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Birmingham, England
Joined October 2010
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Is it time to get on the Aston Villa hype train? On The Game podcast, Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson praise the squad rebuild that Unai Emery has overseen at the club. 🔗 Link in the thread below to listen to the full podcast 🗣️ @GregorRoberts0n, @_TomClarke
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I earn £100 grand a year. I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker. I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today. My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK. Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson. That is a disgrace. We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations. Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free. We need something radical. Less state. More family. Less handouts. More reward for risk. Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
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A Budget that amounts to pissing into a westerly gale - tinkering around the edges while the British economy burns, with a treasury packed full of economic arsonists. It is an insult to every taxpayer, every struggling business and every family being bled dry by this rotten economic system. Nothing will change - we continue our uninterrupted plunge into the abyss. The country is drowning in debt. I don’t know how else to say this… We are BANKRUPT. We cannot afford any of this. Nothing. A crushing tax burden remains, small businesses are strangled and as employers we’re punished for creating jobs. For what? To fund millions of scroungers who can’t be arsed to work like the rest of us? Foreigners who turn up and expect housing, benefits, healthcare? When our tax goes up, THAT is what we are funding. Debt is now THREE TRILLION. We can thank lockdown for a large part of that. But please think about it. Three trillion. The scale is just unimaginable. Yet we get another Chancellor fiddling with the numbers while the country goes up in flames. Billions and billions and billions get added every month. It is GROWING. I don’t know how else to say this. The people governing us seem absolutely incapable of understanding one basic principle. Wealth is created by businesses and workers. NOT by politicians spending somebody else's money to win votes. NOT by the state. NOT by the public sector. I detest it. The British people, working mums and dads, are expected to work longer and harder to fund this corrupt charade - all while giant multinationals shift vast profits out of our country on the back of their work and bloated corporates extract outrageous contract profits from the taxpayer thanks to criminal public sector mismanagement. I challenge Healey or Burnham. Go and start a business. A cafe, a contractor, a small shop. Try being a sole contractor on the tools. Experience these taxes, the regulation, the stress. Have their families rely on sporadic invoices. Watch their earnings get siphoned off by a corrupt state. Let’s see how they get on. The system does not need reforming, or conserving - it needs smashing up. We need to rip apart, limb from limb, the failed assumptions that have governed British economic policy for decades. Cut the waste. Shrink the state. Slash the tax burden. Back small British businesses. Reward work. Restore the incentive to invest, build, employ and succeed. Get millions of healthy Brits OFF benefits. Give people a reason to work. BE UNPOPULAR. If healthy scroungers hate me for taking their benefits off them, good. Get used to it. It’s all that, on a scale never seen before, or the country will collapse further into a third world hellhole - only this time we’ll get the hyperinflation and total economic catastrophe in addition to the migrants. I refuse to leave a broken, bankrupt nation to my children and grandchildren. Restore Britain is offering a route out. It will be painful, more than anyone realises. But it is the only way.
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More tax on savings. Savings I’ve already been taxed on and will be taxed on it again when I die. What’s the point?? I would never vote for Labour as long as I live
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Darren 🦁 retweeted
🚧 Travel update: M42 weekend closures - Villans travelling to and from Villa Park this weekend are advised to plan ahead, with major road closures in place for HS2 works. M42 Junction 7 link to M6 northbound and M42 full weekend closure between Junctions 6 to 9 northbound and J9 to 7 southbound from 9pm on Friday 30 October until 5am Monday 2 November 2026. ℹ️ Further information can be found here: hs2.org.uk/work-items/m42-fu… 🛣️ Signed diversion routes will be in place, but please allow extra time for your journey and check your route before setting off. For full details and diversion maps, see the HS2 information: hs2.org.uk/map/ Plan ahead and travel safely. #AVFC
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It’s Gordon Cowans’ birthday today. So here he is casually carving up the Inter defence like a Christmas turkey in 1990.
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Ever the professionals…Jamie’s side eye as Dermot Gallagher spoke sent me.
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Matchday in the Carabao Cup 🏆
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One thing about the Balon D’or that made me laugh was how Arsenal didn’t win a single trophy.
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England Under-15 1986
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My relation in this team!
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If Man City were to he relegated, which players would you take? Unlimited budget and no competition. Who would you replace?
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Replying to @AstonVilla
Played the best football of my career alongside this man… he made the game look effortless, but my God, he put the bloody effort in! Ten stone wet through but threw himself into tackles like his life depended on it! 👊💥 Superb passer of the ball too & top man on the pitch… and off it! ❤️🙌🙌🙌
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Preparations on the west coast 🔋
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Well deserved 👏 @piersmorgan
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Spent more on that suit than he has in the transfer market during his time at Villa..
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Darren 🦁 retweeted
Today's Villans away at Blackpool for @JerseyMikesTpy action ✊
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