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[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.

I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.

Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions

These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.

Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.

Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.

Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.

There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.

So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.

Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.

The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

When every opponent is called a Nazi, history is cheapened, debate is destroyed, and lives are put at risk. Abusing the word Nazi doesn’t only insult history, it poisons politics, fuels hatred, and costs lives. @GMB

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

White people didn't invent slavery.

Here's the uncomfortable truth.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨"It's harder to enter a nightclub than it is to enter the UK. You have to provide I.D to get into a nightclub"

She's not wrong.
We're honestly a laughing stock.

[Steve Miller @StevenJonMiller]

Dear Keir Starmer,

I recommend you support all schools to show this to ALL pupils.

This is based on a TRUE story, not fiction.

Thank you.
Steve Miller

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“This is a message from an OG Lesbian”

The best speech on the Marxist LGBT+ movement you will ever listen too.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

I’m sorry but what. Britain is NOT sending to prison a Labour Member of Parliament who was filmed assaulting one of his own voters but IS sending to prison people who wrote some challenging things on Facebook in their own home? Is this actually happening?

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

There's nothing unrealistic about six heterosexual white people being best friends.

The only unrealistic thing is thinking you can appease every moaning b@stard on the planet and still be able to make something funny.

I'm so glad I got to watch great comedies before the world was taken over by a bunch of whining wet-wipes who'd call for them all to be cancelled.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Labour MPs: American billionaires shouldn’t be able to buy or influence British politics.

Also, Angela Rayner with Larry Fink BlackRock CEO.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

An MP has stood up in Parliament and defended your right to fuck your cousin

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

BlackRock in your economy is like a nonce in your school.
#StarmerOut

[lisa keeble 😊 @lisakeb007]

£12.8 Billion to Ukraine

£22 Billion on carbon capture (🙄)

£4 Billion to fund illegal immigrants

£10 Billion PER YEAR for ‘net zero’

But, it’s the farmers fault that the NHS doesn’t have enough money

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

There are a lot of very stupid things being said on the family farming tax, by people who are proving themselves to be entirely ignorant of British agriculture.

The farm may be worth millions, but it's worth NOTHING until it's sold. So when the farm is passed down, and this huge tax bill arrives - what is the family supposed to do? They don't have hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the bank...

Farming is not a lucrative career. It does not make much money. The land is valuable, but the returns are not.

Running a farm is bloody expensive - profits are minuscule in comparison to the value of the actual farm.

This is really not a complicated principle, yet I see idiots parroting utter nonsense.

Labour's farming tax will force thousands of farming families to sell the farm to pay the inheritance tax bill. Farms that have been in those families for generations - if it were not for this tax, they would never dream of selling.

It's really that simple, and it will change British farming forever.

This is a tax drawn up by people who have NO understanding of agriculture. There are three farming MPs in Parliament, I am one of them...

Trust me when I say this - Labour does NOT understanding farming. It would be laughable if they were not running the damn country.

I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of Labour MPs believe that potatoes grow on trees. These are urban people who think that a farm is a family day out, an opportunity to feed the sheep and ride the tractor.

Clueless. On farming, and so much else.

I will be standing alongside thousands of other British farmers tomorrow. We must make our voices heard.

Reeves must reverse her cruel assault on British family farms. Either she does it now, or we'll do it in 2029.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

It's important to appreciate that this sort of person really is so dumb that they think inheriting £6 million in assets means that you have access to £6 million.
https://t.co/Pz2ok1eCMO

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

@DavidLammy @realDonaldTrump @JDVance You talked shit about the incoming leader of our most important ally to virtue signal. Now he is in power and you need to resign.

[D. Wylde @Daniel_Wylde_]

@feliciaismother @problemsthots Assuming all Latinos are illegal citizens is some wild racist stuff.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

BBC News right now.

[Tiffany Ariana Trump @TiffanyATrump]

A few points to reiterate as you head to the voting booth:
1. Project 2025 is NOT my father’s plan. He has not read it and does not endorse it.
2. My father will NOT sign a national abortion ban.
3. My father greatly supports IVF and wants to make it accessible to anyone who needs it.
Get out and VOTE! 🇺🇸❤️

[John James @JohnJamesNI]

“Islamophobia Awareness Month”?

As a homosexual man I have every reason to be fearful of Islam.

A “phobia” is an irrational fear.

A gay man fearing Islam is NOT irrational.

“Islamophobia” is a nonsense term.

NO ideology should be exempt from scrutiny & criticism.

[Limbardo @ShawlandsLim]

A penny off a pint and £3,000,000,000 to Ukraine

That's fantastic