Thomas George

Air conditioning engineer
MUFC

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Fully banning immigration into Britain from rogue states such as Pakistan, Morocco, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and other harmful nations is a very sensible step to take.

Restore Britain's immigration 'red list'.

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

I want this book too 😂

[Your Accountant @TJiMTS]

Andy Burnham, in two weeks of being PM, has perfectly illustrated the main problem in UK public finances.

Week 1: there's a cost of living crisis, so to help you we've taken £45 a year off your electricity bill and capped bus fares at £2.

Week 2: we don't have enough money to fund everything we want to do, so we're taking £630 a year out of your salary.

Same government, same month.

Credit where it's due first - taking VAT off electricity from October is real money, so is the £2 bus cap in January if you're on a bus twice a day. Immediate cost of living relief is genuinely needed by most people.

But I'm not sure how someone who couldn't manage without that £45 a year of relief is supposed to now manage with £630 a year less in their pocket?

The £630 is a 1.8% levy on income to fund a National Care Service costed at £18bn a year. On a £35,000 salary it's £630, on £50,000 it's £900.

It's charged as a percentage of your income.
It's collected out of your income.
It is not, apparently, income tax, because they're going to call it a levy.

It also only applies to taxpayers over 34... So you turn 35 and take a pay cut, at the exact age most people are stretched on a mortgage with childcare costing more than the mortgage.

But the UKs ACTUALLY problem? Spending is too high. And it's too high in ways that are fixable if anyone was willing to challenge the status quo rather than buy more votes with handouts.

This is where £1,383bn goes this year:

Health, £269.6bn
Pensions, £236.3bn
Welfare, £204.0bn
Education, £126.7bn
Debt interest, £104.6bn
Defence, £75.2bn
Everything else, £367.1bn

Health, £269.6bn: We need mandatory health insurance as an employment benefit and a hybrid model. Everyone hears "insurance" and pictures America, someone bleeding out over a copay, as if no other model exists on earth.

The Netherlands has mandatory private health insurance. Insurers are legally required to accept everyone. They cannot charge you more for being chronically ill. A risk equalisation pool moves money towards the insurers covering the sickest people. It's consistently ranked top three in Europe.

Welfare, £204.0bn: Income tax raises £330bn. So almost 2 of every 3 pounds of Income Tax taken from every working person in this country is spoken for by the welfare bill.

Welfare should be for people who cannot work. Disability, genuine incapacity, the people it was built to protect. It has drifted into a general income top-up, and the number that proves it is 4.2 million working age people now claiming at least one health related benefit, up a million since 2019.

Change how we determine eligibility, fix a lot of spending issues immediately.

Pensions, £236.3bn: The state pension is a Ponzi scheme, and I mean that technically rather than as an insult. There is no fund - the ONS says so plainly. Your National Insurance is not being put aside and invested for your State Pension, It just pays the payouts for last year's pensioners. Yours depends entirely on there being enough workers behind you.

Which, btw, there won't be. The ratio of pensioners to workers goes from 27% to 48% by 2050 (and these estimates are before we've seen the proper impact of AI/automation on jobs.

Australia already fixed this: 12% of earnings into a private fund with your name on it, mandatory, employer paid. It's your money, it compounds, it doesn't need a bigger generation behind you to work.

We could mandate the same tomorrow and let the state pension run down over the next 40 years, eventually saving £236bn a year.

You can't levy your way out of these problems. A 1.8% charge on everyone over 34 raises £18bn. It doesn't even cover the interest on our existing debt.

And in the meantime... If we're going to borrow anyway, why is none of it buying anything?

Norway found oil in 1969 and put the money in a fund... That fund is now worth $2.049 trillion. It holds a stake in roughly 1.5% of every listed company on the planet.

We found oil in the same decade and spent it.

The UK's National Wealth Fund is capitalised at £27.8bn. Norway's is about 73 times bigger.

So where is our position in AI, in data centres, in grid scale renewables, in batteries, in electric vehicles, in any of the things the next fifty years actually runs on? We borrow £133bn a year and almost none of it buys an asset.

Fix government spending immediately, increase government income over time (without milking people for every penny of 'levy' you can find), and quality of life will genuinely improve as people have more money in their pockets.

The UK has a spending problem, not a tax problem.

[Thomas Skinner ⚒ @iamtomskinner]

To our Prime Minister @andyburnham I have an idea i want to share with you!

The “Earn Your Council Tax Back” Scheme!

It ain’t a benefit. It’s a chance for people to earn a few more quid each year while making their home towns better and nicer.

Here is how I think it will work.

Every single council has jobs that never seem to get done. I walked round Romford and noticed the bits that was lovely when I was a boy have become really run down.

Things people can do:-
Picking litter.
Painting railings.
Cleaning graffiti.
Planting flowers.
Looking after parks.
Repairing potholes.
Helping elderly neighbours with shopping.
Volunteering at community events.
Organise walks.
Etc.

Anyone over 18 can sign up through the app. Let’s call it The Bosh Back ya Council Tax Scheme App 🤣

People on the app can takes pictures or say what needs doing and you can tell the app once you’ve done what needs doing. Then once you complete a job for ya community in ya area, you earn credits. Then those credits come off ya Council Tax bill every month. Because I honestly hate paying council tax, like everyone else does!

Imagine a family getting back an extra £1200 a year just by spending a couple of hours here and there improving where they live.

The benefits are proper aswell:
Reddies back in people pockets.
The roads n streets will be cleaner
People will start taking pride in there area agen.
Lower council costs because residents are doing the simple jobs.
It’s good for peoples mental health as they can get out and do things and meet people from the community.
Young people gain will get work experience and learn skills.

What do you think? And I would like to help do it please. It will be very good for local areas. I’m sure people wud love doing it and we can be proud of where we live.

Bosh❤️

[Berk @trapdoor456]

And these bastards keep creating more new taxes & raising existing ones! 🤬

[Rochdalians AFC @RochdaliansAFC]

Date for the diary, lots of players past & present playing. @RochdaleNews
Donations & match sponsorship welcomed...

[Thomas George @tommy6284]

@kingkapoor72 Fucking joke pal . Wtf is going on. We r fucked 🙈

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Uxbridge: This happened today. The nonce is from Hounslow. M Mansour was in the toilet of the pub and tried to take a little boy about 6 years old away. He ran out to his dad, who told the manager. Management grabbed him and called the police. The dad was going mad but the little boy was so scared the parents took him home. He swung for the manager but was taken down and dragged out by two onlookers. He also tried to assault with a small bottle and threw a salt shaker over the little boy. As there were no witnesses to him trying to take the boy into the toilet, he was let go. Watched him get on the bus to Hounslow. Police confirmed that’s where he lives. Please share far and wide. Metropolitan Police Service did fuck all once again. Met Police the worst of the scum. Let’s find this man. He is from Hounslow.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Bro makes bird calls so accurate it barely sounds human. Actually insane

[CJ 🍀 @celtic_jaime]

It was vindaloo today for Scransit van

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Gabriel Clarke’s two interviews with Thomas Tuchel and Jude Bellingham were dreadful. Tuchel was very clear in his praise for England’s strength of character but he wasn’t happy with the performance. Clarke failed to understand Tuchel’s mentality comments. He then gave a misleading follow up to Bellingham which suggested to Bellingham that Tuchel was unhappy with the team. Unnecessarily disruptive and the wrong context of interviewing in two separate interviews.

#EngvNor

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Since when has VAR reviewed yellow cards? Very dodgy that

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

If it’s Argentina v England, the refereeing will be absolutely fascinating to watch

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

What… never seen that happen before?
Crazy scenes 😳

[Alexander Smith @ZaaanderSmith]

Grafting at the Willy Wonka factory by the looks of it.

[Thomas George @tommy6284]

@AMAZlNGNATURE How ?

[CJ 🍀 @celtic_jaime]

Who had 1 of these bad boys in the 90s

[Liam Tuffs @liamtuffs1]

Imagine Moroccans chasing British Police in Britain & rioting on the streets of London because their football team lost… I expect Starmer to address the nation later with an update of mass arrests, immediate jail time, no bail & the advice to plead guilty! DEPORT!

[CJ 🍀 @celtic_jaime]

😂😂😂

[𝐓𝐂𝐂 𝐑𝐨🇧🇼 @nuthatch123]

God i love Jack. I’d love to go for a pint with him.