I earn £100 grand a year.
I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker.
I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today.
My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson.
That is a disgrace.
We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations.
Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free.
We need something radical.
Less state.
More family.
Less handouts.
More reward for risk.
Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
All referees take note 👍🏻
Defenders can’t actually defend anymore so just hit the deck and get a free kick every time. Good to see some refs not falling for it
This is an absolute disgrace. BBC Bitesize are blatantly brainwashing our children with open border, pro-illegal migrant, dangerous leftist ideology.
This is why I instictively don't let my daughter anywhere near this nonsense.
Great work @Alexarmstrong
A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and about 24 others (mostly students and teachers) injured on a northern Israel school trip on Oct 12 when an unexploded Hezbollah cluster munition detonated after being handled. Israeli military sources link it to prior Hezbollah fire. BBC has published no report on it.
Today, I announced that there will be NO ASYLUM SYSTEM under a Reform government. It will be suspended.
Since 2000, we have granted legions of people asylum. Whilst some fled persecution, many have scammed Britain.
They came illegally - by lorry or boat, or by overstaying their visa. And then claimed asylum. Most have received hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits and state support whilst here - NHS, dental care, food, hotels, HMOs, and welfare.
Terrorists, murderers and rapists have broken in. It is a national security emergency.
Successive Prime Ministers have betrayed our country by failing to stop this.
As Prime Minister, I will end the scam.
But what we've set out today goes beyond this.
The scale of the betrayal is so great a major response is needed. That’s why Zia and I gave more detail on Operation Restoring Justice today.
All of the Tories' and Labour's immigration schemes - Afghanistan, Palestine - will immediately be closed.
Every asylum grant given in the prior 5 years will be reviewed. Those who came illegally, or from a safe country, will have their asylum grant revoked and be deported.
Countries that refuse to take back their illegal migrants and criminals will face visa bans, sanctions, and tariffs.
The few who genuinely cannot go back to their home country will go to safe third countries we strike deals with.
We will review everyone granted asylum under the ludicrously suppressed Afghanistan schemes. Those who directly helped our armed forces in combat will keep their asylum grant. That’s only right.
But all the others will have to leave. If Afghanistan won't take them back, we will strike deals with safe third countries to do so.
All foreign nationals convicted of crime will be deported.
All migrant welfare will end. All the loopholes will be closed.
And we will make it IMPOSSIBLE to live in Britain illegally.
We'll massively hike penalties for landlords renting to, and businesses employing, illegal migrants.
And we'll enable and encourage all parts of local government to conduct migration checks - housing, trading standards, environmental health, and licensing. This will mean 10 times more migration enforcement capacity.
And, critically, councils will be allowed to KEEP the fines on landlords and employers they levy.
Councils will then have a huge incentive to identify illegal migrants and send the data to Deportation Command, who will oversee the exit of these illegal migrants from Britain. Councils will therefore be incentivised to hire more officials, identify more illegal migrants, and levy more fines.
This will make it impossible to live in Britain illegally, let alone thrive. Illegal migrants won't be able to rent or work, and certainly not get welfare.
Hundreds of thousands will voluntarily leave. And we will enforce the deportation of everyone illegally here who doesn't.
All in all, this plan will see well over a million people who are here illegally (or who came here illegally) leave Britain.
It will restore justice.
Well Humza, how do you reconcile child marriage, wife beating, clitorectomies and stoning women...with
traditional English values
Do you see a compromise ? Child marriage is OK if the girl is over ten, perhaps ?
A meeting point, half way ? Stoning women only with pieces of wood ?
Removing only half the clitoris ?
Let's have some suggestions, please, Humza
Listen to his words. He watched it. A girl shot in her own home and filmed while she bled. Two little boys, one holding his brother’s arm. Shiri Bibas, watching, already knowing.
Then the same people go out on British streets every week and call it a protest. A man in a mock suicide vest. Police told. Nothing done.
We will never forgive what they did. Not the ones who did it. Not the ones who march for it.
The European Parliament just voted to call for the Muslim Brotherhood to be added to the EU's terror list.
So why on earth haven't we?
It’s clear the Muslim Brotherhood and its extremist ideas have no place in Britain.
Reform will proscribe it as a terrorist organisation.
This international break has been longer than pre season, load of absolute shite, get it in the bin, do it all in the summer and stop ruining the football seasons with this garbage, nobody is interested.
The United Kingdom is releasing five Muslim terrorists accused of planning an attack on an American airbase.
They should just officially rename themselves the United Islamic Kingdom and get it over with.
What is clear is they are no longer a reliable ally of the United States.
RAF base terror suspects released on bail. Danny Tommo remanded, behind bars, yet these men are free to walk.
I am absolutely astonished. It is a disgrace.
A Restore Britain Government will crush our two-tier justice system and legally pursue those responsible.