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[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@jk_rowling Please please don’t do the fate of Hedwig type stuff. Ta 😉 🙏 Love ya x

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@BBCNewsnight 🤮

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@SkyNews Meanwhile the British are driven out of our communities and intimidated every single day and yet you choose to suck up to terrorists? Dim Andy thinks he can solve this conflict with performative student politics. FFS this Corbynista fck wit is the same if not worse.

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@MOSSADil We are so sorry. Labour is a disgrace. It’s not all of us.

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@bazhsw8183 You are a misery

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@KirstieMAllsopp You are comparing works of art (Priscilla, Monty python) with actual trash (ceremony)

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@KirstieMAllsopp Olympic ceremony wasn’t witty or funny.

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@KirstieMAllsopp Please don’t tell us there’s nothing to be upset about.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

If you’re a UK citizen, did you pay £17,000 in taxes last year? If you’re a family of 4, did you pay £64k of taxes as a household?

If not, someone else did on your behalf. A tiny group of people (1%) pay about 30% of the income taxes.

This tiny little group of Brits aren’t just our Dentists, Doctors, Professionals, Engineers, Pilots, Entertainers, Executives, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, they are also the biggest tax slaves for everyone too.

A person earning £150k is paying £60k in tax. A person earning £30k is paying £6.2k in taxes.

The high earner is making 5x more and paying 10x more in tax.

Given the government spends £17k per person - The higher earner generates a surplus of £43k in taxes while the lower earner requires £11k of someone else’s taxes to cover their portion of government spending.

It takes an income of £60k to generate £17k of taxes. So, very few people in the economy are able to cover the costs of themselves, let alone their families too. A tiny number of people can cover their own costs and generate a surplus for society.

When you hear people talking about how greedy the rich are, and how we need to make life harder for them, it’s worth considering that if they were to stop earning or to leave, the entire system would collapse.

The issue we have in the UK is not enough rich people. We need to either develop them ourselves or import them from elsewhere. We absolutely can not afford to lose them.

As we approach an election, be sceptical of any party who claims they can fund spending through higher taxes on the rich. We already have that! What we need is a party that has a plan to create more rich people or invite them from abroad. It’s never been easier for rich people and high earners to live and work anywhere - of course they’ll go wherever they are treated best.

The UKs survival is directly linked to the number of high earners - best not to drive them away.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

In brown are where the “Far-right” won in France today.

Maybe they aren’t far-right, maybe they are just ordinary people fed up with the hard-left elitists telling them they are racist, extremists and fascists for holding common sense views…

[Lucy @_lucyct_]

@TheGuyPearce Shut the fuck up. We know hamas’ true motivation as well.

[Louise Bagshawe @LouiseMensch]

@SoVeryBritish “I’ll be back in a bit.”

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Slightly change a film quote to make it very British.

I’ll go first:

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a monkeys.

[Joe Roberts @Joe_Roberts01]

The Jordanians never offered Palestinians a state.

Neither did the Egyptians.

Or the Ottomans.

It was the Jews, and only the Jews, who have ever made that offer.

In all this noise, that irony gets lost.

[Boatface Chillah @PatternDeptHQ]

Why does Hollywood keep re-making classics? They should remake the terrible movies and try making them good.

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

This is what I was sharing on @BBCBreakfast - the letter King George VI wrote to his daughter Princess Elizabeth after her wedding at Westminster Abbey in 1947 … I find it very touching & apt today: we have lost something very precious, too, yet everything will be all right.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering Our Queen.

Today people from across the UK, Commonwealth and around the world will pay tribute to the extraordinary life and reign of Her Majesty The Queen.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

What an exceptionally beautiful thing this was. Thinking of the entire family at Balmoral 😔