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@iAmJoshHunt This should got out weekly on every TV channel like an emergency message so people are forced to watch. I think all governments and civil servants should have to give a national televised presentation of the nations finances so people are informed. Not just political slogans

People have been telling me I’m being overly negative about this country. Too pessimistic. Too doom-laden. I thought I was holding back. So let me lay it all out. Welcome to the age of compounding crises. Housing. Average home costs 8x the average salary. A generation locked out. Prices can’t fall without crashing the banks. Can’t rise without locking out more people. Water. £85 billion extracted in dividends since privatisation. £70 billion in debt loaded onto companies sold debt-free. Victorian pipes leaking billions of litres. Raw sewage discharged for 3.6 million hours in a single year. Bills rising 36% by 2030. Energy. Net importer. No sovereign strategy. One Gulf crisis and it costs the taxpayer £78 billion in emergency subsidies. Pensions. One of the worst state pensions in the developed world. Trillions in unfunded public sector liabilities off the books. Median private pot £32,700. You need ten times that. 43% undersaving. The triple lock ratchets costs up automatically with no mechanism to bring them down. NHS. 7.25 million on the waiting list. Staff leaving. Buildings crumbling. Cancer targets missed. Social care barely exists. A two-tier system emerging. A demographic wave about to make it all worse. Transport. HS2: £66 billion for 140 miles. Spain built 2,500 miles for $70 billion. We pay 8.5x the European average and deliver a fraction of the result. Roads falling apart. The North still waiting. Local government. Over half of councils expect bankruptcy within five years. Funding cut 29% in real terms since 2010. Libraries, youth services, social care… gone or going. Public finances. Debt approaching 97% of GDP. Interest payments exceed the defence budget. Taxes at their highest since the 1940s. Spending plans include cuts the OBR says may be undeliverable. Productivity. Flat for eighteen years. Worst record since the Industrial Revolution. Economic inactivity. 1 in 5 working-age people not working. 2.8 million out sick, a record. The only G7 country with lower employment than before the pandemic. Food. We import 48% of what we eat. 83% of our fruit. 12% of households are food insecure. One supply chain shock and the shelves thin out. We’ve seen it twice already and fixed nothing. Education. School buildings crumbling. Teachers leaving. £267 billion in student debt, most of which will never be repaid. Defence. Procurement Parliament called “broken and repeatedly wasting billions.” Equipment plan £19 billion short. A war in Europe and no money to respond properly. Prisons. 72% overcrowded. Hit 99.7% occupancy. Nearly 40,000 released early because there was nowhere to put them. 23,000 cells don’t meet fire safety standards. Cost to fix: £2.8 billion. Allocated: £520 million. Car finance. Biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI. 12 million agreements with hidden commissions. £7.5 billion in expected compensation. Another bill landing on an industry already stretched. Regional inequality. London pulling away from everywhere else. A country where your postcode determines your life expectancy, school quality, job prospects and access to healthcare. Underneath all of it, the same pattern. Sell the asset. Load it with debt. Extract the value. Defer the maintenance. Hand the bill to the next generation. None of this is unfixable. This country has the talent and the people to turn every one of these around. But that requires a political class willing to be honest about the scale of what’s broken. What we have instead is a political class that would rather keep us fighting each other than confront the structural failures staring them in the face. Because fixing them is hard, unpopular, and takes longer than an electoral cycle. So they commission a review, blame the last lot, and nothing changes. I’d love to be more optimistic. And the history and people of this country still make me somewhat hopeful. But our politics needs to drastically change if we’re going to get anywhere.

@DerrickEvans4WV @jimmykimmel @JimmyKimmelLive I don’t want his apology I just want him to stop gaslighting everyone Apologies mean nothing without actions

Jimmy Kimmel LIED to his audience by claiming Charlie Kirk’s assassin is MAGA. I’m tagging @jimmykimmel @JimmyKimmelLive so we can all demand he apologize & tell his audience the truth.

@benonwine One Just one But he was a cross dresser at best. Inspired by boy George

If you went to school in the 70s/80s/90s How many kids did you know with gender dysphoria?

@Keir_Starmer We’re literally not any of those things thanks to your two tier justice system

We are a fair, tolerant and decent country. But we are in the fight of our times. We must choose patriotic national renewal over decline and toxic division every time.

@leftyvegan @ThePosieParker @BobbyVylan Hey this guy can even gaslight himself 🤣🤣

@ThePosieParker @BobbyVylan Like he said, prove it, quote him or anyone else involved celebrating Kirk's death. I didn't hear the show so I can't say it didn't happen, but if it did, let's hear specifics.

@ThePosieParker @BobbyVylan 🤣🤣🤣

@BobbyVylan I mean, you can chicken out of your pseudo gangster for prep school rhetoric now if you like, ‘n’ shit but we heard what we heard and we fink you’re a twat.

@OliLondonTV This is just tragically disgusting. What monsters we’ve created

Left-wing activists hold gathering to CELEBRATE Charlie Kirk being killed. “We got Charlie in the neck.”

@SkyNews Conservative Christian Not right wing influencer Sky at it again

Donald Trump leads blame game following shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk news.sky.com/story/donald-t…

@Schwarzenegger Unfortunately Arnold too many are busy doing TikTok celebrations videos. I weep for them and their total lack of morals. I doubt any of them truly watched his debates and instead have formulated their whole idea of the man from decontextualised clips from within their echo chambe

My heart is with Charlie Kirk’s family, and with the United States. Politics has become a disease in this country, and it’s deadly. But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure. There is a cure. It is inside of us. We must find our better angels and walk back from the extremes. If we can’t agree on anything else, we must find agreement that we don’t solve our debates with violence. This is a horrible tragedy. May it also be a moment for everyone to rediscover their humanity.

@MemeNonLibs He should be forced to come from behind his device and say that to his widow

“Rest in piss” Why do these liberals LOVE to celebrate violence so much??🫠

@GoodwinMJ Quite a lot are too busy making celebratory TikTok videos to come forward and see the horror of this I weep for them and I pray good comes out of this I suspect not though We’re literally watching the fall of humanity

This is a moment when democracy really needs everybody on the Left to step forward, condemn violence and say some nice words about Charlie Kirk and his family. I hope they step forward in droves.

@Keir_Starmer Abject hypocrisy

My thoughts this evening are with the loved ones of Charlie Kirk. It is heartbreaking that a young family has been robbed of a father and a husband. We must all be free to debate openly and freely without fear - there can be no justification for political violence.

@nelsabbey @GMB Disgusting

Part I of my full (and properly contextualised) thoughts on Charlie Kirk from today's @gmb. Charlie Kirk's murder was a despicable crime. Charlie Kirk was indeed "a David Duke for the TikTok age", an unashamed, presentable and politically popular racist. Not a conservative.

@BarackObama You know exactly

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

@JeremyClarkson That’s exactly what they want you to be

For the first time in my life, I’m genuinely frightened about being a newspaper columnist.

@LangmanVince She should be publicly shunned

Miserable hate filled Kamala Harris voters are celebrating Charlie Kirk getting shot in Utah today. The radical left is pure scum of the earth!

@KonstantinKisin The message coming out of it for me. Endorsed by Matthew Dowd msnbc is if there is things that you don’t like. Put up shut up do nothing or you’ll apparently be shot

I hope I'm wrong. But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever. Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past. I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful. But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else. Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight. But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds. I hope I'm wrong.

@TheNorfolkLion Nothing but stand up for what her believed and opened young minds to an alternative Conservative mindset

What did Charlie Kirk do wrong, can someone tell me?

A government against its people

youtube.com/shorts/1Dc77TK… @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @elonmusk Please watch this and tell us we have free speech in the UK and kier Starmer is doing a good job