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Supporter of Sheffield United Football Club ⚔. Love horse racing 🐎. Work hard, play hard, and live life (oh, and sometimes grumpy 😊).

South Yorkshire
Joined August 2009
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Sheffield United Football Club ⚔
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We now have a convicted criminal standing in for Councillor @andyburnham and @UKLabour at PMQs. How far has this country sunk? FFS.
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If Labour now concedes that employers are working people then the rise in employer’s NI must therefore be a breach of their manifesto pledge.
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The words written for you by the Civil Service to repair the damage of your “employers are not working people” line won’t cut it. The mask has slipped. You and your Labour government don’t understand or care about small businesses or business owners.
Of course the brilliant men and women across the country who run small businesses are working people - they are the backbone of our high streets and our economy.
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At what point do we stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and start asking where all of our tax money is going.
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"Avrei potuto vincere la guerra del Vietnam in una settimana. Hanno continuato a bombardare le foreste per anni invece di puntare su Ho Chi Minh City". Ho Chi Minh City (allora Saigon) era la capitale del Vietnam del Sud, alleato degli USA nella guerra.
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Any of my followers run (or ever run) a business? According to @UKLabour you are NOT working people. Not sure what you are, but you are not working.🤦‍♂️ These are supposed to be serious people. The 🤡s cannot run a fucking bath.
Labour’s Treasury Minister admitted she doesn’t think employers are working people. No wonder. The entire Cabinet has less private-sector experience combined than our Shadow Chancellor. They’re no longer the Labour Party. They’re the Welfare Party.
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Just listening to @JohnHealey_MP on #BBCLauraK - he has his head in the sand. He is kicking every can - benefits, defence, debt reduction, etc - down the road. Come on John FFS.
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Replying to @abbie_wells27
Economically illiterate retards: if you can’t pay whatever wage the government sets, you’re unviable and should just close. Poundland: hold my beer Economically illiterate retards: businesses shouldn’t be allowed to close, think of the job losses! 🤡 Every single time a low IQ thought like this passes through your small brain, you should ask yourself just how much you’re willing to pay for your essential goods and services (and everything else). How much do you want grocery prices to climb? 7% 10%? 20%? Then ask yourself what that means for the people on the lowest rung. Would you be willing to pay 15 pounds for a coffee? No? Well then you’re going to gradually erase your hospitality sector and all of those jobs (that’s already happening, why do you think the same chains are on every street, with your order being taken by a machine?). Prices are bound by what consumers are willing to pay, that’s you, love. Can you explain to us, in all of your wisdom, how businesses remain viable when they’re already at their price ceiling and the government keeps forcing their wage bill up?
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Who remembers Labour coming to power 2 years ago promising 'a lighter touch' on our lives?
🚨NEWS: Angela Rayner's "Banter Ban" law has now come into force meaning Builders caught 'Wolf Whistling' will be sent on 'Respectful Training Courses' It also means bar staff will now be expected to report on customer conversations if they are deemed offensive
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The tone is so weird in Britain around success. They want people to build things and create jobs but not actually get any benefit or gain any wealth for their risk taking. No mention of the 40 staff he hires just the houses. 🤣
“Why should I, a millionaire with 6 houses, suffer a slight loss so that those on minimum wage can afford to live, pay rent, heat their homes and feed their families?” My heart bleeds for you. Entitled fool. They’d pay people a pound a day if they could in the name of ‘profit’.
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Some things that British voters have forgotten. 🔴Making a profit is no vice. 🔴Inequality is not evil. 🔴The fact that tax cuts chiefly benefit people who pay taxes is not an argument against them. 🔴Governments spend money less well than you do. 🔴There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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WTF? A Prime Minister who has never run a business in his life demands answers because a private business fails? … let me help you, Andy & co. A retail chain needs to stay in fashion, needs to go with the flow! … But you and successive governments don’t like their “tat” products (mostly sourced off shore to sell them at £1!!! That the whole point right?) anyway… for free (without a taxpayer funded £MULTIMILLION enquiry I’ll tell you the problems… (you’re welcome) ▪️massively increased regulations and compliance costs. ▪️cheap tat sourced from abroad, with rising shipping and transport costs. ▪️Hit by increased minimum wages and employer National Insurance. ▪️Hit by rising rents and business rates. ▪️Hit by soaring energy bills and net zero costs. ▪️Hit by higher interest rates. ▪️Hit by consumers with less disposable income. ▪️Hit by the soaring cost of borrowing to buy stock months in advance. ▪️Hit by higher insurance premiums. ▪️Hit by shoplifting, organised theft and security costs. ▪️Hit by packaging taxes, recycling regulations and environmental compliance costs.( which you just throw into general taxation, non of it changes the weather) ▪️Hit by higher fuel, warehousing and distribution costs. ▪️Hit by increased employment costs, pensions and statutory obligations. ▪️Hit by competition from overseas online retailers operating with very different overheads.( duty free … for foreign businesses oops) ▪️And hit by the impossibility of passing those costs onto customers, who shop at Poundland precisely because they need cheap stuff! … which isn’t cheap anymore (see above) Every single time you add something on … so do they! And the idiot, deluded politicians who have made Britain more and more expensive and difficult to do business in, are demanding to know why businesses are struggling? You are all moronic. My work here is done 🤡
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This fella absolutely nails it. Has his own business. Employs people. Contributes in every way to a better society. But for what? For the @UKLabour and Councillor @andyburnham to come along and say "fuck you, son - you can and will pay ever increasing amounts of tax." 🤐🤐
‘John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space?’ Business owner Paul Bowen has criticised the Chancellor’s promise to give ‘breathing space’ through measures in his Budget. #budget #businesses #costofliving
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As I have been saying - tax increases. Again. It's the only lever the current Government pull.
This budget does very little to the overall level of tax, and the overall level of tax is going up significantly. Here's the tax increases over the next few years, in 2026 £. You can just about see today's changes in green.
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The last Tory parliament was the worst on record for stagnant living standards. Hold my beer, says this Labour Parliament. We’re on track to be even worse. Source: OBR
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Have they tried taxing them more?
🚨NEW: Business Secretary Jonathon Reynolds' team has written to the owner of Poundland to "establish the latest situation" amid concerns the retailer could soon collapse into administration 12,000 jobs are at risk
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Replying to @MCYeeehaaa
This government is no friend of racing or gambling, so both industries need to get on the front foot together and shift market share from gaming back to betting. That means changing how racing is funded and tackling affordability checks. Tax can change at the next Budget. Affordability checks are the bigger long-term threat, and beating them needs a cultural shift: gambling has to regain its social licence and win the argument against the anti-gambling campaigners.
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Mindblowing chart from OBR. In 2029 real household disposable income per person expected to be just 1% higher than in 2019. What an unbelievably awful decade. It used to grow by 2%+ every year, not 1% in 10 years.
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