Helen and David Brown

Recycling beer, one pint at a time.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Everyone: We should tax the banks.

Banks: This would be a disaster!

Also banks: We are all making so much money it wouldn't even materially affect us.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@LizWebsterSBF Absolutely. And for those who keep harping on about golden shares. They expired in 1995 under the Major government.https://t.co/qPq1jpZqsr

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@JamesRolsche @LizWebsterSBF @Blair @UKLabour @EU Partly true. Golden shares in water expired in 1995 under Major.

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

"The time is coming when Britain decides it’s had enough of mortgaging its future."
By the economic genius who co-authored the Truss budget.
The Shadow Chancellor in the Tory Party that piled £1,700,000,000,000 onto the national debt.
Pathetic hypocrite!
@griffitha @Conservatives

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

Now. I was going to nip around to the airport to see if they'd sell me one of these for the grandkids. But it seems that they aren't knife proof.
https://t.co/9rsfsjX6Ek

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@adammocklerr Hate Hegseth, but I can't say that the Department of War image is real. That's an unused secondary name.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

I'm trying to understand whether Braverman is mad, thick, sponsored by somebody having a laugh or simply misguided.
https://t.co/OVGYVYEpZz

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@LizWebsterSBF Now, I'm not sure that Dave, Richie or Boris would have looked good in a nice royal blue two-piece skirt suit and pearl earrings. But I'd suggest that two of them may have tried them on in private.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@GBNews23653867 Just lonely, sad and full of bile. Usual day for her.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman too proud for benefits...

Went to university for free
Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program
Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years
Millions of pounds in expenses claims

She just doesn't call them benefits

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Says Reform, a party teeming with failed Tories.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@Readies4Rishi Less of the bald please. Coward is fine in this case though.😄

[Ros @ros_tinkler]

@dave43law 🤬

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@dave43law Yes, all them flipping cleaners, nurses, NHS doctors and care home staff are just feckless for not earning 100K!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The mantra appears to be
Hard work = High salaries
And we will look after you
Childcare if you earn over £100k
Scrap inheritance tax
Meanwhile the poorest and disabled
Cut their money as they are not productive
Same old Tories

[Sharon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @K4rmaRules]

Let's cut Whately's wages and expenses instead. We pay her rent, her mortgage, her council tax, her expenses and energy bills. Let's stop doing that.

[Sean Davids @MancTotter]

Three kids

Six taxpayer funded bedrooms

Tell me. Who are the benefit scroungers?

#bbclaurak

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Kemi Badenoch, "It doesn't matter what you earn, we don't want you to be punished for working harder"

My view: There is a pretty big assumption buried in that sentence: that earning more necessarily means you are working harder.

It doesn’t.

A care worker doing exhausting 12-hour shifts, a cleaner starting at 5am, a nurse working nights or someone juggling two minimum-wage jobs can work extraordinarily hard and still earn a fraction of someone sitting behind a desk on six figures.

ONS earnings data shows enormous differences in pay between occupations; wages reflect things like skills, bargaining power, scarcity, sector, seniority and ownership of capital — not simply effort.

In social care, for example, around 1.5 million people perform essential and often physically and emotionally demanding work, yet low pay and insecure employment remain widespread.

There is nothing wrong with arguing that people should be able to progress and keep a reasonable share of what they earn.

But politicians should be very careful about equating income with effort.

Some of the hardest-working people in Britain are also among the lowest paid.

[Enough’s Enough @Enoughsenough00]

🚨Reform MP Sarah Pochin stood up in Parliament and fretted about the damage second homes do to rural communities.
Forty-eight hours later she bought an £800,000 second home in Wales.
Nothing says “I feel your pain” quite like snapping up a holiday bolt-hole the moment you’ve finished lecturing everyone else about the problem.

[Helen and David Brown @Dbrown_beer]

@Telegraph This is the usual distorted hype. First, they are looking into the health element and replacing it with other support. Not simply abolishing it. Secondly, they are looking at it, and it is not confirmed policy.