@Heccles94 You do spout utter drivel. Are you seriously alleging that the Peabody Trust, which operates as a community benefit society and urban regeneration agency, is in a feudal relationship with its 220,000 tenants?
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A self-employed professional with an interest in politics and economics.
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@JackieMayes5 It is my understanding the trusts were used to create an “interest in possession” (IIP) for the Duke and a “beneficial interest” for The Crown” (TC). Should at any time there be no Duke, then the IIP reverts to TC and the Sovereign Grant reduces by an amount equal to the IIP.
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@pjpcfp @RepublicStaff The duchy assets do not belong to the crown. They are private trusts.
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So let's get this straight, William is charging the government money for unusable wasteland on Duchy land, but the Duchies aren't even his. They're our land.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. #AbolishTheMonarchy #DitchTheDuchies
Canary@TheCanaryUK
Prince William is making millions from taxpayer money renting out HMP Dartmoor - a wildlife-infested pit filled with radon gas thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
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@SimonHarrisMBD Why should such feckless parents retain custody of their children?
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Even if a child’s parents abuse drugs and alcohol to the extent that they cannot feed them breakfast and lunch, that isn’t the child’s fault whatsoever, so why should they be punished by a lack of free breakfast clubs and free school meals?
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@zukham @Heccles94 £37600 p.a. pay = £2,000 Class 1 national Insurance Contributions.
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@Heccles94 I am sure you have thoroughly done your research. But the £2000/annum/worker figure still seems quite high.
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The average worker pays £2,000 per year in national insurance
That means that 800,000 of us have had our national insurance used to line the pockets of private CEOs.
Did you consent to that?
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@THemingford You cannot be taken seriously with your view on the economic situation we are in.
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You cannot be taken seriously if you take Nigel Farage seriously.
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@Heccles94 You need to differentiate between “privatisation” and “outsourcing”
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Two interesting things to note.
Free at the point of ‘need’ not at the point of ‘use’ - why change that? What are you gonna charge for?
Secondly, you can increase privatisation and still be free to use, just not forever. Labour and the Tories both do it and it breaks the NHS. Reform would continue this.
Dr David Bull@drdavidbull
🚨With just 24 days until the elections, let’s be clear: under a Reform UK administration, the NHS will remain free at the point of need. Ignore the lies.
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@markofagenius @RichieCo79 Do you have verifiable evidence for your assertion?
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Rayner rightly resigns. Tice remains a tit at the top.
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Is it time to follow Australia and ban children under the age of 16 from social media?
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@Heccles94 On that basis you should shut up about economics since you are not qualified in it. In fact you should stop most of your social media output because you are equally unqualified in many other areas.
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Hi, Mental Health nurse here 👋
Please don’t publish pieces on mental health from non qualified people who have no idea what they are talking about. It’s dangerous and stigmatising.
Thanks, Harry
The Telegraph@Telegraph
✍️ 'I’m aware that extreme anxiety is a genuine thing. 'However, do I believe that one in 10 Britons suffers from an anxiety disorder? Nope. Sorry.' Read Celia Walden's full column below 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…
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@daniellismore He wasn’t responsible for the implementation of Brexit because he was not in govt; a govt with a large cohort of remainders in its midst.
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I find it so funny when Reform fanatics say Nigel Farage wasn’t responsible for Brexit. Wasn’t his party then called the Brexit Party? Great Britain is poorer because of him 🇬🇧🏴🫖☕️
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@RebeccaCNReid When I was a kid we used to have breakfast at home,get to school early and play in the playground until the bell went. We didn’t need ‘pre school care’ we took care of ourselves,
we were not mollycoddled by the nanny state or used as pawns for political gain.
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Breakfast clubs are not about breakfast, they're largely about pre-school care because it's impossible for two working parents to commute to their desks at 9AM if schools start at 8.40.
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1
The breakfasts are not free. They are paid for by taxes - mostly on parents who feed their own kids. Most of these 10,000 children would have had a perfectly healthy breakfast at home without these clubs. This isn't about helping the poorest kids, it's the state taking over the basic job of parenting.
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Whether true or not I don’t believe free breakfast clubs capture these children. The most vulnerable kids are frequently absent from school and even when they attend are rarely on time - certainly not early enough for breakfast clubs. If this was really about hungry kids there are much better ways of making sure they’re fed.
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@George_Simkin "Without Brexit our economy would be doing better."
And your proof of that is what exactly?
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The trouble with denial is that those who suffer from its worst effects are in permanent denial.
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@Haggis_UK
Lord Frost: "There's no evidence of any economic shock from brexit at all..." 🤔 #PoliticsLive
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@daniellismore If lying were to be a criminal offence you wouldn’t see the light of day again.
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This man should be sent to jail for lying about Brexit he’s got a country into so much trouble. We are now poorer because of him.
Sky News@SkyNews
Nigel Farage has hit out at plans by the government to align the UK with the EU's single market rules. trib.al/acL16ug 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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If he was a working class woman they would have hounded him for a resignation
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
Richard Tice £91,000 tax row was "minor administrative error", Reform UK claims bbc.in/3O1B39E
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@BladeoftheS A) he does not personally own the Duchy assets. B) which royal family stole from whom?
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£25m a year you pay to Prince William.
And still he charges you £2.5m a year because he 'owns' the land on which a prison stands.
Land that he never bought, but was stolen by the Royal Family 1000 years ago.
It's time to end this con.
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@THemingford Self-employed often choose to work weekends and secure a higher standard of living for themselves and their families. Plenty of employed people work weekends.
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Weekends weren’t given - they were won.
Unions were central to that.
Thomas H. 💙@THemingford
Paid holiday is a good example. In the UK, most 5-day workers are entitled to at least 28 days a year. Rights like that did not appear by magic. They came from decades of pressure, campaigning and legislation that unions were central to.
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@THemingford Problem is, if you raised the average wage to the same level as an MP, you would not solve the fundamental issue and create a few more problems besides.
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This is what happens when pay doesn't keep up for over 20 years. It's closer to 25 years but the rate the gap grew increased every year over the past 20 years.
Look at MPs salaries to see what you should be earning on average. It's right under your nose.
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@Welsh_Lady2 @F1WDC2021 @Max33Verstappen I concur. If a team factors in a buffer of $2mn to ensure they don’t breach the cap inadvertently, but a competitor overspends by $2mn, then that is a $4mn competitive advantage. If there has to be a cap, then the sanctions for breaching must be so severe no team would risk it.
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@F1WDC2021 @Max33Verstappen Fair play to you for perseverance. I couldn't have gone on for as long as you did 👏👏👏
Personally, I still think RB pulled the wool over the FIA's eyes with the tax credits bs. I'll also never believe there was no performance gain from the cost cap breach!
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This is what happens when an AI engine is trained by @Max33Verstappen fans
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Grok@grok
Yes, the 2021 overspend provided no meaningful advantage for the 2022 season. It was minor (£1.86m/1.6% over the £118m cap), mostly non-performance items like tax-credit misreporting, catering, sick leave, and spare-parts valuation—not extra aero or chassis development. The RB18's dominance came from Red Bull's superior ground-effect design under the all-new regs, which rivals struggled with. FIA classified it as minor with no retrospective penalties; the aero cut only hit 2023 development. Engineering, not the breach, explains the 15 wins.
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