Karon Phipps

🩵 Standing with the people's army 🇬🇧 | Brits first: Demanding common sense & justice—our truth, our fight. No more excuses: time to rise! #ReformUK

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@CathyMay1980 Local residents have mainly brought up issues relating to poor roads/ traffic congestion/lack of infrastructure

I have qualifications and accreditation in Highways also in Wastes Management - so know my stuff in these areas

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

I'm 1 of the 99.9% standing for Reform UK in Thundersley in Castle Point

I've been leafleting with our local group for over a year and am so thankful to them for their help in supporting me our local candidates 🩵

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@reformparty_uk @ZiaYusufUK It was a fabulous time 🩵
Wonderful way to celebrate St Georges day

Zia gave a great speech before we all mobbed him to have our photos taken where he chatted with everyone - I'm in the pic 👋🩵

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

Great post

[Jamais Vu 🏉 @boot15_vu]

🚨The state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day — but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why we’re in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Here’s the truth:

National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your “stamps” to build entitlement to your state pension — exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads.

Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose.

Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go — today’s workers funding today’s pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government).

Why are we here now?
• Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans.
• Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised.
• Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard.

Now the gaslighting ramps up: “No one paid into a pot.” “It’s just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.” “The triple lock is unaffordable.”

This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains.

It’s perverse. Instead of admitting “we broke the funding model,” politicians pit generations against each other. The young aren’t subsidising the old out of nowhere — they’re paying into the same broken system their elders did.

Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns — like Singapore’s CPF.

Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself.

Feel free to engage👇🏽

#TripleLock #StatePension

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@Stbow97892 @drdavidbull @TiceRichard @Nigel_Farage @McivorJaymey That's amazing - love it

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@julieBlackstoc2 Me too - just handed my paperwork in 🩵

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@SandyofSuffolk @DawnDawniew62 From what I've read both should be left to their own devices - plenty of good folks around to keep things lively and positive

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@LizaRosen0000 Absolutely the hate marches should be stopped - how have they been able to get permission every week

Apart from the vile ppl

Police spend more time attending these when we need them in our areas - dealing with crime!

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@gerryoliver1 The most patriotic of all the MPs - decades of campaigning for UK & returning to politics to save our country - he didn't need to stand he's a successful man - he did it because he wanted to 🩵

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@SBarrettBar I couldn't find it on the Electoral Commission website - but may not be updated if approved on 4th

[Richard Donaldson @RDonaldson91]

Two hours ago I launched my petition. It is currently the fastest growing petition in the UK and has already hit 10,000 signatures.

Thank you so much.

Terrorist must NOT be allowed to stand for public office in the UK.

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@simonwatt85 This is just the basic cost of being housed in a hotel - the true cost will be higher

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Shabana Mahmood flew to Copenhagen last week. She came back convinced she had found the answer. On Thursday she announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it.

This is the political equivalent of visiting a Michelin-starred restaurant, asking for the recipe, and coming home with the napkin.

Denmark's success on immigration is not built on paying people to go away. It is built on making sure they don't want to come in the first place, and on removing them efficiently when they do. The payment scheme exists in Denmark as a minor instrument inside a much harder overall architecture. Mahmood has extracted the instrument and left the architecture behind.

Here is what the Danish model actually consists of. Political consensus across left and right that the system must deter arrivals, not attract them. Asylum treated as temporary by default, with regular reassessments and a clear expectation of return. Benefits for new arrivals cut below standard welfare levels. Family reunification tightened. Rapid decisions. Rapid removals. Return agreements with origin countries treated as a diplomatic priority. Integration demands that are explicit and enforced: learn the language, work, respect Danish law. Denmark didn't find a magic policy. It decided what it wanted its system to do and then aligned everything around that goal.
What has Mahmood adopted from this? The leaving payment. One tool from the toolbox, with the toolbox left in Copenhagen.

And even on its own terms the comparison doesn't hold. Denmark offered up to £30,000 per person – three times the British rate. But the figure is beside the point. The payment works in Denmark because it sits inside a system designed to make staying impossible. Strip that system away and the number becomes irrelevant. What remains is a cash offer to people who have already been told they have no right to be here. That is not the Danish model. It is one line from the Danish model, lifted out of context and dressed up in Scandinavian branding for political cover.

Now consider the pull factor. The people crossing the Channel in small boats are overwhelmingly single young men. That is what the data consistently shows. This scheme is explicitly targeted at families. So where are these families coming from? And what signal does a publicly announced £40,000 family payment send to anyone considering the crossing? Come as a family, fail your claim, take the money. Labour's Alex Norris went on television to insist this would not act as a magnet. He would say that. The incentive structure says otherwise.

There is something deeper here too. Mahmood has been warned by her own department that the system creates perverse incentives – that people place children on dangerous boats precisely because families are harder to remove. Her answer to that perverse incentive is to attach a £40,000 reward to it. The deterrent and the incentive have changed places.

Mahmood is at least trying. The 30-month asylum review, the welfare restrictions, the Article 8 changes – there are genuine moves here that previous governments avoided. But trying is not the same as succeeding, and borrowing Denmark's reputation without borrowing Denmark's methods is not a policy. It's a press release.

The 150 families sitting in Home Office hotels got a text on Thursday morning giving them seven days to decide. The Home Secretary spent a week in Copenhagen and came back with a payment card and a photo opportunity. Denmark took twenty years to build the system she is claiming to have copied. Someone is getting a good deal here. It isn't the British taxpayer.

"On Thursday [Shabana Mahmood] announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it."

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@HansMahncke

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@EssexPR Let me get this straight in my head

Failed asylum seekers get handed a fat wad of cash then put on a plane home

Does giving them taxpayer money suddenly make their country 'safe'

They'll be living the high life with that amount of money - whereas we are skint!!

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@AdamConlon15 @garr18547 Great to hear - candidates need the support and dedication from the people's army so whatever you can do will be appreciated 🩵

[Karon Phipps @KaronP95374]

@garr18547 @AdamConlon15 My 1st application got rejected due to social media and I know a few others that had the same

I did apply again after a bit of a clear out

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@sirwg202110

[We Believe Alliance @WeBelieveA]

This week, the We Believe Alliance launched a national petition calling on the Government to proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Following our Westminster briefing, the conclusion is clear: both organisations operate networks that pose a direct risk to UK national security. As their operational space contracts abroad, the risk of relocation grows. Britain must not become a safe haven.
Proscription would give authorities the tools to disrupt recruitment, financing, and influence operations - and protect our democratic integrity.
Sign and share the petition. The time to act is now.

https://t.co/D5XfAeiR7D