Minimum wage in the UK is £12.71 an hour. How the fuck is a single person meant to survive on that? That's just under £21k a year after tax, national insurance and pension. Let's do the maths. Rent: £750 a month (£9,000 a year). Council tax: £130 (£1,560 a year). Utilities: £150 (£1,800 a year). Phone: £50 (£600 a year). WiFi: £30 (£360 a year). Fuel, insurance and road tax: £350 (£4,200 a year). Food shop: £300 (£3,600 a year). Total: £21,120 a year. You're already £120 in the red, before clothes, toiletries, car repairs, emergencies or socialising. One of the richest countries in the world, yet minimum wage doesn't cover the minimum cost of living. Something needs to change.

This is sickening. A man in a high-vis vest punches a frail elderly disabled man so forcefully he falls to the floor in what appears to be his own room, then ransacks the place while he lies helpless. Anyone who targets the most vulnerable is the lowest of the low. I hope this lowlife is hung, drawn & quartered!

This is absolutely INSANE! Meet Mohammed Yaseen. He was a member of an Al Qaeda group that beheaded Brit Ken Bigley. He then joined ISIS where he worked as a guard at two mass killings and a deadly public stoning. He was arrested in Germany and served nearly 5 years in prison for being a member of Isis. After he was released, Germany didn't deport him, so he broke into our country on a small boat because he heard we 'accept everyone'. He was jailed for 2 years for illegal entry, then released early after 6 months. This is despite hearing in court that he 'posed a danger to the whole of the UK' and he had a 'deep and lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology'. He's eligible for deportation, but the Foreign Office raised concerns that if we deport him to Iraq he could face 'mistreatment' for being a terrorist. He has reapplied to stay in the UK, which halts any deportation proceedings and it will cost taxpayers' £85,000 a year to keep him here. It get's worse... if and when he uses the ECHR to fight his case, we are potentially on the hook for another *£500,000* in legal aid. He's been put in a bail hostel in Windsor and able to walk the streets. WHAT TF ARE WE DOING TO OURSELVES?! This country is utterly broken.

I’m cold. The heating is going on.

What on earth is funny, Prime Minister? You're asked how you'll stop boats and engines pouring in from China and Turkey to fuel the Channel crossings, and you smirk. Here's who some of those crossings have brought here: - An Afghan who came by small boat sexually assaulted three lone women in Southampton. He was jailed in March. ([BBC](bbc.com/news/articles/crm818…)) - An Ethiopian in Epping sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl days after arriving by boat, and was then released from prison by mistake. - At the Wethersfield asylum camp, Essex Police have recorded 234 crimes since 2023. Millions of us are worried for our families. It's not a laughing matter.

Ofgem needs disbanding they work for the energy suppliers not the consumers. I’m here at my cousins in France their electricity is far cheaper and the government caps any rise to 4% and only goes up once a year.

39 years ago tonight, I still remember, living in Kent as child, waking up in the middle of the night wondering what the roar was outside, which got louder and louder with things crashing around outside in the dark, the lights going out. 2 days without electricity in our village followed, cooked on a gas stove and ate by candlelight. No school for a few days too.

My heart just sank when I saw the latest January Price Cap prediction, averaged over three analysts. Up 25%! It wasn't unexpected, wholesale energy costs have been sky high this week, but still! We're now 8wks through the 13wk period it is averaged over, so its firming up.