Russell Catlow

Selling Cars, Parts & Hours. Operations Director @ EDEN Motor Group. #mazda #hyundai #vauxhall #mg

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

Wow 🇧🇪

[𝗢𝗹𝗶 𝗚𝘂𝘆🚀 @OliGuy]

@AtwinGracie2002 He creates tens of thousands of high paying jobs, works tirelessly, owns no yacht or big wealth trappings, changed industries, kept Ukraine online, prevented thousands of car accidents, paid billions in tax, regenerated manufacturing in USA...
What have you achieved in your life?

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

@sophielouisecc This statement presumes those young brits are prepared to do the work, are they?

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

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[Max Scott @maxbscott]

Forget about Phil Foden and Cole Palmer.. they’ve been miles off it.. Morgan Gibbs White not being picked is a travesty.

No other English player in the Premier League has scored more goals

He’s one of two English players nominated for PL players of the season.

That decision flies in the face of meritocracy.

He’s worked so hard to reach this level, he’s carried Forest on his back to premier league survival.

A sad day for one of the nicest, most hard-working players you’ll see in the game.

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

Taxes

OH …UNITED KINGDOM
This is very interesting.
If I give you £1 billion and you stand on a street corner handing out £1 per second, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, you would still not have handed out £1 billion after 31 years!

Now read on. This is true and rather hard to really understand.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.
1. A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
2. A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
3. A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
4. A billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
5. A billion Pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our present government is spending it.
We are charged:
· Stamp Duty
· Tobacco Tax
· Corporate Income Tax
· Income Tax
· Council Tax
· Unemployment Tax
· Petrol/Diesel Tax
· Inheritance Tax (tax on top of tax)
· Alcohol Tax
· G.S.T.
· Property Tax
· Purchase Property Tax
· Tax on Title Searches
· Tax on Building Inspections
· Tax on supplements
· Taxes on various food items
· Taxes on Dining out
· Tax on all utilities – Phone, hydro, water, waste disposal
· Service charge taxes
· Social Security Tax
· Vehicle License / Registration Tax
· Vehicle Sales Tax
· Workers Compensation Tax
· And now Carbon Tax
AND I’m sure you can think of more...

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago, and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt.
We had the largest middle class in the world. A criminal’s life was uncomfortable. What on earth happened?

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

Dyche doesn’t half sound bitter on @talkSPORT this morning #nffc

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

1,000% this ⬇️

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Which club is getting relegated from the Premier League?🤔

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

@tankhead1986 @Warner316 😂😉

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

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[Wilkie (Richard Wilkinson) @WilkieisBack66]

Slave reparations!

I’m all in!

I’ve decided to personally gift £1 million Sterling to every single person my family ever enslaved.

Please form an orderly queue and bring:
• Ironclad documents proving my family personally enslaved you (bonus points if they include my great-great-grandpa’s signature and a Polaroid).
• Your birth certificate proving you were born before Britain abolished slavery on 1 August 1834.
• Proof you’re still alive (the gift can only be claimed in person, no ghosts, no estates, no “my ancestor told me so”).

Oh, and while you’re at it, maybe swing by the local cemetery with a shovel. I’m sure those poor souls buried since the 1800s would appreciate being dug up for their cheque. They’ve waited long enough, right?

Look, if we’re doing “reparations” for historical slavery, let’s do it properly: only to the actual victims. Not their great-great-great-grandchildren who were born free in the 20th or 21st century, sipping oat milk lattes while tweeting about “trauma.”

This isn’t justice, it’s a cosmic-level grift.

It’s like demanding the Roman Empire pay for the roads they built because some distant ancestor got conquered by Caesar. Or billing modern Italians for every Gaul who got turned into a slave 2,000 years ago.

Newsflash: No living person in Britain today was a slave under British law, and no living person in Britain today owned slaves under British law.

The people who suffered are dead. The people who profited are dead.

Their descendants, Black, White, Asian, mixed, whatever had zero say in it.

Chasing “reparations” from random taxpayers (including the descendants of abolitionists, coal miners, and people who arrived after 1834) isn’t healing historical wounds. It’s creating new ones while opening the most hilarious Pandora’s box in human history:

• Should Ireland demand reparations from Britain for the Potato Famine?
• Should Britain demand reparations from Denmark for the Viking slave raids?
• Should Italians bill Mongols for the sack of Baghdad?
• Should every African nation start invoicing each other for the centuries of tribal warfare and slave-trading that predated (and supplied) the transatlantic trade?

Where does the grievance chain end? 1066? The Bronze Age?
Lucy the Australopithecus getting stiffed on her cave rent?

Slavery was a universal human horror, practised by every civilisation from the Egyptians to the Aztecs to the Arabs to the Africans themselves (who sold millions into the trade).

Britain didn’t invent it.
Britain ended it, at massive cost, with the Royal Navy spending decades hunting slave ships while other empires kept right on going.

Demanding cash from people who never owned slaves, to give to people who were never slaves, isn’t “reparations.” It’s retroactive time-travel cosplay with other people’s money. It’s the ultimate participation trophy for historical victimhood: “My ancestor suffered, therefore I deserve a payout… even though I live in a free society with more opportunity than 99.9% of humans who ever lived.”

If you want actual justice, how about this radical idea:
Stop obsessing over who owes whom from 200 years ago, and start judging people by what they do today. Work hard. Build. Create. Don’t inherit grievances like their family heirlooms.

The desire for slavery reparations isn’t righteous anger. It’s lazy, entitled, historically illiterate greed dressed up as moral superiority, demanding a lottery win for a suffering you never endured, from people who never caused it.

My £1 million offer stands.
Just bring the paperwork.

And a time machine.

#Reparations
#Slavery

Oh, and fcuk you Lenny Henry.

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

@Lord_Sugar @NAIRA680411 8

[The Sales Bull 🎯 Follow if you sell B2C or B2B @TheSalesBull1]

Earn £100k in Britain and the government takes 31p of every pound

Push to £110k and they take 62p of every extra pound

They don't punish the rich

They punish the ones trying to get there

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

Disgusting!

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

The way Femerbahce fans left the Nottingham Forest away end last night.

Absolutely no need at all… 🤬

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

The greatest! Rest in peace #nffc

[Nottingham Forest @NFFC]

We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Nottingham Forest legend and dear friend, John Robertson.

A true great of our Club and a double European Cup winner, John’s unrivalled talent, humility and unwavering devotion to Nottingham Forest will never ever be forgotten.

Our thoughts are with John’s family, friends and all who loved him.

Rest in peace, Robbo… Our greatest.

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

This is a farce #JakeJoshua

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

Why has Kate Abdo suddenly got an American accent?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Out and about on a Saturday morning, seeing window cleaners up first thing getting on with the job. Plumbers and electricians starting work. Cafe owners, opening for a busy day. Publicans, preparing for the weekend Christmas rush.

Such a brutal contrast to the army of jumped-up little civil servants and politicians in Whitehall who have already clocked off the Christmas - the ones who implement the tax, devise the nonsense regulations, make the life of small business owners absolute hell.

They don't care about dividend tax rises, or VAT thresholds, or IR35, or mountains of bullshit HR rules.

They don't understand, they don't care.

Comfortable work environments, absolutely zero accountability, total job security, great pensions, no targets. Nobody EVER gets fired. The out of office reply in regular use, of course.

Work from home a few days a week. Maybe head in for drinks once a week, but that's at a stretch. Don't even try and contact them past 15.00 on a Thursday.

These busy little bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own pompous role seems irreplaceable.

Honestly we need to drag these people into the real world. The world of Saturday morning work. Weekend work. ANY WORK.

Freeloaders gliding through life on the back of productive Britain.

I'm with the cafe owner. The publican. The window cleaner. The plumber. The electrician.

THEY deserve our respect and our gratitude.

They're the ones who make this country work, not the pretentious empire-building desk-jockey in central London.

A total reset is required.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Grummz But she would have to admit that landing rockets, rebuilding the Internet in space and making electric cars that can drive themselves are damn good cons 🤣🤣

[Russell Catlow @RU55_ELL]

@Forest_Review Home shirt please 🙏

[Forest Review @Forest_Review]

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