Jamie Halpin

Free Speech. Family values. Responsibility. Love.🇳🇿🇳🇿

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starting and running a business in Britain in 2026 - let’s go through it, step by step…

You've got a good idea. You've worked hard, saved some money, and decided to take a risk. A big decision. Let's say you want to open a coffee shop - nothing overly extravagant. Surely this is possible, right?

Available unit on a local high street, you see a gap in the market.

A simple ambition to build something. Create jobs. Generate wealth. Contribute to your local community. Maybe even build a better future for your family.

Exactly the sort of person politicians claim they admire.

Unfortunately, you've chosen the wrong country to do it in.

Britain. 2026. Labour. Bugger.

The first thing you discover is that absolutely nothing is straightforward.

You register the business. Not impossible, but hardly simple. The foreign vape shop owners manage it, so why not you? Done. In fairness, not the most challenging part of this story...

Then comes the bank account - you’d think opening a business account would be a routine matter.

Instead, you're treated like a criminal. You want to sell coffee, not arms. The banks are simply out of control in this country. Just like the lawyers, but that’s a different story.

Legitimate entrepreneurs should not be waiting weeks while faceless compliance departments shuffle paperwork between themselves and refuse to answer questions - slash it all back and let people just get on with it.

Eventually you get through that hurdle and secure the premises.

Perfect location. Lots of footfall. Not a total dump. It can work.

Then reality arrives.

The rent is eye-watering - contracts have clause after clause after clause. How can anybody understand it all?

Insurance is through the roof. And before you've served a single coffee, the local authority is already getting its grubby hands on your money. Energy costs are so very painful...

Business rates - one of the most destructive taxes in Britain. And for what? What do we get from that money?

You are effectively punished for occupying premises and creating economic activity. For PAYING TAX. It is insane. A Restore Britain Government would abolish business rates entirely for small high street businesses. Pubs, cafes, bakeries. All of it. No business rates.

Then come the inspections. Oh joy. The paperwork. The bureaucracy. The council gnomes.

Nobody objects to basic standards. Of course cafes should be clean and safe.

The problem is that too much of the system now exists to justify the existence of regulators rather than help businesses succeed. They are there to prove that their job needs to exist. So rules get put on rules, on top of more rules. It is endless.

Many of the people enforcing these rules have never built a business, never employed anybody and never risked their own money. Never done anything. Work half weeks, with 30+ days holiday a year. Fridays at home, of course.

A profession filled with nit-picking gits.

Restore Britain would conduct a full bonfire of unnecessary regulations and introduce a simple principle. Every regulation should have to justify its existence - if it doesn't prevent genuine harm, it goes. It will be glorious. We will tear it all down.

But let’s say you get through this. You stumble on. The cafe opens, and goes well. People like it. It grows. The coffee is good. You need help. Another bureaucratic nightmare.

PAYE. National Insurance. Pensions. Employment contracts. Holiday entitlement. Workplace policies. Health and safety obligations.

The worst of all - HR.

You look at it all, and just think what’s the point? Is it worth the risk? That is a disaster for our economy, and a disaster for youngsters looking for work.

Restore Britain would slash back employer National Insurance, simplify employment law for small firms and create a framework that protects good employees without treating every employer as a potential criminal.

The HR-ification of Britain will end. If I had to pick a 'profession' I hate the most, HR has to be number one.

Employers will be able to sack employees for not doing the job properly.

It doesn’t matter if they’re black, gay, Muslim or whatever else. This ‘protected characteristic’ nonsense will be stripped away. The only protected characteristic we’re interested in is competence.

We will repeal The Equality Act 2010. This is key. This is where so much of the bullshit emanates from.

But let’s say you don’t want to bother. Maybe bringing in contracting services could work. Wrong.

IR35 - one of the most economically illiterate policies ever introduced by thick idiots in the civil service who have never created a job in their lives.

Restore Britain would scrap IR35 entirely - if two consenting adults wish to enter a genuine contracting arrangement, the state should keep its nose out. Who does what, when and for who is between those two individuals. IR35 is the first thing to go. Burn it and bury it.

But we do want apprenticeships. This is the way forward, and we would give companies tax breaks for developing and building local skills for young men and women. Crucial. I’ve been running an apprenticeship campaign in Great Yarmouth - looking to link local businesses with colleges. Progress made, but lots more to do.

As your business grows, your accountant becomes indispensable. Not because your accounting is particularly complicated or he’s a good bloke, but because the tax system has become absurdly complex. I used to do my own returns. No chance now.

Restore Britain would begin simplifying the tax code from top to bottom.

Tax should be low, simple and transparent. That’s what Restore Britain stands for.

Then comes one of the most notorious barriers in British business.

The VAT threshold.

You finally start making progress, and your turnover approaches the threshold.

Looks good on the face of it, but it’s actually horrific news - cross the line and suddenly everything changes. VAT is applied. What are you supposed to do? Pass the cost on to customers? What are they going to do when the cost of their morning order shoots up? Many firms deliberately limit growth because crossing the threshold creates such a financial shock. That is insanity.

Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold.

Growth should be rewarded, and we would do exactly that.

Somehow, you’re limping on and decide an expansion is needed - maybe a covered outdoor area let’s say. Add more seating. People like to eat outside. Surely this is straightforward?

Planning. The worst people on the planet, whose sole aim is to destroy economic ambition, growth and hope. I detest them all so very much.

Restore Britain would overhaul the system with a presumption in favour of economic development. If planners cannot make a decision within a fixed timeframe, approval should be automatic. We will not keep businesses waiting for months and months. It is simply unacceptable and unfair.

Same for licences to stay open later, host music, even god forbid serve alcohol - the bureaucrat’s nightmare. We wouldn’t want people enjoying themselves, would we?

Restore Britain would introduce another presumption backing small business activity unless there is a compelling reason to refuse it. If customers want to enjoy a drink later on with their friends, let’s make it happen - the burden should be on the regulator to justify their restrictions, not on the entrepreneur to justify growth. Again, let’s give them a time frame to object. If they can’t, it goes through. Job done.

That is what Restore Britain will deliver.

Then there are card payments. Every coffee, sandwich, bottle of water. People just are not using cash. So a small slice disappears off everything, but that turns into thousands. Restore Britain would review payment processing fees and increase competition in the sector.

We must reduce the cost of doing business. This is vital.

We come to HMRC. I hate these people so much. It’s far quicker for a benefits claimant to get hold of the DWP than it is for small business owners to speak to HMRC.

How mad is that?

Restore Britain would introduce meaningful accountability when HMRC gets things wrong, or simply doesn’t pick up the phone. Let’s link senior leadership pay to response times. That will get them jumping.

When you pay the tax, and sign it all off? The anger I feel when I think about where that money goes is not a positive experience. Funding hotel fry ups for Afghan men who have broken into our country. Restore Britain would indiscriminately deport the illegals, as you know, but this is a post about starting a business…

Back to HMRC. They whack me with tax inspection after tax inspection. I wonder why…

Awful people. If I ever get a sniff of power, I will tear that place apart limb by limb.

Then comes the final insult. The salt in the wound. The knife in the back.

You want to pay yourself. You've worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. You've risked everything.

You've missed weekends, holidays and family events.

You have carried all the risk.

The wife or husband is constantly pissed off because the phone doesn’t stop ringing.

Now perhaps you'd like some reward. Let’s look at what’s left...

Corporation tax takes a slice. Dividend tax takes another. Student loan repayments take more. National Insurance takes more. Income tax takes more. What’s left?

By the end of it, government has its sticky fingers in your pocket at every stage.

Restore Britain would establish the lowest corporation tax rate in Europe.

We would increase dividend allowances. Slash NI. Cut back income tax. Scrap interest on student loans.

In short - reward your hard work.

Entrepreneurs all over Britain are asking this question...

Why not take a comfortable public sector job, collect the salary, enjoy the pension, work from home, avoid the stress and leave somebody else to create the wealth? Why bother? What's the point?

If enough ambitious people think that, the economy stops functioning. We become even more reliant on the fat, bloated, squid like state.

Politicians in Westminster DO NOT understand what they are doing to businesses in Britain.

I listen to them talk about business and my ears bleed - you do not understand just how thick some of these people are. However bad you imagine, double it. You’re half way there.

It is time for a different sort of politics, a different type of politician.

Restore Britain will make Britain the easiest country in Europe to start, grow and succeed with your own business.

To our cafe owner, wondering if all the endless bullshit is worth it? My message is this…

Keep going. It will get better. Britain needs you.

There is good news - there is finally a political party on your side.

Restore Britain.

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@henrycooke The empty can rattles the most…

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@2ETEKA Globalist assholes

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I will take absolutely no lectures about "divisiveness" from the people who gave us two-tier policing, racial hiring quotas and endless race-baiting.

Unlike you, we do not kneel.

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@actparty Get it down to 16 depts like Singapore

[Winston Kodogo @365MickeyBlue]

Why does @NZArmyCA @NZArmy still require new recruits to be covid vaccinated ? @ChrisPenknz why is this still in place when military around the world (esp US) is paying and reinstating those they kicked out for not being covid vaccinated ?

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@TaxpayersUnion No.
Audit local and central
Government clearly and openly first and eliminate the waste….
And there is tonnes of waste…..

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

YOU'RE WEEKLY REMINDER OF WHERE YOUR MONEY WENT UNDER THE LAST GOV. ( a few of thousands of examples)

1. Wallaby eradication — $2.7 million to kill 18 wallabies. $153,000 per wallaby and 26,000 labour hours. Cheaper to fly them home business class.

2. Virtual job expos — $835,000. 126 people attended. $6,626 per Zoom attendee.

3. Global health recruitment campaign — $514,000. Result: 3 interviews. $171,000 per interview.

4. Let's Get Wellington Moving — $35m on consultants. Just $250k on actual construction. You read that right.

5. Auckland Light Rail — $229 million. Six years. Not one metre of track. Burning $1.2m/week on consultants at peak.

6. Three Waters — ~$1.2 billion torched on a policy nobody wanted, scrapped before delivering a single pipe. Included $14,500 to write a job description for a CEO who never existed.

7. iReX ferries — $500m+ sunk. Ballooned from $551m to a projected $3 billion+ before cancellation. (NZ First also had fingerprints on the original deal — worth being upfront about.)

8. RAT tests — $531 million sitting in warehouses. Storage at $100,000/day. Approved over a year late.

9. Mongrel Mob meth rehab — $2.75 million. $239k catering. $157k marae hire. $100k hiring a van.

10. Shorter shower campaign — $2.8 million. Printed in 7 languages. To tell you to take shorter showers.

11. Auckland Harbour cycle/walking bridge — $51 million on planning before scrapped. No bridge.

12. Lake Onslow pumped hydro — ~$100 million on feasibility studies. Not a shovel in the ground.

13. Workforce Development Councils — $65 million/year for bodies critics said delivered little tangible value. Disestablished.

14. RNZ/TVNZ merger — $20 million. Abandoned by Labour themselves.

15. Ethnic women in politics research — $842,000. A university grant could've done it for a fraction.

16. "Ulu Cavu Wig Tour" — $73,000 in taxpayer funding for the Arts Minister's husband's tour.

17. Abandoned China immigration office — ~$3 million in rent on an office closed for over a year.

18. Promoting Australian citizenship to Kiwis already in Australia — $10,000. Funding the brain drain with our money.

…and we could keep going.

We should never FORGET Labour. Just a small fraction of their wasteful ways.
@NZNationalParty @actparty

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝟖𝟏𝟓 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that Oranga Tamariki has 815 more staff than children in care, with 4,822.4 FTE staff and 135 contractors, compared to 4,142 children in care.

The Official Information Act request also shows:

In December 2025, 32 children aged 6 to 16 were not enrolled in a school, while 510 records could not be matched to a school enrolment.
In 2025 there were also 995 missing instances lasting at least 48 hours, involving 414 children in care.
Taxpayers’ Union Investigative Lead, Rhys Hurley, said:

“OT now has more staff and contractors than children in care. That is 1,512 more staff than in 2017, yet vulnerable kids are still going missing and falling through the cracks.”

“When an agency has 815 more staff and contractors than kids in care, taxpayers are right to ask what all those people are actually doing.”

“With 1.2 staff for every child in care, there is no excuse for children going missing for days or not being enrolled in school. Keeping these kids safe and in education is the bare minimum.”

“The answer cannot always be more money, more staff, and more bureaucracy. At some point, taxpayers need to ask whether this agency is actually focused on children or growing the bureaucracy around them.”

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, Trump is the West’s greatest hope for survival & in turn the world’s greatest hope for prosperity & peace. Not because he is a messiah or faultless. He is an egomaniac. But that is what enables him to do what needs to be done. He is fearless. He has the balls & the spine. He is the classic example of the vital function of psychopathy in leadership. It means he is running a tightrope & takes big gambles. Shit can always go wrong. But the west was dying, terrorist regimes gaining traction. Decades of either pussyfooting around or dumb wars have sped up the decline. The world needs a shake up. The status quo was managed decline. His bombasticness is scary & I understand why people react viscerally. But I maintain that we needed a fucking renegade, a wild card. And I hope & pray he is successful because it means liberation for oppressed populations, prosperity for those starved under communism, and it means the flourishing of western values.
I had Trump Derangement Syndrome in 2016. I understand it. Now I accept that there are things I don’t like about him while realising he is exactly what we need.

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@EvilArthurFleck Exactly…..

[Tatanka @Tatanka76]

NZ has 39 government depts
16 in Oz
24 in UK
12 in Finland

And you wonder why we don’t have money for healthcare 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Jeff Bezos on America's spending and taxes:

"We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3%. We have a spending problem."

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Can anyone at ACC please tell me what the "Pākehā Project" is... because from what I can see it looks very much like an indoctrination on how much white guilt we should all feel, and how to make amends. Does the minister know, @ScottSimpsonMP ?

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@NZNationalParty We do not want digital ID or age verification

As a parent I do NOT want you to ‘act’ on a U16 social media ban.

We can parent our own children thank you very much!

Stop Govt overreach!!!

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@NZNationalParty Bugger off with your Digital ID traitors

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

CASTLE LAW NOW 😡

Donnybrook, Melbourne. January 2024.

Three masked criminals armed with axes storm into a family home in the dead of night. Inside was a pregnant woman, terrified and pleading for mercy as she was attacked in her own bedroom.

Her partner did what any decent man should do - he fought back. And hard.

He disarmed one of the invaders and stopped the threat before his family was butchered by this gang of animals, villains who had planned the attack in advance with masks, weapons, and fuel cans.

Unbelievably, he was initially charged with murder.

How have we sunk this low and this ‘woke’ ?

Let this next part be said clearly.

The only people responsible for what happened that night were the criminals. They chose violence and terror. They chose to invade a house occupied by innocent people, including a pregnant woman.

I have absolute sympathy for the homeowners whose sense of safety will likely never fully recover. They are the victims.

As for the intruders injured and killed during this pathetic escapade - spare me the public mourning.

Violent home invaders who enter homes armed with axes should fully expect they will be buried. And never allowed to leave. This is not tragedy, it’s consequence.

Every Australian has the fundamental right to defend their family and their own life against violent predators. No law-abiding citizen should ever have to face prosecution for refusing to become another helpless victim of armed criminals. - Domenic Strangio.

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@kaiviti_cam Take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy first

[Jamie Halpin @halpinsroaming]

@JoeyMannarino @MarkHubbard33 Don’t trust Farage
Restore is a much better option with Rupert Lowe.