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1Jan 19, '23If a £30,000 a year nurse is paying £18,000 in rent, £3000 on energy bills and £6000 on childcare, of course they need a bloody food bank19.6×2.3M26k3.3k93
2Jan 15, '23Wholesale gas prices are now below where they were when Russia invaded Ukraine. So tell us why we're still paying thousands of pounds for our gas bills.17×2M26k5.8k107
3Jan 22, '23Boris Johnson wouldn't need to borrow £800,000 if he cooked from scratch and cancelled Netflix16.1×1.9M35k4.4k54
4Apr 10, '24Tesco profits up 159% to £2.3bn. In other words, Britain's biggest supermarket chain used the cost of living crisis as a pretext for blatant profiteering.14.1×1.6M22k4.2k308
5Sep 19, '25Britain has 2,800 food banks12.8×1.5M35k8.1k760
6Aug 31, '25Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with F12.7×1.5M30k5.2k2k
7Jan 31, '23Last night, 315 MPs voted to sack strikers. At the next general election, vote to sack them.12.1×1.4M30k6.6k48
8Feb 1, '23The media are calling today's strikers 'greedy'. But I've never met a teacher with £27m parked in an offshore trust in Gibraltar.11.3×1.3M33k5.6k61
9Feb 12, '25Can anybody tell me why Palestinians are any less worthy of refugee status than Ukrainians?10.9×1.3M24k3.3k354
10Sep 25, '23Wilko directors borrowed money to pay out £77m in dividends while leaving the pension scheme £76m in deficit. That behaviour should be illegal.9.0×1.1M19k3.4k122
11Dec 16, '22The average wage needs to be enough to buy the average home. Tell me I'm wrong.8.9×1M16k1.2k28
12Nov 20, '24Up to 100 boys will have to leave Eton because their parents can't afford VAT on public school fees. And four million children go to school hungry because their parents can't affor8.4×979k22k3.6k243
13Jan 4, '23Question from the new Rishi Sunak maths syllabus: if 13 years of Tory government knocks 20% off your real income and 40% off your pension, puts £500 a month on your mortgage and la8.3×967k22k6.9k111
14Apr 1, '25How badly will the £12.21 an hour minimum wage damage British business? With me in the studio to discuss this are a £91,000 a year Tory MP, a £200,000 a year rightwing journalist a7.6×888k19k2.3k290
15Aug 21, '25GB News has broadcast an interview with a pensioner who moved to Spain because there are 'too many foreigners in the UK'. I swear I'm not making this stuff up.7.5×881k23k2.3k378
16Jan 21, '23Michelle Mone has a new yacht, Boris Johnson has a £6m book deal and Nadhim Zahawi's horses have centrally heated stables. But remember, you can eat for 30p a day if you batch cook7.4×864k23k6.2k62
17Jun 26, '25Pensioners aren't on 'benefits'. They're on a pension.7.3×854k17k2.2k65
18May 12, '24Tesco profits went up 159% to £2.3bn last year. In other words, Britain's biggest supermarket chain used the cost of living crisis as a pretext for blatant profiteering.7.2×845k16k3.3k196
19May 6, '23Funny old world when you can get arrested for unloading republican placards from the back of a van, but not for selling £122m-worth of defective PPE to the NHS6.6×778k24k7.8k44
20Apr 19, '24Rishi Sunak - head boy at Winchester, Goldman Sachs investment banker, married to a billionaire's daughter, prime minister just seven years after entering parliament - has today to6.5×759k21k4.3k336
21Feb 2, '23Nurses are on £32k and are taxed PAYE. Shell is on £32bn and hasn't paid any UK corporation tax for the last five years.6.4×754k16k4k56
22May 28, '24First you do a year's unpaid national service, then you accumulate £60,000 of student debt, then spend a few decades handing over half your pay packet to a landlord before retiring6.0×707k24k5.3k321
23Dec 23, '22I've ironed last year's wrapping paper, cancelled Netflix and stopped buying Starbucks avocado lattes. And my energy bill is still £4000.6.0×705k17k2.1k40
24Jan 16, '23Public sector workers can be sacked for going on strike and Nadhim Zahawi won't be sacked for dodging millions of pounds of tax. And there you have it.5.9×691k18k5.3k30
25Jul 14, '24Liz Truss - awarded a six-figure prime ministerial pension at the age of 46 for just 49 days' work - wants to raise the pension age to 80. For other people, that is.5.8×676k29k6.3k241
26Feb 2, '23Fall behind on your gas bill and they break in to fit a prepayment meter. Fall behind on your £3.7m tax bill and they make you chancellor of the exchequer.5.7×662k22k4.8k42
27Mar 11, '25No matter how many times you cut disability benefits, severely disabled people still won't be able to work5.5×644k22k3.8k229
28Jan 6, '24Boris Johnson's £265,000 Partygate legal fees were funded by the taxpayer but neither the Hillsborough families nor the subpostmasters got legal aid. I do have that right, don't I?5.4×633k15k4.2k90
29Aug 3, '24Britain finally reaps what the Daily Mail, GB News, Reform UK and Suella Braverman have sown5.1×596k19k3.6k146
30Jun 4, '24You can be arrested for throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage. But not for dumping billions of litres of shit in the Thames.5.1×593k26k4.8k94
31Jul 7, '25If Epstein really didn't have clients, Prince Andrew must have paid a woman he never met £12m for nothing. Unlucky or what?5.0×583k31k4.8k258
32Aug 24, '23Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned seven flats, Jacob Rees-Mogg forgot he took a £6m loan, Theresa Villiers forgot she owned £70k-worth of Shell shares and Rishi Sunak forgot his wife own4.5×532k16k5.4k82
33Dec 6, '23Johnson accidentally deleted 5000 WhatsApp messages, Hunt forgot he owned seven flats, Rees-Mogg inadvertently took a £6m loan, Villiers didn't recall owning £70k of Shell shares a4.4×519k18k5.5k162
34Mar 11, '23Break you wife's nose and get a knighthood. Speak out for refugees and get the sack.4.4×515k18k3.6k34
35Sep 14, '23Shoplift a tin of beans from Tesco and you're looking at custodial. Sell the NHS £200m of unusable PPE and you're looking at a new yacht.4.3×503k18k5k35
36Jan 17, '23Fed up of telly interviewers asking Mick Lynch if he's greedy. They never seem to ask that question to Nadhim Zahawi.4.3×502k18k3.6k15
37Jan 26, '23I'm hazarding a guess here. But I bet the 87-year-old woman who froze to death in Bury never once shorted sterling, dodged a £3m tax bill, crashed Britain's pension funds, fired an4.2×497k16k3.2k46
38Jan 18, '24An unelected prime minister who asked unelected King Charles III to give unelected David Cameron a peerage so he could serve as unelected foreign secretary has attacked the House o4.1×474k16k4.8k146
39Feb 6, '23People aren't waiting 40 hours for an ambulance because of a one-day strike by paramedics. They're waiting 40 hours for an ambulance because the Tories running down the NHS, week i4.0×466k15k3.5k13
40Jan 28, '23Drop a fag butt in the street and get fined £80. Dump millions of gallons of sewage in the river and 292 Tory MPs will vote to let you keep doing it for the next 15 years.4.0×465k17k4.5k22
41Mar 9, '23Gary Lineker never gave the Tories a £400,000 donation, set up an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson or stood as a Conservative council candidate. But the people who did are lecturing3.8×442k16k3.3k35
42Jan 3, '25The main purpose of care homes should be to care for older people. Not to generate 40% returns for private equity.3.7×438k26k4.5k221
43Aug 13, '23Don't clean up your dog's poo, and you get fined £1000. Dump vast quantities of sewage in the sea, and your shareholders get billions of pounds in dividends.3.5×405k17k3.9k28
44Sep 7, '24Football managers who refuse to sing the national anthem should be sacked, according to a newspaper whose owner refuses to pay tax in Britain3.2×375k15k2.5k70
45Jul 16, '24A water company that is £16bn in debt and dumping shit in rivers on an epic scale shouldn't be paying a penny in dividends or bonuses to top managers. Tell me I'm wrong.3.2×374k17k2.6k37
46Oct 22, '24Don't clean up your dog's poo and get fined £1000. Dump billions of litres of sewage in Britain's rivers and get £9m in bonuses and regulator permission to hike water bills by 21%.3.1×358k16k3.4k90
47Sep 25, '25I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a £6m loan or didn3.0×350k28k5.2k310
48Oct 1, '25Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for £122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.2.9×334k20k3.1k176
49Jun 23, '22Nobody on £200,000 a year should be telling anyone on £20,000 a year that they're greedy2.8×046k5.7k85
50Apr 15, '24Unelected prime minister Rishi Sunak asked unelected King Charles III to give unelected David Cameron a peerage so he could serve as unelected foreign secretary with a seat in the 2.8×324k16k4.6k206
51Aug 14, '24Liz Truss says that reminding her she crashed the economy is 'not funny'. My £400 a month mortgage hike wasn't a barrel of laughs either.2.8×323k16k2k43
52Mar 27, '22Tory peer Michelle Mone bought PPE from China for £46m and sold it to the NHS for £122m. There's no justification for that and she should give the money back.2.6×034k8.7k181
53Aug 9, '22Britain has the most expensive energy in Europe, the most expensive train fares in Europe, the most overcrowded prisons in Europe and the dirtiest rivers and beaches in Europe. Suc2.5×032k8.5k241
54May 16, '22No full-time job should pay so little that the person doing it can't afford housing, food, clothes, heating and a little fun in life. It really is that simple.2.3×036k5.2k105
55Sep 13, '22Food banks closed to mark the death of a monarch. That somehow symbolises Britain perfectly.2.3×032k6.9k161
56Feb 15, '22Prince Andrew has just given millions of pounds to someone he insists he has never met. What remarkable generosity.2.1×035k3.9k102
57Oct 21, '22As London mayor, Johnson didn't cut his holiday short when rioting erupted in 2011. As prime minister, Johnson didn't cut his holiday short when the Taliban retook Kabul in 2021. B2.0×026k6.8k109
58Dec 4, '22People aren't waiting 40 hours for an ambulance because of industrial action by the RCN. They're waiting 40 hours for an ambulance because the Tories are underfunding the NHS.1.9×027k6k40
59Nov 23, '22Want to know who 'stole Christmas'? The government that quadrupled your energy bill, put £500 a month on your mortgage and forced over two million people to use food banks. Not Mic1.9×025k7.1k67
60Dec 7, '22Rishi Sunak has been prime minister for six weeks and is now taking six weeks off for Christmas. But the Tories want to force train drivers to work on their rest days.1.9×027k5.8k80
61Dec 12, '22A man worth £760m telling nurses forced to use food banks they need take a pay cut in the national interest. Almost beyond belief.1.9×028k4.9k60
62May 11, '22People on £80,000 a year should not be telling people on £8,000 a year they don't know how to budget. Tell me I'm wrong.1.8×029k3.3k37
63Jun 14, '22Never forget that Jacob Rees-Mogg actually accused the 72 people who died at Grenfell of 'lacking common sense'1.7×024k4.8k64
64Feb 18, '22Bet the roof on the Millennium Dome gets replaced more quickly than the flammable cladding on residential tower blocks1.6×025k3.9k27
65Dec 11, '22Amoxicillin is a generic antibiotic that can treat Strep A, which has killed 16 kids. Big pharma has jacked the price up from 80p to £18, blaming 'complicated supply chains'.1.5×018k6k190
66Sep 9, '22I'm a socialist. I've never beaten up a workmate for not having my lunch ready.1.5×026k2.3k87
67Apr 29, '22If you're reporting that Keir Starmer had a meal break in Durham but not that a Tory peer accused of ripping the NHS off for £79m had her home busted this morning, you're not doing1.4×020k4.5k38
68Jul 31, '22The public swimming baths in Richmond in Yorkshire are closing and local MP Rishi Sunak is building a private pool in his own multimillion pound home. And there you have Tory Brita1.4×019k4.9k53
69Apr 1, '22Rishi Sunak going on holiday to his 12th home in California, on the day a ruinous 55% hike in heating bills comes in, is as good a way as any of saying GFY to the electorate1.4×019k4.4k47
70Dec 20, '21Renoir's The Staff Meeting, 18811.4×020k3.9k91
71Feb 4, '22Spare a thought for Rishi Sunak. With 12 homes to heat, his gas bill is going to go through the roof this year.1.4×022k2.8k28
72Feb 6, '22GCSE maths question: if a chancellor cuts Fred’s Universal Credit by £1040, puts £600 on his NI contributions and then lends him £200 to pay a £700 increase on his gas bill, should1.4×019k4k79
73Nov 28, '22If you went to a school that charged your parents £46k a year, maybe don't tell strikers bringing up families on £23k a year they're overpaid1.3×020k3.7k59
74Aug 22, '22Britain has the dirtiest rivers and beaches in Europe, the most expensive energy and train fares in Europe, the most overcrowded prisons in Europe and the widest gap between rich a1.3×017k4.6k132
75Mar 1, '22Lord Lebedev owns the castle in Perugia where Boris Johnson has holidayed half a dozen times, sometimes flying in Lebedev's private jet. It's not just the cash donations, is it?1.3×017k4.6k50
76Sep 11, '22Rees-Mogg wants to abolish paid holidays. Remind me how many days a year parliament is in recess.1.3×020k3.4k57
77Nov 30, '22So 600,000 children go to private schools and two million children go hungry. But we're subsidising private school fees instead of free school meals.1.3×017k4.9k62
78Jan 23, '22I want a Labour Party that does what Jack Monroe and Marcus Rashford do1.3×022k2.3k27
79Feb 25, '22Britain has stopped accepting visa applications from Ukrainians. That's the extent of Tory solidarity with the people of Ukraine.1.3×017k4.2k57
80Dec 16, '21Rishi Sunak is on a mid-December working trip to sunny California. Which - as luck would have it - is where he happens to own a luxury beachside house, which is just one of his 12 1.3×016k4.8k82
81Jul 8, '22If Sunak doesn't pay British taxes, he shouldn't be British prime minister1.3×020k2.9k13
82Nov 2, '22No asylum seeker ever looted a pension fund, fired and rehired an entire workforce, cut benefits for the disabled or made huge profits from betting against the pound1.3×016k4.4k59
83Jun 28, '22The maximum sentence for peaceful protest is now twice the maximum sentence for grievous bodily harm. That's how authoritarian Patel's ban on peaceful protest is.1.3×015k5k98
84Dec 18, '21Let's be clear. The NHS would not be on the cusp of being overwhelmed had the Tories not deliberately run it down for over a decade.1.3×018k3.6k26
85Nov 27, '22The Sunday Times is asking why the NHS shouldn't charge £50 for a visit to a GP. Because £50 is a lot of money for a lot of people, that's why.1.2×018k2.6k37
86Dec 18, '21University tuition was once free and now costs £9000 a year. Don't think the same can't happen to the NHS. #nhsprivatisation1.2×016k4.2k46
87Nov 9, '22Sunak can badmouth 'the member for Islington North' every week between now and Christmas. But it's not Jeremy Corbyn's fault your mortgage is going up £500 a month, is it?1.2×017k4k19
88Aug 5, '22A man worth £730m, boasting to an audience of Tory activists in one of Britain's most affluent towns that he intends to take money away from deprived urban areas. Just let the ugli1.2×017k3.8k21
89Jun 22, '22Last time I checked, no Russian oligarch's wife had paid £170,000 into RMT funds for a game of tennis with Mick Lynch1.2×018k3.4k29
90Jun 13, '22A deposit on a cheap flat in London is around £60,000. All kids have to do is go without a £6.99 a month Netflix subscription for 713 years and they'll be able to move right in.1.2×020k2.1k66
91Dec 14, '22Mick Lynch has never once looted a pension fund, fired and rehired an entire workforce, cut benefits for the disabled, woken up to find £29m in his offshore trust account or illega1.2×017k3.4k48
92Aug 7, '22As a good rule of thumb, if you went to a school that charges fees of £44k a year, don't tell strikers on £22k a year they're overpaid1.1×018k2.8k29
93Apr 7, '22This is a country where rightwingers can loudly declaim that a £1 bag of porridge will last a family a week and defend the tax avoidance of someone sitting on a £400m fortune in th1.1×016k3.3k36
94Nov 23, '22Stop asking why a train driver gets paid more than a nurse. Start asking why Matt Hancock gets £400,000 for an extended holiday in Australia.1.1×016k3.1k17
95Jun 26, '22Planning a £150,000 tree house for a toddler when 135,000 children in Britain are homeless is ratcheting up inequality to levels last seen in Versailles circa 17881.1×016k2.7k50
96Oct 8, '22Stop asking Mick Lynch if unions are greedy and start asking that about the hedge fund managers who shorted the pound1.1×016k2.9k14
97Mar 3, '22If Roman Abramovich has been forced to sell Chelsea, shouldn't Lubov Chernukhin be forced to sell the Conservative Party?1.0×015k3k24
98Jun 20, '22Say what you like about 1970s trade unionism. But nobody in a full-time job needed food banks then.1.0×015k2.5k24
99Sep 18, '22The Dutch royal family is housing 30 Ukrainian refugees in one of its spare palaces. Over to you, Windsors.1.0×014k2.7k37
100May 2, '21It's easy to mock Boris Johnson, but ask yourself this; would *you* be able to get by on just £162,000 a year?0.9×015k1.3k35

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