Emma Anesi

Hair Professional, small business owner

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Imagine a parent who spends far more than they earn every single month. FAR more.

Instead of cutting back, they keep borrowing. For a while, life is comfortable for the family. Nobody minds, the times are good. But the credit cards go up. The loans get bigger. The interest keeps mounting. It gets worse and worse. The interest payments soon outweigh the food costs, the energy bill, the mortgage.

It becomes unmanageable. The family’s income cannot cover it. It grows and grows and grows.

The parent retires - doesn’t want to work, but wants the easy life to continue. The burden is left with the children who had no say in how the debt was accumulated in the first place. They’re left to pay the interest every month. Life is hard, and getting harder. The payments are crushing, and so vast the idea of ever repaying the actual debt feels impossible.

Their entire financial existence is treading water in an attempt to manage the interest payments, all for decisions they did not take.

Not an acceptable situation, is it?

Clearly not.

That is exactly what my generation has done to Britain's young men and women.

In 2025/26 the government spent roughly £110 billion on debt interest. That’s 3.6% of GDP and 8.1% of total public spending. Almost double the defence budget.

Think about that for a minute.

It is INSANE.

Think about how many taxpayers are working to simply service that debt. Not to fund public services or to build infrastructure, or to look after those in need, but to pay debt interest.

To fund awful decisions.

That is Britain in 2026. 30 years of easy, lazy and selfish decisions.

We've borrowed hundreds of billions of pounds to avoid making hard choices. The debt grew, the interest payments soared. We've expanded the fat state, lived so far beyond our means and convinced ourselves someone else would eventually pay for it.

That someone else is our children. Their children. Our grandchildren.

They are expected to buy homes we made unaffordable, pay taxes we’ve allowed to soar and work to service a national debt we accumulated.

Somehow survive the inflation that we have stoked and stoked with endless money printing and the growth of the parasitic state.

We should have left them a country with affordable homes, low debt, cheap energy, growing industries and money in the bank. We should have left them a home built on solid foundations.

As a country, we have failed.

Restore Britain is prepared to do what responsible parents do, to do what that parent should have done to begin with. Stop spending money we don't have.

Brutally cut back, live within our means and then some. Pay off the debt. Make the difficult choices. Not for us, but for them.

Does that approach make for easy decisions today? No. Does it win many votes? Probably not.

But it is the only way to restore fairness, responsibility and economic sanity.

Because I don’t know how else to put this.

The country is BROKE. Britain is bankrupt, and my generation bankrupt it. Zero point denying it.

And let me be clear about one thing.

The economy, and the country, is teetering on the edge of a very high, a very jagged and a very dangerous cliff.

Complete and total economic collapse awaits.

But the only good news is that there is finally a political party with the courage and the honesty to do something about it for our children and our grandchildren - to start the rebuild, the repair, the restoration.

Restore Britain.

And if you don't like the sound of those difficult decisions, then don't vote for us.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[Jonathan Smith @Fiat__Justitia]

In the United Kingdom, we’ve managed to achieve communism for 95% of the population.

If you have kids, unless you earn more than £80,000 gross, you have the same quality of life as those on benefits.

And the government managed it without a revolution.

Incredible really.

[Emma Anesi @anesi_e]

@g_gosden And what I’m presuming you mean as ‘educated’ politicians from these parties are why we are in this absolute mess now, they have no idea about running the economy. The voters are trades people, business owners -people that are educated in the school of life have had enough!

[Emma Anesi @anesi_e]

@RealPeteBennett Restore

[Emma Anesi @anesi_e]

@TrisOsborneMP Deluded. Seriously what planet are you on 😂

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

The House of Commons was supposed to be the people's voice: a chamber where every class and corner of the country could be heard.

Today, most people got neither the party they voted for into government nor the MP they voted for in their constituency.

Trust in politics is at record lows and it's clear to see why. When the public does speak, through petitions, protests, marches, they are politely heard and quietly ignored.

17.4 million people voted for Brexit, in large part to control immigration. Net migration was 248,000 in 2016. By 2023 it had hit 944,000, nearly four times higher. The people who voted for it did not get what
they voted for.

The people who voted against it did not get what they voted for either. Six million people asked to revoke Article 50. The government proceeded with Brexit anyway

A million marched against Iraq. We went anyway.

House of the People exists because the technology to fix this now exists.

For centuries, elected representatives were the only practical way to have a voice. Geography, literacy, the speed of communication, it was impossible to consult everyone on every law. That is no longer true.

Nearly every citizen now has a supercomputer in their pocket. If you can log into your bank with your face and vote on a talent show in seconds, there is no valid reason why your political voice should remain so distant from political power.

House of the People lets you vote on every bill going through Parliament. Not once every five years. Bill by bill. Issue by issue. In real time. We then measure the gap between what the public wants and what MPs
actually do.

Of the 274 bills where both the public has voted and Parliament has reached a verdict, the outcome is different on 182 of them. On 66% of bills, the result would have been different if the public had the vote.

We are not a political party. We take no position on any bill. We simply ask: do you want your voice to count? If the answer is yes, use it.

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare.

In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do.

And the cost?

Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Watch this 👇💥
Here is the brilliant economist Liam Halligan laying waste to the idiots currently running our country.
One day, Liam will help guide our economy and our poor country will be rescued from Socialism and be back in business. 🙏

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s the list of the 304 MPs who voted to end the right to jury trials. All of them are Labour MPs. This is an affront to British justice. They have ripped the heart out of a constitutional principle. Shameful.

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

The Man Who Reads the World: David Bowie's Son Launches Online Book Club in His Honor
Something little-known about Bowie: He was an avid reader, sometimes reading a book in a day.
Rock star David Bowie was "a beast of a reader," according to his son Duncan Jones; so Jones decided to start an online book club in honor of his book-loving father.
The late rock star's official Instagram account is called "The Bowie Book Club."
David Bowie's literary tastes are wide-ranging; including classics from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary to Homer's Iliad; novels and non-fiction: history, biography, art, architecture, and more...
Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the hundred books that had transformed his life a list that formed something of an autobiography. Significantly, among Bowie’s last public statements is that this list of his Top 100 Books was offered as part of the David Bowie museum exhibition.
Since Bowie apparently left no memoirs behind, the closest thing to an autobiography is this list of books. Some he chooses because he wants his fans to read them, but many selections have a deeper resonance, as they fueled his work and shaped him as a person.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Sole traders. Micro businesses with one or two employees. Freelancers. Plumbers. Electricians. Hairdressers. Mechanics. Accountants. Gardeners. Whatever it is, whoever they are. These are the workers that keep the economy going. Not the big global corporates.

Politicians, and those devising the rules, simply do not understand how these people live. Nobody ever even talks about the one or two people operations in Westminster.

Saturday morning in the bureaucrat’s world? Friday working from home, so nice easy day to finish off the week. Laptop closed by 15.00. Phone off for the weekend, not a care in the world. Life is sweet. Holiday coming up, mortgage comfortable, pension growing nicely.

The sole trader? Getting invoices and paperwork sorted at 6am before the children wake up. Chasing up late payments. Weighing up whether to do that last minute emergency call out, or spend time with the kids on a Saturday. Getting the diary sorted for next week. Phone goes and goes all weekend. It is never-ending. It does not stop.

It’s two different worlds honestly. The issue is that the latter entirely funds the former, and the former is hellbent on making life as difficult as possible for productive Britain.

I want to be really clear about what Restore Britain would do. Two things.

Crush parasitic Britain.

Unleash productive Britain.

First. Scrap IR35. It has created years of confusion, fear and chaos for contractors and small operators. It has pushed countless self-employed people into pointless paperwork and rigid inflexibility. Doesn’t work. It’s a right pain in the arse for millions. Scrap it.

Second, we will double the VAT threshold.

The current threshold traps thousands of small businesses just as they begin to grow. Many deliberately stop expanding to avoid the enormous administrative burden of VAT and the brutal cost hikes which drive demand away. The evidence of is obvious. Thousands hover just below the threshold, refusing to grow, hire or pay more tax. It is ABSURD.

Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold so small businesses can grow without being punished for success. This is absolutely necessary.

An important one - we would dramatically simplify the tax system for sole traders and micro-businesses (and everyone else, but that's separate).

Instead of forcing small operators through pages of complicated accounting rules designed for large corporations, we will introduce a far simplified tax regime for businesses below a certain size. Less paperwork, fewer forms, clearer rules. More money for them, less for the accountants and parasitic professional class. Sounds like a good deal, doesn’t it?

Next. We will end the endless culture of inspections and bureaucratic interference from the bureaucrats. Too many small businesses now live in fear of accidental breaches - whether it’s health and safety nonsense, employment law complexity, ridiculous data laws or constantly changing compliance requirements. The stress is immense. If you are a sole trader or micro-business acting in good faith, the system should support you, not threaten you.

Restore Britain will free them from endless regulatory suffocation. The mental health release on that is worth it alone.

Means a lot to me, this one. Restore Britain will make it easier for tradespeople to hire apprentices. This is important.

One of the biggest problems small businesses face is bringing in the next generation. The current system is too complicated, too expensive and too rigid for small firms.

Restore Britain will introduce simple, flexible apprenticeship schemes designed specifically for small businesses and trades.

Up next, we will simplify planning and licensing rules. For small builders, tradespeople and contractors - planning restrictions and local bureaucracy can delay work for months and add unnecessary costs. I detest planning departments more than I can describe in language appropriate for a Saturday morning.

These jumped-up empire-building little runts running councils across Britain will have their power stripped away from them. We will let people do business, we will let business owners run their businesses without the sneering council worker’s constant box ticking. Not complicated.

We will restore respect for the self-employed. Look at how they were treated during lockdown. Like dirt. Entirely abandoned whilst others were paid to do nothing. That must be addressed, and they must be compensated. The excluded must finally be recognised. That wrong must be rectified.

Under a Restore Britain Government, their efforts will be appreciated, celebrated and most importantly?

Rewarded.

This is the key point. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

The five golden rules of business.

What’s in it for me?

We will radically slash tax and raise thresholds. Tax on dividends would be hacked down so that success pays. More work, pays. Effort, pays. If the electrician does that last minute job on a Saturday, it will be worth their time. They will be rewarded, not HMRC.

Restore Britain will slash the bureaucracy, simplify the rules, cut the taxes. We will give small businesses the freedom they need to thrive, to support their families and to succeed.

Parasitic Britain will end.

Sole traders and micro businesses finally have a political party that will fight for them.

Restore Britain.

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

PRESS RELEASE: HIGH COURT GRANTS HISTORIC PERMISSION FOR @TMOFCharity The Maggie Oliver Foundation TO CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT ON FAILURE TO ACT ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION

This morning the High Court granted permission for charity, The Maggie Oliver Foundation, to challenge the Government on its failure to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The judgement is a moment of profound significance for survivors of child sexual abuse and for every child in this country whose safety depends on the Government honouring its commitments to reform.

The Court found that following promises from consecutive governments, over the last almost four years, to learn lessons from IICSA to drive improvement in the policy and legislation protecting children, there is a legitimate expectation for them to deliver the inquiry’s twenty recommendations. The judge specifically highlighted the continued permission of use of pain inducing restraint techniques on children, a practice described as amounting to torture by IICSA, as an area where the Government has not justified its failure to act.

The case will now proceed to a full substantive hearing.

Maggie Oliver (former Detective and founder of the Maggie Oliver Foundation) will say:

“Today is a historic day, not just for the Foundation, but for every survivor who has testified, waited and hoped. And it is for every child now and in the future, and for everyone who believes the state’s primary duty is to protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable. When governments make promises to act and then walk away, children pay the price. Today the court has said, those promises matter.”

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Maggie Oliver is taking the Government to Court because it still hasn’t acted on the findings of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 2022.

That inquiry took seven years, cost nearly £200 million, and heard from thousands of victims. It produced 20 clear recommendations to protect children. Most of them still haven’t been implemented.

Maggie Oliver has done what the successive governments have refused to do: stand up for abused children and force accountability. Dragging the state to the High Court shouldn’t be necessary but thank God someone is prepared to do it.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

16 years ago you needed to earn £37,400 to pay the higher tax rate 

Now it’s just £300 more, but inflation has been 58% in those 16 years 

On that basis the threshold should be £59,000, not £37,700

Meaning 4 million more people now pay 40% tax who should be in a lower tax bracket

Stealth taxes like this is why people feel broke in the U.K.

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

This week is a huge weeke for ALL survivors of sexual abuse!

Thanks to the generous donation of two individuals, we @TMOFCharity have for the past 12 months been fighting the government to be allowed to bring a Judicial Review against the government for their failure to implement the 20 IICSA recommendations, over 3 years after publication. We have had to fund this action and we truly hope the judge will issue a cost capping order to allow us to see this through.

The government are trying to argue that whether or not they implement the 20 recommendations is “entirely their choice”!

Therefore we have been granted leave to appear in the High Court in London on Thursday with our legal team.

This is such an important day!

If governments can just simply ignore the recommendations of a 7 year statutory enquiry, the question needs to be asked - why should we have another?

And so why would they again seek to put more survivors who are already severely traumatised through more pain and give them false hope with thus new “Statitory enquiry” if they can simply once again ignore the recommendations that will follow?

Please support us in this important action that we are bringing on behalf of survivors of abuse everywhere.

It’s the only legal step open to us to challenge the decision to leave these recommendations gathering dust on a shelf in The Home Office, hence why we have worked so hard with our lawyers/barrister to get to this point.

We hope and pray the Judge understands why we are fighting this, and understands too why his decision will affect every single survivor of sexual abuse/rape, both past, present and future!

🙏🙏

https://t.co/Bz7vluEBej

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

How would a Restore Britain Government support small businesses? First step, and possibly the most important. We understand the problems and trust me, I know how difficult it is. I’ve been there, I’ve done it. The effort that goes into keeping a small firm profitable and operational is vast, and NOBODY in Government understands that.

THE most important way to help small businesses is tax.

GET IT DOWN. Corporation tax - we should be aiming for the lowest in Europe. Undercut our neighbours, take their business. Be ruthless. Make Britain the most attractive place to operate on the continent. Watch how the money then flows in.

Rates will slashed on income and dividend, thresholds pushed up. We must urgently reward success. NI not raised, but cut. If we want businesses to hire, MAKE IT CHEAPER.

Because what happens when employment gets more expensive?

Costs get passed on. Contracts stall. Hiring cancelled. Investment is paused. It grinds the economy to a halt. Businesses stop spending money. They wait and see.

Everyone suffers.

IR35 will go in the bin on day one. Things change, contracts change, circumstances change. IR35 accounts for none of that, adding layers of unnecessary paperwork and regulation. Flexibility matters.

VAT threshold would be doubled. There are so many businesses hovering just under £90k, desperately avoiding VAT. Fair enough, I don’t blame them. So let’s hike the threshold and unleash that demand. We would like to see a tax holiday for small businesses in the first few years - give them the breathing space they need to grow and find their feet.

HMRC will pick up the phone, and you will be able to speak to an advisor who can actually speak fluent English. What a mad shock that would be...

We will end the HR-ification of Britain that is used to blackmail employers. Regulatory frameworks that are used to suffocate small businesses will be burnt away.

Farage attacks private sector employees working from home. I couldn’t give a shit where people choose to work. If the employer and employee are happy, then it’s none of our business.

Failing public sector officials? Different story.

Business rates for small businesses, abolished. We will brutally crack down on illicit trading - does Britain need so many Turkish barbers and vape shops? The answer, quite obviously, is no. Let’s be honest about what’s really often going on here. Money laundering.

There would be free car parking in high streets all over Britain. These little gnomes in councils have no idea. If parking is free at the retail parks, people will just go there. Let’s encourage them back into our high streets - that means tackling crime too, obviously, but one step a time here...

Licensing laws, planning bureaucracy, council red tape.

We will obliterate it all.

Let’s back British hospitality. Cut VAT, business rates abolished and burn back the endless nonsense they have to deal with. Ease laws on closing times and fast-track permits for outdoor seating. If people want to enjoy a late night drink or two, it's none of our business to tell them otherwise.

Restore Britain will put those jumped-up little council bastards back in their box. I promise you that.

Inheritance tax will be abolished. If a family wants to pass their business down the generations, then Government must not stand in the way. Tax has been paid, there should not be another bill following a death. It’s wicked and cruel.

Above all else - businesses need stable, long term thinking. The Budget should be a complete non-event, other than further tax cuts.

This can all be funded by brutalising down the fraudulent state that has become the enemy of the people.

And let me tell you this. ANYBODY who gets business will understand that these measures will pay for themselves many times over. If we reward hard work, then we’ll get more of it. More tax will be paid, and the economy will boom.

These are just my initial thoughts on what a Restore Britain Government would do.

We would create an environment in which it's easy to do business, and then we would leave you the hell alone.

The message is this to small business owners...

Restore Britain is on your side.

You finally have a political party that will fight for your interests.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party.

Join us.

https://t.co/RMtEuHopgV

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇬🇧 Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain just released a political promotional clip, in which the 'O' in restore Britain - flips to a 'Q' - this only shortly after Mr Lowe announced he would be running to become UK Prime Minister.

THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE OR A MISTAKE‼️‼️