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@paulhar04305540 @politicReformed @Brunte84 @andyburnham Then Labour sold off the NHS, went PFI mad, now just about every GP is a Ltd, or partnership, it’s always about the money.

@politicReformed @Brunte84 @andyburnham She destroyed this country to fucking bell end

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼 •⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40% •⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25% •⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986) •⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990) •⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third •⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners •⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67% •⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults •⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled •⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten •⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms •⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40% •⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third •⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s •⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s •⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million •⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon •⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter •⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986 •⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90 •⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28% •⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39% •⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000 •⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25% •⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms •⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one •⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one •⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years •⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector •⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987 •⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90) •⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen •⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986 •⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline" •⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed •⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days •⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War •⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

The World’s End in Finsbury Park… very good!

Kids been wearing this to football day, proper menaces

@ewins_gary Great call

Move on ..can we get back to #QPR now 😬

@PeterBleksley Rather have a Tesla

At one point I thought he might be a Merc. Then I dared to dream he might be a Porsche. Turns out he was a Volkswagen all along. Sigh.

About to go into the 4th quarter

Can’t believe how pony Shearer and Owen are V Harry.

@TelAvivGraffiti @GlobalDiss Of 30,000, with infrastructure to support planned growth, to 50,000. It lacks the appearance of most poorer towns due to lack of diversity.

@GlobalDiss Bicester is NOT small city... It's a very small town...

🚨🇬🇧UK BICESTER HAS HAD ENOUGH! Hundreds of people PROTEST against the Labour decision to house 1,250 illegal migrants in the small city! It’s the continuation of the Great Replacement!

@redrumlisa @CJAWorrall Was he from the Gaza Strip?

@CJAWorrall My grandad for 1

How many geordie pit men world war 2 vets would be rolling in their grave if they knew flags of nazi collaborating and instigators of anti-jewish violence were being paraded down the roads of the Durham miner's gala, having been colonised by socialists and islamists?

@aberdeenuni What Heather Herbert said was sickening. We can’t tolerate this level of debasement and depravity in public life. Ann Widdecombe is another devastating statistic of violence against women. Do your job and sack Herbert

@SarahGarne50949 @JeffJohanson4 They are all at it

@JeffJohanson4 Personal travel, transport, accommodation, subsistence, rent, furnishings,

The Times headline correction: Farage rented his own work space for £10,000 a year…as many businesses do, which is legal and common place He claims ZERO in expenses as a politician, unlike most of the rest, some of whom have claimed nearly £250,000

@SarahGarne50949 @ByrneBarry What a limpet

@Richard41786952 @ByrneBarry Who is a reform MP? Barely see mine

MPs have encouraged hatred towards Reform members. They do it every week in PMQS with glee. RIP Ann Parliament should be ashamed of the way members interact with each other it's a bad example to the nation

@QPR Poor result

Awesome support in Austria 🇦🇹👏

@SkyNews .. A complaint ! @adamboultonTABB ‘s report on the death of Ann Widdicombe today .. has to be one of the most crass, disrespectful reports I’ve heard on anyone in politics .. The fact this is also a Police investigation makes it even worse. To repeat personal stories about her; and using phraseology such as an ‘ old maid’ and more .. She was a very clever, intellectual, conviction politician who had more decency in her than most people I’ve ever met. She was kind and thoughtful and would never hold a grudge with anyone when differing views were held .. This is an outrageous slur on her character and reputation.. and I hope you’re damn well sacked !!

Adam Boulton must go.

Ann Widdecombe has possibly been murdered, and @SkyNews thinks it’s appropriate to have a man discussing whether she was a virgin. Why would whether a woman had ever had penetrative sex be relevant to her possible murder? He then went on to speculate, on mainstream media, that it was a robbery gone wrong rather than politically motivated. That may ultimately prove to be the case, but speculation about motive before the facts are established has no place in responsible news coverage. The first instinct when discussing a woman who may have been murdered should never be to reduce her to her sexual history. Ann Widdecombe deserved better. Every woman deserves better.

@Bostonboro Eaton way today, residents have installed an illegal speed bump, need your details for the insurance.

This is Heather Herbert, the face of the “Hatful Left”. A rising start for both Labour and the Scottish Greens, the poster “girl” for Hope not Hate. Heather tweeted about the murder of Ann Widdecombe, “ I hope her death was extremely painful” This is the real face of the Labour Party and the Green Party. A vote for them is a vote for Heather. Pure evil! #AnnWiddecombe #Reform #Labour

@TaffyTezla @MrsNickyClark Problem is a third of the country thinks like this, leftism is a normalised mental disorder.

I don’t understand reactions like Peter Tatchell’s to the death of Ann Widdecombe. His words won’t hurt or wound her, she’s beyond that now. But his words will hurt her family and friends. Why do that to bereaved people?