RT @history95920801: @NeilClark66 I heard Dennis Healey speak at a hustings in mid 70s, at (now former) Hampstead town hall. Very impressiv…
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RT @24LadyLynda: @NeilClark66 Politicians today seem to be out for what they can get from their position & act in a way to keep their seat…
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RT @georgegalloway: @NeilClark66 I knew Mr Healey well. I often sat beside him on the back benches and took tea with him many times. I was…
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Our politicians are of depressingly low intellectual calibre compared to the ‘Gang of Three’ and other politicians of 40/50 years ago. My latest piece: spectator.com/article/our-po…
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On the subject of Southwell Minster I wrote this piece for the Daily Mail @travelmail after a visit there three years ago. We can’t allow it to close! dailymail.com/travel/article…
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My latest piece @spectator .
Our politicians are depressingly low calibre #TheGangOfThree spectator.com/article/our-po…
Our politicians are depressingly low calibre #TheGangOfThree spectator.com/article/our-po…
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RT @NeilClark66: My latest piece @spectator .
Our politicians are depressingly low calibre #TheGangOfThree spectator.com/article/our-po…
Our politicians are depressingly low calibre #TheGangOfThree spectator.com/article/our-po…
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RT @MungoMouthpiece: @NeilClark66 @spectator 'Depressingly low calibre'.... & politicians have been so since Thatcher. No business experien…
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Neil Clark retweeted
A Labour chancellor called Healey grappling with the public finances amid fears of an economic collapse. Pressure from the right to slash spending, from the left to put the people before the bankers.
Sounds familiar? Well, actually I'm talking about 1976 not 2026 and Denis ppose I couldn't have picked a better day to be transported back 50 years to watch The Gang of Three, a wonderful play in which Healey, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland 'clash over the soul of British socialism and their own relentless ambitions'.
✍️ Neil Clark
Article | spectator.com/article/our-po…
Sounds familiar? Well, actually I'm talking about 1976 not 2026 and Denis ppose I couldn't have picked a better day to be transported back 50 years to watch The Gang of Three, a wonderful play in which Healey, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland 'clash over the soul of British socialism and their own relentless ambitions'.
✍️ Neil Clark
Article | spectator.com/article/our-po…
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Saw this last night. Really good & well worth going to see (it’s on national tour). The sons of both Denis Healey and Harold Wilson were in the audience! #TheGangofThree
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It’s a reasonable question to ask. The sooner this war ends the better for everyone.
@grok how many UK hospitals would this build?
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This 👇
To any young ones out there who think the state pension doesn’t matter or should go — please take a moment to listen. My husband is about to retire. He’s paid into workplace pensions for over 40 years, working process and manual jobs. Not high-paid roles, just decent above-average wages for that kind of work. He stayed at one place for 18 years and another for well over 20. Over that time the companies changed schemes and pots — things he had no say in — and sorting it all out now has been a right hassle. Workplace pensions do have a big advantage: the employer pays in as well (under the rules it’s at least 3% of qualifying earnings, on top of what you put in). If you were only paying into your own private pension today, you wouldn’t automatically get that employer money. Even so, after all those years of him and his employers putting money in — amounts that could easily add up to several thousand pounds a year in total contributions — he’s looking at something that, if he’s lucky, might cover roughly half a month’s wage each month from the whole lot in retirement. A lot of ordinary workers end up in a similar position. Changing jobs means multiple pots, contributions can be at the minimum levels, and growth doesn’t always turn into the kind of income people hope for once fees, markets and inflation are taken into account. It’s doubtful many of you will build a private pension that does much better on its own. The state pension is still the safety net underneath all of that. Right now the full new state pension is around £241 a week (just over £12,500 a year), and it rises under the triple lock. For people who haven’t built huge private pots — which is most of us who aren’t in high-paid jobs — it makes a real difference. Support it and fight to keep it strong. It’s your safety net too, not just for the generation retiring now.
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At least the masks are off now and people like this man are not even pretending to be ‘nice’ and caring about those they think are beneath them.
Even five years ago it wouldn’t have been possible for anyone to come out in public and say ‘no matter how many National Insurance payments you have made you shouldn’t get a state pension unless you really need it’ but now people like Woodroffe feel emboldened to say it because of the relentless propaganda campaign that the state pension is ‘unaffordable’.
Even five years ago it wouldn’t have been possible for anyone to come out in public and say ‘no matter how many National Insurance payments you have made you shouldn’t get a state pension unless you really need it’ but now people like Woodroffe feel emboldened to say it because of the relentless propaganda campaign that the state pension is ‘unaffordable’.
This multi millionaire public school boy lives in Thailand & holds an official UK non-resident status, meaning he pays zero income tax in the UK. He thinks we should forgo our human rights & democracy and be ruled by rich people. The sociopathy of wealth red in tooth & claw.
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