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@bluewmist Mattress

What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie?

@ERBeaumont @linmeitalks That makes zero sense 🫠 they are paying a rent that doesn't allow for landlord to make a profit. That rent is more affordable as a result. Perhaps we should do something about ridiculous private rents instead

@QueenBx @linmeitalks Their lifestyle is subsidised by the tax payer because they are paying cheap rates for rent, which means they have lots more disposable income.

Many people were given social housing when they NEEDED it. Many of those people are now on £70-150k jobs paying £600 in tent for a two bed flat in elephant and castle 😂 I’ve said this multiple times - social housing should be attached to HMRC or there should be regular audits on how much a household earns - if you are over a certain threshold regarding salary, you should give your council house back for someone who really needs it…. But this may lead to less productivity and ambition as people would rather stay in central London or a city on subsidised rent🤷🏽‍♀️

@ERBeaumont @linmeitalks It isn't subsidised, they can't make a profit on the rent and therefore it is just a basic price. Unlike private landlords who can make a profit and private rentals are overinflated. Social housing rents are where private ones should be if non profit making was allowed

@linmeitalks They are staying in those properties on subsidised rent anyway! I know several people who have no plans to move out despite now earning > £50k because it affords them far more disposable income. They take several expensive holidays a year and go to abroad events like Tomorrowland

@ukboomers A £200 second hand tv sale is not funding a deposit unless you are buying a house in an ant colony

What I would do if I was starting over on the property ladder today. Sell the 65 inch television. That's a deposit in some parts of the country. We didn't have a colour TV until 1979. No holidays abroad and no cruises. We didn't see Spain until we bought a flat there. Forget the word takeaway coffee and buy a jar of Nescafe. Get a second job. I worked every Saturday for the whole summer. Be kind to your landlord. Never complain about the mould at the property. Nobody wants to help someone who moans. Save every penny for one summer and put down a deposit on a modest starter home. I followed all of these and I got a 5 bed in 1982.

@NoLongerTheFuzz I work with families of children with additional needs. 90% of them are able to recognise when they need to report things. It being your child doesn't negate you from doing the right thing.

Today the Southport Inquiry published its findings. I’m not talking about the agencies right now. I’m talking about his parents. Because somebody fucking has to. I’m a former detective. 21 yrs in the force, I know what I’m looking at🧵👇

@Matt_Pinner Swede

I’m currently having a blazing argument, please help me settle this once and for all. What is this???

@RoyalMail that's funny, the address was fully accessible. I also had another delivery by another company at 19.35. I object to your failure to deliver being put down as address inaccessible to cover your own backs.

@PaulBushen @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Except this doesn't happen in reality! Everyone in my public sector job who does 4 days just do 8-6 for 4 hours instead of 9-5 for 5

A council job with a four-day working week for five days’ pay. Nice if you can get it. Not so nice when taxpayers are paying the bill. We deserve full-time services for full-time pay. The @Conservatives will ban this ridiculous policy and get Britain working again.

@sophielouisecc If they are doing 4 days for 5 days pay then they will be doing 4 x 10 hour days instead of 5 x 7.5

No one employed by the tax payer should be working a 4 day week Unless they are part time and are paid accordingly

@Nano0265 @GBPolitcs Civil service have offices around the country. To get to London + cheap hotels + food for a couple of nights is not cheap even on a budget. Trains will be a big chunk of it!

🚨NEW: Senior civil servants are billing taxpayers thousands of pounds for journeys to their own departmental headquarters in London, newly published figures reveal One Department for Transport employee submitted claims totalling £7,019.58 for just nine visits to the capital, averaging nearly £780 per trip when factoring in overnight accommodation and meals

@GBPolitcs They are likely based elsewhere and go to headquarters for certain things. I'm based in one location for my job and if I need to go to HQ why should it not be reimbursed?

@RobertJenrick And reform just won't get staff willing to work in the public sector. Generally people will tolerate the much lower public salaries because the pension is better. I work in the public sect and could earn triple doing my job elsewhere, I wouldn't stick around losing the only perk

Defined benefit public sector pensions are the British state’s second largest liability. They’re about £2.4 trillion - around 100 per cent of GDP. The old parties have ducked this for years. Most of the media won’t talk about it either. But Reform UK will not dodge this mammoth issue. Richard Tice has already announced that a Reform would close Local Government Pension Schemes to new entrants. And today Reform UK launched a review of whether new entrants for any defined benefit scheme should be permitted to such schemes. Reform UK have already announced £40bn of yearly savings. In the coming weeks, we’ll be saying more about the true cost of the Boriswave and unskilled migration we’ve had - and how Reform will stop it blowing a hole in the country’s finances. And we will commit to more savings in the coming months. It’s because we are the only the party with a plan to cut wasteful spending that we can credibly commit to keeping the triple lock. So, yes: we’ll balance the books. We just won’t do it on the backs of British people who’ve paid in their whole life. Instead, we’ll save tens of billions by resetting Government spending so it puts the British people – and only the British people – first.  Politics is about choices.  And we choose the British people. We will every time.

@kevinf567 It feeds them and keeps eyes on them which reduces the need for expensive child protection plans

Still can’t believe we subsidise unemployed people to send their children to school in the holidays so they don’t have to spend time with them but if you’re employed you don’t get that subsidy and not only that, you can’t even pay money to send your child too.

@MichaelAArouet You don't get 31k of childcare paid if you are only earning 10k a year 🤣🤣🤣

Something is clearly out of balance when someone earning £10k and someone earning £140k take home the same net amount. No wonder so many hard-working people and entrepreneurs are leaving the UK. Would you want to live in a country that punishes hard work and jobs creation?

@Mishi_2210 1050

Your brain might say 300, but it isn’t. So what is it?

@Legal_Eagle_52 @eurofounder In England for something like this you'd be seen and scanned and diagnosed within 2 weeks under the 2 week wait. The American propaganda about other health systems is wildly inaccurate

@eurofounder In the US you'd have an appointment the next week. Our healthcare is expensive, but not waiting months with anxiety is well worth it in this case. I'd run the results through several AIs and see if you can get a consensus.

My wife found a strange lump on her breast last week She panicked and uploaded a photo to ChatGPT "This shows early signs of breast cancer. Please see your doctor immediately" She came to me in tears "Honey, this is exactly why I don't let you use AI" I said "It lies and creates unrealistic expectations about healthcare" "But why would it lie?" she was crying "It's trained to push you toward expensive paid visits" That's their entire dirty American business model I told her she has nothing to worry about She calmed down and got on a free waiting list for an appointment in October The EU public health system works if you trust it

@Alby_1878 Are you aware the person who battered Huntley is a triple murderer and murdered and raped a pregnant woman? Arguably even worse than Huntley.

@Amelia558rs Nancy

Vintage old lady name for this DOG please

@seanspicer The majority of Brits want no part in this American nonsense after the way Trump has talked down and mocked us. Can't go throwing nonsense and then expect them at your beck and call. The US has shown the UK no loyalty, at all.

just a reminder, our good buddies the British refused to allow the US military to operate out of any of their bases