common sense

Enjoy...or don’t, it’s your choice. 🤷🏽‍♂️ I believe in a pragmatic approach to things. Zimbabwean. Focused on the looming millennial crises.

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Just a ranty thread on why we need a leader with a vision for the UK.

We face:

1️⃣a taxation crises
2️⃣a housing crises
3️⃣a childcare cost crises
4️⃣a wage growth crises

We cannot plod along, being taxed in poverty like this.

#CostOfLivingCrisis #energycrisis #FridayMotivation

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

2 million extra higher rate tax payers since 2019.

The UK is literally being taxed into poverty during a #CostOfLivingCrisis.

I thought people voted for low tax Tory’s, not Jeremy Corbyn in disguise.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

1) Enact the most anti-free-market policy in history: bailing out the banks
2) Thus create a decade of slow growth
3) Add to that the most illiberal social policy in history: lockdowns
4) Thus make the growth worse
5) Conclude that economic & political liberalism have failed

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Like logic would suggest focusing on the £330 billion we spend on welfare is more important than No.10 North

The proposed (with no mandate) National Care Service at £16bn is more important

Our costly energy & net zero are more important.

Stop being distracted by petty BS

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Of all the issues the UK faces, focusing on ‘No10 North’ seems odd

Total spending will be a few million, a literal rounding error for a Govt that spends £1,300 billion a year or over £3 billion a day.

No wonder things don’t improve with this kind of focus….

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@ZackPolanski Yeah that’s because wealth taxes and rent controls don’t work. Even Labour aren’t that stupid….🤣

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Scotland raised its top income tax rate to 48% to make the rich pay more.

New HMRC data suggests the result may have been the opposite: Scotland collected about £22m less.

We can't be sure, but Scotland may have fallen over the Laffer curve.

🧵:

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

The UK has become a broken, bloated, excessively regulated, welfare dependent society

We don’t need more of the past 30 yrs, we need the opposite

-Lower taxes
-Fewer regulations
-Lower tax rate (which will raise more tax revenue anyway)
-Less welfare

#BBCLauraK #TrevorPhillips

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@BBCPolitics It’s not hard, cut spending on welfare which is over £330 billion a year. Problem solved. It’s a short term safety net not a lifestyle choice.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

No reservoirs built.

No prisons built.

No extra hospital beds.

No potholes filled.

Highest taxes for 70 years.

What are we getting for our money?

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

An insurance model can definitely work. A Govt controlled body, I have my doubts with this lot

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Why would a “National Care Service” work when the National Health Service, with a 7.28 million long waiting list, clearly doesn’t?

Doing something over & over and expecting a different outcome is stupid. And costly, as our high taxes show…

#BBCLauraK

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

There’s something very sinister about gleefully wanting to rob other families of what’s theirs….

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Inheritance Tax should be 100% above a million pounds and it should apply to Trusts, all UK citizens and everything owned in the UK.

Earn your money if you want to be multimillionaire/billionaire and then when you die.

Pay your tax.

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

This is what happens when a Govt loses control of its borders.

Even more inexcusable is that the Govt then allows these people to roam freely instead of being held in secure facilities on an army base to be processed.

Talk about crazy.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Iran has been caught smuggling agents into UK as Channel migrants

Officials in Tehran have also claimed that human trafficking routes between the Middle East and the Channel are “owned” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@RupertLowe10 You need to select the core issues and focus solely on them. Having an opinion on anything & everything detracts from what you’re trying to achieve. The average person is not interested in politics so a simple message constantly repeated is the best way to go.

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Whilst I agree that pubs should have the choice, if Rupert wants Restore to be taken seriously he needs to focus on the main priorities. That’s it.

This endless commentary on any random issue detracts from what he is trying to achieve

This scatter gun approach simply won’t work

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

A Restore Britain Government will allow pub landlords and other venue owners to install a smoking room.

If adults want to smoke inside a contained room, and the landlord is happy to provide that, then it's none of our business.

Crack on.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@ZackPolanski Just in case you forgot, they recently had a referendum on this and decided to remain! Pesky facts and all I know….

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@DrRosena £3.75 a month! That’s insulting that you’ve labelled it “breathing space”

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

@UKLabour £3.75 a month is not “breathing room” and the fact you think it is is insulting

[common sense @bundle_of_joy69]

Oh yay, here’s an extra £3.75 a month to spend on heating.

The term “give some breathing space” is frankly a little insulting….

[Miatta Fahnbulleh @Miatsf]

Families are struggling with their energy bills and this VAT cut to electricity will give some breathing space this winter.

My focus now is working to bring bills down for good.

[Will Kingston @WillKingston]

There are 28 ministers in the new Cabinet. This is the sum total of their private sector experience:
- Louise Haigh: Three years in a middle management role at Aviva. Ended in a fraud conviction.
- Andy Burnham: Three years in a small publishing business after university.

That’s it… A team with no business, finance or management experience is running a £3 trillion economy. I’ll explain just how screwed we are on @PatrickChristys Tonight. 9pm @GBNEWS.