The State Pension is an entitlement not a benefit.
It is also the worst state pension of the developed world. We could afford this pension if we didn’t give benefits to the uber wealthy via tax breaks.
@stephenh.bsky.social
Been around the block, retired from education, sort of, not retired from life. Now got time for watercolour painting, riding my bike, and playing blues, though not all at the same time. Been glory hunting with Liverpool since Shankly’s days
The State Pension is an entitlement not a benefit.
It is also the worst state pension of the developed world. We could afford this pension if we didn’t give benefits to the uber wealthy via tax breaks.
The pastor’s poem in glorious technicolour
08.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That video makes him look like a Gerry Anderson puppet - like Parker’s evil twin brother
08.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes T.May generously gave us the Hostile Environment with repatriation for Windrush citizens.
08.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Flood defences.
Labour inherited flood defences in the worst condition on record, but through increased funding, 151 flood defence schemes have been delivered in their first year in power.
And across the next decade they have committed £10.5bn for the largest flood defence programme in history.
Same old Jimmy Dimly.
08.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perhaps we should all have trained as software engineers and then we could have hacked the Conservative website, and then laughed about it.
08.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’s a right wing racist troll.
Block and move on
She can‘t be that dim, can she?
08.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“But it will help teachers reduce their workload”🤔
08.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Comparisons with the 1930’s are actually a warning from history. We see the events in the US with far right appointees of the state using the same rhetoric (as indeed is being used here by “activists”) with “othering“ and concentration camps for “undesirables” so must take that warning or else.
08.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I doubt very much that the local people are responsible as suggested by one of the locals interviewed. Therefore you have to question the motives of those who choose to come into the area and do that.
08.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0trott’s idea of alternative provision sounds like she wants a return to Borstals
08.10.2025 05:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Go back to the Xcesspit.
08.10.2025 05:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounded more authentic in the original German…
08.10.2025 05:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tories don’t have friends, only “useful contacts”. they don’t even like their offspring. That’s why they aspire to send them away to public school and outsource their upbringing.
07.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0cosplay fascism
07.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Odious little man. Painting over children’s murals should Have seen him binned off.
07.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you have to outsource it to AI surely it points to the fact it is of low value.
And the usual tripe about reducing workload when everyone in the job knows workload will only reduce when class sizes reduce.
Richard Tice: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform."
06.10.2025 06:32 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
05.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 1121 🔁 424 💬 83 📌 73They didn’t have loudspeakers?
He wanted loudspeakers turned up to 11.
he doesn’t know that the audience listen to translators via headphones? Although imaging trying translate his gibberish into English??
But it wasn’t Badenoch’s gaffe. She doesn’t make gaffes. She told everyone so.
07.10.2025 06:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’s the next leader of the Tory party. “Honest” Bob, painting over children’s murals, but ”helping property developers”.
His shady dealings should have meant his exit from politics except Johnson was even shadier
But Kemi was a straight A student until she went to school here, so it’s not her fault, her high genius never makes gaffes 🙄
07.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Like when he claimed the establishment was against him because Coutts said he didn’t have the money in his account to justify having an account. I suppose that’s why he has so many jobs, in order to get one.
07.10.2025 06:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hopefully Cleverley has finally realised that appeasing racists and fascists never works.
07.10.2025 05:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And the feller dressed as a YMCA member with the bad muzzy to the left keeps grinning at odd times
07.10.2025 05:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We had 15 years of “savings”, because the merchant bankers who the Tories protect screwed the economy. That’s why the country is in a mess.
06.10.2025 08:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0