Stuart Grant

[Oracle @biggle1908]

UK state pension is £241.30 per week after 35 years of National Insurance contributions.

The guaranteed minimum income for someone who has paid nothing into the system is £238.00 per week.

That means if you do the right thing, work and pay into the system you benefit by £3.30 per week 🤯

Just how is this right?

#Pensions

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer in Shropshire is selling his farm this September and nobody has died.

Two hundred and twenty acres. A hundred and forty ewes, seventy suckler cows, a shed with one end held up by a telegraph pole, and a tractor bought new in 1994, which is the last thing on that farm that was bought new. His grandfather bought the place outright in 1961. He is 54 and has never had a penny of debt.

The books say the farm lost eleven thousand pounds last year. It lost money the year before as well.

He is not bad at this. The government's own review, chaired by Minette Batters, found nearly a third of British farms were loss-making in 2024.

On paper the same farm is worth £1.9 million.

Pasture in his county averaged £8,600 an acre last year, and not a pound of that was set by anything he grows. Two blocks within nine miles went to buyers he has never met. One for solar. One described in the particulars as a natural capital opportunity.

His mother is 81 and lives in the bungalow at the top of the lane. When that comes across with the other half of the ground, the two halves clear the £2.5 million threshold, and twenty per cent of the excess is a bill in six figures on a business that has not made money in three years.

His son is a radiographer in Telford and is not coming back. He said so once, kindly, and never made his father ask twice.

So it goes now, while he can still choose which fields and to whom. He is selling the good ground first, because you cannot raise a bill off the rough.

The Treasury collects nothing from any of this. The sale happens years before the tax event, so there is no tax event left to have.

What Britain loses is a hundred and forty lambs and seventy calves a year, off ground that will never produce food again, in a country that already imports forty per cent of what it eats and has just had its worst cereal harvest since records began.

That is one farm. There are thousands of them, doing the sums at the same kitchen table this month.

The beef on your shelf this Christmas will come from Brazil, and the price will be higher, and nobody will connect the two.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

I left school at 15yrs & went into full-time employment.

Married at 19yrs & went on & had 2 children.

We paid taxes all our working life

We eventually paid our mortgage off, helped our children get on the property ladder.

I certainly am not prepared to allow this government to take everything we have worked hard for in order to pay for others that just stroll into this country & are given everything for free.

There are a lot of others in the same situation who’ve always done right by this country.

We as a family have not taken a penny in benefits from this country.

This government needs to get their priorities right & start treating UK Citizens with the respect they deserve.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

No veteran can in all conscience or with honour ever vote for @UKLabour.

Veterans’ benefits docked after military pensions classed as ‘unearned income’ https://t.co/WGeA8KduIc

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@MrsMassacre Montana looks gorgeous. Definitely on my holiday to do list.

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@jammles9 Gibraltar

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@jammles9 Shouldn't the EU mandate an open boarder like Gibiand Northern Ireland?

[Алёна Попова @alyonapopova]

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[John Færseth @JohnFaerseth]

It is irrelevant whether Balogun deserved a red card. Referees make stupid decisions all the time. If personal diplomacy and power can override decisions and the USA wins, it means outcomes are being decided off the field. That's match-fixing, and the end of sports.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If a Hanoverian monarch had imposed tariffs without prior parliamentary approval, the English would have cut his head off or driven him into exile, as they did when the Stuart monarchs tried such tricks.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Andrew Neil warns Andy Burnham: shifting power northwards is an expensive way to create government jobs without any real growth.

"It just means more government."

@afneil

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

Congratulations on your well-earned knighthood, Sir Kevin Sinfield �Congratulations on your well-earned knighthood, Sir Kevin Sinfield 🌹

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@CcibChris And now nine Hawks in formation is unachievable.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump’s foreign policy is not strength. It is submission dressed up as dominance: hostile toward allies, deferential toward adversaries, and corrosive to American credibility.

Trump is an inherently weak man, and our enemies know it.

[Larisa Brown @larisamlbrown]

EXCLUSIVE: Al Carns WILL join the race to become PM if there is a contest. A parliamentary source
told @thetimes "Al Carns has said ‘he is getting on with doing his job, but if someone fires the starting gun, he isn’t afraid of gunfire’." They said the implication was Carns "would throw his hat in the ring should someone trigger a race"

[Alan Fraser @apoliticaleye]

@KemiBadenoch And how did former Royal Marine Al Carns, the Veterans minister vote.
He didn't.

Prepared to stand with veterans when the nation applauds them but not prepared to stand up to a Prime Minister when the nation expects it.

https://t.co/LD4jq7Vl4N

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@goddessbrianna1 I'm loving the new hot hair style.

[Stuart Grant @StuartG68972569]

@dahedd_gs @Fahadnaimb The Apache and Chinook contract is not FMS...🙄

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

🧵 1/7
It is the summer of 1940.
You have just been accepted into RAF Fighter Command.
This thread takes you through the next 12 weeks of your life.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.