Alistair MacLean

IFA providing sensible financial advice. Non author...has no idea Where Eagles Dare...personal views

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Also slightly embarrassed to be drinking Thatcher's cider?

Don't-Know-Darren's hand conveniently covering the label.

Cheers!

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@aestheticsguyy

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@jacoroux68 @ATRightMovies Fabulous John Barry theme tune too...

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@BBCNews 'The wettest areas are more likely towards Scotland where rainfall could be around average'...so, no heatwave there then

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@ListerLawrence I'm convinced many of them trundle along at 56 on the motorway for 'fuel economy' to see who dares to overtake them...😀

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

Visitor levy = tent box tax ? 😠

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

NC500 brings millions to economy but also challenges, says report https://t.co/mpdwfAEA1u

[John Stepek @John_Stepek]

Needs more exposure - IYKYK

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@ListerLawrence Green with envy...

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Rachel Reeves has found a new way to tax work: call it “pension reform”, then quietly slap National Insurance on the very mechanism millions use to save for retirement.

HMRC now admits that once her £2,000 cap on salary sacrifice kicks in from 2029, around 2.9–3.3 million workers will respond by cutting back pension saving, including roughly 666,000 basic‑rate taxpayers earning under £50k.

The Treasury still spins this as a clampdown on “high earners piling cash into pensions without paying a penny in tax” – but their own FOI figures show the majority of those scaling back are higher‑rate taxpayers while hundreds of thousands on ordinary salaries lose the NI advantage too.

Meanwhile, most of the £4.8–£5bn haul is expected to come from employers, who’ll now pay full NI on sacrificed pay above the cap – a straight tax on jobs and pay packets dressed up as fairness. If this is what Labour calls “rewarding work”, what does punishing it look like?

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@ThatEricAlper Bluebird - Mark Knopfler (featuring Kim Wilson)

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Happy times.

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@TheStingisBack The Commitments Jimmy Rabbitte Snr or Gene in Layer Cake....fabulous!

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

#Whisky Saturday...hold my calls, I may be some time....🥃🥃 🥃🥃🥃

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@ATRightMovies

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@davehill_56 @YouTube Morning Dave 👋. Cracking tune...

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@MotoNutJob Just one?

[Martin Ross @martingrantross]

Release this a month earlier and it would have won Eurovision

[Alistair MacLean @BaycroftAl]

@alanfdunlop It's a busy place - fingers crossed that your date comes in soon and things can get back to normal for you