Richard Vickers

All views are personal. Always trying to convince Mrs V that the latest horse I have bought is THE one! 2023 is going to be the year we hit the jackpot!

[Wakefield Trinity @WTrinityRL]

"𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙊𝙣𝙚"

Tom Johnstone tells us what it would mean to him to take Wakefield Trinity to a Grand Final after the journey he and the club have been on!

Check out the full interview now 👉🏻 https://t.co/123mZQysTY

#UpTheTrin

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@Catters61 @AnnDuffieldnews Those were the days. Informative, yet entertaining.

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@Colin00007 That is what happens we you have someone competent at the wheel. The UK has idiots!

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This month’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham @andyburnham has just announced he’s increasing foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP, which is £21 billion per year. Let me put that in context for you. The average amount of income tax paid per year by basic rate taxpayers in the UK is £2,700. So that means that nearly 8 million taxpayers in the UK are working all year ONLY to give their wages to foreign governments. There are 30 million basic rate taxpayers in the UK, so one in four people that you see working in restaurants or pubs, nurses, cleaners and many more are paying all of their tax to foreign countries. Countries like Pakistan that can afford nuclear weapons, to India that can afford a space programme, to China that can afford to buy the world, to Somalia that doesn’t have a government, only warlords. Etc etc etc etc etc. One in eight British basic rate taxpayers are paying all of their money not to schools in this country. Not for hospitals in this country, nor to fix the roads, nor anything whatsoever in Britain. Every penny goes abroad. Eight million people here giving their hard earned money to the British government who then give every penny away. Every single penny. So, if you’ve ever wondered why things aren’t improving in this country and wonder what happens to the money you’ve made from your toil and your sleepless nights of wondering how you’ll pay the next bill, that’s what happens to it. 8 million of you are working for foreign governments. Think about that.

[GSK70 @gaztop70]

A reminder that Citeh paid £116m for Elliot Anderson and we paid £99m less for Anton Stach #lufc #Stach

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@WeAreTheOverlap Utter drivel

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@JoeM1904 @1280Sue @UKLabour They have a family - that’s the key difference. Not just looking after themselves.

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@1280Sue @JoeM1904 He is explaining how, under @UKLabour a working class couple are no better off than if they sat at home and claimed benefits. Make sense of that.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;

• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.

Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.

Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...

You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.

Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Wind providing a mere 3% of UK electricity this morning. So we’re having to import 10 times that amount at massive cost. Plus generate almost the same from gas-fired stations expensively kept for this sort of back up. As a result we’re paying an average £136/MWh. Our energy policy is a costly shambles.

[Matt Chapman @MCYeeehaaa]

“MY 83-year-old mum frequents a “dodgy” business. At least that’s according to the Prime Minister. Is she dodgy too then @andyburnham? Shame on you. Shame on you.”
🏇🙏
https://t.co/OyvMSFF4E9

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

So we are being invaded and he’s babbling on about vape shops - he’s useless @DPJHodges

[Stephen R Power @racingblogger]

Betting shops are not “dodgy businesses” simply because some people dislike gambling Andy.

They are legal, regulated businesses operating under a strict licensing regime that employ roughly 37,000 people.

As a young man growing up in London betting shops were a cultural hub for discussion, watching sport, and having an opinion mainly on horse racing.

I like many take offence to "vape shops and dodgy businesses" being linked to betting shops as they are an integral, regulated part of the horse racing industry.

You don’t revive Britain’s high streets by demonising legitimate businesses.

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

Here’s an everyday fix. Lower taxes so people can spend their own money…

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

First @McLarenF1 signed golf bag giveaway!!

Just RT for a chance to win it!!

I’ll pick one winner on Monday 17th September… 🍀

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@KeithSwiftcorn @WTrinityRL @TheLEDStudio Players lost that game - not the coach !!!

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@hoppo07 I think we gave that one away with poor discipline second half. Taught a lesson in what it takes to win at the elite level. Hopefully they learn from it. Got to be smarter than we were in the last 30

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@braivale @talkSPORT Good job you are not the HR Director talkSPORT

[Richard Vickers @Rickvick999]

@Plettigoal @UnitedLeeds_1 I would rather have @seanlongstaff97 all day every day. Most underrated player @LUFC and will have a big season this year. Huge work ethic and always has a goal in him.