FRANCE 🇫🇷 : A heartbreaking scene😢.
A business owner desperately pleads with looters and vandals to leave her shop alone.
Her livelihood is being destroyed before her eyes.
No business owner should have to endure this.
A brief history about Labour:
1945 - Labour elected
1947 - Britain Bankrupt
1964 - Labour elected
1970 - Britain Bankrupt
1974 - Labour elected
1979 - Britain Bankrupt
1997 - Labour elected
2010 - Britain Bankrupt
2024 Labour elected...
IT HASN'T WORKED, IT NEVER WILL. 🇬🇧
In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.
Until last week, men over 50 were entitled to a free PSA prostate cancer check. But the government has now decided to withdraw that right. I cannot for the life of me work out what their reasoning might be.
Was booking tickets for Edinburgh Zoo this weekend.
Noticed people on Universal Credit get a discounted rate.
Adult ticket: £30.
Adult ticket (UC): £8.
A 73% difference.
No shade to people on UC.
But why are we being punished for having a job?
I'm not a football person. But I do believe in fair play. Scotland played at 1am, they were granted a Bank Holiday the following day. So why aren't England? @Keir_Starmer
🇬🇧 Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.
Nowak: "I've been stabbed"
Officer: "I don't think you have mate"
Follow: @europa
"The UK has been very uncooperative"
President Trump criticises Sir Keir Starmer's decision not to get involved in the U.S. offensive against Iran, and decisions regarding immigration and energy
https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
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I have never seen a better executed order for the table in my life
Down to the details:
- napkin tuck for order
- upping portion sizes in a blink
- the Bao Bun execution
- asking the server for recs
- politeness and complete control of the room
Wow.
German troops, and the one Brit, just landed in Greenland without Arctic camo 💀💀
You can’t make this up.
If Tom Clancy wrote this as fiction, his editor would’ve killed it for being too unbelievable.
Boris Johnson and his Government has lurched from crisis to crisis and U-turn to U-turn.
To correct one error, even two, might make sense.
But when they've notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence.