Can someone explain how the fuck £12.71 an hour is supposed to be enough for a single person to live on in 2026?
Who decides this is minimum wage?
You're taking home roughly £1,790 a month after tax, National Insurance and pension.
Then reality hits. Rent under £700 is almost impossible to find, £300 food, £140 council tax, £140 water and electricity and £350 for fuel, car insurance and tax.
That's £1,690 before you've even spent a penny on your phone, clothes, toiletries, socialising, emergencies or anything remotely enjoyable.
So you work full time all month and end up with roughly £150 left.
Maybe people aren't struggling because they spend too much.
Maybe they're struggling because the cost of simply existing has become fucking ridiculous.
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BREAKING: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that Iran has 'lost complete control' of the Strait of Hormuz and as much oil is flowing now as before the conflict.
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john retweeted
This is what I need those who are blindly supporting Cristiano Ronaldo to understand.
There's a big difference between PRIDE and ARROGANCE.
PRIDE is a feeling of satisfaction or self-respect about yourself, your achievements, or something you value.
ARROGANCE is an exaggerated sense of superiority that makes you look down on or dismiss other people.
What Cristiano Ronaldo of the past displayed was pride.
What Cristiano Ronaldo of the present is displaying is arrogance.
Know the difference.
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Good night to dig out this absolute banger again
Really hope I'm proved wrong but I'd rate Harry Kane as a Championship level striker at best #thfc
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Portugal are really risking Cristiano Ronaldo walking away just to protect Jorge Jesus.
After the disrespect, Ronaldo should not have to return and pretend everything is fine.
Either Portugal give their greatest ever player the ending he deserves, or they choose Jorge Jesus and live with the consequences.
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Don’t worry about the Plague, even if it has spread outside of Russia we can just declare it mild and pretend nothing’s wrong like we did with Covid.
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Harry Kane has been the best player in the world since the beginning of 2025/2026 season.
In the 74 matches he has played since August 3, 2025, he has 85 goals and 11 assists.
If he doesn't lift the Ballom d'Or, just scrap the award.
Side Note - Lamine Yamal stans are awfully quiet today. I wonder why...
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Eze gives me the vibe of a player who’s too content with the level he’s reached as a player.
Grateful to have made it back to Arsenal, grateful to be part of the England squad. Everything is too neat, tidy and not that risky.
Plateaued as a player, he needs to inject more anger and aggression into his game if he wants to break into starting XIs for club and country.
On flip side, seems an ideal squad option as won’t be difficult to manage.
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Think there's a big elephant in the room as to why England suddenly look really good...
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The midfield actually moves forward because Declan Rice is not there taking five touches to turn into traffic against second tier opposition.
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Cristiano Ronaldo says he is not retiring from international football but accepts he deserves to be punished for walking out on Portugal for a "breach of the coach's trust" 🇵🇹
The 41-year-old captain left the national team camp after being an unused substitute against Norway and then learning he would not start against Denmark.
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A Greenland Shark that was located in Arctic Ocean.
He’s been wandering the ocean since 1627.
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Never thought I'd ever see a president start a war and say its cool if the enemy bombs a couple u.s. cities and kill millions of Americans. Now thats some america 1st, amirite?
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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You couldn't make it up!
The great Tory announcement on missile defence completely collapses.
Within two hours.
Bay-denoch now says "it is not an Iron Dome like what Israel has. It is not something used to cover the entire country".
@KemiBadenoch @jcartlidgemp @Conservatives
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