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@SandyofSuffolk Smaller businesses yes, but not the global corps who partake in aggressive tax evasion. Amazon as always being the poster child.

@gotitverywrong Companies are taxed now more than ever before.

Funnily enough, lefties, companies making profits is a good thing. It means they pay more tax and create more jobs. Just so you know.

@LeeHurstComic I do agree there is waste, but on the scale you propose I'm not sure cuts to waste alone are the answer. Lets not forget the great DOGE experiment by Reform found no meaningful savings.

@gotitverywrong Every day you read about waste. It is extraordinary. I see no problem stopping it.

Reform needs 5 headline grabbing, positive policies, that people can see benefits them. We know immigration and Net Zero is destroying us, but voters need to vote for a positive as well, not just the removal of a negative. Abolish the TV licence. This saves a family £180 a year. Raise the Income Tax Personal Allowance to £20,000. Raise the 40% tax band to £100,000. Cut fuel duty by 50%. Explain how it currently works, in all its gory detail and then abolish inheritance tax entirely. How do we pay for all of this? Cuts. The sums we waste are vast and we can stop wasting it. If other parties try and say it’s un costed, point out how much they have borrowed recently and that they clearly cannot be trusted to know how to cost anything. If Reform puts money back in people’s pockets, they will vote for them.

@reformexposed He’ll say whatever is convenient at the time. It’s all headlines, no accountability or scrutiny, the excuses are always lined up. A sickness that exists across all parties, but Reform and especially Farage are leading the way by miles.

Nigel Farage thinks his u-turn on reopening blast furnaces in Port Talbot is funny. He lies twice in this video, firstly that they were too expensive to re-open (his original pledge was after they had closed).

@elle__micht @SandyofSuffolk Fair enough, I had a friend who worked 4 days a week in public sector, got UC, got housing support as well. I've obviously over generalised, so apologise, but the criteria is opaque , especially with the taper effect.

@gotitverywrong @SandyofSuffolk What wider benefits? I’m just under, get very little, other benefits that come with UC are also income based I don’t get any housing, prescription, dental support, my kids dont qualify for college subsidised meals etc

Stop saying employers aren't paying enough that's why people need their wages topped up by Universal Credit. If you need your wages topping up because you're a bit short every month, get a second job or cut back your expenditure. It may have escaped your notice but businesses are going bust everywhere because of high energy costs, high business rates, minimum wage increases and higher employer's NI contributions. Employers can't pay more. Take some responsibility people. Stop expecting the state to bail you out!

@clairebubblepop The issue is wage stagnation. Over the last 20 years the uk has seen no growth in real wages, but the US has grown by over 10% in comparison. It’s not healthy, and means we are pushing more people into need.

So 1 in 8 Brits are claiming UC. Who are people blaming? Not the employers who don’t pay liveable wages. No not them it’s our fault for not getting a good enough job. Right, so who’s gonna do our jobs now? You know the simple answer is pay everyone a liveable fucking wage. Get me

@David__Osland This goes beyond supermarkets, I saw a Nurse earlier saying she received UC. The issue is the area where the extra work needed to break free of UC is disproportionate. This is a factor of over a decades wage stagnation, and the productivity gap.

I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.

@TheGriftReport Yet more made up nonsense rage bait. Well done.

£2,500 fine threat for flying the England flag on St George’s Day Households across Britain risk a massive £2,500 fine next Thursday for flying oversized St George’s flags on projecting flagpoles. Councils can enforce strict planning rules that limit flags to just 2 square metres, even though the government has “relaxed” the rules for national flags. Rooftop flags are mostly fine, but anything sticking out from the wall can land you in trouble. Locals are furious: patriotism now comes with a planning permission form and the threat of a huge penalty. Bureaucratic madness on England’s national day. Unlike in America where they encourage flags...

@TheChrisWray @JonathanPieNews Indeed there are examples, just not the one first posted. Although as we've heard not raising by the full 5% is being sold as a cut by Reform, so it's all meaningless anway.

@gotitverywrong @JonathanPieNews This one for the elections next month does though 😃

There's lying, and then there's lying to the point of making yourself look like a complete bellend.

@chinnychick The tide is turning slowly here. Whilst never suicidal I made a mess of a lot of things while I struggled to work myself out alone for fear of looking stupid. I have a son who echoes a lot of my younger traits, and he'll never be told to stop crying, but asked why and be heard.

Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a post about a male suicide at least once, if not twice per week on my socials. Not just veterans but civvy blokes who were smiling in their pics, seemingly hiding everything that was unraveling inside. From an early age little boys are taught that ‘big boys don’t cry’. Subliminal messages from childhood, amplified by social and gender pressures not to show weakness, to be the head of the family, to be the boss of the company. It’s a lot. A lot for anyone who has a good support network around them. But if that starts to crumble, due to divorce, new jobs, leaving the military etc life can get extremely heavy and lonely very quickly. You are NOT alone. So many out there feel the same, social media is showing us this with the ever increasing authentic posts from those brave enough to share their struggles. Please don’t suffer in silence. #mentalhealth #malesuicide

@bushontheradio Homemade pizzas, make your faces from the toppings

Solo parenting this weekend as Katie is away. I want to cook the girls the ULTIMATE DAD DINNER. What should I make them?

@BotFinderUK Unemployed next, then young.

If Reform/Restore had no migrants/pensioners or disabled people left to demonise, who would be next?

@sophielouisecc I cannot recomend enough reading this: amazon.co.uk/dp/1802063277?… To extend your argument should we allow children to drive and smoke? it's down the parents to stop it? When it comes down to something that is harmful for children, surely it is down the govt to act to protect them?

Good It’s entirely right to reject a ban on social media for U16s It is not the states job to police children’s social media usage That is a job for parents and we should stop delegating parenting to the state

@TiceRichard Oooh a performative letter, it’s been a while since reform did this one.

My letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard after his juvenile response to my serious question about defence funding. Armed forces personnel, veterans and voters deserve better from ministers.

@suespensley The issue to me is Farage's politics work to drive a change, but he's never shown he can deliver that change, all too often actively avoiding any responsibility or accountability. His work as an MEP was non existent, his filling of his party with opportunists all feels wrong.

A lot of people saying they would never vote for Nigel Farage as they don't trust him,presumably once trusted the Tories or the Labour party whom have both proven to be untrustworthy, Nigel has never been in government (yet) to be proven either way so I don't understand the logic

@100kDiary That wasn't your implication. Plus the majority of those costs, except maybe the insurance level, will apply to the 2K honda. Yes PCP is a drain on money, but you pitch the 2k as all in, vs 5400 costs for the pcp car?

@gotitverywrong Ah yes, nobody's ever taken out PCP on a used car.

The biggest wealth destroyer in the UK, along with PCP, is everything else that comes with it. £2,000 a year insurance. £1,800 a year fuel. £500 random repairs. £400 tyres. £300 MOT and service. £200 road tax. £200 parking permits and tickets. That's £5,400 a year just to sit in traffic and wave at the bloke in the £2k Honda doing the exact same commute. Same school run. Same Tesco car park. Same journey home. The only difference is he's not lying awake in January dreading the insurance renewal. Into an S&P 500 ISA: 10 years = £75k 15 years = £135k 20 years = £220k Your car isn't transport. It's a tax on status.