Tom Young

Barber by trade. Enjoy watching/playing golf and footy. Follower of Wrexham and Arsenal ⚽

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I’ve been married for 39 years, and we have four children - building a family was the best decision we ever took. It is an utter shame that so many British men and women feel unable to take the same decision because of the appalling state of the country.

Unaffordable, unsafe, unwelcoming - many couples believe they just can’t afford another child, or to have one at all.

My generation is the one that has left this mess, and what a mess it is.

What can we actually to do solve it?

Most importantly, tax breaks for parents. Let people keep more of what they earn. Reward work over dependency.

We need a serious policy platform to encourage British families to have more children - not foreigners who come and sponge off our state. But pro-family policies that provide for British men and women. All of this should apply ONLY to British citizens.

I love the idea of front-loading child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Give new parents a real financial boost when the child is young and need to buy prams, cots, nappies and the rest.

Tax. Reward families with proper relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs. Hungary-style tax incentives? Lifelong tax reductions for mothers? Its works well in Hungary.

Childcare. Reducing tax obviously helps, but we need more. Make it fully tax deductible. All of it. If you work, you get proper financial support. Ease regulation so ratios aren’t so strict? More children per adult allowed. That would cut costs. Encourage youngsters into childcare with proper bursaries, apprenticeships and so on.

Stamp duty reduction for British families - make it easier for young families to move into a home to meet their needs. Priority on the social housing lists. Ban access to council houses for foreign nationals. That would free up enormous space for British families.

Why should people on benefits get free childcare? If a healthy person is sitting on benefits for years, refusing to work, then no. You don’t get free childcare. You’ve obviously got the time. Impose strict limits so that space is given to find a job, but after that? No. You can look after the child. Foreign nationals should also not be able to access this funding.

Reform spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families in Britain with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office. This would be alongside the ‘red list’ to root out fraud. That is positive immigration, and should be welcomed.

IVF. Widen access for British citizens. An investment well worth making - speak to any family who has been through it successfully. Money well spent in the NHS. For once.

Give a small number of holiday days per year allowed in term time so that families can get away for a holiday. Teacher training days IN TERM TIME. These random Mondays off so teachers can go over notes? Let’s do that in the massive amount of school holidays, please - there are certainly enough to choose from. That is something that should be explored too. Why not split schools holidays, so they don’t all overlap?

This isn’t rocket science, is it? Simple, cost-effective strategies that would benefit families.

By restricting all of these policies to British citizens, it would easily pay for itself.

Britain’s birth rate isn’t collapsing by accident. It’s collapsing because we’ve built a country where starting a family is a financial punishment.

Fix childcare, cut taxes for parents, reward marriage, properly support mums and dads, and the tide will turn.

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@emconcouk Hi, quick question. The pre paid autos online have a booking fee which makes them more expensive than the advertised on the day price. The difference for me is £151 on the day or £163.50 pre booked. Are on the day prices Fixed or could they be higher?

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@SkySportsPL Can't believe people are abusing this guy. Its football, football fans. Its all in jest. Leave him be (Arsenal fan)

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@emconcouk Hi, quick question. The pre paid autos online have a booking fee on them which makes them more expensive than the advertised on the day price. The difference for me is £151 on the day or £163.50 pre booked. Are on the day prices Fixed or could be higher on the day

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@abia_benjamin @grok Is that the Su Youngs dad from Rush Hour?

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

Got the game on whilst chillin on the beach. Is it as sunny in westbrom as it is here? #askwxm #askwrexham

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@sven_safc @theawayfans Your obviously not from the town and have little knowledge of how it was before the take over. People openly speaking about going to watch the team didn't happen often. People were embarrassed to say they were watching them. They brought hope that it could/would get better.

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@BBCSportWales Absolutely not!!!!!!

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@The_Forty_Four Tbf they are both spot on. Afcon is a joke and Carragher shouldn't be giving advice/insight on winning the premier leauge.

[Jared Wright @jaredwright17]

Goodness. #FRAvENG

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@thatgirlsandie What was the score in that one?

[Emirates FA Cup @EmiratesFACup]

An #EmiratesFACup run to be incredibly proud of, @Wrexham_AFC 👏❤️

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Magic of the Cup? Literally switched it off! Nothing wrong with Garnacho at all, doing more rolls than a bakery. Yellow card and let a good game continue. Another game ruined by dickheads in the VAR room

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Three years ago this week, we battled Maidenhead United to a draw. Today we pushed Chelsea to extra time. So incredibly proud of Wrexham’s performance today

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@fearlessidzine Worse away fans we've had. Barely heard them.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Dexter Sol Ansell dressed as his character Egg for World Book Day at his school.

“On my way to school for world book day - dressed as myself.”

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@seanmills6 Teams do compete over 90 mins with TNS but they cant keep up over the length of the season. I was at Nomads v TNS game on Tuesday and it was very tight and both teams evenly matched. I've always thought of a Welsh leauge like the SPL.

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@fearlessidzine Also won goal of the season for us one year. I think it might have even been the first game of the season 🤣

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@fredoh24_ Yes but Arsenal won the leauge whilst being undefeated. Huuuge difference from just drawing every game. No one has done it since and it stands as the greatest premier leauge achievement

[Tom Young @Tom___Young]

@HOTDNewsHBO His bowels worked