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Will this tax apply to MPs when they visit London to sit in Parliament, or other working people who travel for work? One to watch.
Tourism is vital to our economy and our communities, and I want to make sure the cultural institutions welcoming millions of visitors can feel the benefits too.
That’s why the government giving local leaders the power to introduce an Overnight Visitor Levy - to raise and reinvest money in much-loved high streets, public spaces and attractions.
I spoke to @TristramHuntVA, Director of the @V_and_A what the levy could mean for tourist destinations across the country.
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I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc.
Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.
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If your dad would have invested $5,000 every year into John Deere stock instead of tractors since 1975:
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We are getting there! Coming to our senses one by one...
Excl: Labour’s energy policy is “batshit crazy” and the department overseeing net zero is “basically the ministry for P45s”, one of Britain’s most powerful union leaders has said.
In an interview with The Times, Gary Smith accused the government of relying on “sticking-plaster politics” while companies struggled with high energy costs and warned that rising energy bills would create a raft of fresh strikes across the public and private sector.
On Jackdaw and Rosebank he said: “If they do not do this, it will damage hugely the government’s credibility, and it will massively damage investment because that infrastructure, as I understand it, is ready to go — billions of investment. And if it does not now happen, who in their right mind is going to put money into this country?”
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How do you say in Arabic “we hit the gate doing 98, I said “let them truckers roll, 10-4””
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Fuel Prices: 2008 vs 2026.
So tell me — is this really all down to Trump and global oil prices, or are fuel companies and the UK Government taking us for a ride too? 🤔
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More @uklabour taxes reduce a small business profit from 9k to 3.7k says @DanNeidle model. MPs like @SamJRushworth must hate their jobs.
taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/09/12/…
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Family holidays already taxed at 20%. But no that's not enough apparently. They must really hate us.
BBC News - Tourist tax plans for England set to be outlined - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wj…
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When Labour say 'devolution', what they really mean is more politicians, higher taxes, and more interference in our lives.
They'll let mayors put our taxes up, but never cut them.
Taking more of people's money and calling it 'empowerment' is completely outrageous.
Let's have another Emergency Alert to tell everyone to go shopping.
BBC News - Stock up on food to prepare for extreme El Niño weather, minister says - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp93…
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An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
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"Three trillion in debt is not a problem. Debt is just money we haven't taken in tax or printed yet."
Translation - if you didn't vote for us, you only have yourself to blame.
The Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood promised Asylum Housing will be spread fairly around the UK.
Poorer communities will no longer cary the burden, wealthier areas will have a share too.
Britain has always helped those claiming asylum, but it must be done fairly.
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Great analysis of "alt protein"
But this is “unique” and allows people with absolutely no livestock husbandry skills or attachment to nature to build another enormous edifice to churn out splats of reconstituted protein from a stainless steel vessel, so we can carry on concreting over everything and allow the small areas of remaining countryside to become overgrown and catch fire every year. From a perspective of reinventing a wheel that already works, it’s a pretty fucked up version of progress. I’m not even sure people who don’t want to eat meat on ethical grounds want lamb flavoured splat…
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