Sean Toms

Entrepreneur, risk taker , free marketeer , libertarian interested in financial & current affairs , politics , world news , new trends & breaking news

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@RichardBurgon Your high tax , high spend and culture of dependency has no future Richard

Expect to lose your seat at the next election and Labour to lose power.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country via @InstituteGC https://t.co/OJZVK7JlGE

Tony Blair’s 5000 plus word policy document

My summary

Low taxes , small government, free enterprise

From this springs growth and from that power

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

Police pelted with bottles as Celtic fans celebrate Premiership title win - what an appalling example of football hooliganism, the Police enter the crown to help with a medical emergency and are pelted with bottles , incredible https://t.co/81RiZojUap

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@Keir_Starmer @DeborahMeaden @GordonBrown This is an appalling decision, to survive let alone thrive , you need fresh thinking , not reheated dogma from the serial failures of the past

Whose idea was this ?

Sack them , oh it was your own idea , time to consider your own judgement, again …..

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@RichardBurgon @arise_festival @TUCGinfo Quite correct Richard

It’s your policies that are wrong

Excessive taxation
Constant attacks on business
Attacks on the private rented sector
Uncontrolled immigration
Out of control public spending

Reform will sweep Labour from power and restore accountability

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

Ed Milliband states that BP profits are “morally and economically wrong”

But hang on HMG benefits from much increased VAT on every £spent and increased corporation and other windfall tax receipts from BP

Fuel duty should be cut back as HMG are profiteering from a crisis

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@KirstieMAllsopp Exactly , this shows just how dangerous the Green Party and its leader are . In the USA this man would have shot for not releasing his knife and here in the UK some people hand wring about excessive force being used on a man who has already stabbed two people.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@campbellclaret @Ofcom It must be annoying Alastair when someone so biased is allowed to have so much oxygen 🤣, it’s annoying for us with you but it’s called freedom of speech ….i know you are not keen on that unless the speakers say what you like

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

Yet another example of a criminal who successfully appealed deportation for a crime committed, and then went on to brutally rape a woman . When are UK courts going to protect women from men like this by kicking them out of the Uk at the first opportunity! https://t.co/2rgJdM8uLp

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@Matt_Pinner Makes a big impression !

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@edballs what a fantastic interview with Susannah of Zac Polanski

Wants to legalise all drugs
Have totally open borders
Ban the private rented rented sector

Well done for exposing the actual policies of the Green party to real scrutiny

Bring him on again please 🙏

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@Ed_Miliband Wow , just read 100 replies and not one supportive of you

Rather like the move to EPC C to be able to rent out a property in 2030 , this is leading to vast landlord sell ups , major housing shortages and rent increases

Ever heard of the laws of supply and demand ?

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@ZackPolanski I heard today that your view is that right of centre voters should be shunned .

This reveals an authoritarian streak to you and your party.

It’s reminiscent of Hilary Clinton calling Trump supporters “the deplorables”

It did not end well for her did it ?

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The Downfall of New York City

The promises sound shiny. Government stores. Government housing. Free buses. Free childcare. But beneath these made-for-Internet slogans, New York is being led toward the same failed experiments that have collapsed cities and economies throughout history.

Government Stores
Mandimi’s plan for “public retail” is being sold as an equity initiative. The idea is that the city will open government-run grocery stores to compete with private businesses that supposedly “overcharge” residents. But this model has been tested before—Caracas, Havana, Moscow, even small pilots in the U.S.—and it never works.

Private bodegas operate on razor-thin margins of one to three percent. They survive through efficiency, loyalty, and hustle. A government store doesn’t need to compete or profit—it just needs funding. When it fails, taxpayers refill the till. Eventually, private shops can’t match subsidized prices and close their doors. The entrepreneurs who spent decades serving their neighborhoods are replaced by bureaucrats with no incentive to care.

The end result: no competition, no innovation, no service. Just sterile shelves and a waiting line.

Government Housing
Mandimi calls it “affordable housing for all.” History calls it something else: slums. Every nation that’s tried mass government housing has seen the same pattern—low quality, poor maintenance, unsafe environments, and despair.

Rent control, another part of the plan, sounds compassionate but kills housing supply. When landlords can’t charge market rates, they stop improving their properties because they’ll never recover the costs. Amenities vanish, repairs are delayed, and buildings decay. Eventually, the city steps in, buys the properties for pennies, and turns them into more public housing—permanently trapping residents in government dependence.

In Soviet Russia, those gray concrete towers were hailed as progress. Within years, they became monuments to neglect.

Free Buses
There is no such thing as “free.” Someone always pays. Eliminating fares shifts the cost from the rider to the taxpayer. The expense doesn’t disappear—it just hides in the budget.

If affordability is the issue, the answer isn’t to make buses free—it’s to make people prosperous enough that they can afford their own transportation. Free rides don’t create opportunity. Jobs and wages do.

Free Childcare
New York already faces a severe shortage of childcare workers. Adding “free childcare” just drives more demand into a system with no supply. The burden shifts to taxpayers—including those who chose not to have children.

Having a child is a personal decision. The responsibility is private, not public. Turning parenthood into a collective expense is redistribution disguised as compassion.

The Pattern Repeats
Mandimi’s platform continues with the same recycled ideas—expanded subsidies, new agencies, public jobs programs, “guaranteed income.” Each one sounds generous, but every dollar comes from someone else’s pocket. Each new promise creates a new dependency, a new bureaucracy, and a new layer of inefficiency.

New York City was built by entrepreneurs, artists, immigrants, and dreamers—not by planners with clipboards. Every time government expands, independence shrinks. Every “free” program carries an invisible tax. Every intervention erodes the competition that keeps cities alive.

Our Sad Closing Thoughts
Feeling good about voting for someone different doesn’t make their ideas new. Mandimi’s platform is a repetition of ideas that have failed every single time. These are recycled policies from failed systems around the world, dressed up in modern slogans.

The downfall of New York City won’t come from a lack of compassion. It will come from confusing control with care, equity with ownership, and governance with growth. History has already written this story. We just seem determined to repeat it.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@RichardBurgon The Workers Rights Bill will be a huge impact on hiring anyone marginal.

No Labour government has ever left power with unemployment lower than when elected

This bill seals Labours fate.

Start looking for a new job Richard sharpish !

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@DavidLammy get a grip man …….this was your comment today in Parliament

You need to get grip.

You have misled the houses of Parliament

You are incompetent and your government is incompetent

Resign

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@Peston Only if Labour want to lose the next election - she is a toxic socialist that huge numbers of the electorate have no connection with - high spend , high tax , and she cannot even get her own tax affairs in order.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@ElizabethBangs You forget to mention incompetent….whatever else a PM maybe , competence is paramount.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@sharrond62 The problem is that the Labour front bench have almost no experience of working in the private sector and none have any experience of founding and running a business .

They are totally out of their depth …..and they don’t take advice , socialists are lead by dogma.

[Sean Toms @seantoms]

@DanielPriestley Excellent points excessive tax on individuals and companies kills ambition and investment