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If you missed it. This is Kemi Badenoch's response to Rachel Reeves' disaster budget *in full*.
I've never seen anything like it. Kemi tears her to shreds.
This is absolutely brutal.
Well worth a watch ๐ฅ
From April, we're raising the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage.
The cost of living is the number one issue people are facing, with too many struggling to make ends meet.
I am determined to tackle it.
Keep teaching the hard left in universities and colleges and the more woke left fanatics will be born.. itโs being pushed and rammed down the throats of the younger generations.. theyโre destroying the next generations in front of everyoneโs eyes. The Woke left are fully at war!
Iโm so shocked by the huge quantity of social media posts and clips of woke left fanatics gleefully celebrating Charlie Kirkโs murder. Itโs so brazen, so dehumanised, so disgusting.
What the f*ck is wrong with these people? Elon Musk is right - wokeism is an insidious virus.
Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - letโs walk through it.
Youโve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Letโs say itโs 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 thatโs the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? Youโre 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 youโre 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, itโs 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 youโre facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk?
Itโs 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 wouldnโt want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense.
Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. Theyโre bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations.
But letโs say itโs gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits ยฃ90k. 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, youโre on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. Theyโre rude, and havenโt got a clue what theyโre doing. They promise theyโll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday theyโre working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase.
Incompetence reigns.
Right. Weโve 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 thereโs some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so thereโs less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well letโs take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe youโve 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 youโre 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. Whatโs 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. Letโs see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance.
Iโm 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.
Two weeks until changes to National Insurance come in - rate increasing, threshold drastically decreasing. A truly awful combination.
Huge uproar when itโs announced, now almost nobody in Westminster seems to care. Well, businesses up and down the country still care. This is going to hurt, a lot. Plenty will have made plans, plenty wonโt - the current climate simply doesnโt allow for it.
This is not a small amount of money - for a reasonable sized business, youโre talking tens and tens of thousands of pounds they have got to find every year. Whatโs the result? Fewer pay rises, fewer contracts, less investment. Itโs really that simple.
It is mind-numbingly stupid.
There is ONE way to get an economy pumping. Incentives. Government doesnโt create growth, individuals do - incentivise them.
We should be slashing corporation tax (lowest in Europe), scrapping IR35, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends and much, much more.
Letโs force the public sector to buy British goods and food, particularly from businesses local to the institutions. If a school needs bread, buy it from a local bakery. If a hospital needs equipment, buy it from a British firm. Why is this not already happening?!
Brutally slash back bureaucracy - a red tape bonfire visible from the moon. Ease planning/licence laws for small businesses. Let them actually do business, not just fill in forms and endlessly debate with the latest council drone.
Iโd like to significantly widen the gap between starting a business, and when the first tax is due. Give entrepreneurs the time they need to build and grow. In the medium term, it will generate far more tax revenue.
There is just so much to change, itโs difficult to know where to start.
And a โbusiness ownerโ isnโt necessarily an individual with 30 employees, it could just be one or two. These are the people that drive the economy.
They are not some city fat cat. It's decent men and women who have taken a huge risk in going out on their own. Now they're faced with this? It's all so depressing.
I know, I've done it and invested in numerous individuals who have done it. It is bloody hard work.
My view? Government needs to get the hell out of their way.
Thatโs how we grow the economy, itโs the only way.
"Is cronyism bad under a Conservative government but OK under a Labour goverment?"
Treasury minister, James Murray MP is challenged after it was revealed that the Labour government appointed donors and supporters to civil servant roles.
#Newsnight
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