Gary Spink

@Lets_getcycling Nope, I'll keep blaming the councils piss poor maintenance schedules and road repairs that aren't fit for purpose. Patching and re-patching a road and that godawful surface dressing (Tar & Chippings) crap that they just spread over the top without repairing the damn base first.

You can blame pot holes on councils all you want but if you choose to drive an SUV then you are part of the problem! theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

@20splentyforus I'd think it was a good start back to 85th percentile sensible speed limit setting rather than the utter nonsense we have now where limits are always set lower than they should be because groups like yours exist. If it makes you lot mad it's going in the right direction.

What would you think of a driver going 50% faster than the speed limit? Reckless, dangerous, lawless..? Well what would you think of a politician setting a speed limit 50% higher than is recognised as best practice for where pedestrians and cyclists mix with motors in a planned and frequent manner?

@albieamankona Ok, Blocking you now as you really are just another pensioner hating pillock posting for engagements. Don't folow you and sick of seeing your shitposting on a daily basis.

Nobody has a “RIGHT” to a state pension. It is a benefit paid for by the tax payers at the time you receive the benefit and it is subject to the same checks, balances and affordability criteria as every other benefit provided by the state. Whoever told you national insurance was invested in a personal pension pot for you, lied. It’s a tax, like income tax, VAT et al.

@DapperD71783574 @ReemAmirIbrahim @miriam_cates If it were purely a paid for benefit only taxpayers would qualify for it. Since that is blatantly not the case you are quite simply wrong. You can pay absolutely zero in tax and get a full pension so the whole "paid for" argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny unfortunately.

@lordratso @ReemAmirIbrahim @miriam_cates It's a right that's been paid for, not a benefit.

Is the state pension really so 'meagre'? Let's take a look... The basic state pension is just £12,547 a year. But... Only around 15% of pensioners rely on the state pension alone. The vast majority have other income from private pensions etc., which is exactly how our system is designed to work (and why the UK has generous tax breaks for pension contributions). The small proportion of pensioners whose only source of income is the state pension are entitled to other benefits in addition, including pension credit, housing benefit and council tax support. A pensioner with no other income, no savings, no disabilities, no care responsibilities and rent of £800 per month is entitled to £401.55 a week in benefits including state pension, which is £20,881 a year. For comparison, a full time minimum wage worker has an after tax income of £21,364. Unlike a pensioner, a full time minimum wage worker is not entitled to free travel, free prescriptions, a winter fuel payment or senior citizens discounts. £21,000 a year is not a lot of money. But the very poorest pensioners have similar incomes to low-wage workers. Given the greater costs faced by those who are working, it's perhaps not surprising that working age adults are now more likely to live in poverty than pensioners. And at the other end of the scale, one in four pensioners are millionaires and still receive the basic state pension, paid for by current tax payers (including those on minimum wage). No one (definitely not me) is suggesting that the state pension should be reduced for the poorest pensioners. But pension spending now accounts for half of the UK's social security budget and, given the urgent need to cut government spending, we must consider reforms like means-testing and scrapping the triple lock.

@miriam_cates If you meet the criteria you get the benefit. It's not hard to understand. Now of course you pensioner haters would love to see them forced to sell houses, or be denied the money because they have saved something else towards their unknown length old age. Why not just admit it.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @miriam_cates If you meet the conditions for the benefit you get it, It's that simple. Why are you lot always talking about homes as though they would get included in your (obvious) intent to means test something when homes don't get counted in other benefits, only income and savings?

@miriam_cates 👏👏 exactly! If you live in a million pound house, why should a 20 something year old on minimum wage be paying for your retirement?

@IAMRoadSmart That's what happens when limits are created outside the guidelines and for ideological reasons like climate and pushing an anti car/ more "active travel" narrative instead of how they are suposed to be done. You lot are as bad as the twinkle twenties pillocks.

PRESS RELEASE 🚨 Speeding on the Rise 🚗The number of drivers caught speeding in England, Scotland and Wales is at its highest in four years. 📊Data from the DVLA shows a 32 percent increase in the number of people receiving points on their licence. The faster a vehicle is travelling, the longer it takes to stop, and the greater the risk of a crash. Speed limits are there for a reason. #IAMRoadSmart #FatalFive #Speeding media.iamroadsmart.com/pressreleases/…

@mgshanks Ok, What was the CFD price you lot have guaranteed this magical solar farms owners? was it cheaper than the cost of the last resort backup (Gas) or more expensive? Because if it was more expensive you're just proving you are making things worse.

But there is more to do - we are driving further and faster for clean homegrown power that we control to protect the British people and bring down bills for good. ☀️Today we've approved the UK’s largest power-producing solar farm. gov.uk/government/new…

🌞After record-breaking wind generation, Britain is once again smashing records - basking in a solar surge as we take another step towards greater control over our energy, our bills and our future.

@ret_ward Couldn't give a toss. 50 turbines produce the same energy as 1 turbine when they are switched off when it's too windy. Same as acres of solar produces as much as my house roof array when it's night time (ie nothing). Gas/Nuclear Power stations produce power as needed whenever.

Yesterday, in the midst of the current fossil fuels crisis, less than 10% of our electricity was generated from natural gas.

@annaroseridgway Yet if the triple lock ended tomorrow you lot would still be frothing at the mouth about pensioners.

Britain likes to think of itself as compassionate. Fine. Then let’s protect poor pensioners, not hand universal handouts to rich ones. Multi-millionaire households don’t need government subsidies. The triple lock is no longer anti-poverty policy; it’s a politically protected transfer to the most powerful voting bloc. And before you say you have “paid in”. I am sorry but you have been lied to. NI is just a tax like any other, it is not a savings pot with your name on it. The triple lock is causing the state pension to become unaffordable, and no political party has the balls to honestly admit this to its voters.

@miriam_cates You pensioner bashers talking as though "young people" pay more than any other taxpayers. Tax is levied on income and NI is paid by employers as well. Not to mention pensions count as income so many pensioners still pay plenty of tax. Not enough for you lot though is it?

“Reform’s commitment to keep the triple lock is the final nail in the coffin for the hope of pension reform from the Right. Britain’s young people are now condemned to pay through the nose for the retirement of the wealthiest generation in history.” ✍️👇 conservativehome.com/2026/04/08/mir…

@Conservatives Listen carefully, I will never vote Tory again...... Stop wasting your breath. You've had multiple chances and screwed it up every single time. Never again.......

How many times do people have to watch illegal traveller camps take over their green spaces before something is done? The last government took action, but the ECHR blocked it. The next Conservative government will leave the ECHR, and clamp down on these sites. Here’s how 👇

@ABridgen How much tax from all sources does the government take in?

🚨BREAKING: For the FIRST TIME in British History the UK WELFARE BILL now exceeds INCOME TAX This is insane Keir Starmer is driving us off a cliff Income Tax revenue - £331 BILLION Benefits & welfare - £333 BILLION Do you think this is sustainable or fair ?

@Paranoid__Droid @lukerobertblack Nope, I know exactly what it is thanks.

@lordratso @lukerobertblack I think yoi misunderstand what the fund is, anything thst goes into it is paid out straight away. Its not a savings account.

Wrong. The state pension is a social security benefit paid for by today’s working population. It is funded by general taxation. No one has “paid into” a pot. Comes out the DWP budget like all other benefits

@BenedictSpence Nope, it's warranted because of the crap you lot are spouting about them.Stirring up the hate couldron. Honestly, it's pathetic the excuses coming from so called caring liberals and socialists over recent months blaming people for working, paying tax & retiring on a small pension

Pensioners may wish to consider that responding to working people’s struggles with contempt and vitriol, as evidenced in the replies, might not be a great long-term strategy if they want to keep their benefits.

@MCNnews Those "Key industry figures" are obviously oblivious to what the vast majority want to ride then because it's not electric bikes. There might be a market for electric city bikes but they cost a lot for what they are and much cheaper ice bikes are plentiful and fit the job.

Key industry figures say more needs to be done to support the uptake of electric bikes, with new research suggesting we could see £50million of business lost by 2030. Link this way 👉 #Echobox=1775478113-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">motorcyclenews.com/news/2026/apri…

@Battsby The governments by cocking up the finances for decades. The problem is only one side actually knows that, the other thinks it's all old peoples fault.

Whose idea was it to start an intergenerational war over the pension triple lock over the Easter weekend?

@BenedictSpence It's ALL taxpayers and Employers that pay pensions (and all other benefits too), Nothing to do with just "younger" taxpayers and that's also what todays pensioners were for decades beforehand (Taxpayers) so get off your soapbox because you sound utterly pathetic.

If pensioners want more money from younger taxpayers to fund their retirements, there’s a really easy way to make that happen: sell them your stuff.

@BenedictSpence @NardoDi33254 Another pointless pillock with another pointless (and misleading) graph. You people really need to get another argument than this pathetic nonsense. Just admit you despise older people who are simply receiving something they were promised if they met the criteria for it.

It’s funny seeing pensioners raging about the “politics of envy” when they’re getting upset that money they haven’t earned might go to, say, children instead of them.