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[claire @rosiekennedyxx]

Nobody fell off harder than the hammerhead shark. Was a top shark for me as a kid and now completely obsolete in media and conversation.

[The Sales Bull 🎯 Follow if you sell B2C or B2B @TheSalesBull1]

20 years ago this would have been a full month of news

Daily updates on every front page and again at 6pm

Everyone discussing how awful it is

Prime Minister asked about it in Parliament

Now it’s just another day, another life ruined by a migrant rapist

Start being angry.

[Bridges @P3t077]

@PrimeVideo can someone in customer services contact me. Website sends you round in circles and can’t speak to a human

[Bridges @P3t077]

. @PrimeVideo your movie bundles are incorrectly labelled ‘pay per view’, so when purchased you can’t share the content to a kids account on the family dashboard. Plz fix this, just paid £45 for Harry Potter bundle and kids can’t watch it on their profile.

[VYT @VYTLDS]

For Rupert! 👊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Bridges @P3t077]

@empiremagazine @AmazonUK @hmvtweets Everard Proudfoot, easy. Laugh every time

[Bridges @P3t077]

@badgersbakes @Rob_C_Allen @PaulineRidley9 Any they are delicious!!!!

[Bridges @P3t077]

@ThatEricAlper Mother!

[Bridges @P3t077]

@C_3C_3 @badgersbakes

[Voice of Reason @brexitblog_info]

If “rich” people on £45k + have no cash left after paying their Reeves taxes / Miliband energy bills, who will spend money in the shops, go out for meals, take flights, buy cars etc?

If no one can do that the whole economy collapses.

Yet socialist idiots scream for more taxes.

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

She’s going to have to resign.

A total betrayal, @RachelReevesMP, and an admission “it’s on [you & @UKLabour]!”

Stop blaming other people.

#TrevorPhillips #BBCLauraK

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?

We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.

Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.

Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.

Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working…

VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.

Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.

Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.

Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.

Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.

You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.

More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.

How depressing. Time for a pint.

Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.

You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?

You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.

Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.

What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?

Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?

Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.

And the final kick in teeth.

Inheritance tax.

After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.

Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.

Even after death, it continues.

What are we paying all this money for?

Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?

No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.

Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t.

When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?

QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.

The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.

Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working.

We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.

You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.

LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

We will teach Starmer a lesson at the ballot box.

I am more determined than ever.

[Bridges @P3t077]

@_Dogs_family @KevinPerjurer he met his HERO!

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Why visit the Great Yarmouth area? It’s a place where local businesses really do matter, people still say hello to each other, and families can affordably enjoy the very best of the British coastline.

Fresh seafood, good beer and proper people. What more could you want?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK is a country with the fifth lowest amount of annual sunshine hours in the world but has a government that wants to plaster farmland with huge solar panel developments while spending £50m on experiments to dim the sun. You can’t make this sort of shit up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

UK authorities warn that due to unprecedented demand, national supplies of cope are running dangerously low.

[Jeckov Kanani @JeckovKanani]

I fucking admire the unvaccinated!

You’re the most courageous group of individuals. You held the line against a $1 trillion propaganda machine, and you told your family, your boss, and the government to fuck off! 🖕

Be proud, my friend—you stood your ground like a fucking warrior. 🥇

[Tim Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TimPrice1969]

I recently watched a documentary called 'V for Vendetta' about a tyrannical government ultimately overthrown by its own people and I think it should be shown in all of our schools.

[Jonathan Wong @WONGthink]

Last week, 50 black youths crashed a primary school and stabbed a girl.

Mohammad Farooq was jailed for 37yrs over a terror plot to "kill as many nurses as possible".

Yet, the Nudge Unit wants you to believe white boys are the greatest threat to women and girls.