Jonathan Eley

Interesting to see details of this deal. Gibraltarians are both intensely pro-British (99% want to remain so) and pro-EU (98% voted Remain) Deal to join Schengen area has been on cards since 2020, given that ca 14k cross from La Linea each day for work

Tony Dowson @TonyDowson5

"Britain and Gibraltar have agreed a post-Brexit deal which would hand control of the territory’s border to Europe, The Telegraph understands" https://t.co/oEuGq35bL0

An unforeseen issue that would have been identified if you’d tested it properly

c2c Rail @c2c_Rail

💳 We're really sorry due to an unforeseen technical issue customers using pay as you go with contactless for journeys between c2c stations outside the Oyster Zone and Fenchurch Street or Liverpool Street from Sunday 8 June, are being overcharged by up to £3 per journey.

This @CamillaHodgson piece about "TC/RCs" is a trip down memory lane...my first job in media was writing about such arcane details https://t.co/exgWA5Mpp1

Can @PJTheEconomist please set up a party called Honesty and enter politics... "It wouldn't even be in the top 100 of things that I would do with £1.25bn if I wanted to act on poverty. Almost none of the people impacted by this will be in poverty"

Bruce busy proving that not everyone over 65 is just in it for themselves!

Bruce Dalton @SHB1893

@JonathanEley @FT AND *costly*!

Overwhelming tenor of reader comments beneath this @FT story is incredulity at a policy that is fiscally damaging, politically corrosive and generationally unfair It's not just me then... https://t.co/RW9kRT391l

Meanwhile at other points of the age range - people leaving UK due to soaring rents, childcare, travel costs, tax, dreadful healthcare etc Sick of being rinsed to pay for the spending promises of governments addicted to buying votes instead of earning them https://t.co/PzzJyBcdno

Only scant consolation from today's pitiful surrender to the boomer lobby is that WFP will be double-fiscal-dragged The £200/300 amount won't change for years, and neither will the threshold Is there any party in the UK - any at all - that hasn't been captured by the over-60s??

Quite

Ben Kentish @BenKentish

I'd like to see Rachel Reeves explain to the 250,000 children who she supposedly can't afford to lift out of poverty why she's decided to prioritise paying middle class pensioners' energy bills instead.

it's absolutely indefensible on just about every level

Tom Swarbrick @TomSwarbrick1

🚨 🚨 🚨 Turns out that the new Winter Fuel Payment threshold is per *individual* not per *household* That means a pensioner household where he has income of £34k per year and she has income of £34k per year STILL GET £2/300 OFF THEIR ENERGY BILLS… via @NatashaC

Tax system full of this kind of nonsense precisely because of the endless tinkering to placate special interest groups

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney

So now we have two meanstests for the better off. Pensioners at £35,000 lose winter fuel payment and £60k-£80k parents (or partners) lose Child Benefit. Because WFP limit is £35,000 people whose income is boosted by £1 over that will lose £200! Quite a marginal rate!

The Mother City. Marvellous if you've got the moolah https://t.co/KePXo70krV

Watched @BBCPanorama on why the country is in such a low-growth, high-tax, collapsing-services funk Might to have to watch it again, just to make sure that it didn't mention Brexit - the thing that might knock 4% off long-term productivity - at all