MariaMoon..# abbafan

Socialist.. Not a tory fan. Music lover. ABBA fan. Got kids... and dogs.

[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."

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Alan Bates is considering Privately Prosecuting the Bosses of the Post Office for Corporate Manslaughter.

RT If you support him, it is the only way there will be justice.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world.
Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This man showing us he’s so much smarter than tRump.

[Merseyside Police @MerseyPolice]

We are aware of social media posts online detailing the injuries sustained by the girls who died and those injured in the attack in Southport on 29 July 2024.

The families of the little girls specifically asked that those details not be reported.

The families of Bebe, Alice and Elsie and of all those affected in the tragedy have faced unimaginable grief and trauma in the months since the attacks, and do not need their suffering compounded by reckless posts on social media.

Please do not post or share detailed accounts of the injuries they sustained.

Thank you.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Denmark has a new king, the King and Queen get approximately $500,000 from the Danish Government a year, and the whole family is worth $40m.

In the UK King Charles gets $150,000,000 a year and his family is worth $25bn.

We need to be more like Denmark.

#AbolishTheMonarchy

[MariaMoon..# abbafan @Mariamoon53]

@sahieana Happy birthday

[Ellie Hall @ellievhall]

"And then he said, 'They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the pets!'"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Miriam Margolyes doesn't hold back, Brexit should be 🪦

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Kamala, very calm and cool, looked trump in the face, told him the world was laughing at him, and that he was confused and lacked the temperament.

trump is COOKED.

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

78 seconds of pure art

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I should not get winter fuel allowance. Lots of people should not get winter fuel allowance…lots should. A universal scheme was wrong . I’m not sure what the threshold should be but it should be means tested.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Nadhim Zahawi…. Really?
You’re posting this from Mayfair? Rough sleeping increased significantly since Tories came to power in 2010, and now you’re attempting to palm it off?

Absolutely no sense of shame
After you claimed expenses for electricity for your horses’ stables?
😡

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

How it started:

I was forced to leave my family behind in Lebanon when I was 17 years old due to the far reaching effects of war.

I arrive in the UK and my first job is working in a van selling burgers & kebabs for a living. Customers ask me if I can speak English.

The following year I enrol into a sixth form and work full time hours stacking shelves in a food store to survive. The Head of the Sixth Form asks what I want to do with my life. I say it was always my dream to become a doctor. She laughs in my face & says I’ll never get into medical school, it’s too competitive & to choose another course. She made me feel like I was some ‘dirty little immigrant with delusions of grandeur.’

How it’s going:

I am a doctor, consultant psychiatrist, honorary visiting professor & author & I just saw copies of my memoir in my local bookstore.

NEVER stop believing in yourself and NEVER stop dreaming.

‘Breakthrough. A Story of Hope Resilience and Mental Health Recovery’ is available to order: https://t.co/iUppdD5To7

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage got £750,000 from Coutts as compensation for nothing.

Even worse Coutts is owned by NatWest which is 39% owned by you.

So YOU paid Nigel Farage £292,750, for whining because he didn't have enough money for an account.

RT if he needs to repay every penny.

[Matt Cain @MattCainWriter]

As I voted to kick the Tories out, I wore my dad’s wedding ring. He was in hospital with no visitors then lying on a slab for weeks waiting for his funeral while the Tories got so wasted they vommed up the walls of Downing St. This one’s for you, Dad!
#ToriesOut #ToryWipeout2024

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
This is HUGE

Our Supreme Court is allowing Water Companies to be sued for dumping sewage

Let’s go for thousands of claims from swimmers, surfers, families and more

Yessssss 👍🏼

Times are changing

WE MUST VOTE ON THURSDAY 👍🏼

Make it historic

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Only 24 more days until Nigel Farage and Rishi Sunak can FO to the USA.

RT if you can't wait.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage got £750,000 from Coutts as compensation for nothing.

Even worse Coutts is owned by NatWest which is 39% owned by you.

So YOU paid Nigel Farage £292,750, for whining because he didn't have enough money for an account.

RT if he needs to repay every penny.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

The reason I'm so good at relating to ordinary people who are struggling to pay their bills is that I went without Sky TV while attending a £51k per year public school.