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@AndyRejoinEU @rocourt62 Yep, great, let’s do the sums. There are 650 MPs. There are 800,000-1.2 million pensioners in need of social care. If you half every MP’s salary, you’ll generate around £30 a year for each of those pensioners- maybe two or three hours of care.

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@ChrisFi65328659 @doctorcol And your solution is to permanently accept that they aren’t doing their jobs, have crap government forever and thus save a tiny bit of money?

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@AstroMikeMerri @NeilDotObrien That doesn’t sound like a very good third possibility.

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@NeilDotObrien They’re not planning to fix it, they’re just planning to give the rich a massive break from it altogether. Your criticism is entirely valid but it makes the case for some sort of taper mechanism.

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@AstroMikeMerri @NeilDotObrien There are two logical possibilities here: some people need more time so the maximum time allocated for the exam should be greater. No one needs any extra time so no one gets extra time.

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@AstroMikeMerri @NeilDotObrien So why not just give everyone that amount of time if they need it?

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@savehalfmoonpub @FreedomMatty If he was a non-dom then presumably we’re not losing very much in tax revenue when he goes.

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@ItaloMVit @JeanDarc815 @Sargon_of_Akkad Last time I checked, ancestry DNA tests don’t attempt to define Englishness.

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@ItaloMVit @JeanDarc815 @Sargon_of_Akkad Do you think DNA defines Englishness?

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@_fugol @MichaelMoore381 @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad @grok If this topic genuinely interests you, there is some really interesting academic research out there: David Hinton, Nicholas Higham and Barbara Yorke for example. It’s well worth learning about for real, rather than just using LLMs to argue about it with strangers on X.

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@_fugol @MichaelMoore381 @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad @grok “Any LLM”. Ffs.

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@_fugol @MichaelMoore381 @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad @grok I’m not getting to an argument with Grok about medieval history.

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@MichaelMoore381 @_fugol @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad Quality. You’re implying that scientists have an Anglo-Saxonness test and that these are the results.

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@MichaelMoore381 @_fugol @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad Utter nonsense. There’s no evidence for widespread population replacement by continental settlers in the early medieval era and even less that such a replacement still causes major regional differences in people’s DNA in 2026.

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@olivebranchud @JeanDarc815 @Sargon_of_Akkad If they were born in England and grew up here then they aren’t Spaniards and Croats.

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@_fugol @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad All of that is equally true of most people from Scotland and Wales, as well as many Americans, Australians etc. There is not an “English race”. There is a place called England and its people, each of which created and continues to create the other.

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@leerogg @baylissbaghdad

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@olivebranchud @JeanDarc815 @Sargon_of_Akkad Correct, because they’re not from England.

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@ericglas123 @_fugol @Fongenschler @Sargon_of_Akkad I think you’re on to something there.

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@NeilClark66 The state pension yes. The triple lock obviously not.