Totnes Tim
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@10DowningStreet @Keir_Starmer Maybe you’d have more money to help if you’d managed to get your welfare reforms passed by your own party or supported businesses to grow the economy?
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This government will continue to pull every lever possible to support you with the cost of living.
We are working together with leaders across the energy, finance and insurance sectors to protect the British people from the impact of conflict in the Middle East.
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @StephenMor49371 I disagree. People see him as a weak leader unable to get welfare reforms passed by his own party, multiple u turns, tax rises, lying about economic forecasts, scaling back green policy and his own party very divided.
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@StephenMor49371 I know. I'm not disputing that. I just don't think very much of it is Starmer's fault, and that he's doing a fairly reasonable job under very difficult circumstances. The vehement hatred comes from something else: a collapse of the legitimacy of the political system as a whole.
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The intense, irrational hatred of Starmer is fascinating. He is by no means the 'worst PM ever'. He merely has the misfortune to be PM when the legitimacy of the state is at a low ebb, society is more divided than ever, people angrier, and the far-right bolder and better funded.
Danny - #AVFC@danielhavfc
The hate for Starmer is so fake and forced btw. Tories did FAR worse in those 14 years and people acting like it didn't happen.
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer I think you’re a bit delusional and patronising. There’s plenty of legitimate rational reasons why people have turned away from Starmer and Labour.
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Now Australia too has halved tax on fuel.
As petrol and diesel surge, Reeves does nothing.
Elect a bunch of people who barely drive and this is what you get.
This can’t hold.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Reform calls for emergency HALVING of VAT on fuel for three months as Brits get battered by 'Trumpflation' at the pumps trib.al/pnE175f
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I've spoken to quite a few people recently who still hate Margaret Thatcher for what she supposedly did to the coal mining industry 40 years ago, but they fully support Mad Red Ed Milliband destroying the UK oil and gas industry.
Strange people.
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Virtually no Labour MPs come from industry or business, and almost certainly have no idea how wealth is generated. No wonder the economy is tanking.
Christopher Hope📝@christopherhope
This is an astonishing fact from today’s Sunday Times. At least 224 out of 257 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024 came from either charities or communications/lobbying agencies, or were formerly “political employees”. It explains so much about Labour backbenchers’ priorities.
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Great to see a Muslim MP questioning face coverings.
Adnan Hussain MP@AdnanHussainMP
Why do we have masked police officers?
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@PreetKGillMP Yeah thanks a lot. Now we have to pay staff for having a cold, hangover or headache, even if they’ve never worked a day for us.
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Zack Polanski talking nonsense.
Labour has delivered the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation through the Employment Rights Act, strengthening protections, improving pay & backing working people.
That’s not “turning our backs” on the working class that’s delivery
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Labour voters are now those who are financially best off. This is because Labour have turned their backs on the working class to placate the wealthy. The unions have noticed and are liking what they see in a Green Party committed to workers right and affordability.
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A big part of the difference is simply that plastic windows are incredibly ugly.
Bobbie@bo66ie29
The same street, 70 years apart. Hale Road, Walton, Liverpool. It looked immaculate in the 1950s compared to today. Why did people stop caring about their communities?
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I'm guessing the Yezidis are a bit Islamophobic
Imtiaz Mahmood@ImtiazMadmood
500K Yezidis faced Genocide because they refused to convert to lslam! 10K killed, 7K Yezidi women kidnapped,raped & sold, lSlS burned 19 Yezidi girls alive to death for refusing lslam & sex slavery and beheaded 50! 80 Yezidi women were buried alive for being old for sex slavery! - @AzatAlsalim
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The insanity of this cannot be overstated.
The UK defines relative poverty as living in a household with income below 60% of the median income in that year.
Because the Boriswave are mostly low-wage, low-skill migrants, many meet this definition the second they step foot in Britain.
And because of this, MPs are now arguing this is the group that should be allowed to obtain ILR and permanently settle in Britain, so they can claim benefits and increase the welfare bill further.
All this while tax thresholds for working British people have been frozen since 2021 and are set to remain frozen into the 2030s.
Just look at the number of people with ILR status who are claiming Universal Credit, in April 2022, it was 95,612, in January 2026, it's 222,076, that's a 132% increase.
Britain cannot afford the Boriswave being allowed to settle.
Emily Thornberry@EmilyThornberry
Half of all migrant children currently live in poverty - an already shameful statistic. But the Earned Settlement model will see that poverty prolonged for 90,000 children in working migrant families. That's why my community says the Government must think again.
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@narindertweets @BruceHBond @ZackPolanski A serious politician would dance next to that on stage…….or think that they could inflate breasts with their mind.
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@BruceHBond @ZackPolanski So what if someone was in whatever gear??! Did they commit a crime? How does that reflect on Zack??
And many of us left after the march including Mothin!
I did too!
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I can't believe people have lost their TINY miniscule minds because Zack Polanski....DANCED.
Hahaha- seriously, what is wrong with you?
@ZackPolanski is genuinely genuinely one of the most kindest, warmest, ZERO egotistical men I've ever met.
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Modern Britain is little more than a two-tier society in which hard-working taxpayers have to shoulder an increasingly unsustainable burden, with politicians and benefit claimants being the only ones protected from economic struggles.
Something's got to give.
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Seem pretty bitter and twisted.
And after years of injecting poison into Britain - disappeared off to France.
We'll keep dancing now you're gone! 🕺🏽
Andrew Neil@afneil
We have this Green party leader dancing around like a demented numpty and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey mounting one stupid stunt after another. Polls currently give them around 35% of the vote combined. No wonder we are increasingly regarded as not a serious country. Because we’re not.
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A 6.2% rise for welfare is a slap in the face of every hard working man and woman in Britain who gets up every day, goes to work, and will not see this type of pay rise.
Why is it always us who get left behind?
Voice of Reason@brexitblog_info
“Betrayal of the strivers: Fury as benefit claimants get 6.2% rise this week” Thanks to Labour’s ruinous economic incompetence the economy is not growing. But instead of freezing or cutting benefits, they’re increasing them by a staggering 6.2%. Mad. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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@LeoMontague91 @lewis_goodall Nah, now Boris was actually hounded out by the media. By the likes of @PaulBrandITV , @PippaCrerar, @BethRigby and @SamCoatesSky.
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Absolute garbage @lewis_goodall - the press attempted to hound him out, and he (and the Labour Party) rightly refused. Every single ounce of the hate for Starmer, the story line about how unpopular he is, has been manufactured by the press and become self fulfilling. All of it.
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
@KeithMa95432918 @bottomley50 @Helenus_ @Channel4 He was nearly removed from office a month ago. Labour is polling at historic lows. He has at points been the most unpopular PM since records began. I’d say, politically, it’s all gone wrong yes.
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