Helen and David Brown

Recycling beer, one pint at a time.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@adammocklerr Hate Hegseth, but I can't say that the Department of War image is real. That's an unused secondary name.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

I'm trying to understand whether Braverman is mad, thick, sponsored by somebody having a laugh or simply misguided.
https://t.co/OVGYVYEpZz

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@LizWebsterSBF Now, I'm not sure that Dave, Richie or Boris would have looked good in a nice royal blue two-piece skirt suit and pearl earrings. But I'd suggest that two of them may have tried them on in private.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@GBNews23653867 Just lonely, sad and full of bile. Usual day for her.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman too proud for benefits...

Went to university for free
Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program
Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years
Millions of pounds in expenses claims

She just doesn't call them benefits

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Says Reform, a party teeming with failed Tories.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@Readies4Rishi Less of the bald please. Coward is fine in this case though.😄

[Ros @ros_tinkler]

@dave43law 🤬

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@dave43law Yes, all them flipping cleaners, nurses, NHS doctors and care home staff are just feckless for not earning 100K!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The mantra appears to be
Hard work = High salaries
And we will look after you
Childcare if you earn over £100k
Scrap inheritance tax
Meanwhile the poorest and disabled
Cut their money as they are not productive
Same old Tories

[Sharon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @K4rmaRules]

Let's cut Whately's wages and expenses instead. We pay her rent, her mortgage, her council tax, her expenses and energy bills. Let's stop doing that.

[Sean Davids @MancTotter]

Three kids

Six taxpayer funded bedrooms

Tell me. Who are the benefit scroungers?

#bbclaurak

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Kemi Badenoch, "It doesn't matter what you earn, we don't want you to be punished for working harder"

My view: There is a pretty big assumption buried in that sentence: that earning more necessarily means you are working harder.

It doesn’t.

A care worker doing exhausting 12-hour shifts, a cleaner starting at 5am, a nurse working nights or someone juggling two minimum-wage jobs can work extraordinarily hard and still earn a fraction of someone sitting behind a desk on six figures.

ONS earnings data shows enormous differences in pay between occupations; wages reflect things like skills, bargaining power, scarcity, sector, seniority and ownership of capital — not simply effort.

In social care, for example, around 1.5 million people perform essential and often physically and emotionally demanding work, yet low pay and insecure employment remain widespread.

There is nothing wrong with arguing that people should be able to progress and keep a reasonable share of what they earn.

But politicians should be very careful about equating income with effort.

Some of the hardest-working people in Britain are also among the lowest paid.

[Enough’s Enough @Enoughsenough00]

🚨Reform MP Sarah Pochin stood up in Parliament and fretted about the damage second homes do to rural communities.
Forty-eight hours later she bought an £800,000 second home in Wales.
Nothing says “I feel your pain” quite like snapping up a holiday bolt-hole the moment you’ve finished lecturing everyone else about the problem.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@Telegraph This is the usual distorted hype. First, they are looking into the health element and replacing it with other support. Not simply abolishing it. Secondly, they are looking at it, and it is not confirmed policy.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@JohnRentoul When you say 'PM', you mean 'Past Master' at charging UK taxpayers thousands for her upkeep right?

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@LizWebsterSBF Its not often that I judge a person by their looks. Mike 'concrete' Graham, sacked by a scummy channel for being too scummy absolutely changes my mind. He should be in a dictionary as the definition of 'below zero'.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@dave43law What, the Tories are peddling unfounded BS to get noticed? I can't believe that. Said no-one.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@stoney632 Bang on, but balance that with your parents and grandparents. If you are worse off than they were, then we seriously need a revolution. All I see is decent people being gaslighted by rich a*holes who try to make you think your neighbours are the problem.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@GoodN67788 But she invented spray cream, so all is well.😄