@FlindersSam
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Ale loving lefty, music fan, Punk/Alt/Folk/Rock/Blues.Ex Miner Republican Unite member Crap guitarist🙉 Too old to be clean far too young to be broken. NMA
Poison Street,South Yorkshire.
Joined June 2014
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Sam Flinders retweeted
It is indefensible to scrap the triple-lock on state pensions when they are still so abysmally low.
The pressure on government finances comes from trying to meet Trump's demands or more military spending.
Scrap the rise in the military budget, keep the triple-lock!
Sam Flinders retweeted
UK spends 5.1% GDP on state pensions vs an OECD average of 8.1% and an EU average of 12.9%. UK pensions are just 25% of salary replacement vs 76% in Italy and 58% in France - So even with the Triple Lock UK pensioners are lagging behind!
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Strange that if your elevated to the lords you get £300 a day for just turning up and signing in, yet if your 67 and on a state pension that’s £240 a week.
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This woman has made over £2 million in expenses alone since becoming a MP! Britain's biggest scrounger ⬇️
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Single State Pension £230 per week
Single UC over 25, £424pm
UK House of Lords £371 per Day.
Wealth Inequality!
Slash benefits they say, question the triple lock
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It’s morally wrong the taxpayer is paying for Helen Whately’s millionaire lifestyle. We pay her salary, her £39k a year rent on a second home less than 50miles from Westminster, her energy bills, council tax, fuel & travel, food & drink…
Enough is enough of this grifter!
Over SIX million people are on out of work benefits.
It MORALLY WRONG to accept that and do NOTHING.
@Conservatives will restore FAIRNESS to our welfare system, recognise CONTRIBUTION and make sure WORK always PAYS better than BENEFITS.
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A pack of aging white guys with maybe a decade left are torching the Earth for a pile of money they will never get to spend, and everyone just shrugs like that is normal.
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Now the Guardian are at it.
It's a very slick, cross-party organised campaign designed to denigrate pensioners and create a divide between the young and the old.
The pensioners are being blamed for past government mistakes.
Don't fall for this poisonous nonsense.
Sam Flinders retweeted
It's insane how we're letting decrepid old white men who won't even be around in 10 yrs destroy this planet for profits they can't take with 'em.
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A Guardian headline proclaims 'everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock'. Given that it's the worst state pension in Europe, there's actually a case for doubling it.
Sam Flinders retweeted
Why is it always reported that attacks are carried out by “Iran-backed Houthis” but I never see the term “US-backed Israelis”?
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Seems to me, instead of destroying the entire fucking country and half the World, we could have just released the Epstein Files in full and put everyone who raped kids in prison.
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It's always pensions and benefits and things for you that are unaffordable.
Never billionaires, never war, never MP's expenses, never Lord's expenses.
Let me tell you the richest 1% in the UK gain more wealth every year than the entire cost of the NHS and Pensions for everybody.
That's what is unaffordable
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The pension triple lock SHOULD be scrapped. But only once the pension has matched the minimum wage - the figure that the government says is the minimum needed to live on. Currently -£24k - almost double the peanuts given to pensioners.
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£13,000 per annum is a pitiful #pension by international standards, and we pay it later than many other countries. Why is dignity in retirement unaffordable only here? #TripleLock #bbcqt
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Amount a pensioner receives in the UK is the lowest in Europe, just 2/3rds of France and barely 50% of Italy who are considered a 'poorer' country.
Why is our pension 'unaffordable' when it is so low, and where is all our money actually going?
Sam Flinders retweeted
I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN NEVER HAD ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS OPEN BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷
