Dylan Bantoft

Your perception of me is a reflection of you. My reaction to you, is an awareness of me.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

Same as it ever was.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's Welfare Secretary admitted to Peter Mandelson what he won’t tell you.

Labour raised your taxes to pay for more benefits.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@justdavenow89 What have the right wing told you, Dave?

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@AndrewHWestern Lots of hypocrites out and about at the moment.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

A thoughtful take by Tony Sewell. Most people just want fairness. The job of the police is to catch criminals and prevent crime not to address historic social harms

One of the things I think that's getting lost in the current "two tier" discussions is the growing perception that the police are more interested in culture than crime...

So five armed officers go to arrest a comedian getting off a plane (one of the few places you can be confident your "suspect" won't be armed)

Heavy handed responses to what people write on X rather than dealing with violent shoplifting

People getting shorter sentences for the worst crimes against children than for "hate" speech

Allowing pro Palestinian marches to go through Jewish communities but restricting Reform marches

Then we have politicians agitating about the "far right" when for the most part it's people saying r@pe gangs should be properly investigated and illegal immigrants shouldn't get a better standard of living with luxury hotels and same day dental care than British citizens do

Until @UKLabour recognises the real anger is because people increasingly feel the criminal justice system and so many aspects of the way the state interacts with them has become essentially unfair the anger will grow

It doesn't need stoking. People aren't angry because @Nigel_Farage told them to be. They are angry because the state isn't working and when they complain, the government essentially calls them Nazis

https://t.co/UygNEtjVSp

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

Tax productivity - get less.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Tax allowances have been stuck in the permafrost, sometimes for decades, reports a study by the Association of Taxation Technicians

Absurdly the £3,000 annual gift exemption for inheritance tax purposes — hasn't changed since 1981. In today’s money it would be worth almost four times as much or £11,800

The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 for 17 years ago and is now frozen until 2031. If it had risen with inflation, it would be around £525,000, 60% more.

The rent-a-room scheme allowance has been frozen at £7,500 since 2016. It should be £10,500 today.

If the higher rate income tax threshold was not frozen at £50,270, it would reach £70,000 by 2030.

All these allowances and thresholds should be legislated with a built-in inflation adjuster such that they increase automatically in line with inflation each year.

US tax thresholds are raised automatically each year in line with inflation. That's a key reason why US thresholds are so much higher than British ones. You have to earn $640,600 in the US in order to pay the top income tax rate of 37%. In Britain, the figure is almost 10 times less. Here earn just $66,000 US dollars (£50,270) and you start paying a 40% tax rate.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@davidyelland It’s the journalists, David. Especially the hypocritical ones; the ones happy to critique Vance/Trump/US but whinge when it comes back. Especially them.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

You’re 10x more likely to die than to be fired from a UK government department

UK government departments fire people for poor performance at 1/600th the rate of private companies.

For every person they fired for being incompetent, there are 599 incompetent people who didn’t get fired.

That adds up. Imagine if a business behaved this way!

We need government to be meritocratic, competence hierarchies that reward performance and reject inefficiency.

Until this happens it’s hard to trust government with more money.

[TimForAlI 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪 @timmyvoe]

How is this not misleading Parliament by Darren Jones?

He must have known his OWN MESSAGES to Peter Mandelson had not been disclosed as part of the Humble Address

[Prabhdeep Singh @PrabhdeepReform]

Open Community Invitation

On behalf of the Management Committee of Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall, we humbly extend an open invitation to all members of the community to join us in prayer and remembrance for Henry Nowak.

Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall is one of the largest and most respected Sikh institutions in the United Kingdom and Europe, serving as a spiritual, educational, and community hub for thousands of people. The Gurdwara is also renowned for its free community kitchen (Langar), where nutritious meals are served to all visitors regardless of faith, background, nationality, or social status. In keeping with its longstanding commitment to service, compassion, and community cohesion, the Gurdwara will be holding an Akhand Paath in Henry’s memory.

An Akhand Paath is the continuous, uninterrupted recitation of the entire Guru Granth Sahib Ji from beginning to end, carried out day and night without pause. This sacred prayer is performed to seek peace, strength, blessings, and the wellbeing of all humanity.

In the spirit of Sarbat Da Bhalla (the welfare of all), we invite people of all faiths and backgrounds to attend, pay their respects, join in prayer, and partake in Langar as we remember Henry, support his family and friends, and stand together in compassion during this difficult time.

Bhog Ceremony (Conclusion):
📅 Sunday, 7th June 2026
🕙 10:00 AM

Venue:
📍 Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall

At this difficult time, let us come together.

Everyone is welcome.

#JusticeForHenryNowak #BritishSikhs #ReformUK #sikhhistory #kirpan

@reformparty_uk @TiceRichard @Nigel_Farage @drdavidbull

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

“No new taxes on working people”.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Police may not always need to treat people of different racial origins equally, David Lammy has said.

The Justice Secretary suggested there could be cultural circumstances in which police officers might treat someone from an ethnic minority differently

🔗: https://t.co/CLRf49tYm0

[Ryan Bourne @MrRBourne]

I don't like Vance's intervention either, but I don't remember this principle preventing many UK politicians like Starmer and Davey from pontificating and whipping up re: the George Floyd case, the reaction to which resulted in my neighborhood of DC being looted and damaged.

[Coffee House @SpecCoffeeHouse]

I wonder how many readers have ever heard of the name Kriss Donald?

The young Glaswegian was just 15 years old in 2004 when he was kidnapped by a local gang of Pakistani men. The group selected him because he was white and they had some beef with a group of white men with whom Donald had no connection at all.

After driving around for hours, the gang – led by one Imran Shahid – stabbed Donald repeatedly before dousing his body in petrol and setting him alight.

I also wonder how many readers have heard of the name Tony Timpa? The white, unarmed Texan was 32 in 2016 when he suffered some sort of mental breakdown in public.

Instead of assisting him, police arrived at the scene and restrained him in such a way that he died. Bodycam footage released three years later – thanks to pressure from local journalists – showed officers kneeling on Timpa as he complained that he couldn't breathe and mocking him as he lay dying.

✍️ Douglas Murray

Article | https://t.co/1sGuJ6jVFA

[Angantýr @BasedNorthmathr]

Astounding arrogance coupled with earth shattering stupidity is the hallmark of British politics

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

She'll get "reamed" whatever that is because she's got some basic and important facts wrong.

When he tells them he's been stabbed, they don't say "well...where?". They say "I don't think you have mate."

[Joe Whelan @sergeantdixie]

@BettyBoochichi2 I suspect she will get reamed in the replies because she refuses to jump on the bandwagon.

Her explanation seems to me to be far more likely than fanciful theories the police let him die because he was white

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@TheSolarShed @Goodbob888 I'm impressed "some white guy has been racist to my brother" summoned 4+ police officers. Someone once set fire to my house; it took police 4 days to pop round and take a statement.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

When your entire worldview is based not on knowledge, but on what others think - the only possible rebuttal is a performance.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@DanNeidle I've said this before & you've (probs rightly) shut me down:

20% tax on all income except gifts
12.50% VAT
No other taxes

CT, earnings, dividends, pension, inheritance, lottery, interest, CGT (even on main property after inflation)...anything.

One page of A4 + smaller HMRC.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@PaulEmbery and why is she only talking to the "ladies" in the room?

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@DanNeidle I've said this before, Dan - and you've (probs correctly) said that I'm wrong but surely Laffer comes to the front here? I pay less tax as rates rise (pension, EVs etc). My next move would be a sabatical or move the business abroad until I'm allowed to keep >50% of what I earn.

[Dylan Bantoft @DylanBantoft]

@DanNeidle Interesting though that the Tories *did* tax the rich (and spared lower earners) but didn't get any credit for it.