The IPPR is a think tank. Think tanks publish proposals. They don't set government policy. The IPPR proposing something is not the same as the government announcing it.
If every think tank proposal became law, we'd have simultaneously abolished and doubled every tax in existence.
But let's address the three proposals on their merits:
NI on pension income. Currently pensioners are exempt from employee NI. The IPPR wants to end that exemption. BUILD UK's position: the state pension should be completely tax-free. Not taxed more. Tax-free.
You paid NI for 40+ years. You don't pay it again in retirement. Private pensions above the £1,500 floor: 5% flat. Not NI. Not income tax rates. Five percent.
Capital gains at 40%. Currently 20% for higher rate taxpayers. Doubling it punishes anyone who invested in a buy-to-let, sold a family business, or cashed in shares they held for decades.
The person who built a small business over 30 years and sells it for retirement shouldn't pay 40% for their life's work. Graduated CGT aligned with income bands is fairer than a flat 40%.
Property wealth tax at 0.65%. Your home isn't income. You can't spend it while living in it. An 85-year-old widow in a house that's risen in value since 1975 doesn't have wealth she can access. She has a postcode that got expensive around her.
She didn't get richer. Her house did. Taxing that is forcing asset-rich, cash-poor pensioners to sell their homes to pay a tax on wealth they can't spend.
The proposals are bad. But "EMERGENCY WARNING" and "ULTIMATE WEALTH GRAB" and "terrifying three-step robbery" is the kind of panic language that stops people thinking and starts them sharing.
The IPPR proposed it. The government hasn't adopted it. If they do, challenge it with facts, not fear.
BUILD UK tax plan: state pension tax-free, private pension 5% flat, personal allowance £20,000, no property wealth tax on primary residence.
Published. Costed. Not a think tank proposal. A policy commitment.
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🚨 EMERGENCY WARNING TO EVERY PENSIONER IN GREAT BRITAIN: LABOUR IS PREPARING THE ULTIMATE WEALTH GRAB!
If you worked hard for 40 years, paid your taxes, and saved for retirement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just placed a massive target firmly on your back.
The highly influential IPPR think tank, which is packed with Burnham's own inner circle, just published the exact socialist blueprint Labour plans to use to bail out their bankrupt government. 🤡
Look at the terrifying three step robbery they are demanding for the October Budget.
First, slapping National Insurance directly onto the incomes of 9.6 million British pensioners.
Second, hiking capital gains tax to a staggering 40 percent to crush your investments.
Third, a devastating 0.65 percent annual property wealth tax just for the privilege of living inside your own family home!
They label you "wealthy" to justify stealing the nest egg you spent a lifetime building. Yet they magically find endless billions to house illegal arrivals in catered hotels without blinking an eye.
They treat the generation that built this country like an absolute cash machine while engineering our total national decline. The mask has completely slipped.
RT and SHARE this everywhere to warn every single retiree in Great Britain before Chancellor John Healey raids their bank accounts! 🇬🇧🔥
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Facebook are protecting rapists
I'm being attacked in various parts of the media today for receiving money from X. I would like to invite those same journalists to Great Yarmouth to see how my entire net MP salary is given to local charities in our community.
Some of the causes I have donated to...
- Great Yarmouth Community First Responders
- St Mary Magdalene Church
- Hemsby Lifeboat
- Phoenix Karate Schools
- Martham Boat Dyke Trust (helping young people get skilled qualifications)
- Shine, a local charity helping children with special educational needs and disabilities
- A graffiti clean up
- Belton Scouts Group
- Caister Lifeboat
- Great Yarmouth Pathway Cafe & Support Centre (food bank)
- Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, ensuring everyone could access a poppy for free.
- Great Yarmouth Sea Cadets
- East Coast Truckers (helping disabled children)
- Great Yarmouth Minister (repairing a church window)
- St Elizabeth Hospice
- Centre 81 Dementia Programme
- Louise Hamilton Trust (end of life care)
- Local football club
- A Heart2Heart lifesaving defibrillator
Each and every month this money is donated - I made a promise during the election, and I am keeping that promise.
I am NOT in politics for the money.
If I wanted to increase my bank balance? TRUST ME - I would not be doing this.
Roughly £100k donated since the election, and I will continue to do so. As promised to my constituents.
If those journalists want to take up the offer and see how that money has been spent, they know where to find me.
@mfaz04@Boo6jgn@Arwenstar Boo is based in Australia. They're the biggest group of brainwashed people who will never see past what their masters tell them to believe. Don't engage, he/she is lost to the cause.
@TheFreds I was a big fan of Dolly Parton until she came out as a Branch Covidian. When she changed the lyrics of ‘Jolene’ to ‘Vaccine’ all my love and respect for her completely died.
Last night we had our first major breakthrough into the mainstream.
Thanks to @MartinDaubney, @PatrickChristys and @GBNEWS for covering the National Lottery story following on from our findings last week.
We achieved that just 14 days after starting this project, and believe me, you have seen absolutely nothing yet.
We have recorded over 22 compromised MPs so far, many examples of fraud, waste and abuse at the council level, and reports to hand over the the Standards Committee for investigation, there is also information that needs to be investigated by local and national bodies as well as the police.
What began with a handful of people has rapidly become a transatlantic network of well over 100 researchers, analysts, investigators and volunteers working together to expose fraud, waste, abuse and the institutional failure and betrayal of Britain. That team will soon be over 1000 people.
We are going to expose the scale of both legal and illegal migration, foreign aid, and woke ideology and its cost to Britain over the past 25 years, and who was involved in it all - every charity, every business, every MP, every council, every director and officer. Everybody who has benefitted and profiteered from the betrayal of their people.
In the coming weeks you will see more reports, scandal, and investigations in the mainstream media, we are speaking daily to journalists and will be on podcasts over the coming weeks as well.
But we aren't just auditing, we are forming NGOs and Charities for the native people of Britain, we will help organise and support Group Litigation Orders (GLOs) against the government, every day we are helping Restore and Reform patriots to audit their local councils, provide crucial data and information to them so that they can hold them to account, take over council control and start to reverse the decline, and much more.
We will also be partnering with video auditors, content creators, citizen journalists, podcasters, on initiatives locally across the UK.
Right now we have the momentum, but we must work together, we must flood the zone with so much information and so much pressure that the establishment buckles and the people involved in it all start to question their involvement in this all.
Finally, please share all of this information with everybody you know, it isn't enough just to keep it on X.
We are going to win.
@AvonandsomerRob Why do @CostaCoffee and @Starbucks allow dogs? My daughter has asthma, a scruffy dog at the next table constantly shook itself showering drinks & food with hairs which triggered an asthma attack. We had to leave. Dogs should be outside!
I feel like it’s finally safe to say this out loud: The COVID era was a time of staggering overreach and repeated, official betrayal. They took our freedom, our livelihoods, and our trust, and no one has answered for it.
We were forced into isolation, fueling a massive psychological crisis. Beaches, parks, and trails where transmission was virtually impossible were closed, ignoring the crucial role of sunlight and Vitamin D for immune function.
The government and employers forced vaccine mandates, making millions choose between a medical treatment lacking long-term safety data and their ability to feed their families. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from liability.
If you had a severe vaccine reaction, you were on your own. When people tried to share these stories of big tech silenced them and deleted their accounts.
The architects of these policies, like Dr. Fauci, shifted goalposts constantly. He received a preemptive presidential pardon from Joe Biden, and when recently questioned by Congress, pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.
The biggest failure? We knew early on that metabolic dysfunction was a massive risk factor for severe COVID. Yet public health officials stayed completely silent on the importance of quality food, exercise, and true metabolic resilience.
Instagram deleted my account in 2021 for pointing all of these things out. YouTube deleted multiple videos on these topics.
We all lost something during those years. Whether it was someone you loved, your job, your sovereignty, or your health... I am truly sorry for your loss.
If all of this makes you angry, you’re my kind of people.
Let's make sure this never happens again.
@BryanWills67112@OldtwitKevin@Starlink Vodaphone - who are providing all the free mobiles and free data to the boat migrants? I'd rather use dial up than give them a penny
So I reported 2 sellers on @vinted using the exact same photos to sell high end items - the scam is to send a t-shirt then ask for a return so they can claim they're the 1 being scammed - and @vinted say the sellers are doing nothing wrong.
Scandalous.