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Platform exec, business author & failed artist. Oenophile & oik. Enjoys making stuff. Brit abroad. Personal account. #Libertarian #COYS

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ & ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Joined March 2008
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Replying to @afneil
The agenda gap between the government and the governed has rarely been larger. Much of the โ€˜wokeโ€™ agenda pushed 24/7 is viewed as purely political and a distraction from the obvious problems. Victory awaits those that seek action, which is hard, rather than optics, which is easy.
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๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: A UK bank chief executive has said of Healey's budget: "Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity" ft.com/content/80acb561-34e2โ€ฆ
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UK new minimum wage: ยฃ27,456 per year. Higher-rate tax bracket: ยฃ50,270. 1.8x difference. In 1997 there was a 5x difference. Mind boggling.
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Single mothers with British citizenship are being pressured into registering 'asylum seekers' as their baby's father to help men commit immigration fraud. Known as the 'fake dad' scam, it is believed to be organised by the same criminal gangs behind countless 'sham marriages'. In one case, a couple with a newborn baby didn't speak the same language, lived hundreds of miles apart, and the โ€˜fatherโ€™ didnโ€™t even know the womanโ€™s name. How many nonsense stories like this have enabled people to stay here? Whistleblowers have revealed mountains of fraud โ€“ non-existent gay relationships, bogus political dissidents, pretending to be children. The Tories and Labour created an asylum system that has become a scam on the British people. Reform will end it. We will take our country back.
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Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again. Thatโ€™s why Reformโ€™s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures Iโ€™d take if I were Chancellor: ๐—จ๐—ป๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ 1. Approve Rosebank 2. Restart oil and gas licensing 3. Legalise onshore exploration 4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy 5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป 6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme 7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8 9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full 10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—›๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ข๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ 11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites 12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing 13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain 14. Exit the Aarhus Convention 15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality 16. End the boiler ban 17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules 18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements 19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard 20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ 21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick 22. Auction airport landing slots 23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation 24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications 25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects 26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop 27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions 28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules 29. Scrap the social value test in procurement 30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport 31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail ๐—๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป 32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption 33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ 34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8% 35. Introduce a migrant worker levy 36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act 37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses 38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications ๐—จ๐—ป๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜† 39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending 40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits 41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด 42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies' 43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates 44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips 45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods 46. Back the M4 Relief Road 47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years 48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜€ 49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act 50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units 51. Review all unchanged EU law 52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€ 53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary 54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors 55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56 56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent 57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays 58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules 59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate 60. Abolish the packaging tax 61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms 62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty 63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs 64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations And there are more to come! Britainโ€™s full potential is waiting to be unleashed ๐Ÿš€
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Exactly this โคต๏ธ
Christopher Hopeโ€™s performance is textbook lobby cartel behavior. Farage and Jenrick stood up to deliver a serious, structural 64-point economic rescue blueprint to salvage a bankrupt country, and the very first question from "the people's channel" wasn't about productivity, ยฃ40bn in Whitehall cuts, or tax relief. It was a sneering, gossip-column attack about room capacity and a cherry-picked Ipsos poll. GB News built its entire brand promising to be the insurgent antidote to the BBC, yet the moment Reform puts forward real alternative governance, @christopherhope sounds indistinguishable from a Guardian lobby intern doing a hatchet job for the Tory rump. @GBNEWS
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Hearing from a pal in the City who is โ€˜in the knowโ€™ that Britain rejoining the EU will mean a broad 0.5% financial transaction tax on City of London equity, bond, derivative and FX trades by the US. The aim will be to reduce reliance on London. Shifting it more to New York.
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I do find this hard to believe.
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 32% (+5) CON: 24% (+3) RFM: 20% (-3) LDM: 9% (+1) GRN: 8% (-5) SNP: 3% (-1) RES: 3% (=) Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 15-22 Oct. Changes w/ 10-15 Sep.
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The Uniparty is scared. Tories willing to lose in 2029 in order to scupper Reform. Labour fixing polls and gaslighting via friendly media placements. They all assume that without Farage/Tice/Lowe/.. normal service will be resumed.
Why is @lewis_goodall asking blokes I've barely ever met about my tweets? Why not ask me? I'm free to come on @LBC and discuss my tweets whenever he likes. Will he oblige, or is he just blatantly using this as a partisan cudgel against Reform? @Ofcom
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Describe British weather in one word.
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BBC News still pretending that the demonstrations are about education, when almost every placard and flag is about Palestine.
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how can you tell if a society is collapsing?
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Does it ever stop raining in Britain? Seriously, Iโ€™ve been here a week and it hasnโ€™t stopped.
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True
Margaret Thatcher explained this perfectly back in 1983 The government doesn't have money of its own. Every time politicians promise to spend more, someone has to pay for it And people somehow still think it's someone else's money โ€œThere is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayersโ€™ moneyโ€ And sooner or later, that someone else they expect to pay is YOU
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If this is proven to be true, then itโ€™s effectively fascism. ITV must be disbanded and criminal investigations instigated. โ€˜Discoveryโ€™ would be a very interesting.
STATEMENT: Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police. Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison. They forged a passport. They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to โ€œcanvassโ€ for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes. They lied to a veteran about their service and left him โ€œviolatedโ€. This is unprecedented. The police are now involved. Scrutiny of political parties is one thing. But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reformโ€™s staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts. Hereโ€™s what happened ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Not enjoying the British weather. First time Iโ€™ve seen the sun in days, and itโ€™s ๐Ÿฅถ.
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This needs to be investigated. Broadcasting license should be lost, if found guilty.
When Reform's letters to postal voters in Portsmouth were ready to go out, two undercover ITV reporters were personally responsible for almost two hundred of them in the ward of Drayton and Farlington. Reform lost Drayton and Farlington by 24 votes. The same two men were responsible for delivering leaflets to half the ward of Baffins. Reform lost Baffins by 85 votes. These were men whose purpose was to infiltrate Reform UK and damage it. In two wards decided by a few dozen votes, we believe there are reasonable grounds to conclude that ITV altered the result of British elections. There is no precedent for this. It is certainly not journalism. We believe it to be criminal. We will hold ITV and its activists to account.
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Wow, massive numbers for UK & Spain!
๐ŸŒ European countries that added the most migrants (2000โ€“2024) 1. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom: +7.1M 2. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain: +6.8M 3. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: +6.4M 4. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye: +5.8M 5. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: +4.4M 6. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: +3.0M 7. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria: +1.4M 8. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: +1.4M 9. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland: +1.3M 10. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium: +1.3M 11. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden: +1.3M 12. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland: +917K 13. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland: +840K 14. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway: +720K 15. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romania: +521K 16. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal: +476K 17. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark: +475K 18. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary: +393K 19. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czechia: +386K 20. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland: +378K Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase. Source: UN DESA
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Even the rain couldnโ€™t ruin it. Great day today with my mum in the Cotswolds. A gem of Britain.
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Europe gives them free healthcare, free housing, free education, every social program, and a quality of life they could never have back homeโ€ฆ yet they will still loot and destroy the West into the third-world. There is no magic soil. A nation is simply itโ€™s people.
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