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If you can spare four minutes to watch this, I think it really captures who he is. If it doesn’t change your opinion, that’s completely fine just try to watch with an open mind.
The bricklayer exposing working-class fury at Britain’s benefits bill.
A viral video lamenting the UK’s welfare spending captured the widespread anger of workers towards shirkers – and towards Labour’s Budget.
Among the many videos doing the rounds on social media after this week’s Budget, Don Daniels’s struck home harder than most.
Daniels, 36, a bricklayer who lives in Leeds but is originally from Sheffield, posted a short clip of himself on a snowy building site, dressed in work wear, complete with balaclava, hard hat, boots and a high-vis jacket.
He adopts a Herculean pose, with one boot resting on a stack of breeze blocks.
The caption on the video reads: “Some days I want to give up but there’s people on benefits depending on me.”
In the wake of a Budget that raised taxes and welfare spending, Daniels’s video went viral on Instagram and TikTok, attracting tens of thousands of comments, likes and shares. Some disagreed, but most did not”
This 👇
I earnestly believe in this.
Yes it's very hard work at times, not glamourous, but trades people keep the world functioning. Without them everything would stop.
Fancy university degrees? No use at all, mostly.
Kids should learn a trade; they'll never be short of work.
Who else agrees that ALL councils in this country should be investigated to see exactly what they are doing with our money?
There needs to be more accountability
If you abolish inheritance tax completely, the first thing you do is remove admin and stress from people as they are grieving.
Secondly the beneficiaries of wills receive a large amount of money.
Thirdly they spend the money driving the economy.
This helps generate profits in the private sector creating jobs and means taxes are paid to the govt.
If you keep Inheritance Tax in play, even with a higher threshold, the govt will take the money and waste it.
The economy will not be stimulated and no new, real jobs, will be created, just public sector ones that then require more taxes to feed.
Not a deal breaker for me with Reform, but radical moves and simplification are the key to rebuilding Britain, not tinkering with an already bad system.
Just abolish inheritance tax.