@NotFarLeftAtAll We don’t want vibes Andy. You need to get to work and side with the hard working tax payers who are sick to death of funding people sitting at home. We don’t care that you’re running or playing guitar, the country is on the edge of collapse.
@williamnhutton Something has to change Will. Torys and Labour have set us on path to self destruction of everything that was once great about this country. Millions of hard working tax payers up at 6am to fund millions sitting at home. Reform are not the answer though.
Listening to these civil servants in Parliament, what strikes me most is the utter disconnect from what millions of people are going through in the private sector.
It is a completely different world.
For millions of workers and small business owners, there is no guaranteed pay rise. No automatic progression. No cosy pension. No comfortable assumption that your job will still exist next year.
If the company you work for runs out of money, that's it. It’s over.
Done.
If your small business cannot pay its bills, that's it.
If customers disappear, costs rise, or things go south? There are consequences. People lose their jobs. Salaries are cut.
Businesses go bust. It’s tough. Always is. I have been there and done that.
Every month, businesses have to find the money for wages, rent, energy, tax.
A plumber has to find customers. A farmer has to make the numbers work. A factory has to remain competitive. A pub has to somehow survive another year of rising costs.
An entrepreneur can work every hour of the day and still end up with nothing. There is no rest, it goes on and on and on. Sunday mornings, and every other hour of the week.
That’s the reality. It’s one I’ve lived in for decades, along with millions of others.
Then you listen to the state bureaucracy and it sounds as though none of this exists.
Four day weeks. No accountability. Phone off at the weekend. Impossible to get sacked.
The bureaucrats chuck these numbers around with ZERO appreciation of where it comes from - it is insulting arrogance.
That is OUR money.
Every pound government spends first has to come from somewhere. Ultimately, it comes from the productive economy, productive Britain. From the people working, trading, investing and taking risks. They are the ones who have my respect.
There are good people in the civil service. But the system is just so broken.
Government, and the people working within it, has become too insulated from the economic reality experienced by the people who actually have to fund it.
A Restore Britain Government will expect the state to understand something that every small-business owner already knows through brutal first-hand experience.
Money is finite, performance matters and failure MUST have consequences.
Departments should have clear objectives. Lines of accountability. Not endless silos where nobody takes responsibility. Senior officials should be accountable for delivering them. Poor performance should not disappear into yet another bullshit review.
They should be sacked. In fact, for the very worst offenders the punishment should be more severe and we will aim to pursue prosecutions where the loss of taxpayer money has been so vast.
And we should bring FAR more private-sector experience into government.
I want people who have built businesses, worked on building sites, run farms and actually had to deliver results directly involved in reshaping and restoring the British state.
On one side are millions of people being told to work harder, pay more tax, accept worse services and lower their expectations - all to fund a life of luxury for the endless conveyor belt of freeloading Somalis and Afghans.
On the other is a state that permanently demands more of OUR money while accepting remarkably little responsibility for its own failures.
The system is bent, broken and corrupt.
The state is funded by the people. It works for the people. And under Restore Britain, it will finally be expected to deliver for the people.
Just so we're clear...
We've had years and years of Islamist thugs roaming our streets masked up, Muslim women in burqas and left wing mobs hiding their identities.
That's acceptable. A few words of mild concern, but generally nobody cared.
But now is when the establishment acts?
After just ONE protest of concerned patriots who were looking to highlight the invasion of our country.
One protest from them, and the entire political establishment jumps into action.
Where was that passion before?
Labour, Reform, Tories. The police, the media.
Now is when they all passionately agree that face coverings are unacceptable and must be banned?
Our establishment is rotten to the core and must be replaced.
@BBCPolitics@bbcnickrobinson They are so out of touch. Tbh the more they talk the more people wake up so it’s not a bad thing. Keep talking nonsense Angela it’s helping turn the tide.
@narindertweets@PeterMcCormack Do you ever just stfu and listen , you don’t need to speak while he’s speaking. You need to master this it’s really annoying. I know your trying to sound engaged but it’s really poor discipline and doesn’t help your imagine