Pat Phillips-Hague @patph01

Righteous Rage on the streets of Belfast after an attempted beheading and eye gouging. Why should nationals be calm? Do not condemn the response of decent people. Condemn the feral ghouls who are set amongst us.

The woman speaks for the entire country right now. An absolutely glorious rant against Keir Starmer. And she signs off in the most quintessentially British way.

Starting and running a business in Britain in 2026 - let’s go through it, step by step… You've got a good idea. You've worked hard, saved some money, and decided to take a risk. A big decision. Let's say you want to open a coffee shop - nothing overly extravagant. Surely this is possible, right? Available unit on a local high street, you see a gap in the market. A simple ambition to build something. Create jobs. Generate wealth. Contribute to your local community. Maybe even build a better future for your family. Exactly the sort of person politicians claim they admire. Unfortunately, you've chosen the wrong country to do it in. Britain. 2026. Labour. Bugger. The first thing you discover is that absolutely nothing is straightforward. You register the business. Not impossible, but hardly simple. The foreign vape shop owners manage it, so why not you? Done. In fairness, not the most challenging part of this story... Then comes the bank account - you’d think opening a business account would be a routine matter. Instead, you're treated like a criminal. You want to sell coffee, not arms. The banks are simply out of control in this country. Just like the lawyers, but that’s a different story. Legitimate entrepreneurs should not be waiting weeks while faceless compliance departments shuffle paperwork between themselves and refuse to answer questions - slash it all back and let people just get on with it. Eventually you get through that hurdle and secure the premises. Perfect location. Lots of footfall. Not a total dump. It can work. Then reality arrives. The rent is eye-watering - contracts have clause after clause after clause. How can anybody understand it all? Insurance is through the roof. And before you've served a single coffee, the local authority is already getting its grubby hands on your money. Energy costs are so very painful... Business rates - one of the most destructive taxes in Britain. And for what? What do we get from that money? You are effectively punished for occupying premises and creating economic activity. For PAYING TAX. It is insane. A Restore Britain Government would abolish business rates entirely for small high street businesses. Pubs, cafes, bakeries. All of it. No business rates. Then come the inspections. Oh joy. The paperwork. The bureaucracy. The council gnomes. Nobody objects to basic standards. Of course cafes should be clean and safe. The problem is that too much of the system now exists to justify the existence of regulators rather than help businesses succeed. They are there to prove that their job needs to exist. So rules get put on rules, on top of more rules. It is endless. Many of the people enforcing these rules have never built a business, never employed anybody and never risked their own money. Never done anything. Work half weeks, with 30+ days holiday a year. Fridays at home, of course. A profession filled with nit-picking gits. Restore Britain would conduct a full bonfire of unnecessary regulations and introduce a simple principle. Every regulation should have to justify its existence - if it doesn't prevent genuine harm, it goes. It will be glorious. We will tear it all down. But let’s say you get through this. You stumble on. The cafe opens, and goes well. People like it. It grows. The coffee is good. You need help. Another bureaucratic nightmare. PAYE. National Insurance. Pensions. Employment contracts. Holiday entitlement. Workplace policies. Health and safety obligations. The worst of all - HR. You look at it all, and just think what’s the point? Is it worth the risk? That is a disaster for our economy, and a disaster for youngsters looking for work. Restore Britain would slash back employer National Insurance, simplify employment law for small firms and create a framework that protects good employees without treating every employer as a potential criminal. The HR-ification of Britain will end. If I had to pick a 'profession' I hate the most, HR has to be number one. Employers will be able to sack employees for not doing the job properly. It doesn’t matter if they’re black, gay, Muslim or whatever else. This ‘protected characteristic’ nonsense will be stripped away. The only protected characteristic we’re interested in is competence. We will repeal The Equality Act 2010. This is key. This is where so much of the bullshit emanates from. But let’s say you don’t want to bother. Maybe bringing in contracting services could work. Wrong. IR35 - one of the most economically illiterate policies ever introduced by thick idiots in the civil service who have never created a job in their lives. Restore Britain would scrap IR35 entirely - if two consenting adults wish to enter a genuine contracting arrangement, the state should keep its nose out. Who does what, when and for who is between those two individuals. IR35 is the first thing to go. Burn it and bury it. But we do want apprenticeships. This is the way forward, and we would give companies tax breaks for developing and building local skills for young men and women. Crucial. I’ve been running an apprenticeship campaign in Great Yarmouth - looking to link local businesses with colleges. Progress made, but lots more to do. As your business grows, your accountant becomes indispensable. Not because your accounting is particularly complicated or he’s a good bloke, but because the tax system has become absurdly complex. I used to do my own returns. No chance now. Restore Britain would begin simplifying the tax code from top to bottom. Tax should be low, simple and transparent. That’s what Restore Britain stands for. Then comes one of the most notorious barriers in British business. The VAT threshold. You finally start making progress, and your turnover approaches the threshold. Looks good on the face of it, but it’s actually horrific news - cross the line and suddenly everything changes. VAT is applied. What are you supposed to do? Pass the cost on to customers? What are they going to do when the cost of their morning order shoots up? Many firms deliberately limit growth because crossing the threshold creates such a financial shock. That is insanity. Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold. Growth should be rewarded, and we would do exactly that. Somehow, you’re limping on and decide an expansion is needed - maybe a covered outdoor area let’s say. Add more seating. People like to eat outside. Surely this is straightforward? Planning. The worst people on the planet, whose sole aim is to destroy economic ambition, growth and hope. I detest them all so very much. Restore Britain would overhaul the system with a presumption in favour of economic development. If planners cannot make a decision within a fixed timeframe, approval should be automatic. We will not keep businesses waiting for months and months. It is simply unacceptable and unfair. Same for licences to stay open later, host music, even god forbid serve alcohol - the bureaucrat’s nightmare. We wouldn’t want people enjoying themselves, would we? Restore Britain would introduce another presumption backing small business activity unless there is a compelling reason to refuse it. If customers want to enjoy a drink later on with their friends, let’s make it happen - the burden should be on the regulator to justify their restrictions, not on the entrepreneur to justify growth. Again, let’s give them a time frame to object. If they can’t, it goes through. Job done. That is what Restore Britain will deliver. Then there are card payments. Every coffee, sandwich, bottle of water. People just are not using cash. So a small slice disappears off everything, but that turns into thousands. Restore Britain would review payment processing fees and increase competition in the sector. We must reduce the cost of doing business. This is vital. We come to HMRC. I hate these people so much. It’s far quicker for a benefits claimant to get hold of the DWP than it is for small business owners to speak to HMRC. How mad is that? Restore Britain would introduce meaningful accountability when HMRC gets things wrong, or simply doesn’t pick up the phone. Let’s link senior leadership pay to response times. That will get them jumping. When you pay the tax, and sign it all off? The anger I feel when I think about where that money goes is not a positive experience. Funding hotel fry ups for Afghan men who have broken into our country. Restore Britain would indiscriminately deport the illegals, as you know, but this is a post about starting a business… Back to HMRC. They whack me with tax inspection after tax inspection. I wonder why… Awful people. If I ever get a sniff of power, I will tear that place apart limb by limb. Then comes the final insult. The salt in the wound. The knife in the back. You want to pay yourself. You've worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. You've risked everything. You've missed weekends, holidays and family events. You have carried all the risk. The wife or husband is constantly pissed off because the phone doesn’t stop ringing. Now perhaps you'd like some reward. Let’s look at what’s left... Corporation tax takes a slice. Dividend tax takes another. Student loan repayments take more. National Insurance takes more. Income tax takes more. What’s left? By the end of it, government has its sticky fingers in your pocket at every stage. Restore Britain would establish the lowest corporation tax rate in Europe. We would increase dividend allowances. Slash NI. Cut back income tax. Scrap interest on student loans. In short - reward your hard work. Entrepreneurs all over Britain are asking this question... Why not take a comfortable public sector job, collect the salary, enjoy the pension, work from home, avoid the stress and leave somebody else to create the wealth? Why bother? What's the point? If enough ambitious people think that, the economy stops functioning. We become even more reliant on the fat, bloated, squid like state. Politicians in Westminster DO NOT understand what they are doing to businesses in Britain. I listen to them talk about business and my ears bleed - you do not understand just how thick some of these people are. However bad you imagine, double it. You’re half way there. It is time for a different sort of politics, a different type of politician. Restore Britain will make Britain the easiest country in Europe to start, grow and succeed with your own business. To our cafe owner, wondering if all the endless bullshit is worth it? My message is this… Keep going. It will get better. Britain needs you. There is good news - there is finally a political party on your side. Restore Britain.

I don't want Bovaer in my milk. I don't want folic acid in my flour. I don't want fluorine in my drinking water. I don't want palm oil in my chocolate. I don't want margarine in my cakes. I don't want my fruit and veg sprayed with glyphosate. I don't want my apples coated with Apeel. I don't want my fish and chips cooked in veg oil. I don't want crappy processed mayo on my burger. I don't want roast spuds out of a freezer. I don't want non-grass-fed beef. I don't want farmed salmon. I don't want GMO garbage. ... so I don't consume any of these products. How sad we allow clowns to fcuk around with our food and drink in this way though. 🤦‍♂️

You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful. Don’t forget to notice it.

We've reached the point in the UK where working full time doesn't actually mean anything anymore. It used to mean stability. It used to mean you could afford a home, eat properly, maybe go away once a year and not panic if your car made a weird noise. Now it just means nothing. You wake up early, work all day, come home tired, and still somehow sit there wondering how you're going afford everything. Rent is ridiculous. Bills are constant. Food prices change depending on the mood of the supermarket. And wages? Basically frozen in time. You're not lazy. You're not bad with money. You're just trying to survive in a system where everything goes up except what you get paid.

@Feargal_Sharkey @judith_fisher Done. 😊

@Matt_Pinner Ethel, or Martha.

I am fully convinced 2019 was the last normal year we ever had. Ever since then, it feels like the simulation broke. Everyone is constantly anxious, time moves both way too fast and barely at all, and nothing actually feels real anymore. The world as we knew it is just gone, and we are all just pretending it’s fine.

If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, punish the disabled with welfare cuts, enforce digital ID, appoint Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, sell out fishermen to the EU, give away £millions of money to overseas net zero and farming projects while hammering UK family farmers with inheritance tax, ban coal mines and new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea yet import £40bn of oil and gas from Norway (from the m North Sea), massively increase the national debt, increase the tax burden to record levels, increase the government deficit to record levels, destroy business confidence with national insurance increases, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and pay £35bn in the process, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, talk tough on sorting out illegal migration yet small boats crossings have reached record levels, spaff £30bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine and ratchet up hawkish warmongering rhetoric and get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Lets fail to improve gas storage facilities, Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

THIS!!! “Stop your green scam!! You are lying to the people”. While you are banning normal cars with combustion engines for ordinary citizens of the European Union and making their lives more expensive…. places like India or Malaysia are filing the oceans with plastic waste

We were told that our pension age was increasing to 67yrs because it was no longer sustainable & yet these same people are now paying out £billions to people that have not paid a penny into this country. If that’s not bad enough they expect us to now find even more money in the next budget because they’ve got no money left. How does this Government not understand why this is so wrong on so many levels & that we are not happy with this. It’s time that this government listened to the people & start putting us first for a change. These politicians couldn’t care less about the people they govern because they are only in it for themselves. It’s time this government were made accountable for what they are doing.

We are definitely making the wrong people billionaires‼️

When you’re so good at your job that you accidentally become everyone’s source of happiness

What percentage of this lot was Religiously slaughtered ⁦@sainsburys⁩ ? Every single packet here was. 920 / 920 packets. We counted them. Chicken 3011 - 250, Chicken 8005 - 200. Beef 4073 - 120, Beef 7195 - 150. Lamb 4073 - 50, Lamb 7195 - 150.

🚨BREAKING: Official police reports indicate that in excess of 3 MILLION patriots are on the streets of London. 'Who's streets our streets' Britain is wide awake 🇬🇧

We are making history 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

A homeless man has captured the attention of thousands, not for begging, but for the way he rocks his dog to sleep every night. When asked why, he explained that life hadn’t always been this way. “When I first got him, we had an apartment,” he said softly. “Living on the street has been a hard adjustment for him. The honking, the sirens, the people, it keeps him up. So every night, I make sure he’s asleep before I close my eyes.” #dog #wholesome #dogs #doglover