Richard Butcher

Professional dancer in my spare time. Talented and cursed. Enough really is enough. British and Welsh. Opinions my own. County fan but also love the Villa!

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@JustRankedPod @prince @prnlegacy Not impressed.

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@SouthamptonFC 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@SaintsExtra @sfcawaynumbers Oh dear 🤣🤣

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@DavidLammy And what exactly are the Pro Pal marches doing every week you absolute clown?

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What a win. Up the Villa!! #astonvilla

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@RhunapIorwerth @Plaid_Cymru Sorry what?

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@Sioned_W Especially women who dont want to share their private space with a bloke in a dress

[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

I'm Welsh but I could never vote for a nationalist party like Plaid. The racism from their voters towards the English is off the charts and they accuse Reform of being divisive!! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #wales

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Up the Villa! Absolutely battered them. Loved it #avfc

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.

I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.

Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions

These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.

Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.

Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.

Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.

There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.

So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.

Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.

The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

@Pibydd @Plaid_Cymru Some of us are British as well as Welsh so the usual anti Engish rhetoric doesn't work butty.

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@yescymruruthin Usual anti English rhetoric from the Nationalists 🥱

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@AgitChevis They may not win but a hell of a lot of people in Wales will still vote for them. They offer more than the looney left that's for sure

[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

Easy this Europa League lark #avfc

[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

Done. This madness has to stop. Sack Miliband

[Mikey 🇮🇱🇬🇧 @MikeyPhil64]

Could everyone please repost and share this tweet. I don’t normally ask, but this corner of Norfolk is going to be covered by solar panels and infrastructure the equivalent of 43,200 tennis courts. This insanity must be stopped. Thank you
https://t.co/3ny8od1F9l
@AllisonPearson @TiceRichard @KayMasonBillig

[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

Sickening. They should be locked up.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Axel Rudakubana would not have carried out the Southport attack had his parents reported what they knew about their son to the authorities, a public inquiry finds.

https://t.co/zGXVddmk3x

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[Richard Butcher @Captain249]

How many more kids need to die as a result of someone carrying a knife. Something needs to change and quick. Mandatory jail for 1st time offenders would help #knifecrimeuk

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How many times does Rodgers give the ball away. Drives me mad #avfc

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Try and keep the ball Villa. It does help! #avfc

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@Ed_Miliband @neso You ignore opposition from the local council and residents and desecrate our countryside at the altar of Net Zero. Madness