Mid 50s spinster with Long Covid, CFS, ADHD, very limited mobility, osteo and rheumatoid arthritis. Skegness. I chat about Corrie, Cats, Columbo, all sorts.
🧵 we interrupt the usual TV schedule and political witterings to bring you a fascinating 😉 thread regarding
#Gemma
and
#Chesney
Winter-Brown occupants of number 5 Coronation Street
#Corrie
and to find out what their income and benefits would be in real life /2
@AnnOlivarius
@JackyHolyoake
it seems the brother of Kyle Clifford also has an existing conviction for murder. Temper temper seems to be an issue in the Clifford boys: Brother Bradley Clifford convicted in 2018.
@justin_ng
@Number10cat
Sometimes his white fur appears cleaner and fluffier than other times. Does somebody in Number 10 give Larry a full bath every now and again? Other than Larry's own licking cleaning technique - sometimes he is visibly cleaner and fluffier like he's walked thru a car wash! 😄
@Corriepedia
and this is their outgoings. We know they have a car as Gemma received a parking penalty notice this week. I've estimated as best I can. Have not added anything for holidays or savings and in *theory* they would have approx £300 pcm available to put towards those things. /10
So firstly I had to look up rental prices of 3 bed terraced houses in Salford. It appears the average lower end 3 bed terrace private rented house approx £1,500 per month.
/3
@Corriepedia
This calc was based on Chesney working 25 hours a week in the Kebab Shop and Gemma 20 hours a week in the pub. If they earn more (30 - 40 hours a week) their UC goes down, if they work less UC goes up. The combined income and UC ends up around the same approx £5,000 pcm. /9
Regarding the current
#Section21
eviction storyline some viewers have asked how come Gemma and Chesney are renting from a private landlord, when it was owned by the Council when Les Battersby lived there. Fortunately
@Corriepedia
has the answer
/5
Now although Bernie Winter (Gemma's Mum) is often in the house it is not clear whether she lives there full time (or with Dev?) so I have not included her income in the budget calculation nor for the Universal Credit calculation.
/4
@Corriepedia
So it was a Council House when the Battersby Browns lived there but went back to private ownership in 2011. Most of the houses in
#Corrie
are privately owned (either by the occupiers or landlords). Number 5 ending up briefly as social housing was an anomaly.
/6
@J_Hol95
Jennie !!!! guide dog! but you could have used ALT text to label your photo image. ALT text enables people with sight loss to know what a photo contains.
@cllrsdarling
as per example below from the RNIB:
Note: we love that you're all really excited about new MP Steve Darling and his guide dog, Jennie, but just a little reminder to add alt text when you're sharing pictures of new MP Steve Darling and his guide dog, Jennie💡
It's easy to do - here's an example!
@Corriepedia
So what benefits would Chesney and Gemma be entitled to with 5 children? (exempt from two child rule due to multiple births of the quads). I ran this calc several times on Benefits Calculator but eventually landed on £2,905 pcm of which £405 is child benefit.
/8
@Corriepedia
I settled on Gemma working 20 hours a week and Chesney 25 hours in order to give them time to juggle the child care and school runs between them. Again if they were both working 35 hours a week, then they would need to pay for some child care.
/11
@Corriepedia
I excluded Bernie from the budget and UC calc, as if she does live there not all of her income would be available to Gemma and Chesney. In an alternative UC calc if Bernie is included as a non dependent adult also on a low income, their UC would be £100 pcm lower. /12
@Corriepedia
So what would the Council Tax band be for a 3 bed terraced house in Salford like the one I found on Rightmove a few posts above this? Well it appears they are all Council Tax Band A.
/7
Too many horrible characters in
#Corrie
at the moment. Every new person brought in is either a killer, controlling abuser, bent copper, bent boss (Stefan Brent), criminal youth, blackmailer ..... or all of the above.
7/ and this new odious
#Corrie
character as well: Kit Green. The concept of a long lost brother was good but the execution has been poor. Why does this new character also have to be horrible? - bent copper and devious and manipulative with his family.
..../8
@Poppy_yyyyyyyy
That's horrendous. I thought the fact that it was previously a thatched cottage would have given it some protection. I used to live down your way. Eeuuggghhhhhh
@PennySamuels18
Thanks for posting Penny and
@1goodtern
this is me. Got ill with Covid January 2024. Second infection. Have never recovered. Now being referred to Post Covid Recovery Unit. I say that I have
#CFS
but that's how it feels - fatigue and pain. But might be long Covid. Either way /2
@DavidMuttering
Yes I came across it last night. Especially
@markarby
appearing to take the whole day off work to answer ever increasingly ridiculous requests !! it's a hoot !! 😅
@FayeKamsika
@mrjamesob
@AlexFawbert
Me too annoyed by the media fawning over
#Tice
and
#Farage
in our Town. The only slight ironic positive is that the Reform votes might help split a very strong blue wall Lincs area. But still other parties should be getting more coverage than the racist divisive grifters.
@chesterclarkeuk
Kyle Clifford is not Muslim and not an immigrant. Clifford is an English surname. It is a MALE VIOLENCE problem. Stop posting shit "we have a problem with MALE violence" is how your second paragraph should read. It is MALE violence.
@Rossva1189
Thanks. it was bugging me especially after seeing so many
#Corrie
tweets after recent episodes asking why are they renting from a private landlord and why don't they get benefits etc ..... so I did some digging to try and find answers.
@CrimeGirI
@kelvmackenzie
and if she works how much does she have to pay for childcare especially for a ten month old? Every penny she earns will decrease her UC and increase her living costs - childcare, travel to work, smart clothes for work, packed lunches etc.
@Victoria_Spratt
@willglloyd
Would young people under 20 get the reference? Surprise Surprise ran from 1984 (40 years ago) to 2001 (23 years ago) and Cilla has been dead nearly ten years with no repeats of those programmes in years. It's our age group 50 - 70 who will get the joke. Hmmm 🤔
@karenfthompson
I do hope you get a book out of this when hubby opp'd and recovered. "The Very Hungry Husband" am sure it could beat The Very Hungry Caterpillar in sales !!! 🤩
Really Richard Tice? so proud to represent Skegness that you've not been here since early July. Meanwhile, which ex MP is still taking part in local events, supporting the community and keeping residents updated about the CDC diagnostic Centre, and local medical graduates?
🧵/2
So bye bye Fake Canadian Guy
Drove Mummy's car to the canal
But the top box stayed dry
It refused to sink and I wondered why?
Threw rocks on top while drinking whiskey and cried
Singing "This'll be the day that I die"
#Corrie
#TedIsDead
Eureka! The Reform Manifesto policies are actually achievable:
1. Zero NHS waiting lists - they will achieve this because the NHS will no longer exist. Farage is in favour of a private insurance based system as he admitted to Nick Robinson on Friday's Panorama.
/2
@dave43law
And it is the poorest people getting lured in by Reform. Today a Reform / Tice leaflet arrived for another tenant of the Skegness HMO where I live. The recipient is 62 years old long term unemployed, weighs about 7 stone, has alcohol and heart problems and yet .../2
#ClassicCorrie
the Platt family interrogation of Sarah's new boyfriend: You work on the skips then? Do you find interesting things? Did you find anything interesting today? Have you ever found any dead bodies? 😅 as if the poor chap has no other interests in life!
#Corrie
@aboveeg
@LaindonFEMINIST
@piotralexb
Yes, he has blown his chance of widening his appeal as a serious politician able to appeal to all sides. Proved himself to be a one dimensional grifter who does not check facts or sources when it suits his narrative.
Love this
@edwinhayward
I've managed to generate one which says "Angela Rayner holds a beer" and "Farage loses in Clacton" I like this one !! 😆😁😆 .... I know there are other varieties and permutations.
Oh, and since you can keep generating random bingo cards until you get one that tickles your fancy, you can always keep clicking until the Johnny Mercer square comes up.
Here's the link you need again...
@SarahExSugababe
@ChrisAnstey74
Well £100 pcm should be £60 for 3 x mobile phones (Gemma, Chesney and Joseph) and some pocket money £40 for Joseph. Altho sm1 else mentioned they might get DLA benefit as well for Aled due to him being deaf. But the fictional couple may or may not have applied for DLA.
@PhelpsieSarah
Oh yeah Richard like I'm just going for a pint and off the record interview with that lad Darius Knezevic, you know the Yorkshire drugs baron, criminal mastermind and Co who we already know has links to TLR and the death of Gary Gogovsky ..... I'll be fine.
@Number10cat
Why doesn't he do the sensible thing and move during the Sumner holidays ??? 🤪 resign - let Penny Mourdant take over and she can take the GE ..... while Rishi and family catch the summer sun in LA and get settled in !!!!
@andreammayne
@ArchewellBaby
too many people would pop in and say "Oooh aren't you the former Prince of Wales?" wanting to see him. It would increase the sales of the grocery store 10 times over. Better punishment would be having to work in prison laundry in anonymity.
🧵 so far 109 MPs have said they won't be seeking re-election. 74 of them are
#Tories
20 are
#Labour
10 are
#SNP
and 5 from the smaller parties. Average age of retiring MPs is 67 but there are lots of interesting things to note 🧵 /2
#GeneralElectionNow
When Gail's Dad died (Friday 5 Feb 2021), number 8 Coronation Street was about to be auctioned due to the sink hole. Gail returned on Monday, 8 Feb, saying she had bought it and saved the Platt family as her Dad's estate had been sorted (over the weekend 😅).
#Corrie
@JohnJLindsley
@willglloyd
He's an adult mature man of 61 playing footie ⚽ with the big boys (adults). Rishi is dribbling (badly) with little kids and taking their ball away from them ....... and their NHS, and their pensions, and their futures, and their free time (national service or volunteer).
@renefaurskov
@arusbridger
.... and covered in freckles all over (arms, face and torso), dark brown hair, brown eyes, bushy eyebrows, ridge above eyebrows (frontal bossing), mid hairline, approx height over 2 metres, approx weight 120 KG ..... oh yeah, he will be easy to hide !! 😅😁😅😉
@BylineTimes
Farage has always been the person with "overall significant control" since 2019. Least democratic political party keep shouting for "reform" within politics but only Fuhrer Farage can make decisions in theirs !!!
@dcgri291
@Coolsneaksbro
@danwootton
groomed a young boy 10 to 12 years old until the boy was 17 or 18 and became a "runner" on This Morning ..... but Schofe had known the boy for years before he started working at ITV. Google Matt McGreevy and Philip Schofield.
@watsoncomedian
@wideboy2709
@StandUpAndrew
@amateuradam
Issue them with a Statutory Demand to pay your fees. If they don't pay within 30 days they will be in liquidation / petition for bankruptcy. Get organised with all the other acts to issue multiple Statutory Demands for your fees.
@DittyPitty
Yep. Cell site data and Lauren's own phone records (even if her phone gone her phone number would provide call history). And her flat is in the precinct above shops. CCTV very likely ........ but oh no let's just arrest Roy the local misfit. 😡
#Corrie
mess
@roucker80378
please !!! some of us live in Skegness and our local media has so far covered 10 x news stories on Farage-Tice and Reform and not one single post about the other parties standing in this area.
@dave43law
@mikeysmith
But 5 million people were watching the TV last night.... and could be 7 or 8 million once people play it on catch up. I think it's very important to challenge it at the time on TV. Many of the TV viewers won't see the fine detail political news on Twitter.
@danielgoyal
and we lost hundred of thousands of lives - both to direct Covid deaths and then to long term sickness / long covid / heart and lung problems in people who were of working age.
@1goodtern
@ElizGiampa
Part of that is LHA local housing allowance to assist with their rent and is the figure for 2 people with 5 children (exempt from two child cap due to multiple births). Their income with benefits is £5K but their outgoings are also around £5K - would you prefer them 2B homeless?
@lesmartin7
@RR310304951
She might not have a seat on Friday. She us extremely unpopular on the area (Louth and Horncastle) as the biggest local issue is lack of medical appointments and she's the effing Unhealth Secretary. Elec Calculus predicts the seat will go to Reform - and although.../2
#casualty
this new nurse Sophia is not right for Dylan !! She's just asked Dylan to say "please" FFS. Why can't they get Dylan and Stevie together?
@UnwinPaul
@BBCCasualty
🧵 So
@SkegStandard
it is now 13 days since I complained about your blanket coverage of Reform. You have *still* not covered one single story on any of the other candidates. You have not informed people about Hustings on Friday 21 June at 7pm at Skegness Grammar School. /2
NEW: For Prince Louis’ 6th birthday today, William and Kate just released this image.
We’ve been told it was taken by the Princess of Wales in Windsor in the last few days.
OMG !!! is that it? 5 minutes of this is the
#Reform
party election broadcast??? thought my TV was broken. No plan !!! No ideas !!!! just catch people with the word "reform".
@Vdweller
I thought the same. Starmer is (1) Leader of the Labour Party, (2) Leader of the Opposition, (3) likely next Prime Minister -- who is above him ???
Which "senior members" of Labour are above him pulling his strings ????
😅😁😅😄😁😅🤣😁😄😁😁🤣😅
🧵 Living on the
#breadline
#UniversalCredit
and the
#kindness
of strangers. Yesterday I had 0.62p in my purse. £9.41 arrived this morning via Kofi. For every £10 donated there is a 59p processing fee - but the transfers are instant! 👍✅ Went to
#Morrisons
with £10.03 .../2
@sharonodea
Perhaps one of the problems for sellers of terraced houses in Fulham is that since the rise in home working the need to live in London has vastly reduced. A buyer with £1.5 million could get a 5 bed detached house in Surrey instead:
@justin_ng
@lockdownRose
@Number10cat
He is looking a bit old and tired today. Will Larry be allowed to retire after the next GE? ie to leave Downing Street and live in the countryside in a quiet cottage away from media attention with a retired owner?
@lorrainemking
@RogerTh11088643
PIC 2 - he had a girlfriend who "funked him to death" - so why isn't he dead ????
#prat
I know some men dream of dying in ecstasy or having a heart attack whilst being shagged but if dead not able to tweet about it, mate! 🤣😁🤣😁🤣
So grateful for £170 donations so far and first £100 transferred to my Landlord this morning. Any more anonymous angels able to donate or just share the pinned post at top of my profile?
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#Skegness
.
#classiccorrie
Shelley, go and see a doctor about anxiety or speak to someone ..... someone other than Charlie - like Violet in the bar !! Tell someone, stop using Charlie as a crutch - that will just increase your dependency on him. 🙄
@Catheri63659074
@bmay
It's so stupid. Fake cross cost a few quid and Greggs sausage rolls £1 ..... who would risk a prison sentence for stealing something worth one quid ??? 🤔
#stupid
is as
#stupid
does !!!!
@penniless_poet
#GemChes
Winter-Brown who we by now know would be entitled to 4 bed housing benefit (nowadays called LHA) which in their area is £1,350 for a 4 bed house - chop chop eviction solution sorted !!
#Corrie
So this is what I managed to buy with the very kind donations to my kofi page at
#Morrisons
This was £20.46 and so so useful. I had run out of deo, body spray, bleach, air freshener, all sorts of things. 😊 Thank you so much peeps. 🥰