Russia is not doing anything to UK cables and power lines. Certainly they're not planning to blow them up like the UK assisted in doing to Nordstream.
Further antagonising Russia, when our armed forces are at there lowest level of readiness is complete stupidity.
Donald Trump Truth Social 05.23.25 05:59 AM EST
Our negotiated deal with the United Kingdom is working out well for all. I strongly recommend to them, however, that in order to get their Energy Costs down, they stop with the costly and unsightly windmills, and incentivize modernized drilling in the North Sea, where large amounts of oil lay waiting to be taken. A century of drilling left, with Aberdeen as the hub. The old fashioned tax system disincentivizes drilling, rather than the opposite. U.K.’s Energy Costs would go WAY DOWN, and fast!
Two weeks until changes to National Insurance come in - rate increasing, threshold drastically decreasing. A truly awful combination.
Huge uproar when it’s announced, now almost nobody in Westminster seems to care. Well, businesses up and down the country still care. This is going to hurt, a lot. Plenty will have made plans, plenty won’t - the current climate simply doesn’t allow for it.
This is not a small amount of money - for a reasonable sized business, you’re talking tens and tens of thousands of pounds they have got to find every year. What’s the result? Fewer pay rises, fewer contracts, less investment. It’s really that simple.
It is mind-numbingly stupid.
There is ONE way to get an economy pumping. Incentives. Government doesn’t create growth, individuals do - incentivise them.
We should be slashing corporation tax (lowest in Europe), scrapping IR35, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends and much, much more.
Let’s force the public sector to buy British goods and food, particularly from businesses local to the institutions. If a school needs bread, buy it from a local bakery. If a hospital needs equipment, buy it from a British firm. Why is this not already happening?!
Brutally slash back bureaucracy - a red tape bonfire visible from the moon. Ease planning/licence laws for small businesses. Let them actually do business, not just fill in forms and endlessly debate with the latest council drone.
I’d like to significantly widen the gap between starting a business, and when the first tax is due. Give entrepreneurs the time they need to build and grow. In the medium term, it will generate far more tax revenue.
There is just so much to change, it’s difficult to know where to start.
And a ‘business owner’ isn’t necessarily an individual with 30 employees, it could just be one or two. These are the people that drive the economy.
They are not some city fat cat. It's decent men and women who have taken a huge risk in going out on their own. Now they're faced with this? It's all so depressing.
I know, I've done it and invested in numerous individuals who have done it. It is bloody hard work.
My view? Government needs to get the hell out of their way.
That’s how we grow the economy, it’s the only way.
My phone conversation today with President Putin of Russia was a very good and productive one. We agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure, with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine. This War would have never started if I were President! Many elements of a Contract for Peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are being killed, and both President Putin and President Zelenskyy would like to see it end. That process is now in full force and effect, and we will, hopefully, for the sake of Humanity, get the job done!
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 3/18/25 02:49 PM
Thank you @realDonaldTrump for your unwavering leadership in standing up for the interests of the American people, and peace. What you said is absolutely true: Zelensky has been trying to drag the United States into a nuclear war with Russia/WW3 for years now, and no one has called him on it. Thank you, Vice President @JDVance for speaking out so forcefully and clearly, about the necessity of diplomacy.
@DaleVince Doesn’t have a clue how it works this guy.
It’s not about gaining more tax money it’s about reducing everyone’s tax full stop. This country is being ripped off
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The UK buys most of it's oil from Norway.
Norway gets it's oil from the same oil fields that the UK has access to in the North Sea.
We are literally buying our own oil for a markup, instead of drilling it ourselves for half the price.
Why are we doing this?