David Edwards

Ex British Parachute Regiment

[David Edwards @davidwrotethis]

There’s now a parade of elephants in the room

#sergioaguero #myocarditis

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

The state does not subsidise anything, tax payers do.

The state only has what it steals.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

The data is incontrovertible, Labour is not on the side of women and girls.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

If people only understood basic maths.

We are so utterly fucked and people keep voting for more of it.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A 60% drop in millionaires in the U.K.

This should scare the living shit out of people. It’s utterly insane.

It’s going to get worse too.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

There is no clearer image of British politics than this: the camera shows you the man, the wider frame shows you the machine.

In Orwell’s Britain, the lie was printed. In ours, it is lit, framed and carefully edited.

[Simon Jordan @Sjopinion10]

Not having that … #anthonyjoshua fight ..:

Dropped twice and sets the tempo, how’s that ? … Prenga totally different in 2nd

Something not quite right , all designed to rinse maximum amount of money …

[Michaelis Renvicus @michaelisrenvic]

@somersetlevel Ladies and gentlemen... The King 👑

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Before Windows95, before Oasis released Wonder Wall and before OJ Simpson faced trial, our new PM Andy Burnham had a job. He had a job as a journalist working for a little publishing company for 3 years.

This is the only job any of the new UK Government Cabinet has had.

Other than those three years, more than 30 years ago the entire cabinet has only ever worked in tax payer funded roles.

None of them have ever had to make a sale. None of them have been paid to pour a pint. None have felt a sick feeling about making payroll. None have been answerable to investors.

In the UK 50% of the jobs are small businesses and almost ALL of the jobs growth is small businesses. None of them has ever started, owned or run one. Wouldn’t it be nice if just one of them had some experience in making a small business profitably grow before having a crack at the 7th largest economy.

Imagine what it must feel like to KNOW that your wage is paid for by the tax-payer. Imagine the certainty and security working for a government that never fires anyone for anything. Imagine how it would feel knowing you could blow out a budget with no real consequences or you could completely screw up a project and nothing bad would happen. Imagine that level of insulation and comfort for decades.

I can’t. I’ve been in business for the last 25 years. If I don’t sell I don’t eat. If I screw up I face very real consequences very fast. Millions of small businesses are being asked to get out there and hire people and grow the economy by a team of people who’ve never had a proper job. Surely something isn’t right with that?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

What this dangerous moment in our history calls for is a Margaret Thatcher.

What we are getting is an Andy Burnham.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

😭😭😭

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

That’s art.

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

‘The Office’ of the Prime Minister

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Dear The World,

We have a new Prime Minister, 24,927 people voted for him.

That is 0.036% of the population.

He’s also a communist.

Please save us.

Peter

[Spirited1 @helen_spirit1]

Hey @andyburnham

Dragging a convicted fraudster back into the cabinet, together with putting a tax dodging, foul mouthed grifter with an NVQ, in charge of the NHS, the biggest employer in the UK, does not inspire “Hope in every Heart”

You’re a Temu Arthur Scargill.

[David Edwards @davidwrotethis]

@DPJHodges @LucyTCWife Daniel, you’re not well. Either that, or you’re a genuinely a nasty, spineless little fucker

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

Keep digging Dan. At this point the whole of the UK is talking about how unhinged you are.

I get you’re a fan, but mate you’re obsessed!
Would you like my Insta? 😂😘😘

[Edward Dutton @jollyheretic]

Yes, people frequently drive from Yorkshire to Devon to murder elderly conservative politicians for entirely non-political reasons, such as disliking the similes in their novels. We are at late-stage Soviet levels of official lying.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

This rubbish is the state abusing the family.

Stop it - you emotionally manipulative freaks.

[David Edwards @davidwrotethis]

@adamboultonTABB

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Everyone is piling on to @garyseconomics - his wealth tax documentary has bombed. Even the Guardian has given it a 2-star review and watched in horror as experts and onlookers alike call his ideas a car wreck.

It’s disappointing that he stuck to the same scripted lines that he said to me over a year ago. I raised the core issues with him back then and he did nothing to evolve his thinking.

Now with all of that said, I want to urge that we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Wealth Taxes won’t work but that doesn’t mean we can’t look for ways to improve things for people who are struggling.

Gary’s popularity stems from a real issue. Millions of people see no way of keeping up with the costs of living. For millions of people in the UK their living standards are getting worse year on year and it needs to be addressed.

Here’s my thinking:

THE CAUSE:
- technology is devaluing jobs by making them easy to automate, outsource or simplify.
- we’ve had an un-targeted immigration policy that has flooded the UK labour market with millions of additional low skilled workers who compete with local entry-level workers.
- we have a UK government that has exploded debt and spending. Government spending that doesn’t result in productivity gains creates inflation.
- We have massive global businesses who do business in the UK but don’t contribute anything in tax revenue. They put local retailers, code shops and publishers out of business and move their profits to low tax zones.

SOLUTIONS TO EXPLORE:
- Special economic zones that offer lower taxes for small businesses that set up in parts of the country that need economic activity.
- Broadcast licenses for social media giants.
- IP licensing taxes for companies that take the piss with profit shifting.
- Lower taxes for startups. Reinstate the Entrepreneurs Relief. Expand SEIS/EIS.
- Allow home based businesses to claim childcare, cleaners, company car etc so they can run a better business.
- Allow tax deductions for home renovations (other countries have seen massive stimulus from this).
- Set up a British Sovereign wealth fund using oil and gas reserves.
- Reduce regulations and get builders building homes.
- Full support for the British farmers who create jobs and provide domestic food security.
- Entrepreneurial apprenticeships.
- Financial literacy and business skills taught in schools.

What would you add to the list?