Jen4Scot

Interested in politics, centre-right, value common sense and personal responsibility.

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

[Dominic McGregor @DominicMcGregor]

I’ll tell you what would be fairer and get more people working.

Reduce the tax the cleaner pays…

I don’t understand how the left mind works. It’s wired to be envious and jealous of those who have created something of value.

For some reason they see it as their, or as the states.

They believe it’s been created by theft and greed. Not by hard work, resilience or vision.

Why not genuinely support a cleaner, raise the personal allowance to £20,000.

Don’t tax young people on their first £100,000 earned.

Reduce employer N.I and reinstate £10,000 entry.

These policies would go about growing the economy, giving individuals more money and making the “marginal rates of tax” significantly fairer.

Get work actually paying for people so that the gap between benefits and employment is greater.

Benefits should be a safety blanket not a lifestyle.

Cleaners should and could pay a marginal rate of between 0-5%.

There’s making it fairer.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

Surely we aren't contemplating this person for any position of power?
Capital gains come from risk, usually with a delay while the investment grows.
They are NOT the same as salary.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Your tax isn’t fair. So here’s what I would do about it. A wealth tax that works👇

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

Good lord. Swinney has fully leant into the victim thing. Seriously? Anas Sarwar deserves a round of applause for that.

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

For the first time EVER I agree with Tony Blair, I feel sick… 🤢

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Well… this is awkward. John Swinney speaking here on the Sunday Show on 30th May 2021. By this stage the SNP accounts proved that the money had gone missing and Swinney had clearly looked at those accounts. John Swinney was part of the cover up operation.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

@1ssve I have a very technical job. I just couldn’t work from the office, too distracting.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

These people, honestly.
The answer is always ‘the taxpayer’ as if we are some limitless resource to be tapped and abused.
I’m fed up of them all.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Three cheers for that audience member. And deft moderation by @StephenJardine.

“So wait a minute… we pay the supermarkets to lower their prices… is that what you’re suggesting?”

An unusually entertaining and illuminating 90 seconds from last week’s #bbcdn

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

The truth will out. Eventually.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s Andy Burnham being dead normal.

Credit to Russell Kane for this.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

@MarkDJones71 @thesundaysport We don't really eat out often any more. It's packed lunches and the countryside, which is nicer in a way.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

This is an insult. People don't need £5 off a theme park ticket. They want to heat their homes and eat decent food without raiding the supermarket bargain bin in desperation.

[Olly @oIIyjm]

20% VAT for education and SEND support.

5% VAT for rollercoasters.

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

Same in Scotland

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

I just moved into a new Airbnb in Madrid 🇪🇸

Barely any reviews, so I asked the owner why it wasn't listed on the long-term rental market

His answer told me everything about where Spain is heading

Turns out, he had an inquiokupa before us

For those who don't know: an inquiokupa is someone who moves in as a legitimate tenant...

Stops paying rent after the first month or two...

And then uses Spain's tenant protection laws to stay in the property for 1, 2, sometimes 3 years while the owner gets nothing

The owner can't evict them quickly. In fact, he has to pay for their electricity, water and gas bills while they're there, or they go to jail

The process of kicking them out is slow, expensive, and the law is written to protect the occupant

So what did this owner do?

Once he got rid of his squatter, he pulled the flat off the long-term market entirely

Now he rents it by the week to tourists and digital nomads

He makes more money, has full control of his property, and never has to worry about an inquiokupa again

Now multiply this by thousands of landlords across Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville

❌ Every single one of them doing the same calculation
❌ Every single one of them reaching the same conclusion

And the politicians who designed these tenant protection laws are standing in front of cameras pretending to wonder why there are no affordable long-term rentals available

Of course, they know they created the exact problem they're pretending to solve

❌ When you make it impossible to remove a bad tenant, landlords stop creating tenants
❌ When landlords stop creating tenants, supply collapses
❌ When supply collapses, prices go up for the honest renters who would have paid all along

In fact, the people the law was designed to protect are the ones who suffer most

And until someone admits that, Spain will keep losing rental supply one converted Airbnb at a time

And tourists will keep getting blamed

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

There's a sentence in this clip that should end a political career. Watch the exact moment a Chancellor Reeves reveals what she really thinks of you.

A tradesman tells Rachel Reeves she's ruining the country. Her reply? She lectures HIM about manners.

Imagine watching your livelihood evaporate and being told your etiquette is the problem. Apparently it's now a British tradition to go broke quietly.

He's screaming because his fuel is unaffordable. Prices spiked from the Iran war. So what did she do? She had a choice. Reopen the North Sea, we have MASSIVE reserves, or ease sanctions and buy Russian oil. She chose Putin.

Now we fund his war AND still pay more. His diesel up 43.5p a litre. His heating bill spiking. Russia makes £150 MILLION A DAY. Weapons. Missiles. Dead Ukrainians.

Then when this working man snapped and screamed about it, she didn't defend a single decision. She tone-policed him. Scolded him like a schoolchild while she crushed his livelihood.

Standing in her pale green suit she said. One of the things about our country is good manners. That's not very British.

You know what else is British? Not funding enemy wars. Not lecturing working men about tone while you wreck their lives.

He screamed about reality. She lectured him about etiquette.

They're not sorry they're destroying us. They're just annoyed we're making too much noise about it.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

Good god. 🤯😲

[MaxC @ColeFusionHQ]

ONS labour market figures, just dropped.
payrolled employees down 210,000 on the year. down 100,000 in a single month.
largest monthly drop outside covid.

[Jen4Scot @Jen4Scot]

@hashjenni Don't buy much meat these days. Steak, fresh chicken that kind of thing.

[MaxC @ColeFusionHQ]

@badger_buff private sector: −377,000 jobs.
state-funded sectors: +114,000. paid 4.8% more.
one side rationing. one side expanding.

[Neil McCoy-Ward @NeilMcCoyWard]

🔴Rachel Reeves has now raised your taxes to a level Britain has not seen since 1945. The IMF told her today she has hit the limit

Frozen thresholds mean basic rate taxpayers lose an extra £220 a year, higher rate £600. That's a weekly food shop gone, or a month of energy bills, before anything else goes up

700,000 more people are being pulled into paying income tax for the first time, and a million more onto the 40% rate, because thresholds stay frozen until 2031 while wages rise

Total tax take hits 38.5% of GDP by 2030, the highest peacetime level on record. Reeves added £26 billion of tax rises in November on top of £40 billion the year before

The IMF says there is no more room. Their fix is to cut the state pension triple lock and welfare instead. If you're retired, that means a smaller state pension rise every year while everything else gets more expensive

You earn more, you pay more, you keep less. That is the plan until 2031

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