⚫ Marc

Proud member of the 48% Club. Father of 1 daughter, 1 Chiweenie, 2 Cocker Spaniels and 4 cats. Conveyancer @dezrezlegal. Suffering from Isaac’s Syndrome

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@marksandspencer I’m afraid your seedless red grapes didn’t get the message and have decided to keep their seeds.

[Jon Dunham @JonDunhamGB]

I’m a British person and I can assure you that you and your party will never, ever speak for me 👍🏻

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

He looks like a Prime Minister, he sounds like a Prime Minister, he acts like a Prime Minister, & he delivered like a Prime Minister.
Keir Starmer is the classiest & most dignified leader we have. Just look at the others for proof.
Letting this man go is utterly reckless.

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@BethRigby Won’t this just allow Farage to claim the others are scared to challenge him, then can say he won with 100% of the votes? What a mess

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@REWearmouth It’s even more so now.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD.

RT if you want them both out of the UK.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.

Please retweet for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@SandySim00 @PolitlcsUK @patriots777888 @theipaper Nigel is literally bathing in the gravy boat. He’s just like Trump - using his position to get rich

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@Keir_Starmer I wish you were able to sort out the nursing situation in Wales. My daughter has just finished her first year and all the talk is how there will be no jobs available for new nurses. It’s the same for paramedics. They have to do 2 yrs work with NHS Wales after graduating

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years.

European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you.

Thank you, dear Keir.

[Matthew Syed @matthewsyed]

Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@annaturley Nice letter. Starmer deserves a peerage.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Labour loses my vote if they don’t stop pfaffing with the leadership nonsense. There’s work to do and right now @Keir_Starmer seems to be the only one who gets that.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Should Nigel Farage be arrested for inciting riots?

Like - Yes
RT - Instantly

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

McFadden here to Mandelson says “every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others’

McFadden spokesperson: “Pat has said publicly many times that the question we should ask is not what are you entitled to, but how can we change your life?

“That has been his whole approach as Work and Pensions Secretary, focusing on how we best spread work and opportunities to young people in particular, rather than writing them off as the previous government did.”

[⚫ Marc @MarcHumps]

@Sheff36 @Peston @itvnews They actually don’t though! For my shame, my wife voted for brexit, because she believed the bus slogans of £350m/week for the NHS. She regrets it … mainly because I remind her frequently how daft she was!

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

I have read both letters, carefully and several times. As someone who loves this country and who is fighting to build something of my own here, I cannot help but notice the massive difference in character between these two men who, until yesterday, were leading our nation.

I am not writing this as a political analyst, but as a voter and a citizen who values people with character.

Wes's letter is full of 'I'.
I cut the waiting lists, I recruited the staff, I was successful.
Then, in the same breath, he attacks the team he was part of. If the situation was truly that bad, why did he not stay to fix it? Why did he not have the courage to stand for election and say: 'I have a better vision, elect me'?
Instead, he chose to walk away at the very moment we need stability most, feeding the media the drama they love so much. That is not protecting the party. It is protecting his own career.

On the other hand, Starmer’s response reminded me why I trusted him. He did not stoop to insults. He did not defend himself. He simply reminded Wes that those successes in the NHS were a collective effort.

Starmer showed what I admire most in the British, decency. Dignity. He remained the adult in the room, focused on us, the citizens, while Wes remained focused on his next job title.

Politics should be about us, about the people who pay their taxes and hope for a better future, not about who can best 'twist the knife' in a resignation letter.

Wes has shown his true face, and Starmer has shown that the stability of the country matters more than his personal ego.

That is what gives me hope that we will not allow chaos and populists to take the helm.

[Kernow Q @KernowQ]

I have never had a response to anything I've said on twitter before.
My support for stability @Keir_Starmer has led to so many likes, retweets and bookmarks. Thousands.
It is clear that there is a wide real desire for peace, security and stability with Starmer.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...

HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.

Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it

So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?

Tell me this isn't a rigged game.