𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕 🇪🇺 @SimbFan

@LBC @lewis_goodall Brexit has destroyed Britain. Look how many PMs it’s taken down. It’s unworkable and needs to be reversed.

@LBC @lewis_goodall Breaking his manifesto by increasing taxes, but still lying about it, u turns on winter fuel allowance, taxing farmers, Mandelson, the list goes on. He had a chance to make a difference but effed it up.

@AndyBurnhamGM

Another lying, self serving, career politician. This is why this country is broken.

Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM

10 years ago

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

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@tom_watson Calm down Tom. It’s a bit of British humour.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Even the speaker was pissing himself

Starmer and Reeves lost people's trust because they consistently lied about taxes and did the opposite of what they promised on taxation. While their manifesto promised: "We won't be raising income tax, national insurance or VAT” their first budget enacted a huge job-killing increase in national insurance. Reeves promised during the election campaign that: “There is nothing in our plans that requires any further increases in taxes, I have confidence in that. Voters can have confidence. We put out the limited tax increases that a Labour government will introduce and people can be confident that we will not be going further than that … that there are no further increases in tax that we are planning nor that we need to fill any black holes.” In reality Starmer and Reeves pushed through 52 separate tax rises, of which only six had been specified in advance. Prior to the election Keir Starmer said "there is a Labour choice, where we cut business rates to save our high streets and where, if there was a Labour government, you could take that council tax rise you just got and rip it up". But when in power he pushed through huge increases in business rates that have led many pubs and high street shops to close. There were big increases in council taxes too. On the freeze of personal tax thresholds, Reeves said in 2024 “I have come to the conclusion that extending the threshold freeze would hurt working people. It would take more money out of their payslips. I am keeping every single promise on tax that I made in our manifesto. So there will be no extension of the freeze in income tax and National Insurance thresholds beyond the decisions of the previous government." In her 2025 budget Reeves broke this promise and extended the existing freezes so that personal tax thresholds remain fixed in cash terms until 6 April 2031. "I want to lead the most pro-growth, the most pro- business Treasury that our country has ever seen, with a laser focus on delivering for working people,” said Reeves in remarks that now seem like a bad joke. Labour's manifesto promised "a roadmap for business taxation for the next parliament which will allow businesses to plan investments with confidence." That of course was never published and businesses have been reeling from the tax rises that have been imposed, such as the death tax on family businesses. In short Starmer and Reeves were elected on a false prospectus and thoroughly deserve the contempt in which they are now held. Will Burnham be any better?

@AlexioSmithos @RS73448285 @se1 Which won’t happen as councils are skint. Have you not seen that many have been going bankrupt? The government have outsourced it to corporations instead.

@PeakSxnti @TheLocalYidiot By fans overpaying for tickets, merchandise, tv, etc. Fans are getting fleeced.

A UK business that survived 28 years just posted its goodbye video. Not because they stopped trying. Because the environment made survival impossible. This is Reeves' economy. This is what "fixing the foundations" actually looks like. #UKBusiness #SmallBusiness #RachelReeves

Over 2 years, Birmingham City Council spent £84.3million on ‘Transportation Home to School’ The highest paid transport provider was ‘Green Destinations Ltd’ who received £36.6million. ‘AFJ Ltd’ received £17.7million. Registered offices below.

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@TheStingisBack One of my favourite movies. I love the cannonball run 2.

@SpursOfficial Why are we starting and finishing in away matches?

@Holden_fanz @AmandaHolden

@DanNeidle Younger people using technology to their advantage, such as making money through social media platforms, which supplement their income?

@ListerLawrence This is really sad to hear but also not surprising. Decisions being made by successive governments are destroying all forms of business and are very anti entrepreneurship. They are the modern day mafia, taking their slice of the pie regardless of the hardship of the business.

This statistic is very misleading. It’s like saying “The top 50 athletes can do more pushups than the bottom 34million least fittest people combined.” The fit people haven’t stolen the pushups, if anything they are the ones making fitness related infrastructure and industry available to more people. Here’s ten reasons wealth taxes don’t work: 1.Europe already ran the experiment and quit. Twelve OECD countries had wealth taxes in 1990; only four do now   — Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the rest repealed them, and not for ideological reasons. 2.Norway is the live demonstration. A tiny rate hike was meant to raise ~$146m; instead $54bn of wealth fled and revenue fell by ~$448m net.  They hit the opposite of the target. 3.You can only have one. The survivors — Norway, Spain, Switzerland  — don’t stack it on top of heavy CGT and IHT. Norway has no inheritance tax.  Layer it onto Britain’s existing taxes and you’re a unicorn no one has built. 4.Britain already wealth-taxes by stealth. Council tax, stamp duty, dividend tax, frozen thresholds, CGT, 40% IHT — we have a diffuse wealth tax wearing seven costumes. 5.Wealth is a guess, not a fact. Income hit a bank account; wealth is an opinion about future value. You end up taxing — and then litigating — an estimate, every single year. 6.Most people can’t tell wealth from income. The politics sells because the public conflates “owns £10m of illiquid business” with “earns £10m” — they’re nothing alike. 7.It punishes illiquidity. Paper-rich, cash-poor founders must strip dividends from their own companies to pay — taxing ownership by gutting the thing that makes jobs. 8.The mobile escape; the rooted pay. Norway’s most-taxed man left for Switzerland in a weekend.  The regional business owner and the homeowner can’t — so they get the bill. 9.It causes capital flight. More super-rich Norwegians left in 2022 than in the previous 13 years combined.  Capital is the most mobile thing there is. 10.It eats the seed corn. Wealth is just deferred investment — the capital funding the next hire and the next business. It raises little, invites avoidance, and drains the capital base. 

@paullewismoney Labour that. x.com/antoniabance/s…

Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance

8 months ago

It is delightful to watch the anger of the landlord shills on here. I am on the side of renters having a home. Always. No more no fault evictions. Promise made - promise delivered

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@LBC This caller is spot on. They do destroy IT equipment that was used in the field after a single use. Massive wastage as it’s free public money to them.

Keir Starmer: "We don't have £4.5 billion for defence." Keir Starmer the next day: "I’m announcing £4.5 billion for more cycle lanes and zebra crossings." He’s just reached the point where he’s just laughing at us all now. You really couldn't make it up.