John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@BBCNews The Corbynistas who did so much damage to Labour under Corbyn are now doing the same to the Greens.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@BBCNews Ensuring the rich and powerful stay rich and powerful.

[David Gauke @DavidGauke]

Conservatives should favour controlling public spending.
And it isn’t true that Labour is “cutting pensions” (just not increasing pensions quite so much).
There’s plenty to criticise in Burnham’s agenda, but the triple lock reform is sensible. This is a poor response.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@BBCBreaking The US really is a very primitive country.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@BBCNews You have to ask why they want to march through a nationalist area. The same would apply to nationalists marching through a loyalist area. It looks like just a deliberate attempt to provoke.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @TPensions @downingstreet @UKLabour @silvervoicesuk That will rather depend on whether or not you need care which currently requires you to sell your house! As I said what is wrong with linking pensions to inflation or 2.5%? Pensions continually outpacing the earnings of the rest of the population is clearly unsustainable.

[YouGov @YouGov]

SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@sharrond62 @SREVELAINARCAD1 The proposed change is to link pensions to inflation or 2.5% so it would still keep up with prices.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @TPensions @downingstreet @UKLabour @silvervoicesuk Why do you think linking pensions to just inflation or 2.5% is so bad?

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @TPensions @downingstreet @UKLabour @silvervoicesuk Virtually all economists say the triple lock is unsustainable. I cannot see a justification for pensioners constantly getting relatively better off than the rest of the population - a huge transfer from young to old. Removing one part of the triple lock is hardly impoverishment.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @BBCNews The far left has always been pretty sympathetic to Russia too. Something about extremists in general….

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@BBCNews What a surprise. It’s basically impossible to build infrastructure in the UK no matter what it is - either lack of money or NIMBYs or both.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @benhabib6 If it were all that easy and consequence free it would have been done.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @benhabib6 It isn’t if the French don’t agree….

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@SREVELAINARCAD1 @benhabib6 The essence of populism is claiming there are simple solutions to complex problems because that is what a lot of people want to hear. The people purveying this nonsense don’t necessarily believe it themselves.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@9Kings1910 @SREVELAINARCAD1 Surely the problem here was the owner of a venue using his power to suppress the expression of an opinion he didn’t like - a blatant attack on free speech.

[John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦 @john_laxton7]

@LukeTryl Isn’t this focused on people who live in towns? If you live in a city you’ll have them all, if you live in the country you won’t have any.