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'To Dare, Really Is To Do'. We don’t stop when we’re tired, we stop when we’re finished’.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

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.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Waitrose sold 193 percent more thick-cut British sirloin after the fourth series of Clarkson's Farm went out. Jersey Royals up 89 percent. Red Leicester up 50. Cox apples up 52, Gala up 30, British asparagus up 25. One television programme about a man losing money in a field moved the meat counter of a national supermarket chain by figures no marketing budget in this country has ever bought.

Then look at what happened at the shop itself.

Diddly Squat opened its farm shop in 2020 and people drove across counties to stand in a queue in a field for it. Traffic backed down the lane. Clarkson admitted in front of the village that the place had been swamped, while pointing out that the village shop, the village cafe and the village pub were all taking more money than before.

That is the demand. Now the paperwork.

The shop's planning permission legally caps what it may sell: produce from the holding, or from producers inside a 16 mile radius, or whatever else the council will agree to in writing. His agents asked for 30 miles and were given 16. In January 2022 the restaurant was refused, on the grounds that a farm building on a farm was out of keeping with the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In August that year the council issued an enforcement notice, describing the operation as unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location, and ordered the dining areas shut. The appeal in June 2023 saved the shop, the cafe and the car park for three years. The restaurant was refused again, and the inspector ruled that six weeks was ample time to put the land back the way it had been.

Six weeks to undo a farm building. Two years to get permission for one.

Now sit with the shape of this. Every government of the past twenty years has stood up and said the words food security, shorten the supply chain, support British farming, buy British. A man then built the shortest food chain in England, forty yards from the field to the till with nobody taking a cut in between, and the machinery of the state spent three years making it smaller.

Meanwhile the country answered the question nobody actually asked it. Acceptances onto agricultural degree courses rose 8 percent in 2024 and are up around 20 percent since 2019. Britain has roughly 1,580 farm retailers employing 25,000 people, and the Farm Retail Association reckons the tax changes could shut as many as half of them.

Nobody in this country needs persuading to buy food from a farmer. They queue for two hours in a field for the privilege, in the rain, in a place with one road in.

The queue formed on its own. It took three years, two appeals and a planning inspectorate to make it shorter.

[Scott Rogers BEM @scott5rogers]

I recently spoke with The Guardian to highlight the challenges facing amputee football in this country, particularly the ongoing lack of funding and support from the FA.

It may not make me the most popular person with the FA, but I believe it’s important that someone speaks up for this incredible sport and the amazing people who make it what it is.

Our England Men’s and Women’s National Teams, along with our fantastic junior programme, deserve the opportunity to represent their country and develop the game without the constant worry of whether funding will be there.

Amputee football has the power to change lives. It’s time it received the recognition and investment it deserves. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️

https://t.co/m0Gv663WEt

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@hbrooks_coach I always follow your posts Harry and tend to agree with most. But can I ask, how would you approach and change this culture? Willing to listen, learn and adapt my approach. I believe in individuality and developing players who can think and adapt in the heat of the moment.

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@ChrisCowlin No, the majority of us said it during the game.

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

Chatting shit Tuchel post game. Your in game analysis was pathetic and you cost us. Resign now!
If this was Southgate, he’d be hung, drawn and quartered tomorrow in the media. #EngvArg

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@talkSPORT Tucheld

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@DjedSpence Not an excuse, but the referee was appalling tonight. Allowed Argentina players to niggle, foul, abuse and get away with murder without any sanction. 3 or 4 should have been booked in the first 20minutes. #EngvArg

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

Let’s be honest, this is all on Tuchel. Should never be in charge, too negative and not technically smart enough.
He’s killed us tonight and needs to resign. #EngvArg

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

On top of this, @DjedSpence was having a superb game, had the lefthand side locked down until Tuchel had a brain fart and went for 4 centre midfielders in a 5-4-1. This is on Tuchel. Hope he’s screaming at himself in the mirror like he screams at his players.

[Hayward @JH_Investments]

The UK’s 40% tax rate was meant for the wealthy.

Now nearly 1 in 5 taxpayers pay it. In the 1990s it was closer to 1 in 30.

At what point does a “tax on the rich” become a tax on people with a good salary rather than real wealth?

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@SkySportsNews Can’t wait for all the Villa and Newcastle fans to claim this is unfair @wattothfc

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@wattothfc listen to this whopper. As Villas main striker he only hit double figures 3 times in the prem and the most goals he scored was 13 in the prem. #clown

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

😤 "Scored a great goal but his performance was atrocious!"

😡 "If we wanna win the World Cup Harry Kane has got to do more!"

Gabby Agbonlahor slams Harry Kane's performance vs DR Congo despite his two-goal heroics! 😡😳

[Gaurav @GauravAnlyst]

Guardiola on failure🧠

We call it failure when our team loses, forgetting the other team is trying to win too. Pep's explanation!
Complete interview with English subtitles: https://t.co/hKLhiQLkCY

[Keepitonthedeck @Keepitonthedeck]

WOW.

Marcelo Bielsa is 70 years of age, and his parting message to Uruguay carries a lesson every coach should sit with.

No group is the same.
No individual is the same.
Nobody.
Bielsa admits he has never tried to be the “friendly” coach. He values order, discipline, seriousness, obsession. That has made him one of the most respected minds in football.
But even Bielsa seems to accept something powerful here:

That approach does not work for every player.
It does not work in every environment.
And knowledge alone is never enough.

As a coach, you have to find a way to connect.

Quote us on this:
“You can have all the knowledge in the world, but it is absolutely useless if the people playing don’t like you.
Player management and people management might not be on coaching courses, but don’t be kidded by associations.

It is the most important quality a coach can have.”

Football is about tactics, detail, preparation and standards.

But above all, it is about people. So many coaches out there fail to grasp this, they think they can shout their way to development or success, and this day and age you simply can't.

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@GaryRWard @PRJCTSPURS For me and my boy, got to be Gareth Bale. Guy could do everything.

Although I personally could go on with the likes of Gazza, Kane, Anderton, King, Mabbutt, VDV, Klinsmann, etc…

#COYS

[Gary Ward @GaryRWard]

SPURS GIVEAWAY

Like last summer, I'm giving away 1 official Tottenham Hotspur jersey to one lucky winner.

If you also have a kid, I'll throw one in for them, too.

To win,
° Follow - @GaryRWard & @PRJCTSPURS
° Comment - Your favourite Spurs player
° LIKE & RT

I'll pick the winner live on an upcoming PRJCTSPURS live stream.

Offer to anyone globally.

#THFC #SPURS #COYS #TOTTENHAM

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@Craig1Osullivan This will be his agent. The kid won’t even be running his own social media accounts. All agent talk, they treat the players like puppets to ensure the money keeps rolling in.
Agents have far too much control in the game.

[Z.Z @GaZak4TL]

@wattothfc was defo a slow news day. Doesn’t take a genius to work out we need to sell a couple of defenders 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

🗣️ "Tottenham Hotspur are going to have to look at selling players."

Spurs' current centre-back options analysed with "one or two" potentially departing the club this summer ⤵️

[Osku Partonen @Coach_Osku]

One of the biggest mistakes in youth football:

Acting like development and winning are opposites. ⚽️

I don't think they are.

In fact, I think players need both.

Here's why 🧵
#SundayShare