At 17 you can
Have consensual sex
Have a kid
Drive a car
Work a job
Vote
Donate blood
Join the army
BUT you CANNOT watch YouTube after your allocated government bedtime lmao
Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for?
My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month.
For what?
We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected.
The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood.
The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit.
So where is the money going?
Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time.
Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline.
We are expected to pay more and more for less and less.
And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed.
So I’ll ask again.
What exactly are we paying for?
The whole system is broken.
Today a bunch of celebrities who have deliberately remained silent on the protests in Iran will show up to the Golden Globes wearing a red pin in solidarity with Radical Islamist terrorists and call it “human rights activism.”
Unreal.
Emily @maitlis interviews MP @RupertLowe10 on immigration in May 2025. Lowe rightly says the British people agree with him on stopping & deporting migrants, he says "you don't have illegal migrants living next to you." She lives in West Kensington, posh W14.
House prices are on average £1.1–1.2 million, mean/median income £50,000- £62,000.
I never at the first look noticed how much he had silenced Ms Maitlis who was reduced to making cheap remarks like "let the midges do their work".
This is how the UK government treats an owner who paid his staff their full wage throughout Covid and let the NHS stay in the hotels owned by him whilst there were clubs furloughing staff…
Joey Barton has been given six-months in custody, suspended for 18 months, for sending six "grossly offensive" social media posts.
Huw Edwards was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years for indecent images of children.
The UK “justice” system for you.