A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.
Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.
A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.
The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.
Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.
The BBC’s framing of the violent, far-left destruction across France waged, largely, by groups of ethnic minorities is quite staggering…even for the BBC.
POV: You worked 60 hour weeks for 10 years to finally afford a new build house and move out your flat.
You just waved hello to your new neighbour.
She arrived in Britain 6 months ago, moved in yesterday.
🇯🇵 No, BBC. We are not "struggling with our identity" in Japan. It is you who is struggling with your identity.
We know who we are. We are Japanese. We are not Muslims. We have temples and shrines. We do not have mosques.
We will never forget who we are even if you do.
When referencing Muslim thuggery in France, the French media refers to them as "Les Jeunes." The youth. But the youth are not Vietnamese youth; they are not Japanese youth; they are not Hasidic Jews youth. They are Muslims but it is mean and Islamophobic to call them by their actual identity. In Britain, the Pakistani child rapists are called "Asian men." Now the mayhem in France is apparently not due to Muslim youth but to "high school protesters." ANYTHING is better than to be accused of Islamophobia. Give up your children, your women, your heritage, your society, your religion, your culture, your civilization but don't you dare be Islamophobic.
🚨The UK just secretly flew 24,000 Afghans into the country and made it illegal for the press to even cover the story. Now, it turns out all of them get free housing and welfare for "the rest of their lives" without ever having to work.
Doomed country.
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.
The footage is real. The silence is louder.
France burns. Networks look away. Algorithms throttle. Narratives override reality.
We don't do that here.
Alex Phillips. Unfiltered. Unthrottled. Unsilenced.
Watch.
No migrants from Afghanistan
No migrants from Palestine
No migrants from the Third World
No migrants on small boats
No migrants who break our laws
Vote Reform.
Leave the ECHR.
Control our borders & laws.
Put British people first.
@Heccles94 It scares me that the British left will side with Islamists against their own people in the forthcoming sectarian conflict. Their ancestors would be ashamed.
So they are net contributors to the Thai economy, have no access to Thai welfare, must pay for all govt services, including translation of documents and health care, must register with Thai police and immigration authorities every year, can be deported if they commit any crime, may not vote nor take part in political agitation and if they insult the Thai state they go to jail.
Can we have immigrants like them in the UK?