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Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 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.
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Can we - finally - agree that putting everything on a cloud rather than a hard-drive, having an Internet of Things, and removing landlines are very BAD IDEAS and we should probably stop putting all our eggs in one tech-based basket?
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
It’s almost Friday, so there’s really no point in Outlook coming back now.
And it’s November, so it’s almost Christmas. No point really coming back until January if you think about it.
Let’s circle back then.
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Nothing says "saving the planet" quite like 93 private jets landing in Turkey for delegates to attend a COP31 climate summit where they will lecture us plebs about why we need to turn our heating down and buy paper straws.
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
WTF HAS NO ONE YET FIGURED WHO THE WOMAN IS UNDER A SUPER INJUCTION IN THE LORDS THAT BORIS JOHNSON PUT IN??? WTF IS SHE?? WTF WAS HE EVEN ALLOWED TO DO THAT?
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
@lisanandy you don’t need to keep reminding us how close you are to Andy Burnham, we know, you played an integral part in the coup by failing to regulate the media, you’re actual job. All part of the plan. #BBCLauraK
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Gent in purple, "State pensioners who have contributed their whole lives are on a lot less than minimum wage"
"I'm very lucky to have a small German pension, and believe me, it's a lot more than what we pay in this country"
"Most of western Europe their pensions are much higher than the state pension in this country"
"I'm lucky I get a pension from the military"
"But people on the basic state pension, I reall feel sorry for them"
My view:
The full new State Pension is roughly £12,548 a year.
Someone working 37.5 hours a week on the £12.71 minimum wage earns about £24,785 before tax.
That puts the full new State Pension at barely half a full-time minimum-wage salary.
Government figures show that 12% of pensioner families received their income entirely from the State Pension and other state benefits in 2024/25.
That same year, around 1.7 million pensioners — one in seven — were living in relative poverty after housing costs.
A better pension means being able to heat your home, eat properly and see friends without calculating what you’ll have to go without afterwards.
It also means money spent in the communities where pensioners live.
After a lifetime of working, caring and contributing, financial security should be something people can expect.
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Leek and Potato soup £1.50? no not a tin, freshly prepared in the House of Commons!
Baked jacket potato £1.50 with cheese an extra £1.
Why don't they cut their own benefits? they are quick enough to try and target the sick, disabled and elderly.
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
I'm not exactly a tech expert so forgive me if this is a silly idea, but could we just try not connecting fridges and freezers to the internet? 🤔
Suspected cyberattacks just hit refrigeration systems in dozens of supermarkets across Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Estonia, Ireland & Finland.
Attackers remotely raised temperatures to ~50°C, spoiling large amounts of food.
This follows a nearly identical hack in France three weeks ago.
There is also right now a substation failure in Washington, D.C. that has knocked out power to places like Foggy Bottom (State Department).
I'm sure it's nothing.
#CyberAttack #CriticalInfrastructure
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Zeffman back after an extended break.
Mason, Zeffman and Kuenssberg, combined salaries circa £1 million.
We don’t need all 3, with 150 @BBCNews staff being axed surely at least one of these Tory cheerleaders has to go. #PoliticsLive
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
‘Lady Harwell’ you are talking through your knickers. Keir Starmer was one of best PMs in my lifetime along with Attlee and Wilson
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
Road casualties on Wales’ 20mph and 30mph roads have fallen by 35% compared with the same period before the lower default speed limit was introduced nation.cymru/news/casualties…
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
"Witnessing such a young elephant lose its life to trophy hunting is a painful reminder of why we cannot allow this to continue.Together, let's demand stricter regulations and an immediate ban on trophy hunting. Our wildlife deserves better. #BanTrophyHuntingNow"
Isla Keys💙🏴 🇺🇦 retweeted
A fish was found on a car windscreen at Pittenweem Harbour during Storm Boelo, and naturally, the Scots in the comments have had an absolute field day. 😂🏴
