Matt Benwell

Rugby addict. Played at wimbledon RFC. coached at Typhoons HK...... dont mind a spot of cricket either. Proud member of the #RoseArmy!

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

I genuinely find @amanbhogal a thoroughly inspiring member of our community

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@AndyGoode10 saw the @RickParfittJnr band tonight in my village. Told them you were a fan after car fest last year. They are still awesome and have a single coming out pal. Stay awesome big man #rugbyfamily

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@clarebalding quite frankly it’s not a major sporting event without you! Bravo Madame! You are such a voice of British Sport and I hope your cold clears up soon!

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@brianmoore666 happy birthday chap!

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Labour is the party of non-working people.
Paid for by the people who work. Run for the people who don’t.

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@RichmondRFC is the game on today?

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@seagull81 @O2 Hahahahahahahaha

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

Dear @O2 - your iPhone made me upgrade. I have just made a call the usual way - which I thought was WhatsApp - and you now tell me I have made it on voice- costing me £124. I did everything as normal but somehow - I got it wrong?! I would like a response asap please

[Britpop Memories @Britpopmemories]

30 years ago tonight, a new band called Kula Shaker (with cool Star Wars style typeface logo) played London’s famous Water Rats pub.

Who was lucky enough to be in the crowd?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Out and about on a Saturday morning, seeing window cleaners up first thing getting on with the job. Plumbers and electricians starting work. Cafe owners, opening for a busy day. Publicans, preparing for the weekend Christmas rush.

Such a brutal contrast to the army of jumped-up little civil servants and politicians in Whitehall who have already clocked off the Christmas - the ones who implement the tax, devise the nonsense regulations, make the life of small business owners absolute hell.

They don't care about dividend tax rises, or VAT thresholds, or IR35, or mountains of bullshit HR rules.

They don't understand, they don't care.

Comfortable work environments, absolutely zero accountability, total job security, great pensions, no targets. Nobody EVER gets fired. The out of office reply in regular use, of course.

Work from home a few days a week. Maybe head in for drinks once a week, but that's at a stretch. Don't even try and contact them past 15.00 on a Thursday.

These busy little bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own pompous role seems irreplaceable.

Honestly we need to drag these people into the real world. The world of Saturday morning work. Weekend work. ANY WORK.

Freeloaders gliding through life on the back of productive Britain.

I'm with the cafe owner. The publican. The window cleaner. The plumber. The electrician.

THEY deserve our respect and our gratitude.

They're the ones who make this country work, not the pretentious empire-building desk-jockey in central London.

A total reset is required.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Though I yield to nobody in my view that BoJo was just about the least appropriate person to have as PM when Covid struck, I’m sceptical of the Hallet report’s claim that had he locked down a week earlier 23,000 lives would have been saved. First, it’s easy to be wise after the event. At the time nobody was quite sure what was happening. Second, that figure depends on modelling. And by now we should all have learned to be extremely sceptical of modelling.

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

Right @GillianA @davidduchovny - I am rewatching the stiles again from the beginning. I know it’s nostalgic and there is loads of good new stuff out there - but it was a great series and it made a big part of my youth. Thank you

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

Labour want to TAX you every single year just for owning your home

If your home is worth more than £500,000, Labour want you to pay 0.54% EVERY year.

Here’s what that looks like:

↳ £550,000 = £2,970 a year
↳ £600,000 = £3,240 a year
↳ £700,000 = £3,780 a year
↳ £800,000 = £4,320 a year
↳ £1,000,000 = £5,400 a year

Just for OWNING your home

You’ve already paid stamp duty, income tax, council tax… now forced to pay this new property tax

This is a SCAM by the government

[Britpop Memories @Britpopmemories]

It was 9 years ago that I got sick of how little Britpop content there was on Twitter. I started this account to address that issue.

Now there’s a thriving Britpop community on here.

It’s had its ups and downs but I’ve loved everyday of the 9 year journey!

#MyXAnniversary

[David Gower @David215Gower]

Today is Thorpey Day at the Oval. Let’s remember him for his outstanding England career and spread the word that when things go dark there is help out there and support the charity Mind.

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@has_janey18742 @GBNEWS Pipe down in the cheap seats!

[Matt Benwell @MattJBenwell]

@owen_faz you are playing a blinder! Be you be great!

[PonteJack @somersetlevel]

Labour - good with money! 🙄

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This is the capital of the largest country in Europe. Lemme repeat, this is the capital of the largest country in Europe - and we let this happen

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So much for Keir Starmer’s pledge to ‘smash the people-smuggling gangs’.
Now he’s offering landlords five-year guaranteed full rent deals at the taxpayer’s expense to house the people they’re smuggling. From ‘smash’ to ‘complicit’ in a matter of months. Remarkable.