Former professional football now with dodgy knees.

UK
Joined August 2010
Matt Baker retweeted
The real lessons of the last 40 years, by @Dannythefink thetimes.com/article/f16d520…
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Matt Baker retweeted
Things this week - so far - that are racist; 🫰Not painting finger nails 💅 Painting finger nails too loudly as a white person 🐕‍🦺 Labradors 🍺 warm ale 🏏 English countryside What have i missed?
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Matt Baker retweeted
Replying to @DanielJHannan
The writing is already in the wall. Cancellations are already up on nationalised lines.
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Matt Baker retweeted
A litre of petrol would cost approximately 88 pence at an average US pump. In UK it’s averaging at 172.5p per litre - with 76p of that tax
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In two years Labour took an extra £64 billion in tax. They then borrowed another £244 billion. You cannot see where it went. The hospital wait is still years. The high street is still in decline. The streets are still full of potholes. Just yesterday we found out 12 billion went on PIP to non brits. Their answer is more tax and more borrowing. That is not government. That is utter incompetence, they don't care as they dont pay. You do.
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Matt Baker retweeted
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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Matt Baker retweeted
Imagine calling someone who has paid at least £1 billion more in tax than you a "parasite" when your own wages come from the British taxpayer.
Coming from the man who moved to Monaco to dodge a £4 billion tax bill. Jim Ratcliffe, a billionaire parasite, attacks the most vulnerable in society to protect his own class interests. He should actually just focus on getting a win at Old Trafford.
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Sir Jim Radcliffe saying what too many are scared to say. Any sane person knows he’s correct. Any serious investor skips Britain now.
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All those leftie retards saying the US has tourist taxes - can you point to where they have 20% VAT?
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Matt Baker retweeted
CITYAM - John Lewis posts £120m loss as Labour tax raid ‘pushes up costs’
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It is exactly the opposite. Governments do not know how to make money and there's no growth in jobs or the economy if there's no money being made. If this is seriously his big idea, it will fail in a big way. More misery will be heaped upon us, especially the young.
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Matt Baker retweeted
Socialism meets real life......... Socialism eventually makes almost everybody worse off.
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This is an absolutely damning graph for the government (h/t @Simmons__)
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Matt Baker retweeted
It's official. This Labour government is a bigger shock to youth unemployment than COVID.
Just updated my chart of youth unemployment in the UK, with the major shocks marked... 🤔
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Shambles
Britain’s economy in one graph
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Matt Baker retweeted
Public sector pay growth hits 6.1%, private sector growth just 2.8%. "Annual average regular earnings growth [in July] was 6.1% for the public sector and 2.8% for the private sector" - ONS British taxpayers are being FLEECED, the public sector just keeps wasting more & more.
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That brilliant Burnham Cost of Living plan in full: 1. Take 56p off electricity bills for a bit 2. Screw over a few vape shops 3. Tax the hell out of anyone with a house or a good job 4. Make a bunch of TikTok videos 5. Er….thats it.
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Burnham makes Starmer look like a political genius. Wow, he’s a shambles!
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Matt Baker retweeted
The government is not good at providing jobs The private sector is High tax, high regulation and the world’s most expensive energy is chasing jobs out of the UK Labour is destroying the British economy
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HMRC data shows that: - The top 10% of earners already pay 60% of all income tax collected, and - The top 1% pay 30% of it. Hard to argue that many of the “rich” are not paying their share.
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