Chloe Robson

County Durham

[Angel @Theeunknowwn]

There's something so healing about watching Justin face his younger self and sing along with him

[sel @wbkbieber]

Justin is performing some of his old hits at bieberchella and I won’t be there to witness it

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

[reb 🫧 @torturedgaga]

yall either complain about ozempic, surgery or real bodies... yall just hate women

[👨🏻‍🦯 @hwksyy]

I’ve never seen someone say we need to scrap work life balance 🤣🤣 can’t believe people think he’s the man of the working class

[patricknealverse @Patrick_neal07]

An entire generation grew up with this show and now we're adults. It's the closest, most personal show I've ever watched and I genuinely don't believe anything else will ever replicate this emotional connection. Some things don't end you revisit them when you miss who you were.

[Sergio @SergioculerCSK]

This scene had my heart, it slowly spoke to us that, Mike’s childhood is over, and so is ours. We started watching this show in our teens and traveled with it for 10 plus years.

It was just beautiful.

[Justin Bieber Streams @jbieberstreams]

JUSTIN BIEBER COVERS EMINEM

[Britain for Trump @BritainForTrump]

I am not safe to get on a train.
I am not safe to walk my dog.
I am not safe to go to a Christmas market.
I am not safe to go to an Ariana Grande pop concert.
I am not safe to send my kids to a Taylor Shift dance class.
I am not safe at the Manchester Synagogue.
I am not safe to walk over London Bridge.
I am not safe to walk over Westminster Bridge.
I am not safe to walk over London Bridge again.
I am not safe to walk over Westminster Bridge again.
I am not safe at the Liverpool Women's hospital.
I am not safe in Sir David Amess constituency surgery.
I am not safe at Glasgow Airport.
I am not safe on the London Underground or Red Buses.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?

We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.

Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.

Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.

Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working…

VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.

Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.

Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.

Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.

Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.

You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.

More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.

How depressing. Time for a pint.

Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.

You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?

You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.

Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.

What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?

Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?

Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.

And the final kick in teeth.

Inheritance tax.

After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.

Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.

Even after death, it continues.

What are we paying all this money for?

Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?

No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.

Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t.

When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?

QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.

The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.

Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working.

We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.

You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.

LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

[gum @vibetogum]

the vibes were so different back in 2010, this era of Drake was heavenly

[Lupin @lupinxart]

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year
Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year.
Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years.
Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year.

Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We’re at a dangerous moment in our country - where refugees are being blamed for all society's problems. While the super-rich, who really caused these problems, are busy taking more and more wealth from working class people.

For 40 years, the ideas launched by Thatcher - cuts, deregulation and privatisation - have meant attack after attack on working-class living standards. The last decade and a half of austerity made things even worse.

Instead of holding the billionaire class to account - those who have stolen the wealth created by ordinary people - Farage and his allies are scapegoating refugees and are being cheered on by our billionaire-owned media.

But hatred and division won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. In fact, Farage and his mates voted against stronger workers’ rights in Parliament recently. They want the NHS replaced with a private system.

The only thing this politics of distraction, hatred and division achieves is to protect our rigged economic system - so that the super-rich can keep getting richer, while everyone else is left worse off.

Let's be clear: the cause of the problems in our society is the tiny elite hoarding the vast majority of our country’s wealth. Refugees fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for collapsing living standards, falling wages, or bringing our NHS to its knees.

So instead of this 'divide and rule', let's unite and build a country that really serves the 99% - not the super-rich.

Let's impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, let's build huge numbers of council houses, let's bring water and energy back into public ownership and let's kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

That's how we can build a better future for ordinary people.

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Why are there more PIP claims?

Because chronic illness has exploded.

Long NHS waits.

No social care.

No early help.

That’s not fraud - that’s government failure.

#TakingThePIP

[Eddie Stainer @BenjscottScott]

They say they "can’t afford" proper disability benefits.

Yet MPs get expense accounts, free meals, second homes.

Funny how that works.

#WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP #StopTheCuts #TaxTheRich #DisabilityRebellion