@AngelaRayner When my disabled mum moved into a housing association property they showed it us with no floor and walls scraped back to a green-brown mess of plaster and old paint. Did they give her a floor and paint/wallpaper? No. She had to use all her savings to get a FLOOR in social housing
@Jennypugh5C@KellyABoother@AngelaRayner So what has he done with his £30k decoration and renovation allowance? If there was anything seriously wrong with his flat (leaks, holes in ceilings etc) surely £30k has covered it?? The tax payer payed £30k and yet he wants MORE so what pointless vanities did the £30k pay for??
@BBCLauraKT Approve of the sentiment, don't approve of the fact you've splashed up a figure that is only relevant to people who earn £100,000+ a year.
Truth is it's probably going to cost Rishi about that much. It will cost me very little. But there are poor families it will harm, still.
@ajneil74 @BBCLauraKT I guess the problem is actually for people who earn less than half of that. E.g. the teaching assistants who earn just above the allowance. Asking such people to pay an extra £100 a year in NI is taking away a budget which I suspect is generally spent on kid's shoes and coats.
Reading Marcus Aurelius, and thinking about cause and effect.
Our highest elected leader seems to believe in randomly choosing a convenient course of action, sticking to it through any amount of criticism, and getting it DONE.
That is the cause, and around us is the effect.
@simonharris_mbd You know the Tory brainwashing programme is in good health when a bunch of people are complaining about an activist using £41 to protest a party that have used public money to celebrate together illegally whilst ordinary people are dying alone.
SMACKDOWN ALERT: Santa tells politicians that they are on his #NaughtyList for climate betrayal, stating: "Here is the truth that each one of you know: If the Earth were a bank, it’d be saved long ago." #SaveSantasHome (and all our homes too)
So much to unpick here but I'm pretty certain PL Travers didn't want the musical in the first place. From my knowledge this singing Mary Poppins was not her original intention at all. Is your Mary Poppins the gimmick after all? #NotAGimmick#Practicallyunperfect
Excited to share mine and @tesspearson89's version of 'Heaven's Light' from Hunchback for day 21 of her inspiring '40 Days of Disney' fundraiser! All funds go to Help Musicians UK - check out the other great performances too!
https://t.co/E7MvU309nr
https://t.co/e8RpVpJzQ4