After 18 years of full time work and reaching a senior level position, I had to go on benefits for a period due to serious burnout from ADHD and bipolar disorder. If I didn't get those benefits, I would have lost everything and could have ended up homeless. I am sick to the teeth of people treating benefits like everyone is a scrounger. It's a literal lifeline. The GPD % spend of benefits in 2026 is exactly the same as as it was in 2009. The politicians are lying to us. There is no crisis. It's the tax avoiders where the big money is to be found, but that would likely include the politicians friends and family, so they leave that well alone.

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This is a picture of the biggest benefits claimant in the UK. They claim an eye watering £17,500,000,000 a year. The same as 4.4m people on benefits. How? Because they claim ALL their costs, every wage, every oil rig, every tanker. Completely nationalised, but the profits are Privatised.

I am not going to hate my neighbour because they were born somewhere else, or because they're on benefits, or because they're queer, or because they have different melanin levels. I am going to hate the grifters, fascists and bigots who use distraction to divide us rather than unite us.

Andrew Neil on #bbcqt: "The big problem we face is 6.7 million adults of working age who aren't working and are living on out-of-work benefits. 6.7 million. No country can prosper with that number of people able to work who are not working." The first half is broadly right. DWP figures show 6.7 million people in Great Britain claimed some combination of out-of-work benefits in March 2026. However, the second half is misinformation because it misdescribes that statistic. DWP's out-of-work benefits category deliberately includes people the state has assessed as unable to work, or does not currently expect to work. DWP's own breakdown shows that 4.6 million of the 6.7 million, around 68%, have no work requirements at all. DWP explains that this is generally because they are too sick to work or are the main carer for a very young child. That group includes 2.8 million Universal Credit claimants on the health route and 390,000 on Employment and Support Allowance and older incapacity benefits. Only 2.2 million, about a third, are expected to take any steps towards work, and 590,000 of those are themselves on the health route. Treating the whole 6.7 million as available labour turns a count of claimants into a count of idle workers, which the data simply does not support. The official labour market figures tell a very different story. The ONS puts unemployment, meaning people actively looking for and available for work, at 1.78 million for May to July 2026. The Learning and Work Institute estimates that 3.9 million people are out of work but say they want a job, and that there are 5.5 of them for every vacancy. There is a serious debate to be had about rising sickness claims and appropriate support. It is not helped by presenting people the state itself has judged unable to work, or not required to, as if they were simply choosing not to. Nobody challenged Neil. Nobody corrected the misinformation. Neil got a round of applause. Someone could have told Fiona Bruce the facts in less than a minute. This is just one example which helps explain why many people understandably treat @bbcquestiontime as a joke. Sources: DWP Benefit Combinations, March 2026; ONS/House of Commons Library, September 2026; Learning and Work Institute, September 2026.

Reform council is shutting 10 nurseries. The Hard Right party's South Tyneside councillors had the public gallery cleared after angry parents shouted "shame". You can't blame migrants for this, Farage. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmdx…

Netanyahu gets the welcome he deserves at the UN as he is booed and delegates walk out of the room.

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Danny Tommo and 5 other thugs got arrested for destroying that RNLI boat and threatening the lives of innocent emergency service workers who are not even paid. It's time for them to go to jail, we don't like hate, we don't like racism and we don't like criminal thugs roaming around terrorising innocent people.

Danny Tommo was already on bail and facing trial next month He was previously convicted for a kidnapping at knife point A known history of dealing drugs, and multiple reports of domestic abuse and exploitation of a CSE victim He is no patriot, he is career a criminal

For those who seem confused. England literally means “land of the Angles” The Angles were Germanic people who migrated here centuries ago. We are a nation born of immigration you ignorant, racist fucks.

Exactly

Two Tier Policing. Just Stop Oil got 21 years for planning to block a road. The Far Right block emergency vehicles they don't even get arrested.

🚨Angry parents gathered to protest Reform UK run Stanley Borough Council's decision to close TEN children's day nurseries. Parents were furious with Cllr @darrengrimes!!!

I remember being at the 2001 Labour Party conference after 9/11 when Blair famously said he would make fighting for justice for Gaza one of his causes. Today this dishonest, greedy man with so much Arab blood on his hands pushes pro-Israel, pro-genocide narratives about Gaza.

The problem with the small boats issue is that nothing will ever satisfy these people. If the boats stopped arriving tomorrow, bearing in mind crossings are down 47% on the same time last year, they’d swiftly move on to those already here. They’d not stop because immigration is their favourite political toy. They start on black and brown people who have settled here, many as children. They need this issue to stay relevant. Their entire platform has been built on it. Disgraceful racists.

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Dale Vince on Jeremy Vine, "Jim Ratcliffe is an amoral man. He made a fortune in our country. In our economy. Paid for by our taxes: education, transport, all the infrastructure that enabled him to make billions, then he ran off to a tax haven to avoid paying tax" "I don't care what he says about Britain, he doesn't live here" My view: Dale Vince makes an interesting point: if you choose to live elsewhere to avoid paying UK tax, should you really lecture Britain on its future? Of course citizenship gives you the right to speak. But if you opt out of contributing, while still benefiting from Britain’s workers, customers and infrastructure, does your argument carry the same moral weight? What do you think?