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something witty and interesting goes here supposedly?!

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@harrym_vids @oakieone @ListerLawrence It's either generational wealth or other businesss that support the farm, but that's completely unsustainable.

The uk governments net zero zealotry is a generational disgrace.

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@fitbatweets @TheRogue87 🤣

[Row Z @drawnfromrowz]

It’s actually happening!

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@AberIytics First time I saw him could tell there was absolutely a player there!

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@sid_lambert Umbro jackets!

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@CeeMacBee We don’t count the carbon footprint associated with imports 🥺

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@ATRightMovies

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

What Ed Miliband is about to do is astonishing.

He is locking us into sky-high energy bills for TWO DECADES.

Everyone from the Tony Blair Institute to energy experts say this is a mistake. It will be the PFI of the energy system.

Ed must scrap his botched wind auction.

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@ATRightMovies Hey, nobody on this aircraft gives a flyin' fuck!

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@Andrew_Frankel Mines similar but less expensive

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@LUDENClassics EP3 type R, the K20, the GOAT of 4 pots..

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Wind is this morning meeting less than 5% of our electricity needs and a mere 3% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised — simply because there is so little wind.
Yes, I know there are days when wind generates much more. But, until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days, that is frankly irrelevant.
The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous.
Yet politicians and the Grifters of the Green Blob continue to lie about this on an industrial scale.

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@kieranhopeabz

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@lewis_goodall Thank the planning & environmental legislation that prevent us from doing major infrastructure projects these days!

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it.

You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe.

Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in.

Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell.

You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives.

But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone.

Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk?

It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother?

Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense.

Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations.

But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold.

That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant.

Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on?

More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother?

Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase.

Incompetence reigns.

Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground?

Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk?

It is brutal.

Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments.

No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government.

You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead.

We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can.

We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more.

If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance.

I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities.

They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not.

My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better.

Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.

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@de_havas Those cars appeal to older people, and they ain’t getting any younger…

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@ListerLawrence Left all day long

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

In a development that won't surprise many people, on Monday the BBC World At One #WATO aired some of the worst misinformation about the cost of renewables I have ever heard. A thread 🧵(1/n)

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Those interviewing E Miliband need to better briefed so they can call him out when he spouts nonsense.
He says fossil fuels are up 60% on the year. In fact oil and gas prices have been trending down and shown marked falls these past 12 months.
He says we are in the grip of petro-state dictators. We get most of our gas from Norway and the USA.
On the other hand he’s been in China pleading with them to take stakes in our solar and wind power + other green infrastructure. Not a petro-sate dictatorship. Just a dictatorship.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The nauseating hypocrisy of E Miliband is jaw-dropping. He and his kind across the political class — Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, SNP — promoted the very energy policies that lumbered Britain with the highest industrial energy costs in the world, making industries like steel uneconomic. They tolerated no dissent from their net zero nonsense even as deindustrialisation gathered pace. And now Miliband has the audacity to pose as the saviour of British steelworkers! In truth, the British political class has shamefully failed them, none more so than net zero zealot Miliband.