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@Phil_Jones01 @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer I'm not offended, I hope uou get the help you need

It’s weird how so many people get offended by me saying I’ve rejoined the @UKLabour party and it is the greatest political movement in the history of civilisation and I’m very proud of my @UKLabour Government and its leader @Keir_Starmer

@NadiaWhittomeMP He got a ceasefire which is more than you would have done

Donald Trump is threatening to carry out horrific war crimes against the people of Iran this evening. The UK should be playing no part whatsoever in this illegal war. The government must stand up to Trump, ban the US from using UK bases and demand an immediate end to these attacks.

@ZackPolanski Maybe best if we get a military that works before dumping a country that helps protect us

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

@iAmJoshHunt Whats your plan for retirement?

Genuine question for anyone over 50… If your house dropped 20% in value, your state pension was means-tested, the triple lock was scrapped, and your private pension pot didn’t keep pace with inflation, what’s your plan? Because at least two of those things are coming. Probably three. And nobody is talking about it.

@ZackPolanski Starmer hasn't backed Trump, don't you watch the news And as for genocide 70k deaths out of several million population is not genocide Hypnosis may be your best bet as a career

Labour dredging up a 2013 Sun article as if that’s what matters. We’re living through a moment where the PM is complicit in genocide, backing a US President threatening destruction of civilisation. Every attack like this just exposes how hollow Labour’s politics is.

@GMB At least get your figures right x.com/i/status/20401…

More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock. But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?

@DuncanStott Except pensioners are taking less out than they put in Your hatred of pensioners is misled x.com/i/status/20401…

Pensioners get 4.8% added to their state benefits. Graduates get 6% added to their debt. It's not exactly subtle what they're doing.

@justaphag6 The state of the country is horrendous We pay £15bn a year to house, feed and support small boat illegal immigrants If you think these people work for the NHS you need to give your head a wobble Legal migration good Small boat migrants bad Its not complicated

Why do you support a general strike? Anyone under 60: The state of the country is horrendous, billionaires run riot and we have no mone… Over 60: GET THE FUCKING NON WHITES OUT NOW THEY ARE TAKING MY MILLIONS FUCKKKKKK I WANT MY PENSIONNNNN

@TomHCalver Not according to this report x.com/i/status/20401…

A reminder that baby boomers are expected to get back about 30% more from the state than they paid in - more than any other generation

@jonburkeUK I cant afford solar I cant afford a battery I cant afford an electric car Its not what I want but it is reality

You can’t afford an oil rig. You can’t afford a nuclear plant. Only states and billionaires can. But you can afford to turn your roof into a power plant. And that’s exactly why the fossil fuel industry and their puppets constantly attack renewable energy.

@RowennaDavis Lets hope the good people of Croydon do what's right Anything but Labour

Croydon. It’s time for NEW HOPE. Bring on May 7th! ❤️ rowennadavis.co.uk/mymanifesto

@stellacreasy We pay you £95k a year and all we get is gaslighting and lies

If you think today’s decision to lift the two child benefit cap doesn’t help you, think again. Ending child poverty will in the end help us all. Here’s how. Share to spread the word. #TrueLabour

@OliverJBradshaw Does this explain x.com/i/status/20401…

This weekend, boomers have been calling my generation entitled, ungrateful, and straight up lazy for questioning the state pension triple lock. Apart from a barrage of playground insults, the same old arguments kept coming: “We paid in our time,” “It’s your turn now,” “Just move somewhere cheaper,” “16% of you lot are out of work,” and “Stop buying coffee and going out.” Here’s the nasty truth they conveniently ignore. You talk about a fair “pay-it-forward” deal. But back when you worked, there were roughly five workers per pensioner. Today it’s 3.6. By the time we retire, it’ll be closer to 2.5. You had far more people sharing the load. That contract got stretched thin on our backs. You say you worked harder, faced 15% mortgages, had no luxuries, and Uni was basically free. Interest rates were brutal, sure. But you bought houses for 3-4 times your wages. Ours cost 8-10 times or more. Over-60s now hold 55% of the country’s entire housing wealth, nearly £3.84 trillion, mostly mortgage-free. Many of you enjoyed full mortgage interest tax relief (MIRAS) until 2000. We pay sky-high rents with zero tax relief while real wages have barely grown against inflation for 15 years. My generation was sold a lie, study hard, get the degree, land the good job, buy the house, pay your National Insurance, and the system will look after you. I know friends and colleagues who followed that script to the letter, straight-A students, graduate schemes, full time work from day one. Now in their late twenties, they’re still renting, saddled with £50k+ in loans, watching every spare pound vanish into rent and bills, while being called “entitled” for noticing the numbers don’t add up. “Just buy a house somewhere cheaper!” Sure, in towns where property is dirt cheap and jobs are non existent. Good careers don’t magically appear out of thin air. That advice is pure fantasy. “Just cut back on coffee and nights out”? As if skipping a £4 latte can magically fund a house deposit when homes cost 8-10 times our wages. Our money has far less purchasing power than yours ever did. We spend nearly 30% of our income on housing (up from 20% twenty years ago), and under-30s households devote 70% of their budget to essentials versus just 56% for over-65s. We’re not splashing on luxuries, we don’t want to live like hermits just to scrape by, and nor should we have to. You throw out the 16% youth unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds and call us bone idle. That’s not laziness, it’s a brutal job market. Job vacancies have tanked. We’re stuck in retail and hospitality roles that get cut first when times are tough, five times more likely to be on zero-hours contracts. Nearly a million of us (12.8%) are NEET simply because the jobs don't exist. Many of us are already paying National Insurance from the first insecure job we have, yet we’re still expected to bankroll your guaranteed above inflation rises. Work in Britain no long pays. The state pension already costs £138 billion a year, the second biggest single expense after the NHS. The triple lock alone will add £15.5 billion extra every year by 2030, three times the original forecast. Pension spending is heading from ~5% of GDP toward 7.7% in the coming decades, with more than half the extra burden coming directly from the triple lock itself. Waste exists elsewhere and public-sector pensions are far too generous, but this locked in, exploding cost is the elephant in the room, and they all need reviewing. I’m not pitting generations against each other or begrudging anyone a dignified retirement. But the system you defend hands one generation guaranteed rises no matter what the economy does, while the shrinking number of us paying the bill gets saddled with a heavier and heavier bag. I’m not against pensioners. I’m against a policy that’s mathematically doomed and dumps the heaviest load on fewer and fewer contributors. The truly entitled position is demanding a blank cheque forever while slapping down facts as “division” or “whining” or pretending our small treats are the problem. So go ahead, tell me exactly where I’m wrong. But this time skip the playground insults calling me and my generation entitled and lazy. I’m done being polite about a system that screws my generation while you demand a blank cheque.

@jessgill03 Thirdly When you retire you are on a fixed "bucket" of money When that runs out you are screwed as you are unlikely to be employable If you are employable you take away jobs that young people could do to enable them to earn money

It’s insane how little compassion so many boomers have for young people.

@jessgill03 Secondly if all those pensioners sell the house they live in and downsize they will be taking the very housing stock young people want to buy

@jessgill03 Its insane how little compassion the young have for pensioners Firstl they put in more than they take out. See below x.com/i/status/20401…

@kokeshimum And pensioners are making the point that they are taking out less then they put in Make the pension the living wage x.com/i/status/20401…

I want pensioners to have a really nice comfortable retirement. And today the majority of them do and would continue to do so without the WFA and without the triple lock. Some would even do so without the state pension at all. Thats the point people are making.

@lukejcr The only people Labour are on the side of is wasters Labour rotten to the core

I’m an MP with a Plan 2 student loan myself, so I know exactly how millions feel about interest rates. Capping them at 6% is a clear signal: Labour is on the side of hardworking graduates and is tackling the cost of living head-on. 💪

@lukejcr You earn over £90k a year Why don't you just pay it off?

@ZackPolanski Explain how 70k deaths out of several million is a genocide

A lot of words to say Angela supports the Genocide. And the Telegraph publishes this pretty disgraceful attempted policing of my Jewish-ness. Unsurprising when the Green Party have come top of a poll - they just attack relentlessly rather than offer anything positive.