Colin Whitehair

AFC Wimbledon & fine wine fan. Business leader, family guy. Tennis playing aspiring golfer!

[Ben Aveling- Radmore Farm @Radmore_farm]

Every week I get the same comment. "Why is your farm shop meat so much more expensive than the supermarket?"
It's a fair question. But it's the wrong question.
The real question is — how is the supermarket so cheap? And when you understand the four mechanisms they use to get to that price, you'll realise you've already been paying the full cost. It just doesn't show up on your receipt.

[Colin Whitehair @afcsilverfox]

@Irina_exh 20

[Colin Whitehair @afcsilverfox]

@Artemisfornow 🤦‍♂️

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Ultra-Blairite James Purnell’s lobbying firm Flint Global took on dozens of staff and clients from close friend Lord Mandelson’s business Global Counsel, which went bust in the Epstein scandal. Extraordinarily, Purnell stands to become Labour’s Chief of Staff under Andy Burnham.

[Rob Kniaz @RobK]

The UK summed up in one picture

[ENT - Education Not Taxation @EducationNotTax]

When VAT on private school fees was introduced, Ministers made a series of forecasts about pupil numbers, disruption, costs and school closures.

Eighteen months on, we can begin testing those forecasts against the evidence.

Today we publish:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱.
Testing Government Claims Against Official Data.

This report compares the forecasts used to justify the policy with the evidence now available.

The evidence does not match the outcomes Ministers told the public to expect.
Read the report:
https://t.co/vkXSpg2pLH

#EducationNotTax #SchoolFeeVAT @tes @SchoolsWeek @IndSchMan @ISM_Plus @ISC_schools

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Pedro Sánchez’s former right-hand man has been sentenced to 24 years in jail for corruption, plunging the Spanish prime minister’s Socialist government deeper into crisis

🔗: https://t.co/rSMRTVEf8h

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 EXPOSED: THE BRUTAL COST OF A BURNHAM PREMIERSHIP.

Keir Starmer is barely out of the door, and the Labour establishment is already preparing to raid your bank account.

Andy Burnham’s economic blueprint has leaked, and it is a complete disaster for the British middle class.

He is backing a scheme to scrap council tax and replace it with a new annual property tax of 0.48% of your home's value. 🤡

If you live in an average £553,000 house, you will be forced to pay £2,654 every single year just for the privilege of living in your own home.

But the Labour tax grab gets even worse. 💷

Burnham wants to hike the top rate of income tax to 50p.

His economic advisers are also pushing to scrap capital gains tax and tax your investments and dividends at full income tax rates.

He is even proposing a flat 10% care levy on all inheritance, dragging millions of ordinary families into a death tax on their loved ones' estates from pound one.

They are coming for everything you have built.
And look at how quickly they will lie to your face just to get your vote.

To win the Makerfield by-election last week, Burnham promised WASPI women he would "stick by" them and deliver billions in pension compensation.

The second the vote was over, his team immediately backflipped and admitted they have zero plans to pay it. 🤡

They ruled out cash payouts entirely, offering them taxpayer-funded bus passes instead.

They treat the public like absolute fools while using your hard-earned wages to fund their political ambitions.

The global financial markets are already panicking.

The yield on 10-year gilts spiked the second Starmer resigned because Burnham openly declared he wants to stop being in hock to the bond markets, which is code for massive, reckless state borrowing.

This will drive UK mortgage rates and business loans through the roof, leaving everyday families to pay the price.

Labour has simply changed the face in Downing Street, but the plan to bleed the working class dry remains exactly the same.

RT to warn the country and expose this massive Labour tax grab! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Colin Whitehair @afcsilverfox]

@ned_stun Genius🤣

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

“Something I’ve noticed A LOT is foreign researchers being awarded UK taxpayer funding to study complete nonsense. Take the fact that one of the researchers behind the infamous study The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000, is a Portuguese man who lives in Sweden.” https://t.co/0JbwrSqRFM

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

But you can't stop a rubber dinghy?

[Colin Whitehair @afcsilverfox]

@FinanceTiger He’ll be Chancellor of the Exchequer next!

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

Spanish sociologist awarded £1.5 MILLION in UK taxpayer funding to research LGBTIQ+ asylum policies

[Colin Whitehair @afcsilverfox]

@sfliberty @threadreaderapp unroll

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

Major British tech firm collapses after 1,070 job losses and £1.4bn downturn

Exertis UK has entered administration following months of restructuring and heavy job losses.

Only 70 employees remain on their payroll.

Exertis UK had ranked as the fourth-largest IT distributor and marketplace operator in Britain.

Labour policy hasn't helped struggling businesses...

Instead of supporting British industry, Labour supports foreigners and benefits scroungers.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Meet Parm Sandhu. She sued @metpoliceuk for discrimination and pocketed £120k - despite becoming the force's highest-ranking Indian officer.

She then wrote a book calling everyone racist.

She’s now @CollegeofPolice's Chief Executive, which explains everything RE: Henry Nowak.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

British Motor Corp, owners of the Mini, refused to donate any cars for "The Italian Job" (1969). The chief of Fiat Motors offered to donate all of the cars needed, including Fiat 500s in place of the Minis. Peter Collinson, the director of the movie decided that, as it was a very British movie, the cars should be British Minis.

Fiat still donated scores of cars for filming, as well as the factory grounds. The authorities refused to close the roads, but the Italian Mafia stepped in and shut whole sections of Turin down for filming. The traffic jams in this movie are real, as are people's actions during them.

(Source: IMDb)

P.S: On this day, 56 years ago, "The Italian Job" (1969) premiered in London, UK.

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies.

Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years.

A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.