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@GMB £2 is neither here nor there, but would that money go directly to those tourist locations?

Butlin's CEO says that plans for a "tourist tax" could make holidays unaffordable, while the government claims it could raise money for better transport and infrastructure. Should tourists be targeted with a £2 per night tax?

@narindertweets Absolutely nothing to do with care, predominantly it’ll be down to the health of the individual, possibly genetics and the culture.

Figures show Black and Asian mothers are more likely to die in pregnancy, during childbirth, or the immediate postnatal period, compared to white women. No baby or woman should be dying during childbirth because of the colour of their skin in Britain 2026.

@CrossmanKirsten @narindertweets This rarely happens in industry where they don’t have such a ridiculous length of sick pay, the system is abused. It’s a similar story in teaching and most civil service jobs, cracking sick pay and union backing. It needs to stop.

@FrankBefield @narindertweets Maybe some do but also many have health conditions themselves & unless you have access to their personal conditions how do you know.

Imagine sneering at NHS STAFF worked to the bone taking care of Brits whilst paying as little into the tax pot as you can even though you're raking it in financially. They’re off sick because they’re burnt out, not because they’re lazy. Frankly, they contribute more to this country in a week than you have in a lifetime.

@Alan_Turings @Heccles94 I doubt that because 25% of your council tax goes towards pensions so that would leave 5% for everything else.

Most graduates aren’t on 100k a year. Nurses graduate with 50-60k debt and are on 30k a year. Abolish tuition fees.

@CrossmanKirsten @narindertweets I think that you got the wrong end of the stick. I have two close friends working within the NHS, both state that some members of staff abuse the system by having long periods of time off sick. This occurs time and time again and the management are powerless

@FrankBefield @narindertweets Not true. I work for tje NHS & in my role am constsntly exposed to bacteria & viruses. We do not expose vulnerable patients to those illnesses & some bugs can close entire wards.

@wilf_oh_wilf @Heccles94 I stand corrected. We are stuffed and I hate to think what would happen if the Greens gained power, but there is part of me that wants a “I told you so” moment.

@FrankBefield @Heccles94 Frank, interest is over £9 billion a month, not £1 billion. That's according to the OBR. We're fucked.

Government income is well over 1 trillion pounds. Welfare is 330 billion. Ignore the right wing lunatics.

@narindertweets @MayorofLondon The boredom card again. If youth boredom leads to trouble, rural areas would be awash with mugging, stabbing and riots, but they’re not. It’s down to dysfunctional families and a lack of boundaries.

Great to see @MayorofLondon backing £30m for much needed youth clubs in London. Youth clubs aren’t just places to hang out, they’re lifelines. They help teens stay off the streets.

@paget_old Our locals are full of kids(18-25). Go back 5 years and it was a different story but they’re back in force now.

When I was a kid, working in bars, I made £3.50 an hour. Pints were 65p. I could work for an hour to afford five drinks. These days, the kids are earning what, a tenner an hour? How much is a drink in a pub now? No wonder they stay at home.

@BrixtonHatter Ideas created by inner city loons. Those 320 miles to Cornwall would be a nightmare, if anything they should raise it.

Driving at 55mph produces fewer emissions than driving at 70. Petrol cars are most efficient at 45-60mph. Aerodynamic drag rises sharply as you go faster. 55mph is near optimal MPG. At 70mph fuel economy is 10-25% worse. Driving at 70 costs more, pollutes more &helps Putin & Iran

@Diviinvestor @David__Osland Start by pointing out that 25% of your Council Tax pays for those lucrative pensions not your local services. A figure that isn’t widely publicised.

@FrankBefield @David__Osland Civil servants/ public sector pension entitlements have beaten all others. But which politician will be brave, though politically stupid enough to blow the whistle on the generosity of the state employee package?

When I started paying National Insurance contributions in 1976, the deal was that I'd get a pension providing for a basic standard of living in a then-unimaginable 50 years' time. But now I've finally got there, it's just half the minimum wage.

@andy_tay1 @narindertweets That tweet is spot on, do a little digging, ask a few NHS staff and all will be revealed

@narindertweets What the clown doesn't realise is, that tweet just cost him a shed full of votes.

@Heccles94 Lower business rates and the minimum wage to encourage growth and employment.

Would you rather the government lowered tax? Or increased wages?

@bjc5473 @terryelaineh1 @BenediktHoratio @David__Osland I’ve have mates who retired from the Railway at 57 on £35k a year pension and £100k+ lump sum. My old man retired from Rolls Royce at 55 with a cracking pension, he’s 91 this year. Teachers and NHS workers can retire pretty comfortably in their mid fifties too.

@FrankBefield @terryelaineh1 @BenediktHoratio @David__Osland Or like some civil servants £85k a year & a lump sum of £250k. Why are they worth more than any other worker. Ex pension minister.Retired at 61😤

@BenediktHoratio @David__Osland I’m alright Jack. I’ll be retired before I’m sixty, others I know aren’t so lucky. We hear people shouting about the living wage, maybe it’s time to start pushing for a living pension equivalent. If you worked all of your life maybe you should get a £25k pension as a thank you .

@FrankBefield @David__Osland So you blew it all and are now on benefits. Sounds like you should have worked harder and saved your money.

@RagTopHat @kokeshimum It’s all down to choice. A few have gone down the trades route, others engineering. Might not be everybody’s taste but they’ll earn £60k+ and have no debt. AI is destroying the graduate job market, the younger gen really need to look to the future and take the correct job route.

@FrankBefield @kokeshimum Find me any entry level role which doesn’t require a degree. Pretty much every middle class profession requires a degree where as 20 years ago, you could get in them straight out of school and college

In 1991 35% of 16-24 year olds had a mortgage and bought their own home. Today it’s 1%. And absolutely nothing is being done to fix this.