Jessica Lawrence

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Shocked and appalled by the amount of comments labeling farmers as 'tax dodgers', and that they should 'sell up' for the UK to import all of its food.

UK farmers pay Tax similarly to other businesses and individuals, covering income Tax, National insurance, Corporation Tax (if operating as a company), Capital Gains Tax, and VAT (if applicable).

The main distinctions are in targeted reliefs, especially for Inheritance Tax (IHT), which helps to support the agricultural sector as a whole by allowing the transfer of farms for the next generation to work. If a farm is sold, Capital Gains Tax has to be paid on any realised profits.

In 2024 the Agricultural industry contributed £14.5 billion to the economy and employed 452,900 tax paying workers.

So farmers absolutely do pay taxes (and have done for hundreds of years), while currently providing 62% of all food consumed in the UK. What an honourable vocation.

Thank you, Farmers.
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[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

"I will maintain all income tax and national insurance thresholds for a further three years from 2028".

Translation. Fiscal drag remains. Its a stealth tax. Freezing thresholds while average earnings rise mean people pay a bigger proportion of their income in tax. #Budget2026

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨LABOUR SET TO RAISE INCOME TAX

Just remember when they do it's to pay for this:

£47 billion to Mauritius to lease our own islands back
£15 billion on asylum hotels
£13 billion a year on foreign aid
£12 billion on Net Zero
£10 billion on benefits for migrants
£7 billion importing Afghans
£6 billion on social housing for migrants
£4 billion on benefits for people with 'anxiety'
£1 billion helping the small boats
£600 million looking after foreign criminals
£250 million on NHS translations

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Labour are about to raise your taxes because Labour don’t want to stop spending £15 billion on asylum hotels, £13 billion a year on foreign aid, £12 billion on Net Zero, £10 billion on welfare for people who aren’t even British, £7 billion importing Afghans, £6 billion subsidising social housing for people who also aren’t British, £4 billion on welfare for people with “anxiety”, £1 billion policing the small boats, £600 million looking after foreign criminals, and £250 million translating NHS material into other languages for people who cannot even be bothered to learn English.

Labour could make different choices; but Labour don’t want to.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Britain has been in decline for decades, but the speed of the decline since the Covid era is visible. Streets are dirty; high street shops, pubs and restaurant closures everywhere; transport infrastructures are a mess; the cost of living essentials like energy, food, fuel and water have rocketed, petty surveillance cameras and fines everywhere; public services are a mess; highest tax burden in decades; national assets being destroyed and then sold off to foreign corporations.

You can feel it in the national psyche as well. Almost everyone I speak to feels downtrodden and fed up with so many things not working properly or costing too much.

It’s actually heartbreaking to see a country that is surrounded by so many natural assets and should be functioning well reduced to so many aspects that are rotting from within. And yet we have a bunch of politicians who are running our country into the ground and still the vast majority of people are grudgingly accepting this. The state of the country completely unacceptable and it’s time for everyone to do something about it. Find your cause. Set up campaigns. Get involved in local activism. Coordinate and partner with communities of people. Whatever it takes.

Ultimately, it’s up to all of us to actually try and do something about this. Because apathy is like a slow sleeping pill in society that enables bad governments to do very bad things.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

HOW have I not seen this before?!

This is wonderful and absolutely spot on 😂

[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

Over 100,000 Afghans flown into Britain, without public knowledge, without debate. The cost? £7 billion. The risk? Unknown. The consent? Non-existent. The political class did this behind your back.

Mass migration has never been about compassion. It’s been about control, distraction, and denial. When they silence the press and hide the flights, it’s no longer just a scandal, it’s sabotage.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

This is a big reason why your taxes are going up this winter:

£1 billion on UK & UK/France costs for policing the small boats crisis

£6 billion on social housing subsidies for foreign-born

£7 billion to resettle 24,000 Afghans in the UK

£12 billion a year on Universal Credit for non-UK nationals

£15 billion on accommodation for refugees and asylum-seekers

£200-234 billion giving migrants Indefinite Leave to Remain

Oh, and £140 million translating English into other languages

We. Must. End. Mass. Immigration.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

This is Soviet Britain.

A police officer has to spend 6 months in prison for s*xually assaulting a 14 year old girl.

Meanwhile a man got sent to 38 months prison for a satirical post on X.

Something is very wrong here.

[The Procurement Files @procurementfile]

The UK Taxpayer will spend £6.5 million on ‘India Cyber Capacity’

To ‘Deliver Cyber Security Resilience to the Government of India’.

India has a higher GDP (£3.4 trillion) than the UK (£2.6 trillion)

Contract awarded to Ernst and Young

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

No, I don’t agree that everyone who arrived in England after 1949 should be sent “home.”

I don’t believe that Britain is a skin colour. It’s a set of values, customs, laws and traditions which make us British.

You don’t need to be white skinned to embrace those.

I do agree that we are being invaded by military age men who hate our values, and we should take urgent measures to deport those who are destroying Britain.

Starting with foreign criminals.

The border should also be closed immediately. Every single boat should be returned to France.

If refuge is sought, then applicants must apply at a British embassy in the first safe country they set foot in, rather than crossing dozens of safe countries before entering Britain illegally.

Politicians should put Britain first.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

While millions of pensioners lose their winter fuel allowance, many within the Labour government continue to get funded by the taxpayer to pay for the energy bills in their second homes. They fleece us while we pay their bills.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The annual WEF meeting takes place at Davos from 20th to 24th January.

▪️3,000 delegates
▪️1,000 private jets
▪️Motorcades

A jamboree where a bunch of hypocrital corporatists lecture us plebs about saving the planet and use virtue as guise for their own power and greed.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"Britain now stands shamed before the world. The public’s suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, calls for a public inquiry, and demands for accountability.

The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.

Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.

They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness.

All of which is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain since the 1970s."

[Kevin O'Sullivan @TVKev]

So, according to our pathetic Prime Minister, if you feel there's a need for an inquiry into the systematic failure to protect vulnerable young girls from the Pakistani grooming gangs, you're "jumping on the bandwagon of the far right." Two-Tier Keir... what a sad little man!

[Jessica Lawrence @JessicaJamieMay]

People who have phone calls on loudspeaker on the train, who raised you?! 😑

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

▪️£11.6 billion to be spent on overseas “climate aid”
▪️£3 billion a year given to Ukraine
▪️£8 million a day spent on hotels for asylum seekers
▪️MPs and peers £180m on expenses in just three years
▪️£billions spent on government consultants
▪️£billions wasted on dodgy PPE or PFI contracts
▪️£900 billion spent on quantitative easing
▪️£Billions given to the military-industrial complex / wars

So rather than punishing us with higher taxes or austerity, it’s time for governments to spend OUR money much more ethically and wisely. They serve us. They should be spending our money as public servants rather than ruling zealots.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Labour government are spaffing away £11.6 billion of our tax money on overseas climate aid and taxpayers pay for heating costs on MP’s second homes. Yet, the Labour government are cutting the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners.

Shameful misplaced priorities.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

MPs claimed more than £1m on expenses to pay energy bills in their second homes over a 6 year period. Taxpayers were charged £1,093,472.06 between April 2017 and September 2022. And now the government want to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners. Them & us.