MikeD

Probably tweeting what I shouldn’t, but here we are. 🚀😎 #Unfiltered

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

1. "5% of your food bill IS profits for billionaires"
The Reality: Supermarket profit margins are famously razor-thin, typically hovering between 1% and 3%.

The Catch: Even if a supermarket chain makes a 2% net profit, that money doesn't all instantly vanish into a billionaire's vault. A massive chunk of it goes to institutional shareholders (like pension funds that everyday people rely on), corporate taxes, and reinvestment into the business.

2. "40% of your Energy and Fuel bills are profits for billionaires"
The Reality: This is a massive exaggeration. In the UK, energy retail margins (what the companies supplying your home actually keep) are tightly regulated by Ofgem and usually capped around 1.9% to 3%.

The Catch: The author is likely confusing retail profit with the massive "windfall" profits made by upstream oil and gas extractors (like Shell or BP) during global supply shocks. However, even for those giants, a 40% net profit margin across the board is statistically incorrect; much of your bill goes toward wholesale costs, network distribution infrastructure, and environmental levies.

3. "60% of your Rent is profit"
The Reality: This fundamentally misunderstands the difference between revenue and profit.

The Catch: If a tenant pays £1,000 a month in rent, a massive portion of that goes toward the landlord's mortgage interest, property maintenance, letting agent fees, insurance, and taxes. The actual net cash flow profit is rarely anywhere near 60%. Furthermore, the vast majority of landlords are private individuals (often dubbed "accidental landlords"), not billionaires.

4. "20% of your Mortgage is profit for billionaires"
The Reality: Retail banking margins simply don't work this way. While banks are highly profitable, their net interest margin (the difference between what they pay savers and what they charge borrowers) is usually between 2% and 4%.

The Catch: A mortgage payment is split into principal repayment (which goes into your own equity) and interest. The bank uses that interest to cover defaults, operational costs, regulatory capital requirements, and interest paid to savers. To claim 20% of the entire payment is pure billionaire profit is mathematically wild.

5. "40% of your wage is taken as profit for billionaires"
The Reality: This is the most economically incoherent claim on the list. It seems to be a distorted interpretation of corporate profit margins relative to labour costs.

The Catch: If you earn a wage, your employer pays you for your labour. If the company makes a product, they sell it, cover all costs (including your wage, materials, and rent), and keep a net profit margin, which across all UK industries averages roughly 9% to 12%, not 40%. Additionally, the largest deduction from the average person's wage isn't corporate profit; it's income tax and National Insurance.

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

It all comes down to who benefits. When immigrants take jobs, the worker has agency. When AI or outsourcing takes jobs, capital and corporations have the agency. We're trained to cheer for corporate efficiency (AI and outsourcing) and fear human competition, even though the economic result for the displaced worker is exactly the same.

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@PhilipProudfoot I'm not a Starmer fan but I'll have him over this twat anyday.

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@MartinBuckby I think you have an identity crisis with that bio. Vegetarian, cats, and EU flags? You should be #GreenParty 🥦

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

It’s not about being "foreign" at all, that isn't how the vast majority of people see it. Speaking for myself, I have Sikh colleagues who are fantastic people and entirely British. The issue many people actually have is simply wanting a system where there is one equal law for everyone, rather than exceptions based on religious beliefs.

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@oJARDINEo @lukejcr @M9011Aqua He was born in England 🤡

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@leftsidehist @Keir_Starmer Respecting the rule of law? The law just let someone get away with murder with a slap on the wrist. There’s nothing to respect about a system that broken, and waiting for a meaningless sentencing doesn't change that.
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[MikeD @Solosphere01]

Public safety is a matter of open debate, and no single family has the right to veto a conversation about it. Nigel Farage is entirely justified in raising these questions. If it were my son, I wouldn't be asking for silence, I would be demanding a complete overhaul of the laws that allow certain groups to carry blades, alongside strict accountability for the police officer who effectively assisted in a murder.

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@RedfishRoots Keir is bloody useless, he is part of why there is so much crime in this country.

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

To lose a loved one in such a tragic way is absolutely heartbreaking, and the family deserves nothing but sympathy. However, the moment the police footage was publicly released, the situation naturally entered the public domain.

When critical evidence is shared openly, it inevitably sparks public interest and political discussion. If we can't analyze the broader implications of what that footage shows now, when are we allowed to talk about it? A tragic event can be both deeply personal for a family and highly relevant to wider public debates about policing and law enforcement.

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

The issue isn't multiculturalism itself, it's when governments confuse tolerance with a lack of boundaries. A cohesive society relies on one set of laws applied equally to everyone. The moment you start making legal exemptions for weapons based on religious faith, you undermine the basic principle that the law of the land comes first.

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@Heccles94 Spurted a lot of words just to build a massive straw man. Nobody is out here lobbying to ban wheelchair ramps.

The actual debate around EDI is about meritocracy vs. identity quotas, not making disabled people climb stairs. Lazy, echo-chamber analogy.

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@NyabbySuperFan @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward Not offended, just entertained by basic biology and the total waste of medical training. My mistake, I’ll start tracking my ovulation cycle just in case.

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@MrMnd73 @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward Maybe the mirror is wrong. 🤣

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

You might as well have held the dagger that killed that poor lad for all the solutions you numpties actually offer. The father lost his son, but he doesn't have the right to demand that the public shouldn't feel angry, emotional, or want to discuss it, especially after agreeing to release a video that is so emotionally charged. Two-tier policing is real, we absolutely pander to religious groups, and it is time this stopped. Well done, Farage!

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@Phil_Gwilliam @KonstantinKisin So the parents release the video and expect silence...

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

Henry Nowak's family agreed to release that footage, they knew exactly what they were doing. You cannot release something with that much emotional weight and expect it not to be brought up in Parliament. Look at this idiot Starmer talking about 'lessons to be learned.' What a bloody numpty. We need to get rid of this buffoon as PM

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

@toryshaun @Keir_Starmer @Nigel_Farage You cannot release a video like that to the public and then demand it not be discussed. Change doesn't happen in a vacuum. If we want actual policy and legal reforms to ensure this never happens again, it has to be brought to Parliament and handled politically.

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

@connor_naismith Another MP that should not be anywhere near a position like he is..

[MikeD @Solosphere01]

Our justice system is exactly what we saw with the policing of the Henry Nowak case: biased, incompetent, and utterly broken. Feeling angry and full of rage is completely justified, but the real tragedy is that none of this public outcry ever translates into actual, effective policies that protect the innocent.