Vix

Idling always has been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter - it's a gift

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water apologises after Winchester milestone removed."

So there's a mile stone on the Andover Road just outside Winchester, it's been there for 100s of years, guess who digs it up and then dumps it along with a load of other building waste in the local landfill?

Yep, step forward Southern Water.

https://t.co/ebnmnOoDAn

[Cat @catdeans]

WOW!! Well done UK!! @denbypottery is now SO close to the 100k signatures the petition needs! If you care about British craftsmanship, about handmade over mass-produced, please sign and share this https://t.co/f7txedOvQz

[Vix @3forlunch]

@crf_esq @VisionaryVoid Of course not! She'll have been told she was overly anxious

[Trevor Marshall 💙 @therealtrevorm]

@johninsouthfla The poor and middle classes pay taxes
The rich pay accountants
The really rich pay lawyers
The really seriously rich pay politicians

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[Vix @3forlunch]

@LBC @RachelSJohnson No pension till 67 Rache love - do you think that we’re all working for the fun of it?

[Vix @3forlunch]

@indigojo_uk @naomicfisher Hmm, unfortunately (and I’m not saying what’s better or worse), the coursework also tests whether you’ve got pushy middle class parents who do it for you as well - giving a huge unfair advantage.

[Vix @3forlunch]

@medicalmodelbri @NHSForthValley Dear lord

[Vix @3forlunch]

@raven_brah 😂😂you’re funny - we DIDN’T have a fridge/freezer, tv, washing machine, central heating or phone when I was growing up - I’d never even heard of fast food - I’d never even been in a restaurant! We’d never visited a hairdresser, beauty parlour or had a manicure, I could go on….

[Jen Johnston @LittlePersonDoc]

@medicalmodelbri @Mary_Tom11 Practising medicine. Without a license. Doing that thing that the GMC was created to prevent. Hey ho.

[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

A dr will have completed 7 to 8 years of training before administering their first anaesthetic, and will be fully supervised by a consultant throughout. A non-dr Physician Assistant in Anaesthesia has 2 years of training and often works unsupervised. Who would you choose?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[AM Gbadebo @AMGbadebo]

@NadineDorries Nadine Dorries, the Online Safety Act was your doing.

I genuinely can’t find a strong enough word right now to describe how furious I am with you.

We really do need to start putting politicians in jail for lies and failures.

https://t.co/NwluEc60mt

[Tony Ward @TonyWard867811]

Your father retired at sixty.

He bought a caravan. He saw his grandkids on Tuesdays. He had time.

You are sixty four. Your knees are gone. Your back is ruined.

And they have moved the line again. Sixty seven. Then sixty eight. Then sixty nine.

They sold three years of your retirement to balance their books.

They sold five years of your wife's pension to balance their books.

They will sell your children's whole retirement before they are done.

Healthy life expectancy in this country is sixty three. You will retire sick. If you retire at all.

The printer at Threadneedle Street never stops. The spending at the Treasury never stops. The excuses at Downing Street never stop.

Three machines grinding through your life.

You were not given more years to enjoy.

You were given more years to serve.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Now there's a very, very good question.

Thames Water have now admitted that they are not treating (dousing) their sewage for phosphate due to a "supply issue". That by the way has a massive and negative impact on water quality and aquatic life.

Funny they didn't mention any of that until they were called out on it.

How many other WCs I wonder are having supply issues?

[Vix @3forlunch]

@anishmoonka Helluva way to get out of helping his son with his homework

[Vix @3forlunch]

@_CatintheHat Why is it better?

[The BMA @TheBMA]

81% of doctors fear patients are being put at risk because of how advanced practitioners are being used by employers in the NHS.

Read more from @TheDrMagazine 👇

[Sonny @rawespresso]

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.

That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it.

In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel.

If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700.

Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030.

The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels.

The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.

[Vix @3forlunch]

@happyathome44 @_CatintheHat Absolutely - initially told my (eventually diagnosed) Crohn’s was phantom pain (???) and anxiety 🙄