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Ending Triple Lock to contribute to a fully funded NHS style Social Care Model is fine with this pensioner if coupled with a wealth tax to fund the balance.

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Conservative [Noun], synonyms: Regressive, Selfish, Greedy.

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It would have been the politicians standard response. I'm tired of those. I would have preferred him to belittle the so called journalist for asking such a pathetic gotcha question.

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Good grief, too far-right nutjobs arguing over who is extreme enough to have tolerated genocide in WW2, pretty much as now by Likud in Gaza as the world looks away.

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True, the Trump regime is a great encouragement for the UK to rejoin the progressive EU and work with Canada to rebuild. Certainly I sold my US shares and invested in the EU and UK. Also cancelled tech subscriptions, moved my laptop from Windows to Linux & LibreOffice and sold my last Ford car.

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Pandering to pathetic journalists is not what I want from our MPs. Tired of journalists wasting scant public resources on trivial gotcha stories. They need to grow up and focus the real issues, there's enough of them.

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That means that they have no vision as they're bogged down by trivia at the behest of resource wasting stirrer. I want civil servants with an eye for detail and the ability to filter out the dross so that government can be strategic.

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Excellent, we want Government to maintain an overarching view not get bogged down in detail just to satisfy stirring journalists. Grow up!

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Workers sat on skyscraper steel joists eating their lunch.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Conservative Governments made a habit of announcing things then dropping them. Is anyone surprised that this was just more Tory window dressing with no real intent of public spending? That might have required tax increases, or even worse progressive tax increases!

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Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.

theguardian.com

Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more

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North East for Europe @ne4eu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why does a crackdown on Kremlin bot networks feel like a personal attack to Nigel #Farage? 🎯 Sunderland Echo 📰 highlights #ReformUK's uncomfortable links to Moscow. If they aren't a conduit for hostile disinformation, they have nothing to fear. #UKPolitics #DarkMoney #Disinformation #Russia 👇

A scanned clipping from the Sunderland Echo letters page on Friday, October 2, 2026, featuring two letters.
The main letter, headlined "Farage takes it all personally", questions why Nigel Farage assumes PM Andy Burnham’s new National Centre for Information Defence—designed to protect Britain from hostile state disinformation—is a personal attack on him. It points out Farage's uncomfortable links to Moscow, including paid appearances on Russia Today, Arron Banks' embassy meetings, and former close ally Nathan Gill serving 10-and-a-half years in prison for taking bribes to promote pro-Russian propaganda. The letter quotes US Democrat Jamie Raskin calling Farage a "Putin-loving free speech impostor" and notes a recent undercover sting into Reform UK's foreign donations. A large pull-quote reads: "Why does a British politician assume a crackdown on Kremlin-backed bot networks must be a personal attack on him?"
Below it is a shorter letter headlined "No credibility" by Jessica Goetia Brooking, criticizing Farage for ignoring police advice after an incident at RAF Fairford to jump on a political bandwagon, concluding he has "as much credibility as a bankrupt currency."

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Fighter Fran @fighterfran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good Lord.This Witless/Kushner Ukrainian "peace" deal, what those of us Standing with UKR suspected & bemoaned. A billions$$ business deal to enrich themselves. Playing games w/a country being destroyed, making business deals w/the aggressor. Happening w/Israel too. How can human beings do this?

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Firebird7x3 @firebird7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Him, his family and his cabal of scumbags

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Deembe @deembe.co.uk · 02/10/2026

All he has ever done is talk down our country and the EU. The only vision is a regression to some fake rose tinted time. He's a spiv, a liar and a wrecker.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

Big Tech wants us to subsidize the AI takeover too. This is exactly why we need guardrails. #GuardrailsForAI

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Karoline Leavitt’s family investments while she worked with Donald Trump included stock in the president’s social media company.

thedailybeast.com

Karoline Leavitt’s Trumpy Investments Exposed

Ethics filing shows Leavitt’s family investments included TMTG and Tesla.

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I have; the tax dodgers creating generational division and their useful idiots.

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UK pensioners are poorly paid compared to peers. It suits some tax dodgers to create division between young and old to avoid critical thinking and inevitable scrutiny of their greed.

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Really, do you have an answer to my two questions then?

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Will those young people be happy about the people talking down state pensions when they get to draw a devalued 'benefit' after a lifetime of low wages? How are they to save more for their retirement?

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Mirror Politics @politics.mirror.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Likud Genocide. Get Netanyahu to the Hague Israel... if you truly haven't forgotten.

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The future of the state pension triple lock is unclear after Andy Burnham signalled he would be willing to pursue tough decisions to fund adult social care - but what is the controversial policy?

mirror.co.uk

Everything to know about the triple lock pension as PM hints at reform

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The new state pension that recent and future pensioners receive does fare better (£241 per week) but you have had to / will have to wait longer to receive it. In my case 1 year extra. In my wife's case 7 years extra meaning that she loses more than 7 * £12k = £84,000+. UK state pensions are poor.

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