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To Ms Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer Dear Madam Chancellor, As a UK taxpayer, I feel it’s only fair I get a proper say in where my hard-earned cash ends up — seeing as it leaves my pocket faster than a politician running from a tough question. So here’s my official spending instruction: ✅ First priority: The Armed Forces and their kit. Let’s give them proper equipment, not whatever’s left over after every other department has helped itself. No more sending our troops out with gear older than my first car! ✅ Schools & Universities: No ideological nonsense. Teach reading, writing, arithmetic, history and how to think — not what to think. Let’s turn our classrooms into places of learning, not debating societies for every passing fashion. ✅ New National Police Force. Train them properly, give them the tools they need, and once they’re ready? You can scrap the current setup that seems better at issuing parking fines than catching criminals. ❌ ZERO money for DEI. Not a penny, not a halfpenny, not even a stray coin down the back of the Treasury sofa. If it’s labelled DEI, it’s off the menu. And finally — send me a monthly receipt. I want it itemised, clear, and honest. No lines saying “miscellaneous” or “consultancy fees”. I want to see exactly where every pound, shilling and modern penny goes — and if there’s a mistake, I reserve the right to ask for a refund like I do when my takeaway arrives cold. In short: stop spending my money on what feels like dismantling the country, and start spending it on making the UK great again. Yours in hopeful amusement, A Taxpayer Who Keeps Receipts
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Replying to @somersetlevel
Here’s the clothes wringer to go with the wash bucket agitator 😂🤷🏼‍♀️
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Ed Miliband unveils his vision of the future washing machine for all British households:-
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No one wants to harm Parkrun @parkrunUK it is a fabulous event. I’m spent my life trying to get people more active. That will carry on. My point is a simply one of fairness & equality. 28 women’s records are held by men, over 200 1st places in the women’s category have gone to men. More every weekend. It’s demoralising for those women wanting those places & records. This only goes one way. Women just want their own course records & places based on the reality of biological sex, which matters in physical activity. There are ways that extra categories can be added. So records & places remain, which is what the vast majority want to happen, which proves there is a competitive element to Parkrun as it stands. Hence a 30k petition to bring them back. Everyone runs together dresses as makes them happy. Non of that changes but simply enable a fair female category for females please?
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The taxman may have collected as much as £43.5 million last year by increasing the bills of up to 8.7 million pensioners, who pay income tax, by about £5 each. HMRC is aware that pensioners have been overcharged for at least ten months, raising concerns that the extra charge has been added to bills for years. It is working to understand how many pensioners have been affected, but has not yet attempted to inform the public of the error nor is it issuing automatic refunds.
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Keir Starmer has given Ukraine £21.8 BILLION… …but claims we have “no money” for our own defences. Our military is stretched thin, recruitment is in crisis, and equipment stocks are depleted — yet billions keep flowing overseas. WHY?
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The government can’t stop illegal migration, can’t fix the NHS, can’t control energy bills — but it has time to ban underfloor heating and heated towel rails in your own home. Ed Miliband’s net-zero crusade is coming for your comforts. Your home is your castle — not a laboratory for their failed green experiments. Enough is enough. Stop the madness. 🇬🇧 (image courtesy of @UK_Needs_Reform)
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Replying to @DaveBarlow4TLH
Absolutely… hence pension age is going up. It’s a challenge I agree. But punishing those that have paid NI for 40yrs plus isn’t the answer either. And again if other countries have better systems why aren’t we learning?
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In February 2026, I warned that illegal family voting is corrupting UK democracy. This week, Birmingham Council admitted staff witnessed illegal family voting & had "aggressive abuse" from voters at elections. They only admitted it after a freedom of information request.
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He is another #Orwellian totalitarian @AndyBurnhamGM
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God save us. What on earth have we done to deserve this horror story? “Miliband front-runner to be Burnham’s chancellor” telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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The government that cannot find more money for defence announces more cash for bike lanes, for the rip off Erasmus student scheme, subsidies to employ workers from abroad and for France to fail to stop the boats. Why?
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America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels. Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails. I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.
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Ed Miliband imposes new net zero restrictions on underfloor heating and towel rails gbnews.com/money/ed-miliband…
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The vast majority of pensioners, would of contributed a large amount towards there own feeble pension. Even allowing for the triple lock,many are threading water, despite paying endless amount into the system.
The government are quite happy, for people to blame pensioners, for the welfare problem. Where the blame purely lies with the government. They have mismanaged the economy, and the triple lock as no bearing on that.
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We live in a society where it’s too dangerous & illegal to take a bottle of water through immigration at the airport but it’s not deemed dangerous to allow unknown foreigners with no forms of identity to ruck up on our shores. What a weird world we now live in 🙀
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What I can’t understand is why our government is so hostile to pensioners, families, the disabled, small businesses, carers and anyone unable to fight their corner against the might of the government. Since the government can never run out of money this is all a charade anyway.
The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years. Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped. Why? State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers. The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage. If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes. Leave pensioners alone. They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.
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Keir Starmer: "We don't have £4.5 billion for defence." Keir Starmer the next day: "I’m announcing £4.5 billion for more cycle lanes and zebra crossings." He’s just reached the point where he’s just laughing at us all now. You really couldn't make it up.
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Who robbed the private pension pots that a lot of pesioners were relying on?
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Ed Miliband says high energy bills are caused by wars, global markets and events overseas. So here's a simple question: If we're all buying energy on the same global markets, why are British families paying double, and sometimes triple, what people in other countries pay? You can only blame the rest of the world for so long. Eventually, you have to own your own policies.
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Suicidal empathy is the Labour government splurging £10 billion a year on welfare for foreigners, £13 billion a year on foreign aid, and £15 billion in the coming years on hotels & HMOs for illegals and then saying “sorry no money for our own national defence” 🤡
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