Andy Williams

Software dev. Fan of @wolves

[Andy Williams @AndyWilliams81]

who the fuck still votes Labour?!

[Andy Williams @AndyWilliams81]

@PositivFuturist yeah, it's crazy, unreal leverage

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

UK ENTREPRENEURSHIP — 10 GROWTH POLICIES IN BRIEF

I get asked about what the uk could do to improve business. Here’s 10 policies…

ATTRACT

1. Start-Up Zones in Britain's poorest postcodes.
Businesses that open and hire 4 people in the UK's most deprived areas pay 15% corporation tax until they reach 15 employees. Poland did this. Katowice alone: 100,000 jobs. Ties the tax break directly to local employment — not capital, not property.

2. A Founder & Talent Fast-Track Visa.
A three-test Founder Visa: raise £50K in year one, hire two people by year two, still trading by year three. Pair with a fast-track residency route for AI, engineering, and life sciences talent. Estonia's e-Residency returns £7.60 for every £1 invested. We have nothing comparable.

3. A Creator & Digital Nomad Visa.
Creators can live anywhere. Right now they're choosing Lisbon, Barcelona, and Dubai — because Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Croatia all have digital nomad visas and we don't. A flat 20% rate on qualifying creator income for five years post-arrival would make London the home of the English-language creator economy.

ENABLE

4. Taper the VAT cliff at £90K.
The UK has the OECD's highest VAT threshold — but the cliff-edge means businesses deliberately cap their own growth to avoid it. The IMF has documented the damage. Fix: phase VAT in gradually between £90K and £150K. Pure growth unlock.

5. Household services deduction for home-based businesses.
Up to £10K/year of childcare, cleaning, and eldercare deductible for home-based business owners — but only when paid to VAT-registered providers. France, Germany, and Sweden all do this. It frees entrepreneurs to work, and drags informal cash work into the tax net.

6. A £6,000 home improvement deduction — the British ROT.
Up to £6K/year of home improvement labour deductible per household, paid to registered tradespeople. Sweden's version: 890,000 claimants, 67,000 companies paid. Upgrades housing stock, creates declared trade jobs, and cuts cash-in-hand work. Cross-party support in Sweden.

7. A working vehicle deduction for trades and mobile businesses.
Vans and working vehicles up to £35K, used 50%+ for business, fully deductible over three years. For a plumber or electrician, the van isn't a perk — it's the office. Enhanced allowance for UK-made and electric vehicles.

8. A 15% digital export corporation tax rate.
Companies deriving 60%+ of revenue from overseas customers pay 15% corp tax on export profits — matching the OECD global minimum, no international friction. Ireland charges 6.25% on IP income. We charge 25%. We're losing companies at the point of incorporation.

REWARD

9. Reinstate Entrepreneurs' Relief.
Restore 10% CGT on the first £10M of founder gains held 5+ years. The rate has gone 10% to 14% to 18% in two years. HMRC's own data: cost to the Exchequer rose 209% as founders rushed for the exit. The policy created the problem it was meant to solve.

10. Scrap the £100K tax cliff.
Between £100K and £125,140, the effective marginal rate is 62% — higher than someone earning £1 million. By 2029, 2.3 million people will be caught in it. No economist can defend the design. Restore the personal allowance and move the 45% threshold to £100K… then get it back to 40% top rate.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Only 100 years ago we ruled 1/4 of the world

[Andy Williams @AndyWilliams81]

@RoyalFamily @Ascot sort it out

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Commercial VPNs route your traffic through shared IP addresses. thousands of users on the same IP. those IPs are public, known, and listed. The government can block them the same way Netflix blocks them, one IP list. done.

A self-hosted VPN is different.

Your server. your IP. nobody else's traffic on it. there is no list to add it to. the government would have to identify and block your specific home address or VPS individually. that is not scalable. that is not what mass VPN bans do.

here's how to build one in under 10 minutes.

you need:
— a $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr — any will work)
— Docker installed
— 10 minutes

step 1: get a VPS. pick any provider. Ubuntu 22.04. the cheapest plan works.

step 2: install Docker on it.
curl -fsSL https://get[.]docker[.]com | sh

step 3: run WG-Easy. one command:
docker run -d \
--name wg-easy \
-e WG_HOST=YOUR_SERVER_IP \
-e PASSWORD=your_password \
-p 51820:51820/udp \
-p 51821:51821/tcp \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
--cap-add=SYS_MODULE \
--sysctl="net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" \
--restart unless-stopped \
ghcr[.]io/wg-easy/wg-easy

step 4: open your browser. go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:51821. log in. click "new client." download the config. import it into the WireGuard app on your phone or laptop.

that's it. you now have a private VPN that:
— nobody else uses
— isn't on any blocklist
— costs $5 a month
— logs nothing unless you tell it to
— uses modern cryptography the NSA currently cannot break

WireGuard is built into the Linux kernel. 4,000 lines of code. fully audited. faster than OpenVPN. no configuration mistakes that accidentally weaken your encryption.

They cannot ban your server.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Those pushing censorship are never the good guys.

Never.

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

The Rape Gang Report has been published by @RestoreBritain

This is the first serious attempt to document this ongoing crime against our people.

Read it and understand how severely imbalanced are the scales of justice in our rotten State.

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

Almost zero media coverage of the Rape Gang Inquiry report.

[Norm @normAL219]

🚨 Keir Starmer is considering a ban on grooming gangs operating after 8pm in the UK 🚨

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

A blazing Sammy Woodhouse exposes a @GMB producer who told her not to mention the race or religion of the Pakistani Muslim men who raped and trafficked thousands of girls like Sammy.
Exactly why the monsters got away with it for so long!

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

Crazy how well it fits.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[Will 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @anglofuturist]

"You will watch Adolescence! You will watch Gogglebox! You will laugh at Romesh and Rob! You will cry at Paddington! And you will enjoy it!"

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

No idea why...

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

"We've decided that you plebs being online, sharing news and exchanging your thoughts is a threat to our stranglehold on power, so we're going to close down your access to information and take away your right to anonymity in the name of protecting children, while also assuming total control over what your children are subjected to"

You cannot hate these people enough.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Just to be clear.. The UK is choosing to forgo the AI revolution so that it can instead solve 1% of global emissions via economic degrowth and the adoption of intermittent renewable energy sources with no means of buffering or storage.