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@Right_Fred_Said @GyllKing @hotwings100 Your first sentence it correct but your second sentence is incorrect. Once the market is distorted by goverment interference it limits both employer and employee's bargaining power. A free market allows both to negotiate freely.

@likeuson @GyllKing @hotwings100 Exactly. They'd find jobs to meet their needs. They would work more hours for less money if that's what they needed to do to survive. The distortions increase bargaining power instead of reducing it; your understanding of the market dynamics is completely the wrong way round.

Tesco make £3 billion plus profits and yet nearly ALL of their shop floor staff are in receipt of universal credit. Shareholders and profits directly subsidised by the taxpayer. Tescos are the benefit scroungers. How hard can it be to outlaw this?

@Jenny_1884 Possibly worse.

Who reckons Andy Burnham would be just as bad as Keir Starmer if he ever became PM?

@Right_Fred_Said @GyllKing @hotwings100 No, they'd find work that met their needs. Of course that's difficult with low job opprotunities and business failures, all down to government policies. Goverment interference always distorts the market.

@likeuson @GyllKing @hotwings100 So the 3m people currently employed and in receipt of UC would hand in their notice and refuse to work at their current hourly rate if their UC was removed? 3m people would willingly choose unemployment and starvation over working for £15 p/h? That's your contention, right?

@StephenMorganMP It's absolutely typical of Labour to tinker at the edges in such an incompetent way that it can't possibly know if businesses will pass on the VAT short-term savings, or keep the balance to cover increased administration costs involved th the change.

@BhattiLaib9960 Is there another way?

My grandma used to do this all the time!!

1. It’s not daunting, it’s good. 2. It’s not unusual to have nice weather in May. 3. Weather is not climate. 4. I had the heating on last week.

No wonder our productivity and growth are so low. Not a single one of those regulators adds to our economy. They just add extra costs.

@angelshalagina Don't disappear. Keep telling the truth.

I’m just crazy tired of that Sometimes I think it would be easier Just to disappear finally

Massive Russian ballistic missile barrage on central Kyiv overnight, with multiple shopping centers, apartment blocks and residential areas destroyed. Also, a reported use of Oreshnik on Bila Tserkva near Kyiv, The casualty count is just beginning to trickle in.

Shocking footage of the destruction in Kyiv following Russian attacks last night. Russia has once again targeted only civilian objectives. Russia is a cancer.

@MikeJPretzel @MarvellousSteve He might be a moron but he's right. Singapore introduced a similar system a few years ago. Download the app, use it to scan your passport, take selfie and then use egate for entry. Simples.

@MarvellousSteve You’re a fucking moron.

Let’s be absolutely clear about the queues at Dover, Eurotunnel and airports – this is happening because of Brexit. ‘We’ voted for it. This is NOT the EU’s fault. #RejoinEU

@realMaalouf Good.

A Tunisian imam in France gave a sermon calling the French flag ‘satanic.’ Within 8 hours, the police showed up at his house and put him on the first plane to Tunisia. He had lived in France for 40 years! Do you agree with France’s decision to deport him?

Rape victims are often accused of adultery under Sharia law if they report being raped by married Muslim men. Here is a shocking example: A 13-year-old girl in Somalia was raped by a married Muslim man. Instead of punishing the rapist, an Islamic Sharia court sentenced the little girl to death. The Muslim rapist accused her of “seducing” him by appearing in public, and the court agreed — convicting her of adultery. Hundreds of Muslim men gathered to stone her to death as an offering to Allah. They laughed, cheered and shouted “Allahu Akbar” as she screamed in agony until her last breath. Not one man stepped forward to save the 13-year-old rape victim. Everyone in the village heard her cries for help before the execution. Instead of intervening, they tied her hands behind her back and chained her feet. The local imam directed the men to dig a hole and bury her up to her waist so she could not move or dodge the stones aimed at her head. For hours before and during the stoning she begged for mercy, looking toward her neighbors, her father, and every Muslim man taking part. Until her final breath she cried out, but no one rescued her. Of the hundreds of men present, none showed compassion. The participants gladly joined this Islamic act of worship, ignoring her pleas and rejoicing with “Allahu Akbar” while brutally killing her. This is not an isolated barbaric act. This is Sharia law in practice — where the victim is punished and the rapist protected if he is married. Not all cultures are equal. Some protect the innocent. Islam punishes the raped girl and calls it justice. The West keeps importing this ideology while pretending it is compatible with our values. It is not. Share this. The world must see the true face of Sharia and stop the denial.

What happened to Henry Nowak is a greater injustice than what happened to George Floyd. With George Floyd Keir Starmer expressed shock and anger in Parliament. He called it an injustice in an interview. Parliament held a minute silence for George Floyd. But nothing for Henry.

Someone in government needs to get a grip. RAF to spend £1bn switching to sustainable jet fuel telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

Every year they wheel Calder out to tell us there are massive queues at Dover because we left the EU. What he ignores is that he’s was stood at the same spot years before we left telling us there were massive queues because it’s a bank holiday weekend.

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@edna_humbug @jurgen_nauditt What an ignorant comment. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine first in2014 and again in 2022. So what did Ukraine sow?

Massive Russian attacks against Ukraine. Exclusively civilian targets and infrastructure were attacked—something Russia will, as always, deny. The ceiling at the Lukyanivska metro station has collapsed; those seeking shelter can barely breathe. The market in Lukyanivka is on fire as a result of the Russian attack. In Poland, air defenses have been placed on high alert, and NATO fighter jets have scrambled—not to help, but merely to take a few photos for the family album. Death, destruction, suffering. For over four years, Europe has done nothing but watch.

@MbarkCherguia Just pull their hands off the road. It might hurt a bit but then choices have consequences.

What sould happen to climate activists who glue their hand to the road?

@Right_Fred_Said @GyllKing @hotwings100 Being funded by other taxpayers for not working is not optionality, it's dependency.

@likeuson @GyllKing @hotwings100 People on UC have optionality. It doesn't matter if they work 16 hours a week or not at all. They will always have government support for food and shelter. Remove that and their bargaining position deteriorates. This is a very simple concept to grasp.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.