Helen Measures

Sadly true!

@BenedictSpence If pensioners are forced into selling their homes to provide for themselves in their retirement, there will be nothing left for young people to inherit.

So many stamp their feet about how more people should pull their weight in this country, and then turn absolutely foul when you suggest that should include them.

@Daytobehappy @DrAlexJoffe The remarks made by Prince William are from 7 years ago, when representing the country on a visit to a mosque in New Zealand that was the site of a mass shooting. It’s being reposted by people trying to undermine the Prince of Wales.

Prince William called Islam a religion of peace. My mother would love to disagree but her remains were in that building coming down!

£12,000 per annum to a British pensioner whose paid NI and tax for 45 years? Or £50,000 per annum to a family of Somalians who've never paid tax or NI. And never will? But 'refugees' welcome, eh? 🙄😡

@Samsoprano30 You an idiot

@JackWDart Well why would he apologise if he’s right? The term racist is becoming meaningless, but please explain why simple mathematics is supposedly racist.

Reform UK is running racist ‘Breaking Point’ posters in Scotland. Scotland’s First Minister has called them exactly that. Nigel Farage ran an almost identical poster in 2016. He never apologised. A decade on, nothing has changed. #ReformUK #Farage #Scotland

Yeah I suddenly walked into a TV presenting job with the click of a finger… I worked in Sainsbury’s, for EDF Energy, the water board, call centres, all from age 17, just to get money. I didn’t care what job I did, I just needed to support myself. I said yes to everything, trusting that I’d one day get there and everything would work itself out. I didn’t turn down jobs because it wasn’t my field or what I wanted or dreamed of right that minute or think I was above anything or anyone. I had no money. I never went to uni. I saved hard for a £5,000 journalism course, I then worked like a dog at local newspapers (still on minimum wage) and at a bookmaker at the same time doing 20 hour days for years just to keep grinding. I spent more hard years commuting to London and back, doing graveyard shifts at papers then waiting at Blackfriars station at 3 in the morning to get home to Sussex and start my other job at 9am. It nearly killed me. For years. 16 years it took me to get here. And you know what? I loved it all. I loved the journey, I loved the dark moments asking myself if it was all worth it. I loved the wins. I loved the hard lessons. And I love what I’m doing now. Yes I have the best job in the world (for me) and I’m incredibly grateful. And I’m still grinding. I’ve just done 14 days straight, travelling to Texas, Florida, then DC. Doing a three hour show every night. But I recognise how fortunate I am. I always have, even when I was stacking shelves. I didn’t just turn up at a studio and start presenting. Most importantly I never played the victim.

@JonathanBrash He doesn’t talk the country down, he tells the truth about the state of the country. It’s this disastrous government that is running the country into the ground, and telling everyone what’s happening is not being traitorous.

Talks us down with his bare faced lies at every turn. This man is a nasty little traitor. A puppet of foreign leaders.

@SandyofSuffolk @jfoster2019 Hear hear.

The trouble is young people have been told for years "you can be anything you want to be", when you can't. They've seen a handful of people make millions from being an influencer. They've all gone to university thinking it'll be a gateway to a better job when, really, if you're not exceptionally bright, you may as well not have bothered. The majority of people have to settle for run of the mill boring jobs. And young people are resentful. They're waking up to the fact life is hard graft and to get anything you have to work hard, long hours, and forego many things that, until adulthood, were handed to them on a plate. They're lashing out because too many people like teachers and their soft parents haven't prepared them for life in the real world. It's coming home to roost that life isn't all unicorns and gap years. They want what nan and grandad have. Now. Now!! They forget how nan and grandad got it and it wasn't by sitting on their bums on Playstation. Welcome to planet earth young 'uns.

Starmer didn’t remove the whip from convicted fraudster Tulip Siddiq or from Chinese spy Joani Reid, but he did remove it from Karl Turner because he disagreed with the removal of jury trials. Labour have sunk to new lows this week.

TV gold. “A failed German defence minister whose soldiers had to use broomsticks for guns. That’s the woman who is now President of the European Commission” Watch an incredulous Andrew Neil on Starmer’s new best mate Ursula von der Leyen.

@KEdge23 @Alfiesalegend That was back in the days when they’d Tories were conservative.

@Alfiesalegend Local elections don’t say anything. Tories would lose thousands of seats, then win the general election. Do keep up.

Reform falling. They’ll be gone in 3 years. The Conservatives are coming back.

@DominicFarrell Back in the olden days, they’d be sending for the men in white coats with the little yellow van.

@SandyofSuffolk @JaneLovesdogs3 👏👏👏👏

As it appears to be pensioner bashing weekend and pensioners seem to be the ones wholly responsible for the dire economic state of the country, I thought I'd apprise you all of some facts and figures. Between April 2024 and March 2025, the cost of keeping asylum seekers in hotels was £2.1 billion. In 2023, £15.3 billion was spent on foreign aid. As of August 2025, there were 740,000 people aged between 16 and 24 years old receiving Universal Credit. The benefits bill for people aged between 16 and 64 in 2024/25 was £123 billion. In this decade (2020s), our annual net zero transition costs are estimated to be £125 billion. UK quangos cost the taxpayers between £376 - 391 billion per year (2023/4 figures). MPs' expenses (not salaries) are in the region of £130 - 150 million a year. The UK has committed to give the European Space Agency £1.84 billion for the period 2022/27. Since 2022, the UK has committed to give Ukraine £21.8 billion. The UK continues to give money to the EU under the Brexit divorce. As at March 2024, there is still £6.4 billion outstanding. 'Free breakfasts' in schools cost the UK taxpayers an estimated 1 billion per year. I'm sure I could go on. But it's just too depressing. The spending is out of all control, and rising. The interest on our national debt rises daily. And we're governed by socialists who love spending everyone's money but their own. As do all governments and councils. But, of course, it's all the fault of old age pensioners. Rolls eyes. A lot. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

@GreySeal888 @SlenderSherbet It’s a problem with their wing feathers that’s caused by their diet. Too much carbohydrate can cause it, that’s why they shouldn’t eat bread.

@hcmeasures @SlenderSherbet What is Angel wing?

Yes you can come, just don't be weird. Me:

Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?" Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything. And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates. And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up. Just so you know.

@GreySeal888 @SlenderSherbet Poor thing appears to have angel wing, that’s why you should never feed ducks and geese bread.

@SlenderSherbet That is an injured animal. You may want to reconsider posting it. Just sayin’.

@BeckettUnite What a silly post.

There is no world in which this should be accepted It’s just obscene Full stop.

@benonwine Men at work

Name this band?

@supertanskiii @JSmith1419131 I’m surprised you didn’t grow up in a cardboard box, or would that be luxury?

@JSmith1419131 Grew up in a council house in poverty. You show your arse with your assumptions.

Grenfell was social murder. The working class in this country need to find their self respect and fast. Fuck Simon Dudley. Fuck Nigel Farage. Fuck Reform.