James Bryan

Sadly, it has become clear I will never be a Ghostbuster when I grow up - All views are my own except for RT´s

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

Dear @MayorofLondon, It is you who talks London down, it is you who talks about hate, and pollution, and it is you who won’t meet the democratically elected leader of the country that sends us more tourists than any other. Start really promoting our city, because that is your job

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"Rylan is not an ideologue. He is exactly the sort of person the government should be talking to."

Rylan's migrant rant was full of far-right misinformation – and the government is to blame for its lack of effort to lead UK conversation on asylum seekers

https://t.co/tF3qlOSs0v

[Kasey McAteer @kasey_mcateer]

I will always love this club🦊

[📸 @THINGEO]

He’s speaking the truth

[James Bryan @JamesSBryan]

@Nigelrefowens Well said 👍

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Reform is wrong to call for the end of the two child benefit cap - a lazy policy, which fattens an already vastly bloated welfare state. Start with tax breaks for parents. Make childcare affordable. Let people keep more of what they earn. Reward work over dependency.

Hardworking parents, already taxed up to their neck, should not have to further subsidise parents who don’t work.

We need a serious policy platform to encourage British families to have more children.

Front-load child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Link the payment to British citizenship or at least following a considerable period of paying into the system.

Stamp duty reduction for British families - make it easier for young families to move into a larger home to meet their needs.

Reform spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families at home with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office (subject to the immigration red list). That’s positive, principled immigration and it should be encouraged.

Tax breaks for parents and marriage - Reward families with meaningful relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs.

IVF access - widen for British citizens.

Hungary-style tax incentives - Exemptions or lifelong income tax reductions for mothers? If it works in Hungary, let’s look at how it could apply to Britain.

Recklessly expanding benefits is not the answer. That argument may not be politically convenient, but it is the right one to make. Reform want to chase votes, and maybe that strategy will work for them in the immediate short term, but it won’t work for Britain.

Speaking honestly, and it’s not an argument you’ll hear politicians making, we need to radically slash the amount of our money being spent on benefits, not irresponsibly hike it.

Unpopular? Maybe. Necessary? Absolutely, yes.

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

28 years ago at Ewood:

A teenage Emile Heskey rampages past the Rovers rearguard.

Heavens Above. Look at the big fella in full flight. An unstoppable force.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 IN FULL: The list of places where Serco is planning to house asylum seekers in rented accommodation:

North West:
Allerdale
Barrow-in-Furness
Blackburn & Darwen
Blackpool
Bolton
Burnley
Bury
Carlisle
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
Chorley
Copeland
Eden (Penrith)
Flyde
Halton
Hyndburn
Knowsley
Lancaster
Liverpool
Manchester
Oldham
Pendle
Preston
Ribble Valley
Rochdale
Rossendale
Salford
Sefton
South Lakeland
South Ribble
Stockport
St Helens
Tameside
Trafford
Warrington
West Lancashire
Wigan
Wirral
Wyre

Midlands:
Amber Valley
Ashfield
Bassetlaw
Birmingham
Blaby
Bolsover
Boston
Bromsgrove and Redditch
Broxtowe
Cannock Chase
Charnwood
Chesterfield
Derby
Derbyshire Dales
Dudley
East Lindsey
East Staffordshire
Erewash (Derbyshire)
Gedling
Harborough
Herefordshire County of
High Peak
Hinkley & Bosworth
Huntingdonshire
Leicester
Lincoln
Lichfield
Malvern Hills
Mansfield
Melton
Newark and Sherwood
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North East Derbyshire
North Kesteven (Lincolnshire)
North Northamptonshire (Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough)
North Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire (Coalville)
Nottingham
Nuneaton and Bedworth
Oadby & Wigston
Rugby
Rushcliffe
Rutland
Sandwell
Shropshire
Solihull
South Derbyshire
South Holland
South Kesteven (Lincolnshire)
South Staffordshire
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stoke-on-Trent
Stratford-on-Avon
Tamworth
Telford and Wrekin
Walsall
Warwick ( Leamington Spa, Kenilworth)
West Lindsey
West Northamptonshire (Northampton & Daventry)
Wolverhampton
Worcester
Wychavon
Wyre Forest

East of England:
Babergh/Mid Suffolk
Breckland
Broadlands/South Norfolk
Cambridge
East Cambridgeshire
East Suffolk
Fenland
Great Yarmouth
Ipswich
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk
Mid Suffolk
North Norfolk
Norwich
Peterborough
South Cambridgeshire (Cambourne, Sawston)
South Norfolk
West Suffolk (Bury, Newmarket, Brandon, Haverhill, Mildenhall)

[Premier League @premierleague]

Jamie Vardy, a Premier League and @LCFC icon.

[Barry Wall @HeadWarriorTWM]

This may be one of the greatest ass kickings in history.

Utterly glorious.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

I just paid nearly £4k in council tax

With money ALREADY taxed: 

-25% corp tax 
-39% dividend tax 
-Had to add VAT of 20%

So that means I needed to earn nearly £14k (FOURTEEN grand) 

To pay tax to my CITY when I’ve already paid tax to my COUNTRY 

I get NOTHING from £14k just for the PRIVILEGE of living

And what do I get for it?

My bins emptied once a week

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

TAX - Chelmsford Council has found a sneaky way of increasing council tax.

They are now charging residents £60 extra to collect brown bins!

So this man simply gave it back to them. I think this is an excellent idea 👏🏻

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Mr Miliband's decision to make Cuadrilla fill their gas wells with concrete so we cannot benefit from the gas is self harm on a big scale. We need that cheaper domestic energy and the tax revenue and jobs it would bring to replace imported LNG . Importing increases world CO2.

[Nigel Owens MBE @Nigelrefowens]

When will dog owners learn. Very sad indeed. Please let’s do something to sort this out @WelshGovernment @huw4ogmore @SteveReedMP

[Nairno @nairno03]

Ben O’Keefe magically creating penalties out of nothing. Refs love Leinster #IREvENG

[James Bryan @JamesSBryan]

@StockportMBC An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure #stockport

[Golf Escapes @GolfEscapes]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

He nails it. 🎯

“We end up with economically illiterate people in the government. There are not fit for office. This is our money. And I’m sick of being asked to pay more and more for less and less.”

[The Secret Accountant @TheSecretAcct]

Taxed at 45% on income (plus NIC).

Invest any spare of the 55% you have.

Then have any gain on that taxed at 39%.

Oh and of course 20% VAT on any of the 55% you can afford to spend.

But the tax is used well so that’s ok. 🙄

(Note using top rate as an illustration)