Gary Fisher

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

When your wife is at home and you forget your phone.

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@LeilaniDowding @Keir_Starmer Stop sitting on the fence 😀

[Together @Togetherdec]

We’ve got passports
We’ve got National Insurance numbers
We’ve got driving licences

We don’t need compulsory Digital ID cards @uklabour!

We managed to defend our borders for hundreds of years without Digital ID

Digital ID won’t "control immigration"
It WILL control YOU!

[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.

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@DoctorTro je ne comprends pas

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@Mofoman360 @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain_ 💯

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@nickdixon Disrespectful to all Ben and Rupert supporters, attitudes like that will definitely lose support for Reform even if you are the only realistic option? ATM may I add.

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@SBakerMD Not out in uk yet

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

#ClimateCrisis in a nutshell - perfect summary:

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@Mofoman360 @RupertLowe10 💯

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Real or AI?

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

Milling wheat strike in Uk ?
Will we see #rationing ?
Food security needs to be taken seriously will MPs listen ?
Apr and bpr has united farmers in uk more than ever to stick together & show just how important home grown food is !

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@Iromg It's probably safer than some of the cretins on our roads today.

[Kiss the Ground @kissthegroundCA]

Our latest research reveals that 88% of consumers prefer ambiguous terms like 'fresh' and 'natural' over more credible, science-backed labels, such as 'regenerative' and 'local'.

Read the full report here: https://t.co/zEB8xxLK4y

#RegenerativeAgriculture #Research #Regeneration

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

100 years ago:

organic food was just food
grass fed beef was just beef
sourdough bread was just bread
regenerative farming was just farming
spring water was just water
raw milk was just milk
living connected to nature was just living

We must return

[Allan Savory @AllanRSavory]

We took a short drive on the road along the river by our home this morning. As you can see, a bit overgrown due to cattle! This is exact same land on which we used to be able to see a herd of impala at 200 meters at this time of year, in the days before we began managing holistically. Now we could not see one at one meter. And this is what we are seeing following now over twenty years of poor rainfall. The river this year already drier than ever known. If only…….

[Allan Savory @AllanRSavory]

I see that today the 2013 TED Talk (https://t.co/MdlC3iQnVI ) I gave explaining man-made desertification, for the first time in history, exceeded 9 million viewers. This talk did more in 20 minutes than anything I have been able to achieve in a life spent trying to first understand, and then solve, the problem of global biodiversity loss and desertification fueling climate change. Climate change that will continue even if burning of all fossil fuels stops tomorrow, because of desertification in the US and globally.
Tragically the talk still carries a disclaimer by TED because as I understand it they were so strongly criticized for even allowing me to talk by the world’s academic experts on desertification and climate change. I hope millions more watch it and perhaps consider acting as I suggest in this blog https://t.co/MzyJ5OmVYt

[Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise]

RFK Jr. says the President has lost 30 lbs, in part by (mostly) skipping the bun on his burgers.
Ditch the sugars and grains to lose weight and improve metabolic health. I can't believe this message is finally getting out there!
https://t.co/vnwR2mLqQD

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@LeeHurstComic Nah Romans

[Gary Fisher @odchamp]

@zoeharcombe Work Monday then!