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[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

To reiterate, on a £5 pint, over £2 is made up in taxes.

The publican is left with around 15p profit.

That is what needs addressing.

Pubs can’t be Government cash cows any longer, they’re dying.

@Sacha_Lord @andyburnham

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

Oh dear, how embarrassing for Labour. Lucy Powell can’t even get a message out correctly. And she is responsible for our children’s education 🤦‍♀️

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Brilliant! Norway’s state controlled energy company which has reported $11.5 BILLION in earnings in 3 months.

Thats the kind of wealth Mad Ed decided Britain shouldn’t bother with.

And £ Billions more in lost production, jobs, tax revenue and energy security.

That money could have helped fund defence instead of enriching another country. Shh …. We’re saving the planet though 🤡

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

The objections to this from environmental protesters is quite something to behold. 75% of UK gas consumption either comes from exactly the same basin (Norway) or imported in the form of LNG at a higher total carbon footprint than UK-sourced gas supply. All we are doing is adding more carbon to the atmosphere, weakening the UK's Balance of Payments, reducing UK tax revenues, and increasing imported UK inflation. Top work folks....

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

It’s fair enough for the media to point out Nigel Farage has a dubious friend who did time in jail. But some of the journalists pointing the finger were best mates with the odious Peter Mandelson.

What Mandelson, champion of weapons-grade paedophile Epstein, stands accused of - which he firmly denies - makes Farage’s friend look like a piffling amateur.

Or am I missing something?

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

On 2nd June I raised concerns about the security of our electricity grid. I was told by Ed Miliband that I was scaremongering.

Since then I have been contacted by a whistleblower within our grid operator, the NESO.

They allege that operators are being instructed to hide information that shows the grid is not being operated securely.

Worse, they allege that Corporate Affairs interefered with operational decisions to stabilise the grid - risking blackouts to protect NESO's reputation.

Despite this coming from within the operator, the Minister doubled down on calling this ‘scaremongering’ rather than wanting to know the truth.

This Government is asleep at the wheel.

They must urgently investigate these allegations.

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

More accurate reminder — the 1974 three-day week was caused by a coal miners’ overtime ban which then became an all out strike, creating massive power shortages (electricity was generated by coal-fired stations). The miners and other strikers were cheered on by Labour. It was forerunner to the widespread industrial unrest which would bring down a Labour government five years later (winter of discontent), by which time Britain was globally renowned for its endless strikes, go slows, demarcation disputes, resistance to new technology, bolshie unions, appalling productivity.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In a major development, the IPCC has finally admitted its apocalyptic RCP8.5 climate scenarios are "implausible", meaning most media scare stories over the last 15 years are officially junk, says Chris Morrison. https://t.co/XJHxDdKdAY

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

No, Prime Minister.

You could have banned hate matches.

You could have banned pro-Iranian regime groups.

You could have deported disgustingly antisemitic imams.

You could have cracked down on mosques spewing Jew hatred.

Instead you introduced an “anti-Muslim hate” definition.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is the reason why we can never reform healthcare in the UK — or even have a sensible debate about it.
The moment anyone suggests alternative/additional ways of funding health Labour rushes out privatisation smears and claims US private health insurance is being proposed.
Labour has been doing it for decades. It explains why the NHS is effectively beyond reform.
The two worst health systems in the rich world are in America and the UK. It’s why nobody has ever copied them. It would be mad to go from ours to theirs (or vice versa).
But Europe is awash with health systems that can call on several sources of funds, including many with compulsory public health insurance schemes. They have better health outcomes than the NHS. They are free at the point of use (like the NHS). Most of them are better funded.
But Labour puts them out of bounds, refuses even to discuss or consider. So patient care suffers. NHS struggles on.
Labour is always telling us we need to get closer to Europe. It’s where we belong. But not when it comes to health, where it insists no lessons can be learned. Pretty pathetic, really.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Rubbish. Every day my feed is full of your nonsense

Renewables are MORE EXPENSIVE than gas for electricity generation

And electricity is only 20% of UK energy consumption

The best ways to cut energy costs are

1. Abolish the carbon taxes
2. Cancel AR7 onwards
3. Cancel the RO
4. Restructure AR1-6 to lower costs
5. Rebuild N Sea production
6. Build more refineries
7. Build large nuclear as fast as possible using Korean tech and Korean regulation as a guide
8. Cut fuel duty
9. Cancel any grid upgrades and close any windfarms with negative NPV for consumers
10. Sign LT Fixed Price gas contracts with Norway, the US and Qatar (diversify supply)

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The Rosebank site off Shetland, said its ready to get millions of barrels of oil a day flowing within months.

But Blackout Ed say it’s “climate vandalism” and has refused permission!

If you want someone to blame for your energy costs … then I suggest you blame Ed 🤡

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You do understand this only happening because your government has guaranteed a price £214/MWh based on 2024 prices and index linked for 20 years. Just about the most expensive electricity anywhere in the world — and you’ve locked it in for two decades. Do you have any idea what you’re doing …

[atoosley @atoosley]

@tomhfh Global emissions would go up as we import more products manufactured in countries using no renewable energy sources and then ship them here on CO2 belching ships. Utterly bonkers

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

This is how utterly insane the UK immigration system is

If you are a British person who wants to bring a foreign partner into the country then they will have to meet a minimum income requirement and show they can support themselves without welfare

But if you are an asylum-seeker or illegal migrant who has been allowed to stay in the UK you can bring family members into the UK who do NOT have to demonstrate they have the necessary housing or income to live in the UK without needing welfare and who do NOT even need to speak English

We are the architects of our own demise

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

You want to stop the boats? I've heard all the parties, politicians and commentators say they do. Well, they can't.

In this long post I've put the "solutions" and the reasons why they won't happen.

it's a tangled web of laws and treaties the UK has signed up to, often without a proper parliamentary vote, they make most “solutions” for stopping the boats legally impossible. Don’t forget CRAG ( constitutional reform act 2010) this takes power FROM ministers and was introduced in 2010 by … Labour!

Here are some of the suggestions being made.

1) Push the boats back at sea – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR), 1951 Refugee Convention (non-refoulement), ECHR Article 2 & Protocol 4, customary law on rescue at sea.
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, Merchant Shipping Act 1995, Immigration Act 1971.
▪️CRAG link: The UK is bound by UNCLOS, SAR, and the Refugee Convention because these treaties were ratified and remain in force under CRAG; withdrawal would require a formal parliamentary process but is politically almost impossible.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Border Force, CPS, UK courts.

2) Arrest every individual as they land and put them in a camp – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: Refugee Convention Article 31, ECHR Articles 5 & 3, ICCPR Article 9, UN CRC, Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Act 1971, Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.
▪️CRAG link: Refugee Convention, ECHR, ICCPR, CRC and Anti-Trafficking Convention are all treaty obligations under CRAG; the UK cannot act contrary without formally denouncing them.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Home Office, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, EHRC, UK courts.

3) Deport all arrivals – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: Refugee Convention (non-refoulement), ECHR Article 3 & Protocol 4, ICCPR Article 7, UN CAT.
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Rules Part 11, Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993.
▪️CRAG link: All four treaties (Refugee Convention, ECHR, ICCPR, CAT) bind the UK under CRAG; breaches could be challenged domestically or in international courts.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Home Office casework teams, Immigration & Asylum Tribunals, UK courts, Independent Monitoring Board.

4) Hold all existing migrants in camps – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: ECHR Articles 5 & 3, ICCPR Article 9, EU Reception Conditions Directive (persuasive standard).
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Act 1971, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
▪️CRAG link: ECHR and ICCPR are treaty obligations under CRAG; detention standards also influenced by other ratified agreements.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Home Office, Detention Centre Independent Monitoring Boards, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, EHRC, UK courts.

5) Withhold all charity funds and benefits – Potentially illegal under:
▪️International law: ICESCR Articles 9 & 11, ECHR Article 14.
▪️UK domestic law: Equality Act 2010, Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
▪️CRAG link: ICESCR and ECHR obligations bind the UK under CRAG, meaning social rights cannot be withdrawn without breaching ratified treaties.
▪️Quangos/bodies: EHRC, Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP), UK courts.

6) Withhold all but emergency healthcare – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: ICESCR Article 12, ECHR Article 3, UN CRPD.
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, NHS Act 2006, NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.
▪️CRAG link: ICESCR, ECHR, and CRPD are binding under CRAG; denying healthcare breaches treaty obligations the UK agreed to keep.
▪️Quangos/bodies: NHS England, Department of Health, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, EHRC, UK courts.

7) Do not provide legal aid – Likely illegal under:
▪️International law: ECHR Article 6, ICCPR Article 14, Refugee Convention.
▪️UK domestic law: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, Human Rights Act 1998.
▪️CRAG link: ECHR, ICCPR, and Refugee Convention are treaty obligations under CRAG; UK is bound to ensure fair trial and access to legal process.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Legal Aid Agency, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority, UK courts.

8) Deport all migrants failing asylum status – Legal only if safeguards met:
▪️International law: Refugee Convention (non-refoulement), ECHR Article 3, Safe Third Country principle.
▪️UK domestic law: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, Immigration Act 1971, UK Borders Act 2007, Human Rights Act 1998.
▪️CRAG link: Safe return obligations under ECHR and Refugee Convention are binding under CRAG and cannot be bypassed without treaty withdrawal.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Home Office, Immigration Tribunals, Upper Tribunal, UK courts, EHRC.

9) Keep failed migrants unable to be returned in a secure camp indefinitely or until they agree to be deported – Almost certainly illegal under:
▪️International law: ECHR Articles 5 & 3, ICCPR Article 9, ECHR Protocol 4, Article 15 ECHR (derogation limits), Hardial Singh principles.
▪️UK domestic law: Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Act 1971.
▪️CRAG link: ECHR and ICCPR obligations under CRAG explicitly limit detention powers; derogations require formal declaration and cannot override absolute rights like Article 3.
▪️Quangos/bodies: Home Office, Detention Centre Independent Monitoring Boards, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, UK courts, EHRC.

so... thats where we are, parties can promise what they like but the truth is, we cant stop the boats unless a leader is willing to break the Quangos and the lawyers, and the law, in order to change the law!

The boats will keep coming…. because they can.
(How's that democracy working out for you?)

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Warning! The @DailyMail is carrying an article by me that contains numerous errors, introduced by editors while I was without access to a phone signal or internet, hiking in the Rockies. Below is the correct text that I submitted to them:

The climate boondoggle is one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history: never in the field of human commerce, or at least not since the sheriff of Nottingham, has so much tax been paid by people so poor to people so rich. Perhaps Ed Miliband is hoping that by giving lots of money to rich people, he can then impose a wealth tax on them in a sort of economic perpetual-motion machine.

There appears to be no end to his generosity to the rich. He has recently announced an increase in subsidies for electric cars, electric heating and electricity bills, and this week he quietly let slip that he will raise the amount he pays for new wind farms and index-link the payment for an extra five years.

What’s that? You don’t have a wind farm? Bad luck. Landowners who do can trouser £150,000 per wind turbine per year in rent for twenty to thirty years. One is arguing in court that £10m a year for his wind farm is not enough. The companies that run the “farms” make even more money. (As a landowner myself I am acutely aware that my ecological and economic distaste for these eyesores has cost me dear.)

Under the delayed AR7 auction for new wind projects, Mr Miliband is promising to pay up to an astonishing three times as much as the Climate Change Committee forecast he would: £113 per megawatt-hour for offshore wind instead of £38. The average electricity price is around £70. Meanwhile Richard Tice MP has sent shock waves through the wind and solar industry by warning them that if Reform gets into power he will cease their subsidies.

Don’t be fooled by the Miliband largesse: it’s not his money he is handing out; it is yours. The cost of paying all these huge subsidies is added to your electricity bills – which is why they are now the highest in the western world for both industrial and domestic power.

Mr Miliband argues that sluicing vast sums from the poor to the rich (not that he likes to put it that way) is necessary to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to show “leadership” to the world in fighting the “climate crisis”.

All right, let’s do the sums: Britain produces 0.8% of the world’s emissions. Electricity supplies roughly 20% of our energy and wind supplied about 25% of our electricity last year.

Let’s be generous and assume that windmills cut emissions by maybe 60% over their lifetimes compared with gas turbines, though once you take into account the back-up from gas when the wind does not blow, the building and maintenance of power lines to connect distant wind farms to cities, the coal that was consumed in making the turbines and the energy cost of maintaining them, it’s probably way less than that.

(As for solar, a reputable study concluded that north of the Alps, solar panels probably supply little more energy over their lifetimes – if any - than went into their manufacture and operation. They only generated 5% of our electricity last year, mostly when we least needed it, on summer afternoons. They are contributing next to nothing to emissions reduction.)

https://t.co/sZzBImRQt1

It follows that Britain’s wind farms are achieving a reduction of 0.008x0.20x0.25x0.6 = 0.0002, or two hundredths of one percent of global emissions. That is what £25 billion a year, paid by you in direct and indirect subsidies according to the Renewable Energy Foundation, is buying you. At that rate getting the world to net zero will cost £100 trillion a year – or the entire world’s economic output.

https://t.co/QOJuKVqCyu

The climate economist Bjorn Lomborg has calculated that if all of Europe went net-zero today and stayed net-zero for the rest of the century that would reduce the rise in temperature by 2100 by 0.14°C – based on standard assumptions about climate sensitivity. So Britain (with 12% of Europe’s emissions) spending £25 billion a year to cut emissions by 20% of 25% of 60%, or 3%, would reduce the temperature in 2100 by – wait for it! – 0.0005°C, less than a thousandth of a degree.

Can this really be good value for money? Esther McVey MP asked Ed Miliband in the Commons last week by how much his policies would reduce global temperatures. He refused to answer but what he did say was revealing: “the costs of inaction are much greater than the costs of action.” He is no longer claiming that we are saving money by cutting emissions, just that his policy will cost less than climate change in the long run.

Is this true? Let’s take Mr Miliband at his word and assume that his widely famed global leadership skills ensure that the whole world achieves global net zero in short order. What horrors will he have prevented?

https://t.co/4ORe6rMuM8

The state of the climate report, which he presented to Parliament last week, says only that “recent decades have been warmer, wetter and sunnier than the 20th Century” with earlier springs and more “lawn-cutting days”. Mostly good news unless you hate lawn-mowing. There has been more warming in winter than summer, so less frost, less snow and fewer “heating days”: good news given that death rates spike in cold weather much more than in hot weather.

It says we now have 10% more rain, most of it in winter but the report can only “suggest a slight increase” in heavy rainfall while finding a “downward trend” in both average wind speed and maximum gust speed. On balance, good news. The only bad news is that sea level is rising, still very slowly – about a foot per century – but perhaps with a slight acceleration.

Where’s the horror, Ed? Project these changes to the end of the century, and take into account that crops and oak trees all grow faster these days because of carbon dioxide, and it is hard to call it a crisis.

The average of 69 estimates from 39 studies by climate economists, summarised by Richard Tol of Sussex University, says that when we hit 1.5 degrees of warming, global GDP will be 0.74% lower as a result; 1.9% lower if we hit three degrees of warming. That’s not 1.9% lower than today: it’s 1.9% lower than a much richer level reached in future.

https://t.co/xO6hxjVROU

The business-as-usual model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects the average person in the world to be earning 4.5 times as much in 2100 as today – and if we do not prevent climate change that will be cut to 4.3 times as much. The model in which we forget about climate change and just let the fossil-fuel economy rip has the average person an astonishing 9.8 times richer in 2100 even with the effects of rapid climate change, instead of 10.4 times without it.

https://t.co/jb9vPDHWdX

So Mr Miliband is asking you to reduce your standard of living today to save a bunch of very, very wealthy future people from being slightly less – but still very, very – wealthy. Your prosperity is sacrificed to their posterity. This is therefore yet another way in which he is transferring money from the poor to the rich. Was he sheriff of Nottingham in a previous life?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it.

You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe.

Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in.

Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell.

You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives.

But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone.

Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk?

It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother?

Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense.

Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations.

But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold.

That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant.

Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on?

More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother?

Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase.

Incompetence reigns.

Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground?

Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk?

It is brutal.

Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments.

No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government.

You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead.

We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can.

We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more.

If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance.

I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities.

They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not.

My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better.

Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.