Fred Mooney

Downshifted, Uplifted and Weight-lifted...

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@Hepworthclare @penheiro53 @p8auline No we aren't subsiding them - employers paid over £85Bn in NI in 2025/6 - though that will fall as unemployment rises.

You may be thinking of Unite, the trade union? They were fined several years ago for paying their own staff less than the minimum wage.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@penheiro53 @Hepworthclare @p8auline Employers would have to pay everyone more than the average wage - which is impossible

https://t.co/mgwzlS58hj

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@Hepworthclare A new term is needed. It isn't pension funding - that cost is known years in advance. This is the problem :

"Three-child family in work needs £71,000 a year before tax to match equivalent jobless family – post Budget research"
https://t.co/mgwzlS58hj

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@oldishbird1 Yes. Let's not talk about protecting ourselves from threats that have emerged in recent years

Much better to put our heads in the sand and say: "Oooh, but look at the Tories!"

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@labourlewis Imagine a nationalised farming sector as Clive Lewis seems to want.

Another state-run fiasco like #HS2.

We'd all be starving before the war even started.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@Cpt_Bau @louderry The Triple lock only increases state pension over inflation if wage growth/inflation is lower than 2.5% - occurred in only 3 years out of the last 25.

The savings are illusory. A magic solution pedalled by those who want ever-increasing welfare spending
https://t.co/mRnMCo97MW

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@Anniepop2027 @LBC I think Dan Jarvis is, like John Healey, probably too honourable to serve under Starmer,

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@TedUrchin @UKLabour It's a study by the GMB Union - Labour's largest donor.

It's about as believable as a Tory donor saying Liz Truss was good for the economy.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@LizWebsterSBF That's not what the article said and you are totally wrong on exchange rates.

The last time the £ was 1.60 to the Dollar was in 1994.

The £ was as low as 1.08 to the Euro before the referendum

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@nicholadrummond His loss will be a blow to the country as a whole.

Along with Shabana Mahmood, one of the very few competent people in Cabinet.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@AndyFitchet Arguably, along with Shabana Mahmood, one of the very few competent people in Cabinet.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@AndyFitchet Coming from New Zealand, we gave our (blonde) daughter a maori name - Ngaire - to reflect her kiwi heritage.

She was told by an EDI trainer that her name was cultural appropriation, racist and she should change it

So who was being a knob?

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@LyndyMountain Labour bringing the country together:

A Labour council leader calls grooming gang victims "poor white trash from Rotherham".

https://t.co/wvgLMTo4IO

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@JenniferJS_ @Willkt4o What policies to reduce unemployment are these, Jennifer?

Loading employment costs onto employers to pay for more benefits and increasing the risk of employing someone only increases unemployment.

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@JenniferJS_ Hate to disappoint you, but Reform's lead has grown by 3 points in the last week

https://t.co/wvgLMTo4IO

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@RobbieDas @hoftof5 @Hepworthclare Free tip:

Not everyone who disagrees with you on everything is a Farage supporter

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@DamianLow3 Speaking of whipping up hatred....

https://t.co/7nrvbeZE1p

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@fillypepper But it's OK for Starmer to call his political opponents "the enemy within"? David Lammy to Brexit voters Nazis?

Is that bringing people together?

[Fred Mooney @fred_mooney]

@john_notabot Untrue. UK manufacturing started to actually grow under Thatcher.

That said, it was declining long before she took office and had more to do with low investment, incompetent and stupid business management and equally stupid trade unions.

https://t.co/0Xw8jUzNRZ