If someone has £10 left after paying their bills and they dare spend it on something they enjoy, like say a Netflix subscription, that one indulgence is not the cause of their poverty. Please stop telling poor people they're not allowed to have even the tiniest of nice things.
In case you're unclear, we're about to have World War III because our leaders decided it would be anti-Semitic to tell Israel to stop committing genocide
If you're forced to choose between heating and eating this winter, you'll be thrilled to know MPs can claim £3,500 for their energy bills. They really are taking the piss out of us, aren't they?
Have you noticed how whenever the country is in a crisis, the working class are always asked to go without? We could easily ask the rich to pay their way, but instead, you must have a cold house in winter so they can keep getting richer. The entire system is a massive scam.
Our prime minister told us we'd have cheaper gas bills after Brexit & they went through the roof. He told us unemployment has fallen by 440,000 when it's actually risen by 600,000. He told us crime has fallen by 14% when it's actually risen by 14%. These are called lies.
Did you know the punishment for peaceful protest in Russia is up to 7 years in prison? I'm sure glad I live in a western democracy like Britain where the punishment for peaceful protest is only 10 years in prison.
Imagine implementing a National Insurance rise instead of a wealth tax when the richest 1% have seen their wealth double during the pandemic and ordinary people can't afford to put the heating on
Correct me if I'm wrong, but either the Boris Johnson photo shows an illegal social gathering during lockdown *or* an official government meeting with a spouse present, which would be a breach of the Official Secrets Act. Either way, it's surely a matter for the Met Police?
If a person on Universal Credit buys a pack of cigarettes they're a monster, but if a prince spends £10 million of your money to pay off a rape victim, that's okay?
If we put MPs on minimum wage until the cost of living crisis was solved, the cost of living crisis would be over within a month. We should definitely do this.
The UK is about to make it illegal to not only claim asylum in the UK (unless you had advanced permission to come), but also criminalise helping refugees in any way, including rescuing them at sea. If you've ever wondered who the bad guys are on the world stage, it's us.
If MPs on £81,932 need a pay rise of £2,212 to cover the cost of living increase, then by the same logic, minimum wage earners on £17,374 need a pay rise of £66,770 to cover the cost of living increase
Just heard the Met Police are investigating people partying outside Downing Street, dressed as Boris Johnson. This is because it is a crime to impersonate Boris Johnson having a party during lockdown, but it's not a crime to be Boris Johnson and have a party during lockdown.
In 2019, Phillip Schofield was screeching at Jeremy Corbyn to apologise when he had done nothing wrong. He then posed for smiley selfies with Boris Johnson.
Today, Phillip Schofield is raging that Boris Johnson is prime minister and seems to have no clue how it happened.
Someone needs to explain how MPs deserve a £2,000 pay rise for letting 173,000 people die and nurses only deserve £750 for making sure it wasn't many more
It's not a feel good story when Rochelle Humes and Alison Hammond give a mother £500 on This Morning because she can't afford to feed her kids. It's a national scandal that this is necessary in the 6th richest nation on Earth.
The BBC really said the cost of living crisis is "insignificant" compared to today's events. Thousands of old people could die this winter, but they're not rich so apparently their lives don't count. This attitude is everything that's wrong with this country.
A Tory peer taking £300,000 from the northern levelling up fund to mend pot-holes on his private estate is benefit fraud & should result in a prison sentence of up to ten years, just like it would with a working class person.
Someone needs to explain to Suella Braverman that if a Universal Credit claimant is in full time work, they're not the one on the take, their employer is.
How is Boris Johnson entitled to "severance pay" equal to 25% of his annual salary for resigning in disgrace? When an ordinary person is fired, they're not even allowed to claim Universal Credit. How come rich people always get rewarded, even when they fail?
Maybe the people who decided David Cameron would make a good prime minister and Theresa May would make a good prime minister and Boris Johnson would make a good prime minister aren't the best people to decide who should be our next prime minister
Lee Anderson, the Tory MP who claimed poor people use food banks because they can't cook properly, claimed £210,491.24 in expenses last year. I say nothing more.
Dual-national Shamima Begum was groomed as a teenager and had her British citizenship revoked.
Dual-national Ghislaine Maxwell groomed teenagers and has not had her British citizenship revoked.
I used to work for a bank and we were strictly regulated to prevent conflicts of interest. If I'd accepted a £60,000 gift and "forgot" to declare it, I would be in prison for fraud and I still can't work out why Boris Johnson is not facing prosecution. The system is corrupt.
The German government is paying the December gas bills for everyone in Germany. Your government is making you pay for tax cuts for Tory donors. See the difference?
If you fraudulently claim Universal Credit, you get up to ten years in prison, but if you fraudulently claim a Covid loan from Rishi Sunak, you get the debt written off.
Why is the prime minister asking poor people to sacrifice their central heating to "counter Putin", but he's not asking energy bosses to sacrifice their record profits?
If we could pay Rwanda £120M to take 200 refugees, why not just send those refugees to a deprived part of the UK (like my local area) and give it £120M investment in return. That way we'd be honouring our obligations to refugees and helping our own people at the same time.
The police were far more eager to arrest a woman with an abolish the monarchy sign than they ever were to arrest Prince Andrew for rape allegations. This country is so upside-down.
Sorry, but I'm not willing to accept freezing this winter because our government wants to use a war we're not fighting as an excuse to mismanage the economy. We import just 4% of our gas from Russia. They are taking the piss.
Kirstie Allsopp is right. Every single renter in the country can afford a mortgage, it's just the system says they're not allowed to have one so they must pay their landlord's mortgage instead.
Surely we have now reached the point where everyone understands the problem with the economy was never refugees or foreigners or lazy workers or jobseekers or ungrateful youngsters or single mothers or wokeness, it was always conservative politicians
Dawn Butler was thrown out of parliament for accurately calling Boris Johnson a liar, but Boris Johnson received no political consequences for lying. Nice democracy we have here.
This is absolutely brilliant from Trevor Noah, explaining how trying to impose mourning on colonised people is basically an attempt to recolonise them. Watch to the end.
Boris Johnson wants to axe 91,000 civil service jobs to "save the tax payer £3.5 billion a year". To put that in perspective, Dido Harding's test and trace budget could have funded those jobs for over a decade. The Tories always have money for their mates.
Wait, so if the High Court has ruled it was unlawful to put Dido Harding in charge of a £37 billion test and trace program which failed so badly it surely cost lives, who exactly is getting punished for this?
It is absolutely beyond me how someone can do years in prison for wrongly claiming a few grand in benefits, but if you deliberately crash the economy so your mates can bet against the pound, absolutely nothing happens
Friendly reminder that the refugees we're dumping in Rwanda would cost the tax payer just £37.75 a week. On the other hand, Rishi Sunak's tax dodging cost the tax payer £20 million. It's not the refugees who are bleeding us dry, it's the billionaires.
Cancelling your own plans because you want to privately mourn is perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Cancelling everyone else's plans without their consent because you want to force them into mourning is authoritarian.
The Metropolitan Police gave the family of Jean Charles de Menezes £100,000 compensation. They gave Cressida Dick a £500,000 golden handshake after overseeing this scandal. In what universe is this justice?
It's a good time to remind people who are falling in love with Mick Lynch that not so long ago we had a Labour leader like him in Jeremy Corbyn and we allowed the media to destroy him because he represented the working class. We can't afford to make that mistake again.
Instead of calling refugees "illegal immigrants" when they've not broken the law, how about we call government ministers "illegal politicians" when they have broken the law?
Any MP who can't scrape by on £81,932 a year, plus expenses, needs to explain how an ordinary person is supposed to feed their family on a minimum wage of £15,973.20, plus no expenses.
Your future king took £1 million from the family of Osama Bin Laden. Your future king's brother paid off the woman he raped with £12 million of your money. Yup, scousers are definitely right to boo the national anthem.
Why is it okay for the rich to flee the country if we threaten to tax them, but it's not okay for the poor to down their tools if they're not paid enough to eat? Why is tax flight considered perfectly reasonable, but strike action a terrible sin?
Rishi Sunak's net worth is 5,500 times greater than the average British citizen's. Fining him £50 is equivalent to fining a normal person 0.7p. In other words, he has not received any sort of punishment - they're only for poor people.
A Tory MP can accept a £100K bribe and nothing happens, but a nurse can't accept more than a box of chocolates because this would be a conflict of interests. Let that sink in.
Are people seriously suggesting paying MPs £240,000 a year when people are eating from food banks? Seriously??? Any MP who needs their salary tripled to help them resist the temptation of corruption should NOT be an MP. This really should go without saying!
If going on strike is "helping Putin", what do you call putting a Russian oligarch in the House of Lords, partying without a security detail in their mansions and taking £2 million in Russian donations? 🤔
Everyone in the country, bar rich people, is getting poorer, despite doing absolutely nothing wrong. You've basically got less money than you had before, even if you haven't had a pay cut. It's absurd. Why the hell would any normal person vote Tory?
Good morning to everyone who decided Jeremy Corbyn was a Russian stooge so they voted for the guy who has taken £2 million from Russian oligarchs instead
A prime minister who has resigned in disgrace should not be handing honours out to anyone, let alone someone who has been suspended for serious misconduct. What an unbelievable joke our system is.
Cost of benefit fraud last year - £2.3 billion
Amount Rishi Sunak has just "lost" - £11 billion
It's not benefit fraud that's bleeding us dry, it's Tory politicians
If energy companies can't use their record profits to reduce our bills this winter, they should be made to repay every penny of the £13.6 billion they received in tax payer subsidies
If you're wondering how on earth Matt Hancock reached the final of I'm a Celebrity, his PR team launched a TikTok campaign, telling people to vote 5 times each for him on the phone app. In other words, he cheated. I'm so surprised. It's just so unlike Tories to break the rules!
If MPs can feed themselves on 30p a day, why are they given £25 a day food allowance when they stay outside of their constituencies? Surely that should be 30p a day?
If you are unhappy there is a fast lane and a slow lane to see the Queen's coffin, then you probably shouldn't accept a society where some people are born into privilege while others are born into disadvantage. This is the perfect reflection of our current system.
The reason the media smeared Jeremy Corbyn is because he was going to introduce polices like energy nationalisation. The reason you don't have nationalised energy is because you believed those smears. The media were never on your side and never will be.
The politicians who are taking £20 a week from poor people get £25 a night food allowance when they stay outside of their constituencies for absolutely no reason. If we really can't afford to feed poor people, why the hell are we feeding wealthy MPs?
Wrongly claim Universal Credit and get up to 10 years in prison.
Accept £500,000 in political bribes and get a 30-day paid holiday.
Make it make sense.
Welcome to the UK where you can get fined up to £1,000 for putting the wrong rubbish in your recycling bin, but MPs can dump raw sewage into our waterways and that's fine
When I worked in a bank, I was told we could be prosecuted for accepting a box of chocolates, but the government can take £5 million from someone they're awarding a knighthood and that's fine?