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@paulbristow79 thank you for the invite to @UKParliament today to lobby @hmtreasury to remove the 20% vat on children’s school uniform. @conservatives this is a key initiative that needs to be in the spring budget, reducing the cost for parents. @SAschoolwear @branwenjeffreys
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A BIG TEST ON THE ROAD 🔴⚫
The Men’s First Team head to Suffolk tomorrow for an important Thurlow Nunn League fixture against Halesworth Town.
With Halesworth currently sitting 2nd and Netherton in 5th, there’s plenty riding on this one as both sides look to strengthen their position near the top end of the table.
🆚 Halesworth Town
📅 Saturday 7th November
⏰ 3:00pm KO
📍 Dairy Hill, IP19 8JS
If you’re making the journey, your support will be hugely appreciated.
Meanwhile, there’s a double-header back at The Grange, with both of our other senior men’s sides kicking off at 2pm.
The Men’s Reserves welcome FC Parson Drove Reserves in Division One, while our U23s/A’s host Thorpe Wood Rangers ‘A’ in Division Four.
⚽ Reserves v FC Parson Drove Reserves – 2pm
⚽ U23s/A’s v Thorpe Wood Rangers ‘A’ – 2pm
📍 The Grange
A big afternoon across the club — good luck to all three sides.
UP THE NETHERTON! 🔴⚫
#UpTheNetherton #NethertonUnited
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'£183 billion. The highest welfare bill on record. More than defence, schools and policing combined...' 🤯
Alex Burghart challenges Labour’s Louise Haigh over the soaring welfare bill, revealing a staggering statistic that puts the true scale of the spending into perspective.
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LEAGUE CUP ACTION AT THE GRANGE 🏆🔴⚫
The Men’s First Team are back under the lights tomorrow night as we welcome Lakenheath to The Grange in the Thurlow Nunn League Cup.
It’s another knockout night at home and another chance to keep our cup run moving.
🆚 Lakenheath
🏆 Thurlow Nunn League Cup
📅 Wednesday 4th November
⏰ 7:45pm KO
📍 The Grange
If you’re free tomorrow evening, come down and get behind the lads.
UP THE NETHERTON! 🔴⚫
#UpTheNetherton #NethertonUnited
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The lowest quality cabinet in our history... not just bad, but catastrophically bad... and at exactly the worst time.
#LabourOut
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Nothing highlights the fiscal failure of this government more starkly than the plight of Poundland. The chain's 600 stores and 12,000 workers sit on the verge of collapse, not because its customers have walked away - Poundland's sales grew by 6.7% in September - but because of this government's unaffordable tax rises, which makes it impossible to run a business that works on slim profit margins to keep its prices down for its customers. How ironic that a government preaching about helping the least well-off is forcing a company out of business that does just that.
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Britain doesn’t need to go back to the divisions of Brexit.
We need to get on with fixing the problems facing our country: cutting the welfare bill, funding our defence and growing our economy.
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Brilliant from Kemi.
The reason Andy Burnham has so much spare time to do social media and reality TV is because he’s not dealing with the issues that matter. Cut welfare, cut taxes, increase defence, get a grip.
He makes so many mistakes because he’s so out of his depth.
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IMPORTANT CLUBHOUSE BOOKING NOTICE 🔴⚫
Following on from yesterday’s update regarding the clubhouse, it has become apparent that there may be existing bookings made through the previous company that may not have been passed on to us.
If you — or anyone you know — believes they have a booking at The Grange clubhouse, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.
📧 [email protected]
💬 Or simply drop us a DM
Please share this post and help us reach anyone who may already have a booking in place.
Thank you for your patience while we get everything properly organised.
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My current choices.
1. A flawed Tory Party with a decent leader but stuck with poor policies on civil rights, housing and planning
2. A Labour Party run by a man whose worldview is essentially Ben Elton c1986: "thach is evil"
3. A racist Green Party led by a self-loathing Jew
4. The possibly corrupt personal vehicle for Nigel Farage
5. Restore, or the BNP reborn
6. Libdemmery consisting of a leader riding hobby horses while shouting "Trump, Musk, EU" over and over again
Not a great choice.
Are some people seriously contemplating voting Tory again? Have they lost their minds? Do they not remember the years 2010-2024 - the economic stagnation, the housing crisis, the immigration shambles, the deepening 'wokeification' of our institutions and society, the mad green zealotry, the sacrificing of our energy security? Does all that get forgotten because Kemi Badenoch can turn a decent phrase? The Tories deserve to die a slow death. They should certainly never get anywhere near power again for a good many years.
How has Lucy glitters @HerefordRaces not been declared a none runner. Never went by the starter and never ran.
Come on @bet365 that should be a non runner and bets refunded
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Absolutely spot on from @afneil.
This really is as good as it gets for Andy Burnham, as things are about to get much more painful for the British people.
Under Labour, we already have higher inflation, borrowing, debt, unemployment, energy bills and taxes. The country can’t take much more of this.
Labour’s incompetence and economic mismanagement have made everything worse. They’re not fit to govern.
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Well done @Helen_Whately. I don’t think hard pressed taxpayers who struggle at the end of every month will think it’s okay that their tax is spent on cigarettes and gambling
"Isn't it patronising? To tell people how to spend their own money?"
@bbcnickrobinson asks shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately, as the Conservatives promise to prevent benefit claimants from spending their welfare payments on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling.
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If you are feeling poorer since Labour gained power. This is why..
Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy to let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under 65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self employed people.
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Next budget may well include the dumbest economic policy of all time.
The clue is in the name - Capital Gains Tax - means gains on capital that you’ve invested and put at risk. Tax it as if there’s no risk involved and fewer people will invest. Bad for jobs, bad for the economy.
Also bad for tax receipts - you only pay CGT when you sell stuff, so people who’ve invested and own stuff already will defer selling stuff until a future govt sees sense and lowers CGT.
Utterly stupid sixth-form economics.
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8 of Britain’s leading lenders are putting up mortgage rates as inflation rises again. @andyburnham can tinker with bus fares but the cost of living crisis is getting worse under Labour
