Greg Eden retweeted
YOUR EXPENSES ARE MORE THAN THE AVERAGE WOKER GETS PAID IN A YEAR.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT
People on benefits shouldn’t be better off than people in work.
Some households are getting thousands more in welfare than a full-time job.
People who’re working say to me – why do I bother?
We will make sure work always pays more than benefits.
We’ll restore the two-child benefit cap. Working families don’t get a pay rise when they have another child. Nor should people on benefits.
And we’ll reform housing benefit. No more asking taxpayers to pay for people on benefits to live wherever they want – especially when working people can’t afford to live there themselves.
Greg Eden retweeted
Andy Burnham was the only G7 leader to attend the COP31 climate summit. He clocked a 4,000-mile taxpayer-funded round trip to Turkey so he could deliver a six-minute “climate is a national security issue” speech to a half-empty hall. Leading from the front on net zero by personally burning more aviation fuel than most households will in a year.
Greg Eden retweeted
Nothing says “net zero” quite like 93 private jets full of billionaires, technocrats and politicians arriving at the COP31 summit to tell the rest of us to turn the heating down and use paper straws.
One of those flights emits roughly as much as an average person does in an entire year. The people setting the rules are the ones who refuse to follow them.
Greg Eden retweeted
Labour’s idea of rewarding you for putting money aside? From April, basic-rate tax on savings interest goes from 20% to 24%.
You earn it. They tax it. You save what’s left. They want a bigger cut of the interest too.
What exactly are we trying to encourage in this country?
UK wants to keep everyone poor and make you poorer. It’s not a good environment where you have e to work for many months for free and can’t retire until almost 70.
Greg Eden retweeted
Do you know what's ballooning?
MP's expense claims.
Maybe they should get vouchers instead of money.
Greg Eden retweeted
Watching Martin Lewis telling people (albeit reluctantly) how to heat THEMSELVES if they can’t afford to switch the heating on. How the fuck have we got to this stage. Appalling that we are stuck with this bunch of incompetent, greedy, rancid arses. @andyburnham @UKLabour
Greg Eden retweeted
Another Government pensions power grab is on the way.
Not content with trying (and failing) to dictate how your pension savings are invested…
Now Ministers want to tell you what to do with your pension when you retire. I’ve written about it here ⬇️
The government’s big pension push is fraught with danger thetimes.com/money/pensions/…
Greg Eden retweeted
Time to be courageous. Labour don’t want to take anything away from anybody.
Conservatives won’t shy away from saving support for those who need it. Our £36bn saving plan will set out how.
Greg Eden retweeted
There you have it. Not only no welfare savings in this Parliament. But Labour plan to make no savings for the next 10 years.
Time for a new government with a plan to cut the benefits bill.
Greg Eden retweeted
This government wants hundreds of thousands of young people to start their working lives on welfare – just for showing up.
Labour just doesn’t get it.
Young people want to work. Government needs to get off the necks of businesses so they can afford to hire young people again.
EXCL: Alan Milburn will demand a new 'work allowance' for young people when he publishes his major report into 'Neets' crisis next week.
Set at a value of 16 hours a week at the minimum wage, it would stop their Universal Credit being reduced from the first pound they earn.
He says the current system "makes trying a job feel like a gamble many young people can’t afford to take".
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/a…
Greg Eden retweeted
Helen Whately on @Skynews saying there are over 6 million "working age people" not working in the UK.
She makes no mention of the fact there are under 700,00 job vacancies in the UK. Where does she expect the people they plan to force off sickness benefits to find work?
Greg Eden retweeted
3 in 4 constituencies receive more in welfare than workers pay in tax.
That's how the social contract gets broken. It's time for a fairer system for claimants and taxpayers.
That means face-to-face assessments, stopping benefits for mild anxiety & ADHD, no benefits for foreign nationals and bringing back the 2-child cap.
75% of constituencies in England and Wales spend more on welfare than their workers pay in income tax and National Insurance. London and the South East are the only regions that are net contributors; the North East is the most welfare-dependent region in England.
Explore the ASI's new Welfare Sustainability Tracker at buff.ly/ltyWwQH
Greg Eden retweeted
Got to hand it to Nick he`s great at exposing Labour Ministers for the incompetent retards they are
Greg Eden retweeted
Ed Miliband certainly does a lot of flying for someone obsessed with saving the planet.
A return flight from London to Antigua covers around 8,200 miles.
That single trip generates as much carbon pollution as the average Briton produces in around four months.
And that's just one flight.
He tells the British public to reduce their carbon footprint while flying thousands of miles around the world.
Apparently, saving the planet is everyone else's responsibility.
Many people in Britain won't be able to afford a holiday in 2027 thanks to Ed Miliband's obsession with net zero.
Energy prices are forecast to rise by another 25% in January, following the policies he championed from 2024 to mid 2026.
The fact he's now living it up in the Caribbean, snorkelling in Antigua, while millions of Britons struggle to make ends meet back home is an absolutely dreadful look.
He enjoys the Caribbean sunshine while British families worry about keeping the lights on this winter.
Greg Eden retweeted
Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1.
£8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees.
PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m.
news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
Greg Eden retweeted
It is now 30 hours since wind made even 5% of UK's electricity.
This is not a tiny blip. Not a phenomenon to be ignored.
Without gas ('CCGT') backup it would have been national power outage time...
But if we have gas backup, why bother with wind at all? Why not just use gas all the time?
