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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starmer unironically just said 'my work is done'.

On behalf of a very angry nation - you've done an eye-wateringly appalling job, @Keir_Starmer.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Stop saying “free.”

Start saying “funded by taxpayers.”

Thank you.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

1. Transfer the tens of billions earmarked for net zero to defence and supply chain resilience, to create a major industrial/defence sector, thereby creating skilled jobs in UK, rather than China (as net zero does)
2. Radical tough love welfare reform to get 1m people of working age into work, thereby cutting the welfare bill and increasing the tax base. Coupled with massive expansion of German-class STEM skill apprenticeships.
3. Radical reform of planning laws to stop nimbys/greens from thwarting every major infrastructure development. Put judges/courts in their place when it comes to such matters.
4. Put rocket boosters under high-speed rail link between Leeds-Manchester-Liverpool. Brook no opposition/delay.
5. Unleash North Sea oil/gas + slash energy bills by removing all green levies. New breed of gas-fired and smaller nuke generating stations.
Much more to suggest. But this should be good for starters.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

POLITICS MADE SIMPLE #1

The reason the state pension has to rise to age 68 is because the Labour government has decided they would rather pay illegals to sit on their arses than you, after you’ve worked and paid in for half a century.

Hope that helps.

[Brum Bitcoin & Beer @brumbitcoin]

I don't understand. It's £20B of private debt. Let it collapse. Shareholders wiped-out. Creditors take a massive hair cut. Someone else buys the assets at a massive discount & runs it better.

That's the creative-destruction inherent in capitalism.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Starmer: “I’ve left Britain in a better place”:

Wide open borders
Record taxes
String of scandals
Record energy bills
Two-tier justice
Disastrous energy policy
A joke on the world stage
Islamism unchecked
Enemies emboldened
Territory sold off
Ordinary people maligned
Failed on grooming gangs
Free speech eroded
No idea what he’s doing
Widely loathed
Most unpopular PM in history

Good riddance!

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

The state pension is not a benefit.
It is one side of a verbal contract stated thousands of times by successive governments that if you pay National Insurance over your working life you will receive a state pension when you retire.

[MB @paxangloceltae]

Just had the strangest interaction with a group of lads on way back from an event, probably no more than 14-years-old, whilst waiting for a (very delayed) train to get back into central London from Windsor. They’d been causing a nuisance for a solid 20 mins. One walked past me and randomly told me I looked dapper (I’m in a suit - nothing special but obvious was to him).

He ended up asking if I can show him how to tie a tie so I lent him mine and we did just that. Cut a long story short, they’re all white working-class lads and have all dropped out of education - this absolutely breaks my heart. We do not do enough for white working-class boys at all. I’m also baffled as to why they’re wandering around rail stations so late at night - where are their parents? It’s so sad man.

Anyway, after I taught the young fella how to tie a tie, they all went and sat quietly and were on their best behaviour. I didn’t even tell them off! They’re now on my train in the next carriage and sitting like model passengers. It’s so sad man - all these kids need is some mentoring, a bit of direction, and someone who actually gives a toss about their wellbeing. We fail these children.

[tag 🇬🇧 @tag4UK]

I am married with a young daughter, both myself and my husband work.

-We are not entitled to housing benefit, or any other benefit for that matter.

-We do not get free eye tests, free dental care or free prescriptions.

-Our daughter is not entitled to free school meals, or free breakfast clubs, or free wrap around care, no help with her uniform.

-We don’t get council tax discount, or any other discount.

-We don’t get help with our energy bills, or low cost broadband.

-We don’t get help with the cost of going to the cinema, or days out at theme parks.

-My daughter is unable to play outside unsupervised, because you have failed to secure our borders and the streets aren’t safe.

-If I work more hours, I fall into the higher tax band.

Why should someone like me, vote for someone like you? @UKLabour @andyburnham

What are you offering my family?

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

When it comes to tax in the UK, a lot of people are deluding themselves, thinking the government will just go after the wealthy to pay for the ballooning commitments they’ve made.

The truth is, the real target is the middle class. And the reason is simple. The middle class is the only viable option for the kind of revenue the government wants.

Start with who’s off the table. A third of British adults pay no income tax at all. The bottom half of earners take home about a quarter of the income in this country and pay roughly a tenth of the tax. There’s no pot of gold buried down there, and every party has spent years promising to protect “working people.” Squeezing them is politically radioactive and would raise next to nothing anyway.

The rich are off the table too, whatever the Channel 4 documentaries say. The top 1% already pay 28% of all income tax. Their money is capital, dividends and gains, so they’re mobile, and they’ve already started leaving. One widely quoted forecast has Britain losing half a million millionaires by 2028. Push the rate on these people much higher and you collect less, not more. Threatening them polls brilliantly, but relying on them for a tax bonanza is pure fantasy.

Which leaves the middle class, and the middle class can’t run. Most are on PAYE, taxed at source before the money touches their account. They can’t turn a salary into a capital gain. They can’t declare residency in Monaco, because the job, the kids’ school and the mortgage are all here. Their wealth is a house they can’t hide under the mattress and a pension they can’t reach. Numerous, visible and immobile. The perfect target, and in some ways the only one.

And here’s how it’s already being done. They won’t raise your headline rate of income tax, because they promised not to. But the threshold freeze, the one that sounds like a non-event on Budget day, is quietly hammering you, and it’s now been extended to 2031.

Took out a student loan since 2012? You’ve been paying the graduate tax in all but name. Hold investments outside an ISA? You’ve watched CGT climb to 24%, and it’s likely to be equalised with income tax next. Sent your kids to private school? That’s the VAT charge. Saving into a cash ISA? That shelter just shrank from £20,000 to £12,000. And from 2027, your pension gets pulled into inheritance tax, so the pot you spent a career building can be taxed again on the way out.

There’s more coming. Mansion taxes, higher CGT, property levies, dividends. Most of the taxes we’re told will hit the ultra wealthy will actually land on the middle class. And in most cases they’re not sat on fortunes, they’re sat on assets they spent a working life building.

What’s worse, the burden grows with every Budget, because of the compounding commitments this government keeps making, and that nearly every other party has pledged too.

So who pays for the past, present and future spending of the UK government? The middle class. And there’s not a thing they can do about it. Debt-trapped, stuck in place, with nowhere to turn, and the government knows it.

If any of this resonated, you’re likely in the taxation crosshairs. I wish you luck.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 JOKE OF THE DAY: THE WESTMINSTER CIRCUS HAS OUTDONE ITSELF.

Labour MP Andy Slaughter has just written an essay defending the backroom coronation of Andy Burnham, and his arguments are a complete comedy routine. 🤡

He actually claims that calling a General Election to choose the next Prime Minister is "not a widespread view" and would be completely "self-indulgent" for the country!

Think about the absolute brass neck of these people.

Allowing the British public to actually vote for the person running their country is now considered a luxury we cannot afford.

Slaughter openly admits that your NHS is buckling, economic growth has stalled, and you are paying the highest taxes on record.

But do not worry. He reassures us that "the mood in Parliament is lifted" and everyone in Westminster feels really positive about themselves!

Your bills are soaring, you have zero say in who leads our country, but at least the elite inside the Westminster bubble are happy.

RT if you have had enough of these out-of-touch snobs and demand a General Election NOW! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Graham Kemp @accountingetc]

Starmer “earned” a landslide victory with votes from only 20% of the electorate.

Burnham, MP for a few weeks, claims a mandate from 0% of the electorate.

By no serious metric can we claim to operate a democratic system.

The Establishment props it up and we don’t care enough.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I don’t like the line “don’t speculate”. We’re not children and it’s not disrespectful.

After what happened with Southport and the information purposely held back from the public, I don’t blame people for speculating.

Authorities have burnt a lot of trust.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

I’ve been filming with media today in Canada discussing the Rape Gang Inquiry and why I became an activist-speaking out about child exploitation and holding the British Government to account for its failures to protect children.

I’ve also been interviewed by local media following the decision to allow convicted rapists to be released early from prison, a move that leaves children and survivors feeling even more at risk.

Today, my interviews with media outlets in Switzerland and Germany have also been published.

I will continue to speak out, expose these failures, and challenge those in power until our governments do what they should have done all along: protect our children.

[Morgoth @MorgothsReview]

I can’t describe how demented I find it that the same people who turned Britain into a rape factory for foreign men view a 78 year old catholic woman as an existential threat whose death should be celebrated.

These things are not unrelated.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Twitter is a handy and constant reminder that socialists are disgusting people.

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

I’ll happily discuss Nigel Farage triggering a by-election.

Right after we’ve discussed Andy Burnham triggering an MP by-election and then a mayoral by-election.

I’m just trying to establish whether taxpayer-funded elections are always a scandal, or only when Nigel Farage is involved.

The hypocrisy is deafening.

[Anton Liubich @antonliubich]

For two days I have been arguing with clips of Gary Stevenson. 'Tax the rich,' he says. I have tried to explain why this is nonsense. But a fair question remains. What should be done instead?

Here is a number: the City — banks, insurers, asset managers and the professional firms around them — contributed about £110 billion to the Treasury in a single year.

At the same time, the UK financial sector spends almost £34 billion a year on regulatory compliance: on lawyers, auditors, reporting, software...

One pound of paperwork for every three pounds of taxes.

This money produces nothing. It is the price of complexity. Simplify the rulebook, and much of it turns back into taxable profits and taxable salaries — without raising a single rate. Scale that across the whole economy, and the prize is measured in tens of billions a year. More than any wealth tax would ever collect, and without a single millionaire leaving the UK.

So ask yourself where the problem lies. Not with the rich. Not with entrepreneurs. It lies with a bureaucracy that has grown itself — and bred entire useless professions inside the formally private sector.

[PATRIOTS OF BRITAIN @POB4LIFE]

🚨 🚨 Let's make these guys famous!

This one is called Luke Lawrence, I need the names of the other ones.

There's a charity that helps disabled children called "Learning Through Motion" this charity does amazing work and they help as many kids as they can.
They recently got a new premises and obviously the budget is tight.

It all needed plastering so these 4 turned up and did the unthinkable!

They did all the plastering completely free!

Have they got Bills to pay? Yes
Have they got family's to feed? Yes
Is being self employed hard? Yes

But they still dropped everything and went and did it at their own expense!

Let's make sure these good men get the recognition they deserve!

I don't know these guys but it would be a pleasure to shake each of their hands.

If you know them tag them in!
If you appreciate them then share this post!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we repaid their kindness with a few nice words and hopefully this post gets them enough work to see the year out on a high ❤️

Absolute legends

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Dear @elonmusk

On behalf of the people of Britain - who this politician wants silenced - can I ask you why grey tick elected officials are allowed to turn their responses off, denying their employers - us - our right to offer them feedback?