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@JeremyVineOn5 Reduce benefits and stop paying child benefit if we are going to pick up the costs of children then - can’t have both

Should all primary school children get free school meals? 9 out of 10 parents have said they would back such a move in England as the cost of living continues to bite. What do you think?

@Bunny_ngl That sounds great - if the company makes a loss or needs additional cash flow can we also immediately lower the wage of everyone below CEO so they all wear the risk and pain? If it needs investment can we use part of their salary too?

How would you feel about a new law that forces every company to pay their CEO no more than 20x what their lowest paid employee makes?

@BladeoftheS In actual fact in the UK about 55% are consuming more in state handouts and services than they contribute - to net pay in you need to earn around £45k. Too many fail to cover their own costs while expecting others to pay more - this cannot continue

Every single household in the UK is paying £10,000 per year to the profits of the super rich, people with hundreds of millions or billions of pounds who pay almost no tax. That's more than many people pay in actual tax to fund Public Services. Just to greedy thieves.

@JohnCrookes7 Witch hunts normally look for spurious information - he failed vetting which needed ministerial override to then be put in post - which minister gave this override?

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.

@BladeoftheS Do you understand the difference between revenue and profit - if not am sure your local primary school can help you

Despite making over £20bn in the UK, Starbucks has paid £0 tax in most years. In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m. It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.

@PhilMyers53 Kier wanted power and this was what Blair cost him - he is useless and his legacy as a human rights lawyer has ruined our country - waiting for many of his useless ideas to be rolled back upon

If Keir believed he should resign, he's the type of man who would. The truth is he has the backing of the Labour Party and every single decent person in the UK The rest of you? You can piss off!

@DrRitaDed Best idea - you can’t feed yourself then go hungry - can’t afford heating go cold - with that consequence you might find necessity brings effort and drive and you too might succeed

I don't see what was controversial about my last post. If you earn to much, you pay it ALL back in tax. The world would be so much better if everyone was on an even playing field with wealth. Everyone gets the same amount. Everyone is equal. Everyone is happy.

@BladeoftheS Bring back the poll tax where every able bodied adult paid for their services - not every house - I tend to find houses require little service if there isn’t an adult in it

Margaret Thatcher replaced Domestic Rates with Council Tax. Under Domestic Rates if your house was worth 100x the average you paid 100x the average. Under Council Tax it is capped at 3x, so people in Castles hardly pay more than you. Tax the rich bring back Domestic Rates.

@Heccles94 When many jobs create little to no value - then you understand why the pay gap is there. Many low paid jobs are nothing but a cost - adding absolutely no value - because we offshored all valuing adding jobs years ago.

65% of people agree with Greens policy on 1:10 pay ratios Damn the media are so out of touch

@BladeoftheS How about you go earn it if you want it - funny how everyone else’s hard earned is what you want rather than actually earning your own, same old story from the days of the caveman to now - you would have died of starvation in caveman times Blade.

The total wealth of UK billionaires is £772.8 billion. 150 people have enough money to... Build 2000 hospitals. Pay the entire 500,000 person NHS staff budget for 10 years. Build 8m homes. And much, much more. We need that money, THEY DONT.

@ESzczambur93581 @JeremyVineOn5 If you need ask if a parent is responsible for their own child - we have bigger problems. You cannot outsource responsibility - you child your problem - think before you create one

@JeremyVineOn5 You should be making enquiries at the nurseries or childcare if the child attended - if a parent has to work 5-6 days a week - who is responsible?

Should schools reject children who aren't potty-trained? The issue is so bad that York council has started sending out information about potty-training alongside school offer letters. Would you support teachers getting tough and turning away kids still in nappies?

@JeremyVineOn5 Why is it always more tax and not fewer benefits? Why not make benefit entitlement 5 years of paying in and set a 2 year max payout other than for the seriously disabled - your life is your responsibility

Should there be an increase in council tax to pay for potholes? Britain's roads are in crisis and even the Transport Secretary had her car wrecked by a pothole. Should we be paying more council tax to fix the problem?

@OKRJohn @MartinSLewis @mmhpi While I understand some might struggle, I think we need a more balanced approach that considers personal situation - as some just think they can pay when they feel like - and being able to pay monthly is no different to insurance - a privilege that can be removed

@MartinSLewis @mmhpi My mum died last year. Can't sell the property. Being charged council tax. What services is she using??!!

NEWS! The govt has just announced its changing the Council Tax Debt Collection rules on the back of @mmhpi recommendations. Here's my official quote ----- Council Tax debt collection is so aggressive it’d make banks blush. It’s the most vicious and damaging form of legal debt collection out there - causing counterproductive misery for millions. We’ve spent the last 18 months campaigning hard to change this hideous system, and having seen so much pain caused by it, I’m genuinely moved by this huge first step towards making things better. Currently, in England, if you miss a monthly payment, many councils, within usually 3 weeks, demand payment for the entire year. How people who can’t find a month’s money are expected to find a year’s I don’t know. Yet if they can’t pay, within just three more weeks, they are often taken to court, have ‘admin costs’ added, and soon see bailiffs sent in. No commercial firm would be allowed to do anything close - constituents are treated worse than customers. The new rule from next April means councils must wait two months, not 3 weeks, to ask for a year’s money, and the ‘admin costs’ will be capped at £100. In a perfect world, it would be even longer and the lower cap would apply, but this is still a hugely welcome change to a 33-year-old process. For councils too, it is worth remembering that this grotesque system is often catastrophic for people’s finances and wellbeing, leaving many needing more help and support, and ultimately the same council having to pick up the pieces.

@CaroleIronmong1 @OKRJohn @MartinSLewis @mmhpi Most councils now only allow the exemption for a short fixed period - been there done that etc

@OKRJohn @MartinSLewis @mmhpi You don’t pay council tax on empty properties

@TeddEboyee @OKRJohn @MartinSLewis @mmhpi Falls on the estate once she is dead - so taken from any worth left behind

@OKRJohn @MartinSLewis @mmhpi How can they chase payment from a deceased person?

@MarieTidball It was never about the hotels - it is and continues to be about illegal economic migration - they are still here, when are we restricting asylum claims to a very short list and ejecting the others within a suitable timeframe - say 2 weeks?

You won't hear a peep about this from Farage, Tice or Jenrick. Under the Tories, up to 400 hotels were being used to house asylum seekers. With Labour, there are now just 185, with 11 more hotels re-opening to the public, saving the taxpayer £65 million a year.

@UKLabour Erm - using relative poverty as a measure means you pushed half a million others into poverty - do you even know who you have now made poor?

Politics is about choices. Labour chooses to lift half a million kids out of poverty. Reform wants to plunge them back into it.

@Wakethefitup Christ have you left Uni or are you still forming your political ideology on NUS ideas? I don’t like reform but your points are all a little mad - we voted Labour and look how that went - we need better politicians on all sides of the spectrum, the current house is awful

Vote Reform - get child poverty Vote Reform - get Russian interference Vote Reform - get former Tories Vote Reform - get a privatised NHS Vote Reform - get higher Council Tax Vote Reform - get your head examined, 'cos you've clearly fallen for their bigoted, soundbite BS

@NatalieFleetMP So how many did you just push into poverty? You do realise if you lift some you also push others into poverty - so you just pushed families into poverty - let’s hope they weren’t hard working couples who made good life choices not to have more kids than they could afford

Tonight I got to vote to lift kids out of poverty; a poverty that scars & has a lifelong impact. It also means women will no longer have to complete the “form of shame” to prove their birth was caused by rape. I have beer been prouder to be a Labour MP 🌹

@Matt_Pinner Road kill

What do you call someone who does THIS in the middle of the street?