Peter
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@Peston Are we not in this mess because of the @Conservatives govt. of the 1980's? The policy of sell, sell, sell: water, gas, electricity, railways, housing & so many industries. Selling to the richest bidder & no reinvestment has left us in a truly awful position.
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@thatginamiller And when everyone is granted asylum where are they housed, which doctors, hospital, care homes, schools.
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Politicians have different views but don't have different facts, and need to be challenged on the detail. #SuellaBraverman says 20,000 more police. No, there're 3,000 more after replacing cuts by Cameron
As a lawyer, I'm presuming Mrs Braverman knows a person in the UK is tagged as a result of a court order. Tags send signals to a monitoring centre from the person's place of curfew - do the courts & monitoring centres have capacity? Isn't this just adding more costs to the enormous cost of housing unprocessed #asylumseekers ?
She says she'll 'remove illegal migrants more swiftly", where to?
Sunak & Braverman need to stop wasting millions of our taxes on PR stunts and come up with robust solutions - eg turbo charge processing, restore promised Afghan scheme and set up legal routes
Reminder - youtu.be/hQvh6qDrOMw?si…

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@thatginamiller Please tell me where in Eutope those responses you have given are better than UK
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Why have news outlets been saying all day that 70% of leavers would vote leave again.
It was based on Question Time Leave audience in Clacton, not proper polling. BBC audience was asked whether Brexit was the right thing to do:
70% still agreed
20% would vote differently
10% were unsure
Professional polling:
52.6% think UK was wrong to leave.
Of that number, 69% of 16 - 44 yrs think UK was wrong to leave v 27% of 65+
trueandfairparty.uk/time_to_pull_t…
@VoteTrueAndFair
@LBC
@PaulBrandITV
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@MartinSLewis I'm not sure that your current colleague Richard Madeley, or one of your predecessors, Piers Morgan tie in with the accusation of ITV being a left wing channel anyway! 🤔🤣
Keep doing what you are doing Martin - it is much appreciated! 👏👏👏
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£140m wasted on a vile, immoral and impractical scam to incite hate mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@KatParmar Surely you knew the salary when you chose this occupation
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Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike

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@jessphillips Eat out to help out did not take personal responsibility away. It was your choice to go out or not and if you did, keep your distance
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@Kevin_Maguire About time you was and put in to the position of most miserable bloke on the planet
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@Kevin_Maguire Once again Maguire, spirting your opinion without knowing the facts
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@jessphillips Bloke came here with nothing and built a multi million pound company while you were busy boozing and being a party animal as a teenager, say no more
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Who amongst us hasn't been careless with a couple of million quids?
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Tory party chair Nadhim Zahawi claims error with his taxes was “careless not deliberate”… theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…
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@MartinSLewis Make different choices. Guess what it doesn't come down to chose between heating or eating. You can't live like you used to. Budget properly and get through this
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PS if you're wondering why the different amounts. Its so they will be able to pin point which payment you've had and which not more easily if there are problems (which is actually quite clever)
Martin Lewis@MartinSLewis
UPDATE: On the £900 cost of living payment for 8m on means-tested benefits. It'll come in 3 instalments - £301 'Spring' 23 (as its for the next tax year, it'll be after 6 April) - £300 'Autumn' 23 (I'd guess Oct/Nov) - £299 'Spring' 24 (I'd guess before tax year ends on 6 April)
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@Kevin_Maguire We all were asked to pay more NI to help solve the bed blocking care crisis. Apparently It was not the right time because of cost of living crisis. It is always ' not the right time' and therefore the problem will never be fixed. Also too many unnecessary admin roles in NHS.
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Remember how many hundreds are dying needlessly on Rishi Sunak and Stephen Barclay’s watch if the Tories cynically wave shrouds during strikes by ambulance crews and nurses mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@_PeterHunt Her safety. What are you talking about. Go to US forget about UK. Oh no, let's make a documentary. Charles ain't even his dad. Nice work lady Di
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The NHS cannot become a volunteer service.
Labour will abolish the non-dom tax status to train 7,500 more doctors and 10,000 more nurses & midwives a year.
The NHS needs doctors and nurses more than the wealthiest need a tax break.
theguardian.com/society/2022/d…
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