Sean Smith

Retired now, still active, inveterate petitioner, anti-corporates, fighting injustice, advocate for a fairer world.

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Helen Whately is a millionaire, she talks about unaffordable benefit payments.

She was the MP claiming the highest amount for Rent in the entire Parliament, £39,000 a year.

And that was JUST what she was claiming for rent.

It's always the worst offenders trying to blame someone else.

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

What a surprise! MPs expenses needs regulating.

[sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social @SueSuezep]

ITS TAX PAYERS MONEY

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Parliamentary expenses! Needs regulating

[Anne ..BAIRNS NOT BOMBS @AWeeWumman]

I'm a pensioner. Why are MY taxes paying for Tory MILLIONAIRES to heat THEIR homes when I can't afford to heat my OWN?

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Agreed. She hasn't got a clue. She claims parliamentary expenses for everything despite being a millionairess

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

Tax payers are sick of paying the huge salaries and inflated expenses of useless, vindictive MPs like Helen Whately, that's for sure...

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

I've just signed "Don’t scrap young people’s voice" - Will you support the campaign too? https://t.co/NUEBfzzuYm @OpenBritainHQ @action_storm

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Too privileged to really understand...

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Helen Whateley, daughter of a surgeon (father) and physician (mother), who attended private schools and then Oxford university,

"When I was younger, I worked as a waitress, I worked as a cleaner, I did all sorts, being a receptionist, they were not my dream job, but they were a way of earning some money"

My view: Whately’s work mattered, but presenting it as a moral lesson for young people is deeply disingenuous.

She was the daughter of two doctors, privately educated and Oxford-educated: a young person with a considerable safety net and exceptional access to opportunity.

Her experience of taking temporary jobs cannot be used to accuse today’s young people, facing scarce entry-level vacancies, insecure hours, unaffordable rents, ill health and far fewer routes into Europe, of laziness.

Anecdotes from a privileged starting point are no substitute for a serious plan to create decent opportunities.

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

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[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes https://t.co/0HYuVNZTOy

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.

Successive govts promise new laws but they make little impact.

Why do govts continue to fail?

Watch the Minister's reply.

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Have you seen her parliamentary expenses claims? She's milking the system @Helen_Whately

[blackbladder (BB) Rapscallion @sincesixaneagle]

This really fucks me off.
This rich horsey girl from Surrey hills has never wanted for anything in her privileged time on this earth, she has fuck all experience of having nothing.

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

I wonder why Baroness Benefits @KemiBadenoch refuses to publish her tax returns and won't explain why. If I didn't know any better, I’d say she’s playing the system. But I thought she hated people who do that? 🤔

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

I'm with you on that Mike. She's a millionairess and milks parliamentary expenses @Helen_Whately SCANDALOUS

[Mike O'Brien🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Mikeo56977865]

How about we cut MP Expenses instead and stop the gravy train?

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept @we_ownit https://t.co/aOMPMdqEJR

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

Baroness Benefits here is a millionaire on ~£144k a year, but taxpayers cover her rent, energy, water bills, internet everything! She even tried to pay for her holiday flights with public cash. Yet she wants to cut benefits for sick and disabled people living on £7k–£11k a year.

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Thames Water is buried in debt, customers are paying more, and our rivers continue to suffer. I’ve emailed Andy Burnham to put Thames Water into Special Administration NOW. You can too https://t.co/Q7JxjtkJLn

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A barrister hired a digger, pulled 200 bags of rubbish out of a dead stream and got the fish, herons and dragonflies back. The Environment Agency @EnvAgency replied with a letter about a missing permit. Maximum punishment 2 years in prison.

That is Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland of @gardencourtlaw and the River Roding Trust @riverroding in East London.

Update for anyone who missed it. On 25 June the agency dropped the prosecution threat and sent a warning letter.

In August a study funded by Thames Water @thameswater and run with @Thames21 found 600 million litres of sewage contaminated water entering the lower Roding every year.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔥REFORM: ABOLISH STATE PENSION❓

🔴'Thinktank linked to @reformparty_uk calls for abolition of state pension.

Means-testing even though people have paid for it. Proposes abolishing inheritance & capital gains tax; cut corporation tax. Enrich wealthiest. No means-testing. Chaos & cruelty. - @premnsikka

#StatePension

[Jennifer Robinson @welshroots]

I am sick of PAYING for Kemi Badenoch luxurious LIFE STYLE
TALK ABOUT THE WELFARE PARTY
WHAT ABOUT THE GREEDY PARTY
I would prefer my taxes to go to people at ROCK BOTTOM than Greedy PRIVELEGED People like Badenoch

£2700 per month for 6 bed grade 2 listed farm house second home
£4000 per year Council tax and £3000 utility charges

She tops the leader board for EXPENSES

[Sean Smith @goldfish4]

Snake. Go back to Monaco if you don't like it here, tax avoider