Ross Catchpole

[Talking THFC @TalkingTHFC]

Just got served this. Hit me like a train.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nails tough-love parenting: “Hard choices now, easy life later.”

Kids want TV, junk food, instant fun. Give in every time = “fat, stupid kids.” Real kindness isn’t caving in the moment—it’s loving who they could become more than who they are right now.

So sometimes you gotta be “a little bit mean” in the moment to build disciplined, capable adults.

The kindest parents aren’t the nicest in the short term—they’re the ones willing to absorb the tantrum so the child doesn’t pay for it forever.

Parents: What’s one “mean in the moment” boundary you set that paid off big later? Share your story.

[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.

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

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[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🗣️ Ange with the biggest mic drop in history. 🎤

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

There is a lot of hypocrisy in football. Big Ange got called wreck less and grilled weekly for playing open/expansive football- to a point I think it’s broken him and the team!

Open=wreckless
Controlled = boring

Football fans don’t know what they want anymore!

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Personally, I think what Neville discusses here is a big part of the reason why a lot of people are feeling less enthused about football at Premier League level general. It does feel, in a lot of games (not all) as though micro-management is king.

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@Horty86 The most Bizarre thing about this post is how they are boasting that the UK being at war is creating more jobs. Is this supposed to bring us joy?

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@RachelReevesMP Very concerning from the person deciding the countries financial future. Prices are going to skyrocket to offset the NI increase. Any pay increases/bonuses that were planned will be scrapped. The list could go on! Already seen my child’s nursery bill increase by over 10%.

[KOBra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @KOBCOB2]

Isn’t this the truth!

[Daniel O’Reilly @dapperlaughs]

Amount of people saying “Stay & fight”, like this is some war movie. You cant fight. You cant even protest without being called racist.

& Fight who? How? The whole country is fucked, the water companies robbed us & dumped shit in the water, you can’t swim anywhere you’ll get ill & die. The country is literally a shit hole.

The councils are bankrupt & cant even fix a pot hole & charge you council tax for the privilege of doing fuck all while robbing you.

Moneys taxed, cars taxed, petrols taxed, booze, food EVERYTHING is taxed, then if you manage to save enough money after its been taxed to buy a house you get taxed on that, then if you die and pass it to your kids that gets taxed. They literally want everything from the working man while they hide their money. Its a con, we are being conned.

& We are about to get taxed even more.

NHS is fucked. Cost of living fucked. Interest rates are fucked, & we got years of it getting worse before it gets better.

Londons a hell hole & unsafe after dark. I hate it.

The men think they are women, kids are encouraged to think about their sexuality & gender.

Our soldiers are getting stabbed.

Our police are pussies & the ones that aint get fired.

& that aint even getting started on illegal immigration, thats getting worse.

If my country ever needed me to actually fight id be there, 100%, but i ain’t gambling the lifes of my three daughters in the mean time, & even if they did survive growing up here for what? To live in a shit hole full of fucking wierdo’s. No thanks.

Where would i go? Somewhere with a backbone, a bit of sun & with less risk of your kids getting murderd, like Australia, Russia or fucking North Korea.

I whole heartedly encourage anyone with young kids that have the ability to leave to do so. Todays events in Southport have rocked me to the core, im sat here looking at my daughters feeling sad.

You can still work on trying to get your voice heard while your kids are safe.

I want my kids to live not survive.

[Fezza @fezzaNUFC1996]

#NUFC

[Prem Inside @ThePremInside]

I can’t believe this is Tottenham I’m watching. After five years of being shackled we are finally unleashed.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Solid from James Maddison. Very solid.

[Talking THFC @TalkingTHFC]

Robbie Williams is fully COYS 🔥👏

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@KPFCROYALS Top top bloke and sad to hear this. Always made me feel welcome during my time at the club and such a friendly/funny guy. Thoughts are with everyone- RIP Huggy. 💙

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Turn off you televisions. If they could manage to convince you to take a brand new experimental and harmful gene therapy via this sort of concerted propaganda, they’ll convince you we are all about to burn to death as well.

Just turn it off. It’s bollocks. None of the climate junkies have ditched their yachts and private jets. It’s a scam. Worse than the covid cold.

They are relying on you being gullible again. We are relying on them being wrong again.

Like every single time they have ever tried this crap before.

Live strong and free.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Every word of this from @KonstantinKisin. https://t.co/mOjurB3BfE

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@Forbesey14 ???

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

DAVID MOYES IS MASSIVE!

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@Forbesey14 @SpursOfficial Not a chance mate- love Antonio. You can have half our squad though, you might stay up then.

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

Agree with all of his points. Some @SpursOfficial fans won’t like it but he speaks the truth.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

An astonishing rant from a VERY unhappy Antonio Conte after Tottenham's draw with Southampton ⤵️

[Ross Catchpole @RossCatchpole]

@Forbesey14 West Ham squad on par with Brighton, brentford. Top 10 max. Back to reality.