is about as relevant as a fart in a tornado.
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@JohnCrookes7 I’m not. I happen to think it’s fundamentally important to know if our leader is a liar or not and whether he’s the type of person willing to sacrifice those around him to save his own skin. World events and personal integrity are not mutually exclusive.
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I think most people are now tired of the witch-hunt of our PM over the Mandleson affair which by comparison with other current world events is of no great consequence. They want him out because of his ongoing success in turning the country around after years of Tory corruption.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho Toothless, flaccid and gormless spring to mind. Two failures meeting to convince themselves they’ve any relevance whatsoever.
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🚨🇬🇧🇫🇷 Deep State WEF Degenerate Shills Keir Starmer meets Emmanuel Macron in Paris - to discuss how they can reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Both leaders are completely irrelevant and this is just all for show.
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@eurofounder You do realise that less money earned equals less tax collected? And that in countries like the UK 1 % of earner pay 30%!of the total tax take?
And that under half of people actually earn more for the country than they cost? And the wealthy are mobile? Ideology over sanity again.
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Netherlands just announced a new 120% wealth tax
It will apply to the ultra-rich who earn above €150k per year
So if you make €200k, you pay €60k on the €50k above the threshold
Dutch officials explained it is to "discourage wealth hoarding behaviour"
So beautifuly said
Finally someone in Europe has the moral spine to put an end this selfish accumulation of wealth
No human being should make over €150k a year
It is a vulgar and borderline pornographic amount
I hope more EU countries will adopt this progressive legislation
This is why Europe is, and always will be, light years ahead of America
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@Katie_Lam_MP I’m guessing this is another abomination that wasn’t in their manifesto?
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This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested.
So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money.
Disgraceful.
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@Katie_Lam_MP Set up a SIPP (takes 5 mins) and transfer your pension out of the workplace scheme. It’s a simple form and takes minutes to complete. Just leave at least a pound in the workplace scheme. Do what you like with your SIPP
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@maggiejet @stuey_beef Incorrect. I can nominate a charity as my pensions beneficiary in my expression of wish and it doesn’t then form part of my estate. You are correct about the will, but this approach and a will makes it work
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@innogy @Conservatives I hate Britain, anyone who tells the truth and anyone who makes a positive economic contribution to the country. Okay, let’s vote Labour
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Keir Starmer has repeatedly tried to hide the truth about Peter Mandleson.
Enough is enough. It's time for him to go.
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