Josh

[Chaz @Chaz_CFC]

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green

[Dylan Ali @dylanali_]

conspiracy theorists rn

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is.

They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state.

Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you.

Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there...

It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it.

Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it.

They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket.

There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust.

And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector.

GET A REAL JOB.

If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that.

They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more.

Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it.

Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision.

Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it.

Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Gary Neville is a multi-millionaire who lives a celebrity lifestyle and doubtless resides in a gated community far away from the oiks. Like many of his ilk, he likes to signal his virtue - “Oh, aren’t I so much more enlightened than the masses?” - by expressing his luxury beliefs. So when he condemns ordinary ‘white’ people for displaying patriotic sentiment after years of being sneered at and vilified, we should pay him precisely the attention he deserves. None.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

During 60 years of Israeli occupation, the West Bank has gone from 99% to 82% Palestinian. During that same time, despite being unconquered, England has — against the wishes of the British people — gone from 99% to 71% British.

[Adso Øvbelk @AdsoOfBelk]

3000 BC black mirror episode, a man drowns in a Mesopotamian irrigation ditch

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@TahirAliMP I did read the letter, I just don’t care.

Your city is fighting off swarms of mutant rats and you’re moaning about air travel convenience in Pakistan?

It’s a bold strategy, Tahir. Let’s see if it pays off.

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

This may be the single most insane thing I’ve ever seen an MP campaign for

[Stephen R Power @racingblogger]

Praying for GALOPIN DES CHAMPS

#CheltenhamFestival 🏆🏆🏆

[. @jtferz]

Majborough

[Peter Whittle @prwhittle]

I hope young white British men bear this in mind when they’re asked to go off and fight the wars of this rancid government.

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

It really is time that we wake up to the impending threat of this.

I know it’s terribly British to not want to make a fuss. But we have let barbarians in to our country.

They hate us and our civilisation.

They sponge off the state and use our freedoms against us.

Enough.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

🚨BREAKING: “Gaza is our land”

British Lib Dem MP Layla Moron calls for the UK to reestablish the British mandate

[ben weller 🪴 ✟ @flowerpotweller]

It’s payday for Nick, 22, who has just finished working from home in the windowless room he rents in Epsom, Surrey, for £950 per month.

His graduate job that pays £27,000 (not enough to live on, but enough for student loan repayments to start) is taxed 20%. Still, when he gets an invite from a friend to go out for a “swift one” he can’t say no.

He jumps into his 2014 Audi A3 and drives to the pub in Sutton (not forgetting the £13.50 ULEZ charge as he crosses the border).

He arrives at the pub and orders a pint. It costs £8.50 (10% of that is tax). He sits with his friend for 45 minutes, and when he finishes his pint decides to go home.

He jumps into his car and on the way home is pulled over for driving recklessly (23mph in a 20mph zone).

He is breathalysed, arrested, and imprisoned for longer than the average foreign rapist.

As he sits in the cell he shares with three other men he is thankful. At least the £263.95 of tax he paid that day is paying for the driving lessons of Afghan refugees, and they’re safe… they don’t drink.

[Hashem @HashemAllMighty]

Hamas continues k1lling Gazans👇🏼. You know, all those innocent civilians everyone is so worried about.

The protests and encampments will start any minute now…

Oh wait, it’s just Muslims k1lling Muslims. No Jews involved. Nobody cares.

Carry on.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

British Pakistanis have no moral culpability for crimes occurring in their communities right now, but British people need to pay reparations for the actions of their ancestors 300 years ago

[Esther K @estherckrakue]

We are not honest about multiculturalism in Britain