The pensioners of today supported the pensioners, economy, defence and all other public spending during their working lives of ~50 years. At yesterday's prices.
Your post is disingenuous.
You should be thanking them.
Unfortunately not, and this is the problem. The average pensioner receives substantially more in pensions, health and other benefits than they contributed in tax/NI during their working lives. (Difficult to calculate but some estimates put the average difference at around £200K). The reasons for this underfunding are 1. the ‘contributions’ were not saved - they have already been spent and 2. the level of contribution was calculated when life expectancy was 65 and people died after short illnesses, rather than spending 20 years or more receiving pensions and increasingly expensive healthcare. The fact that we can’t afford the current pension arrangements is not a moral issue; it’s a mathematical one.
Donna S retweeted
"Reform's alternative budget released today includes many proposals that will finally get Britain's economy growing again.
Abolishing the Energy Profits Levy will play a crucial role in ensuring the country's energy security, which a recent ASI index ranked below Romania and Ukraine. Windfall taxes undermine the incentive on firms to be ready to drill when prices are high: without them, the UK's domestic energy supply will be far more secure, and the country will be less vulnerable to price hikes and energy crises. It will also lower electricity costs at a time of eye-wateringly high energy prices, which will cost the average family an extra £206 in the coming year.
The alternative budget's proposals will also give a desperately needed boost to housebuilding. Leaving the Aarhus convention, which paralyses planning reviews and raises costs for developers, will make it easier and faster to build new homes. Repealing Biodiversity Net Gain rules will also reduce costs and delays for housebuilders, 94% of which have been hit by delays due to the rule.
Taken together, these changes will mean more houses are built faster and for a lower cost - which will go a long way to solving Britain's housing crisis. If done right, planning deregulation like those proposed by this alternative budget could single-handedly raise long-run GDP by 7.05% - a rise of almost £3,000 per person."
- Silvia Andreoletti, Head of Communications
Donna S retweeted
It is important to recognise that most of these measure are literally just telling the state to get its boot of our nation’s neck.
The Garden of England is still glorious but the Yookay Jungle is growing fast.
Less state bureaucracy
More rugged individualism
Let’s get the economy cooking on (our own) gas.
Let’s deport the dead wood
And let’s start enjoying being alive again.
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
That’s why Reform’s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures I’d take if I were Chancellor:
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britain’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed 🚀
Donna S retweeted
Even if the Reform vote utterly collapsed and the party fell apart, I know I would not be alone in saying I would still not vote for the Conservative Party again.
The so called "Kemistry" is inauthentic. She has Matt Hancock's Witch Finder General coordinating policy and writing the manifesto and Henry Newman who pushed Net Zero and statutory gender self recognition as her Chief of Staff. They have not changed.
Donna S retweeted
I’m convinced at this point that journalism is dead and it’s been completely taken over by political activists masquerading as reporters. 🤦🏻♀️
We have yet another unbelievably misleading headline about Reform.
Journalism is supposed to be about presenting the facts and letting readers make up their own minds. Instead.. this looks like an attempt to make Reform look bad by manufacturing a contradiction that doesn’t exist.
David Maddox at The Independent claims Reform councillors are being told to “do as little as possible” in their first 100 days.. attempting to make Nigel look like he’s contradicting himself. He’s not.
The article is comparing TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS!
🩵 Farage’s NATIONAL pledge: If Reform wins a general election.. his government will move quickly to introduce major reforms, pass legislation and deliver on its first 100 day promises.
🩵 The LOCAL council guidance: Councillors responsible for adult social care should understand the services they’re taking over before making major changes that could affect vulnerable elderly and disabled people.
👉🏻 One is about a future government running the COUNTRY.
👉🏻 The other is about councillors responsibly managing LOCAL CARE SERVICES.
And the actual guidance says “don’t rush into big changes”, NOT “do as little as possible”.
See the difference? 🤦🏻♀️
Maddox has taken perfectly sensible advice, twisted its meaning and presented it as a contradiction of a completely separate national pledge.
This isn’t presenting readers with the facts and letting them decide. It’s pushing an interpretation before they’ve even read the article.
And frankly, I’m sick of it. 🙄
Donna S retweeted
Christopher Hope’s performance is textbook lobby cartel behavior. Farage and Jenrick stood up to deliver a serious, structural 64-point economic rescue blueprint to salvage a bankrupt country, and the very first question from "the people's channel" wasn't about productivity, £40bn in Whitehall cuts, or tax relief. It was a sneering, gossip-column attack about room capacity and a cherry-picked Ipsos poll. GB News built its entire brand promising to be the insurgent antidote to the BBC, yet the moment Reform puts forward real alternative governance, @christopherhope sounds indistinguishable from a Guardian lobby intern doing a hatchet job for the Tory rump. @GBNEWS
Donna S retweeted
I've Seen Reform From the Inside. Here's What ITV Didn't Show
@ColinBrazierTV's superb monologue on what was really gfoing on for @OutpostStudios
youtu.be/IBsp8ZE-Fac?si=3L5A…
Donna S retweeted
I’ll say it til I’m blue in the face: only British citizens should be entitled to benefits.
We must put the British people first.
Donna S retweeted
YC drops mic 🎤
When Rupert Lowe went to the Mail he labelled Reform a protest party, described Farage as the messiah, and insisted on proper structure and a clear front bench.
Two years later the same questions can be put to Lowe and his own party, while Reform has moved on, professionalised, and is actively challenging the establishment on the issues that matter.
REPOST🙏🙏🙏
@PappeP @whitehallanalyt @claire_adams694 @Gracie_Blue89 @ZiaYusufUK @RobertJenrick
Donna S retweeted
One thing that's surprised me about Andy Burnham is the extent to which he just lies.
He says this morning small boats are because of Brexit and "we can't return people".
The FACTS:
In last 5 years of Dublin agreement the UK took in far more migrants than it sent back.
2016: net 200
2017: net 150
2018: net 1000
2019: net 500
2020: net 800
Five years = net 2,500 more migrants than sent back.
Plus, now we'd have to sign up to the migration and asylum pact so the numbers will be enormous.
He knows this. His advisors know this.
They are just lying to you.
Donna S retweeted
Burnham is lying on small boats
Dublin Convention, when in EU made things even worse for returns, not better
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Everyone on £13k should be exempt.
It's abhorrent.
Why don't you get this?
How many working age people live on only £13k without supplementary benefits?
Why should a pensioner on a £13K income be exempt from income tax when a person of working age is not? Those of working age do not receive free travel or all sorts of other discounts to which pensioners are entitled. We do not exempt people from tax based on how many dependents they have, or how much housing in their area costs, so why exempt individuals based on age?
Donna S retweeted
Free movement will lead to further overcrowding. That’s the only thing that matters in this debate.
Think tanks on both sides will argue over GDP and all that. But the only thing that matters to ordinary people is supply, infrastructure, and public services.
Overcrowding.
Overcrowding.
Overcrowding.
Donna S retweeted
🚨 BBC BUSTED AGAIN! Accused of pushing left wing ideology on schoolchildren through its education website!
BBC Bitesize, used by 1.7 MILLION pupils every week, has removed controversial teaching materials following an investigation by The Mail on Sunday.
Here’s what was uncovered:
‼️ An online game reportedly rewarded children for choosing open borders and granting amnesty to illegal migrants.
‼️ Teaching material suggested concerns about migrants taking local jobs were “prejudiced”.
‼️ Children were encouraged to join Amnesty International.
‼️ Pages promoted progressive political figures, including Greta Thunberg.
‼️ Following the investigation, the BBC removed or suspended disputed material and placed it under review.
💥 Former BBC television controller Danny Cohen called the material a blatant breach of impartiality and demanded answers.
And rightly so! 💯
The BBC is funded by licence fee payers. Its job is to EDUCATE children, not tell them which political opinions are acceptable.
How did this material get approved in the first place, and who was responsible for ensuring political impartiality?
😤 Defund the BBC!!
Donna S retweeted
How Legacy Media Rig the Narrative 🧵
The sudden barrage of polling data broadcast across legacy networks is not an objective reflection of the electorate, but a highly curated narrative designed to manufacture consent. When establishment outlets like GB News elevate outlier polls showing a miraculous Conservative recovery, they are actively participating in narrative engineering. They deliberately ignore comprehensive aggregate models and Nowcasts that show Reform UK capturing massive vote shares and dozens of seats, choosing instead to platform washed-up Tory frontbenchers to pontificate over single, cherry-picked graphics. This is the Uniparty media apparatus in full deployment. By filtering reality through a selective lens, the establishment right-wing media is desperately attempting to resuscitate a collapsed Conservative brand while gaslighting the public into believing the populist momentum has stalled. The goal is to make the televised reality entirely divorced from the reality on the streets.
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🚨 WHOA!! Kemi Badenoch’s former consultant was caught on camera allegedly offering to BROKER CONTRACT KILLINGS!! 😳
Jack Ross, a former Tory candidate who worked as a social media consultant in Kemi Badenoch’s office in 2025, has now been suspended by the Conservative Party.
An undercover Al Jazeera investigation filmed him apparently discussing how much it would cost to have someone beaten, stabbed, shot or even KILLED!
He allegedly offered to put the reporter in touch with someone who could arrange it.
‼️ And now it turns out he was working in the office of the leader of the Conservative Party just last year!
And these are the people who want to lecture Reform about VETTING?! 🤦🏻♀️
You genuinely couldn’t make this stuff up.
Someone needs to do an investigation into Kemi asap.
@reformparty_uk @ZiaYusufUK @TiceRichard @LeeAndersonMP_ @SarahForRuncorn @danny__kruger @AndrewRosindell @RobertJenrick @SuellaBraverman
🚨 BREAKING: Former Tory candidate who was suspended over contract killer claims worked in Kemi Badenoch’s office as a consultant.
• Jack Ross, a former Conservative local election candidate, has had his party membership suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation.
• He was filmed by an undercover reporter for an Al Jazeera documentary apparently discussing the cost of hiring people to carry out violent acts, including asking “What do you want done?” and listing options that could be arranged for money.
• Police in Scotland say they will review the documentary for any potential criminality.
• It has emerged that Ross worked in 2025 as a junior social media consultant in the office of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, which can draw on taxpayer funds. Sources close to her confirmed the external contract role.
• Ross has denied the allegations, saying his remarks were not meant to be taken seriously.
Donna S retweeted
A reward for his efforts in helping to bring down former Prime Ministers. He really isn’t a man they want to spill the beans given what he knows. Passionate about the council of Europe - an ardent Remainer who would never vote to leave the ECHR like many of those being selected for Tory seats.
His choice of companions at events in a world of social media is both brave and fascinating.
It’s not Kemi who runs the Conservative Party. I’m amazed there are still people who think she Rishi, Boris et al ever did.
Another interesting "direction of travel" decision here.
Kemi's "New" Conservative Party has re-selected REMAINER Roger Gale as a parliamentary candidate.
Gale is 83, and recently REFUSED to vote for ECHR withdrawal, and in fact called the idea of leaving "a grave mistake."
He was previously suspended from parliament for attempted to influence judges to protect a sexual assault convict, his friend and former MP Charlie Elphicke.
Tell us, @KemiBadenoch, Is this really a NEW Conservative Party?
Or is it the SAME OLD TORIES?
