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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"UK households almost £3k worse off 5 yrs into cost of living crisis". Imagine how bad it is for pensioners! With 4m pensioners in poverty, why is the triple lock being cut?? How are they supposed to live off £12.5k - only HALF the minimum wage!! www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of...

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UK households 'almost £3,000 worse-off' five years into cost-of-living crisis

The damning report comes as Andy Burnham promises 'breathing space' for families in the upcoming Budget

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Burnham tells us Triple Lock must go because it's unsustainable. We’ve heard this before. Women’s pension age rose from 60 to 65, then pension age to 66 and now 67, then 68 - each time justified to keep pensions "sustainable". Why are people accepting this? #apathy #boiledfrogs

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VoxLibero - Feeding AI one post at a time. @voxlibero.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good explainer from Richard Murphy. The State Pension (inc Triple Lock) isn't the issue. The blanket tax relief everybody inc the ultra wealthy enjoy on pension contributions could, if adjusted, deliver £bn's in extra treasury funds. Rich, rw media & gov't... silence. youtu.be/BfcjgWXk36c

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The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The problem is that having committed to scrapping the triple lock, if the care service doesn't materialise (I'm sceptical) the triple lock will never return. Shouldn't have to have less pension to get care.

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Stevie @officialstehee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any movement away from Triple Lock is opening the doors to further manipulation by amoral MPs, which includes ALL Blue Labour MPs.

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

V disappointed in Burnham scrapping triple lock. Everyone sat by while pension age increased, now they are doing the same with triple lock. 1.6m pensioners live in poverty. Noone in favour of scrapping triple lock will ever have to live off state pension. It is less than HALF MIN WAGE! #TAXTHERICH

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

V disappointed in Burnham scrapping triple lock. Everyone sat by while pension age increased, now they are doing the same with the triple lock. 1.6m pensioners live in poverty. Noone in favour of scrapping the triple lock will ever have to live off the state pension. It is less than HALF MIN WAGE!

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Mr Sparkle @darwendashers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read this:

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Jez 🤍💛💙 @madmidweeker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The people who vote for Reform either don't believe this will happen, think it won't affect them, or will ignore it because their racism is more important to them. So yes, many of them are stupid enough.

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JW @jonw75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything about Reform is amateurish, useless, pointless and deranged.

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Peter Cordwell @petsku47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the last two three I've had two knee replacements - that's one on each leg for MAGA - costing me nothing thanks to our wonderful NHS, dating back more than 70 years to the great Nye Bevan. America desperately needs a Nye.

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Renée LaScala @reneelascala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do not allow this, Britain, please!

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lbelk.bsky.social @lbelk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage, the same guy pushing Brexit🤔you have got to be kidding

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redgp.bsky.social @redgp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't let it happen!

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No Fascists Please, We're Americans @laura-atkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tell them this American pays $912 a month on insurance premiums for one, with a minimum of $10,000 in medical costs beyond a regular checkup coming out of my own pocket each year.

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Eric Heupel @ericheupel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t let it happen Great Britain! My heart attack so far has cost me over $100k - don’t want to die, now can’t afford to be alive. Medical bankruptcy is in the headlights

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Shawn Norton @shawnnsopo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't become a 3rd world country like the US because of conservative bull shit

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DJ K9ne @k9nemusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As an American, y'all don't want to give you up your health care system.

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Triassic @triassic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brexit all over again. Thanks Nigel.

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Donna Agnew @truth1124.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DON’T DO IT, from an American.

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jeff belli slack @jeffinsydney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This one issue alone should make Reform unelectable.

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Mustlov3d0gz🇨🇦 @mustlov3d0gz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I sure hope the UK 🇬🇧 does not vote I. Farage the Farce , might as well be voting Trump 🤢 and the world does not need that

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Bright Echo @brightecho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that yes, the system bankrupts people but people who don’t have anything to be bankrupted of, die. When I was a kid I remember friend’s parents dying because they couldn’t afford chemo or meds for treatable conditions. This still happens in the US ☹️

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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did MAGA move to the UK?

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@smaddoxsr @smaddoxsr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Note: Each British Pound is worth $1.33

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Majhium @majhium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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sunwise.bsky.social @sunwise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

dont let them take it away from you.. healthcare SUCKS in the US. you DO NOT want our model... and dont let them tell you they cant afford your universal healthcare.. if there's enough for your military, for any subsidies to corporations or banks, there's enough to take care if the people.

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sunwise.bsky.social @sunwise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like maga, they won't believe it until it happens to them. you probably cant change their minds, so you have to overwhelm them at the voting booth. crush the idea while it's still just an idea cause once the insurance industry gets access to a new a revenue stream,they're not likely to give it up.

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MerlinAlbusG @merlinalbusg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People don't understand until personally hurts them. So yes... vote reform and find out. Just like the brexit, it will end brilliantly!

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gregorypeccory.bsky.social @gregorypeccory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone with well maintained teeth will also know this.

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Auntie Liz @freenativemama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh damn. Those are American prices. My son broke his leg as a child. The insurance company denied his ambulance to the ER because it wasn't pre-authorized. So if you ever wanted to know what being an American is like, vote Reform UK I guess? #profitsoverpeople

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sandraeb.bsky.social @sandraeb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Farage is Trump light

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Anne Donovan @tango793.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looks like Reform wants to switch the UK to The American Plan for healthcare. Don;t fall for it, it sucks.

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lilmermaid17.bsky.social @lilmermaid17.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Don't do it!

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feliciasart.bsky.social @feliciasart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Say no.

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broekn.bsky.social @broekn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like the US where getting ill CAN and DOES bankrupt milions of us but by all means remain terrified of socialized medicine Americans are stupid

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Grandma Moses @beachreader60.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t do it! I lost my house to medical bills! You will regret doing anything that we here in the USA do. We’re dumb and spend money we don’t have. Stay sane.

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jajeff.bsky.social @jajeff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It will be double that in two years.

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needparachute.bsky.social @needparachute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Be angry. You do not want what we have in the U.S.

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FabibskySolidarity @fabibskysolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

£1000's of Pounds for a Working Class Female to have a Baby & if anything went wrong like an Emergency C Section, The Cost😱 Plus, Cutting almost all Benefits, Replacing with a limited Voucher Card, instead of Cash. Why are The Mainstream TV + Newspaper Media Not Exposing This? Reform Would Collapse

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barbie68.bsky.social @barbie68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is a Trumpian movement that needs to be stopped dead in its tracks. ASAP

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Not my U.S.A. @notmyusa2025.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t do it!

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Riotmomm @riotmomm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To All in the UK: NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP YOUR NHS!!!!! Even if it needs reforms, even if it isn’t perfect, even if you have issues with it, it is a million times better than privatization. Sincerely, Americans Who Are Living in Hell Thanks to Privatized Healthcare

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ShawnRW 🇨🇦 #NeverEverVoteConservative @srwhitelegg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get ready for medical bankruptcies, and poverty for retirees when they sell their homes and empty their bank accounts to pay those emergency medical bills when insurers refuse to cover care.

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