@dontdelay You pit the generations against each other which is deflection.
The issue is that the rich & higher paid can avail of such reliefs and the poorest can’t. Scrapping these reliefs has been on the table for several budgets & even the idea of one unified rate has been mooted.
There is constant noise claiming UK pensions are too high and unaffordable. They are all lies. The UK has very low pensions compared to all other industrial countries. Our problem is billionaire tax exile newspaper owners and political parties committed to the rich. (Vote Green)
I remember when Zack Polanski RT'd a person criticising the Police's excessive use of force.
He was publicly condemned by the MET Chief as if he had committed a serious crime.
Nigel Farage incites riots, AGAIN, and we have complete silence.
The UK suffers from a crippling drop in demand. People are broke, unemployed, underemployed or underpaid. Private pensions are a con.
Reeves demands growth without public investment.
Double the state pension and institute a living min wage and a job guarantee. Then watch growth
I searched the Epstein files and found Reform UK's treasurer.
The documents raise serious questions about ethics, accountability, and who is funding British politics.
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They want you angry at pensioners living on £12,548 a year.
Half of them don't even get that. Half receive less than the full state pension.
Meanwhile the UK state pension is one of the lowest in Europe.
This isn't old vs young. It's all of us vs the people at the top who benefit every time we fight each other instead of them. Don't take the bait.
Seven states sue US for paying $1bn to make TotalEnergies exit wind power. New York leads lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s effort to make French company reinvest in fossil fuels. A coalition of Northeastern states argues the March deal, in which the company gives up its two offshore wind leases in exchange for a full refund of their $928mn cost and a pledge to redirect the money to fossil fuel investments, is “blatantly unlawful” and should be struck down by the courts. Led by New York, the coalition includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont. The lawsuit marks the latest pushback by states and pension funds against the Trump administration’s payments designed to curtail wind power.
FT 2nd June 2026
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I think the most important aspect of Farage's address to the nation is that he was gifted £5 million by a crypto billionaire and nobody's quite sure who bought his house in Clacton.
Hi @Nigel_Farage, you’re awfully quiet about everything these days.
Quiet in the Houses of Parliament, missing the last 77 votes.
Quiet about the £5m.
Quiet about the Clacton house.
Quiet about your friend Donald Trump.
Quiet about your support for Peter Mandelson.
It will all catch up with you.
It seems the entire Reform Rob Kenyon election campaign is based on this carefully sculpted "working-class local lad" narrative.
Beyond the numerous red flags surrounding his past conduct, the real state of British politics is reflected in the fact that thousands of people will fall for this and simply vote for him.
No discussion of policies. No relevant experience. No meaningful credentials. Just someone who started a plumbing business on Checkatrade six months ago and now has the financial resources and propaganda machine of Reform behind him.
People are literally going to go out and vote for a stooge, and I think many secretly know it and simply don't care.
People are so desperate to find a scapegoat for the problems they face in life that they're delighted to blame the person delivering their Uber Eats or serving them coffee at Starbucks, rather than the tiny number of individuals who control a staggering share of the nation's wealth, leaving less resources for everyone.
It's far easier to look down on those with the least and blame them for your problems while wealthy elites and political grifters bankroll campaigns that will leave you poorer and even more desperate.
And by the time you realise what's happened, you'll already have handed them all the power.
Mobility of financial wealth ≠ mobility of real productive capacity.
Billionaire exit ≠ capital strike
Let them go.
Take their hoarded cash to Dubai. The UK will still have its people, its needs, and its capacity to produce but without the parasite extracting value at the top.
Nothing from @BBCr4today about Nigel Farage's claim or suspicion that Russia hacked into his bank account with regard to the #FiveMillionPounds donation. I'm really very surprised. This is potentially a huge national security issue, isn't it?
.@wesstreeting is wrong to say new North Sea drilling will not “necessarily” mean cheaper energy bills - It’s an un arguable fact that it won’t. It can't because global markets set the price of oil and gas, even when we produce it here. Wes offers equivocation where certainty exists - that’s unhelpful, it could deceive people into thinking why not give it a go. On the question of more tax revenue from more drilling he offers certainty where equivocation is needed - it’s far from clear…
Take Rosebank for example, it needs nearly £3 billion of tax subsidies to get going and may never pay tax. Our North Sea is all but empty and politicians jumping on this bandwagon are doing the public no favours - Tony Blair included. This is a fossil fuel crisis, we won't solve it with more fossil fuels - we need 100% green energy ASAP and to ‘break the link’ for real. The link that prices our own wind and sun according to the global price of gas - a ridiculous mechanism that strips enormous value for our economy and impoverishes millions of us.
Ed faked it, we need to actually break the link.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.
This man sows hate, lies and division.
He is a grifter and a conman.
He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.
RT if you agree
P.s. multiculturalism is great.
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BREAKING: A beer was thrown at President Trump during a press conference this morning in Washington. Trump was unharmed. Since the beer was a draft,... he was able to dodge it.
@Katie_Lam_MP I applaud you for proposing nationalisation of the oil extraction industry but think that our energy bills are more easily cut with some radical changes to the pricing mechanism.