@LoftusSteve I agree. It’s a tough argument to get through to the average small business. However the average tradie needs less paperwork and bureaucracy. VAT and CT and employment law is a a massive burden to a small business. We need to make this stuff simpler to administer
@HCFEprincipal What absolute nonsense. It was Labour in the 2000s who looked down on the tradies, told everyone that we were a services based economy and we could ship in Labour from Poland. Look who’s laughing now - all decent trades earning well above today’s lanyard classes. Thanks Tony.
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>be Jason Arday
>claim diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself
>claim couldn't read until 18, still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim you joined the pro snooker tour at 10, a year before you could speak
>claim you won so much at snooker your mom thought you were dealing drugs
>have the sport's database show just one amateur event, many years later, w/ zero prize money
>claim football academy & a pro career
>have Crystal Palace say no record
>have the real record show tier eight
>claim to have been on Seven Up, a series that first tracked 7 year olds as they grew up
>have it first air 28 years before you were actually seven years-old
>have BBC say you weren't on it, since you're not a time traveller
>claim youths at a bus stop beat you into a weeks-long coma
>claim you heard medics tell your parents to switch off life support
>claim you begged the judge to spare them
>claim they turned up years later as your students, hug them, become godfather to one's child
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days in 2010, the last nine on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>add an epileptic fit in later tellings
>tell local paper you raised more than £100,000 since you were 17
>claim running 600 miles in six days as your final challenge, when the men's record is 650
>claim it came at the same time as a stroke
>have no race time on record anywhere, because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra world ever hear of you
>hand in a PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, including her copy-editing errors
>match a second PhD & two published papers on top
>claim you did it in 2.5 years, working full time, w/ a brain tumor
>claim the tumor was cut out 2 weeks before the viva
>claim a stroke after the surgery
>claim you turned up & remembered nothing at all
>claim one supervision meeting in the whole doctorate
>get the PhD anyway
>publish a paper claiming focus groups w/ 32 black & minority students
>have the quotes match an epidemiologist's quotes
>have structure follow his too
>lift quotes into other papers & pass them off as interviews you conducted
>get a correction, not a retraction b/c well. . . .
>delete 18 of the 31 quotes
>get full chair at Glasgow
>tell TEDx crowd you've raised over £5m by age 36
>claim you were once watched a teacher tell a boy who wanted to be a concert pianist to aim lower
>retell sort in 2021 w/ the boy as a would-be astrophysicist
>retell it again in 2023 as your own & experience & open a Ch 4 film w/ it
>be youngest black prof in 900 years, and at Cambridge
>get BBC radio series on loneliness
>claim 70% of Brits live below the breadline
>be voted number 1 in the Disability Power 100
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin, St Mary's, Westminster & London South Bank
>say you raised millions for 70+ charities
>claim a Palgrave book called Being Young, Black, and Male
>have Palgrave say it was never published
>claim water points built for WaterAid across SA & Africa
>have WaterAid webpage titled "Why we don't send volunteers abroad"
>list yourself as a visiting prof at Glasgow
>have Glasgow say “nope”
>list yourself as a visiting pro at Ohio State's Office of DEI
>have no record and have that office turn out to have shut in 2025
>have Birkbeck say no record of your master's
>have Nelson Mandela U say the adjunct post ended
>get a second paper corrected 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras raised £5m alone, but no record again
>be named on more than $10m in UKRI & NIHR grants
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, rape, & death threats, plus bananas, bullets, corrosive substances, & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it for some odd reason!
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>show up on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
The face of pure hatred. An Irish citizen visiting France, tells two Jewish visitors he's sorry Hitler didn't finish the job. They started videoing him and he threatens to kill them.
Identified himself as "Paddy from Ireland".
Canonbury Station, @TfL London Overground. 3 burly, trained security staff to stop fare dodgers.
Guy ahead of me (exiting) casually barges through barrier, not paying. Right in front of the guards.
What do they do…? 1/3🧵
That CANNOT be true. ScotRail is state-owned and everybody knows that whatever is owned and run by the SNP Scottish Government works like clockwork — building ferries, dualling the A9, drug prevention, the Scot NHS app, The NHS itself, state schools, the Monkland Hospital, the Glasgow Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The Edinburgh Children’s Hospital and, of course, the country’s gleaming, peerless railways.
🚨POLICE DESTROY BODY CAM FOOTAGE
This incident from last year saw two Police Officers investigate a CHILD for social media posts
WELL GUESS WHAT! THEY'VE "LOST" EVERYTHING
Pocket Notebooks - DISAPPEARED
Bodycam Footage - LOST PROBABLY DELETED
They've even REFUSED to give the officers names for 'data protection'
They even said to the child's mother "Can you turn your camera off, you can have my bodycam footage afterwards" hoping there would be no record of this incident
UK Police are corrupt to their core
The full breakdown is in the comments below⬇️
More anti white two-tier policing on full display.
You'd never see them do this to any other people.
The man is already restrained, yet the officer is screaming at him to shut up and pushes him to the ground.
British police have clearly picked a side.
@AmigoNews20@afneil But their assets are worth more than their debt. They can’t really fail, because you can’t turn the water off. The question is: how DO you run Thames Water long term? Nationalisation won’t solve the investment issue. Nobody will lend money to water companies after this…
Peter Murrell has now been exposed as a thief.
However, this SNP scandal exposes deep rot at the heart of the Scottish establishment and a chain of events that ultimately led to the untimely death of Alex Salmond.
Watch my full speech here 👇🏻
A reminder, Andy, of the Thatcher era:
• Income tax: 83% → 40%
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real pay for the average earner: up by a third
@Mad_Pieman It’s pointless. I’ll put a job spec out, I might pay £50k, I might pay £80k - depends purely on the candidate. Hiring people purely do complete bullet pointed tasks only really exists at the lower end …
Restore Britain Greater Manchester mayoral candidate Marlon West, @MarlonTag, took a visit to Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester with @MontgomeryToms late on a Thursday night.
What they found was shocking...
Now today's out the way I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about how:
- Labour's first two Budgets increased taxes on British workers by £36 billion and £26 billion respectively, pushing the tax burden to an historic high of 38.3% of GDP
- The OBR forecasts 240,000 more people will be unemployed in 2026 than it previously projected - it said this is largely attributable to Labour's employment policies
- The UK unemployment rate was 4.9% as of early 2026, up from 4.6% a year earlier, an increase of 124,000
- Total UK welfare spending this year is estimated at £333.7 billion - up from £315 billion
- The UK is spending £301 million per day just to service its debt interest on Labour borrowing
- Labour promised 1.5 million new homes this parliament. Between 9 July 2024 and 15 March 2026, it had build just 342,100, way off target
- More than 1 million young people aged 16-24 were not in education, employment or training in the first quarter of this year - up 89,000
- The NHS waiting list stands at 7.22 million cases
- When Labour took office in July 2024, just 58.8% of patients were treated within 18 weeks. The target is 92%. By March 2026 it had only reached 65.3%
- Around 100,000 patients are waiting over a year for NHS treatment
- Over the past year, approximately 1.56 million people waited more than 4 hours in A&E - a huge breach of the target
- The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court stands at around 80,200 - the highest level recorded since 2016 and more than double the pre-Covid caseload
- A quarter of all Crown Court cases have been open for more than a year
- There are currently 14,749 sexual offences cases waiting to go to the Crown Court - a 75% increase
- There were approximately 530,640 shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales over the past year - the highest in the entire time series on record
- There were 41,000 small boat arrivals in 2025
- Of all people who have arrived by small boat since 2018, only around 7,500 (4%) had been returned from the UK by the end of 2025
- Last year the Home Office spent £4 billion on asylum support. This includes £2.1 billion on hotel accommodation alone - around £6 million per day