Ian Dickerson

I don’t cause trouble, it just occurs naturally around me. Also don’t follow me, I’m an idiot! All original tweets are my own

[Ian Dickerson @WanderingIan]

@sharrond62 F1 tickets can be expensive. Grassroots football can be seen for free. You can even pick up Wimbledon tickets for £21. So what is your point?

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@einsteinagog0 @Antisocialistmt @KayBurley Not necessarily, as the UK has plenty of of visa waiver arrangements with countries. Even if you don’t need a visa, there is a maximum stay period

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@Ainsworth7Jo @KayBurley Nope. We don’t even monitor if and when people leave the UK.

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@RWillmore86339 @KayBurley People who overstay their visas are here unlawfully

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@Ainsworth7Jo @KayBurley How do you do that, as the current system doesn’t track legal migrants once they enter the country.

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@Antisocialistmt @KayBurley The point is more people overstay their visa than cross the channel in small boats.

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@sharrond62 The PDC World Championship is an Open category event and women darts players have taken part.

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@sharrond62 Women can and have entered F1. The issue F1 has is that the drivers need sponsorship at lower levels and that hasn’t been forthcoming for women drivers. There are series now that address that.

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@WasAcop @Nigel_Farage @BritifyX The £1m on the toilets as it was the cost for the whole toilet block, not just the three squat toilets. The alternative was to close the whole block as they were dilapidated.

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@alexinsley @dave43law @Nigel_Farage It’s three toilets in an entire complex. At £1 per use the whole scheme is expected to get the whole cost back in just under 18 months.

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@paulbristow79 The Telegraph article is unfair. If you bothered to reach out to your colleagues at @camcitco you’d know there are only three squat toilets in the whole complex. There are more normal toilets and urinals than squat toilets.

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@Angie_Marie_1 @JamesGAyling @biggle1908 ‘work and pay into the system’ is doing a lot of the heavy work in the OP. As I already stated, you only need to be paid over the Lower Earnings Limit, currently £6,708 per year, to get a contributing year for the state pension.

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@Angie_Marie_1 @JamesGAyling @biggle1908 Jay, isn’t wrong. You need at least 10 years of contributions to qualify for a state pension. You don’t need to pay any Class 1 NICs to get those contributions though. For example, if you are in full time education or receive child benefit you get a year’s contribution

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@CroneThe86880 @biggle1908 If they only get the lower rate that means they either have a private pension or paid married women’s NI during their lives. If it’s the latter, they will receive pension credit that almost makes their pension up to the current full rate pension

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@djmclark @biggle1908 You don’t need to pay a single penny of Class 1 contributions to qualify. You only need to earn over the Lower Earnings Limit of £6,708 per year for a qualifying year.

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@Angie_Marie_1 @JamesGAyling @biggle1908 Well, they can receive either the full state pension if they earned over the Lower Earnings Limit (currently £6,708 per year) for 35 years. They would have never paid NI for any of those years.

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@WoodUksparky137 @JuliaHB1 The easy answer is the ECHR guidance doesn’t apply to the work place. That’s covered by completely different legislation: the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

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@fharris2011 @markspeaking @EDIQuestions @kathycwright @ChrisKeighley62 @sharrond62 People only follow laws where the cost of not following them exceeds the utility of not following them. That’s why some people exceed the posted speed limit on any given road.

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@kathycwright @markspeaking @ChrisKeighley62 @sharrond62 Speed limits and One Way Streets are enforced by the local constabulary. They don’t have the resources to check every road, every day.

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@JoshFerme What’s wrong with being Cornish?