Sam Carroll retweeted
If someone invents a machine that makes food 50% cheaper and becomes a billionaire, society hasn't lost a billion dollars.
We've gained cheaper food.
The fact that someone got rich solving a problem doesn't mean the rest of us got poorer.
Wealth creation isn't theft.
Sam Carroll retweeted
Ball was moving a mile sideways. u were the biggest beneficiary but, knew nothing. never thought why ball was reversing that big. Then released statement taking no responsibility and telling us a youngster into his 8th game took such a big decision on his own. Totally believable
Sam Carroll retweeted
Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations.
Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.
Sam Carroll retweeted
Russell Brand never had anything “beyond cliche and gibberish to offer”, says Daniel Finkelstein.
“The fact that he is now revealed as a dangerous predator should not obscure the other fact that his contributions to public debate were moronic, and he an obvious fraud.”
Sam Carroll retweeted
Remember when Hamas made their own PR video showing them digging up pipes in Gaza and using them to create rockets to fire on Israel?
Well now they have no water and sewage system and they have flooding and guess who is to blame for that?
Sam Carroll retweeted
OFWAT just needs to do its fucking job, the Environment Agency just needs to do its fucking job, and planning law needs to be reformed so water companies can actually build infrastructure. This does not deliver any of those things.
Sam Carroll retweeted
Worth remembering re the BoE move, that it's mostly about oil/energy costs, and the last two days have seen those change rapidly. Note too though that it highlights UK's ridiculous energy fragility - your mortgage is rising because our MPs refuse to prioritise energy security.
Sam Carroll retweeted
I posted a picture of my parent's village where the residents have managed to keep it free of road markings. I use it as a visual example of how overladen we are with bureaucracy that makes people's lives worse, in the name of making it better. It's very hard to argue against any regulation supposedly based on safety or performance that are used as a universal trump card to create an arms race of rules and our built environment is now full of them. ht @Alright_dot for the render with signage. Original on the right.
Sam Carroll retweeted
In a stunning innovation, Greater Manchester’s police have discovered that if officers turn up to burglaries (instead of screening them out as “low-level”), talk to people, look at CCTV, do forensics and chase the local career criminals, they solve nearly three times as many as the national average and cut break-ins in half. Truly novel. Who knew the beating heart of policing might involve neighbourhood bobbies catching local burglars? A model for the ages.
Sam Carroll retweeted
GOOSEBUMPS! 🤯
@HibernianFC's players are serenaded by their supporters with a spine-tingling rendition of "Sunshine on Leith" after their Edinburgh Derby triumph 🙌
#PremierSportsCup
Sam Carroll retweeted
Two golden rules of social media scrolling:
1. Never scroll past Ian Wright and Mr Pigden.
2. Never scroll past Hibs fans singing Sunshine On Leith.
GOOSEBUMPS! 🤯
@HibernianFC's players are serenaded by their supporters with a spine-tingling rendition of "Sunshine on Leith" after their Edinburgh Derby triumph 🙌
#PremierSportsCup
Sam Carroll retweeted
Because of Labour, a single employee is now £4,460 more expensive to employ.
For a business like Poundland - operating on ultra thin margins - you’ve added £49million to their wage bill a year.
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Sam Carroll retweeted
Someone earning £50,000 who receives a 5% pay rise will see their salary increase by £2,500.
However, after Income Tax and National Insurance, they'll only receive £1,487.80 meaning their actual take-home pay has increased by just 3.76%.
What happens if their household's cost of living increases by 10% at the same time?
To maintain the same purchasing power, they'd need an additional £3,951.96 in take-home pay.
Instead, they've received £1,487.80.
That's a shortfall of £2,464.16 per year, despite receiving a 5% pay rise.
To maintain their previous standard of living, their salary would actually need to increase from £50,000 to approximately £56,749.
That's a 13.5% pay rise simply to stand still.
With the higher-rate Income Tax threshold frozen at £50,270, more of their earnings are being subjected to 40% tax.
At the same time, UK government debt has now exceeded £3 trillion, with £10.9 billion in debt interest payable in September alone.
As the cost of servicing this debt continues to rise, so does the financial pressure on the government.
One way to alleviate that pressure is through higher taxation, placing an even greater burden on working people who are already struggling to maintain their standard of living.
This is one of the reasons why so many working people feel they're earning more money every year, yet their standard of living continues to decline.
The problem isn't necessarily how much money people earn.
It's how much they keep, and what that money can actually buy.
Sam Carroll retweeted
This is what happens when the vast majority of Labour MPs have never even had a real job, let alone run a business
Sam Carroll retweeted
Pig ugly to boot. Whoever designed this hates humans.
This is beyond ridiculous.
£1 BILLION to build.
Plus £1 million EVERY YEAR to guard it. That's over £2,700 every day…
For a railway with ZERO passengers.
The new Oxford–Milton Keynes line was finished in December 2024.
Nearly TWO YEARS later, not one passenger train has run on it.
Just security guards at Winslow’s brand-new station.
We were PROMISED trains a year ago.
Instead, YOU pay for it to be empty.
This is a SCANDAL.
Do you agree?
Sam Carroll retweeted
📆 On this day, 31 years ago, Dean Windass scored the greatest Goal you’ve never seen before.
Sam Carroll retweeted
It astounds me how little some people understand inflation and what causes it.
Take my last point about the minimum wage. Why not £100 an hour? Why not £1,000? We'd all be rich then, wouldn't we? Marvellous.
Except, of course, we wouldn't. Raising wages by law doesn't magically conjure wealth out of thin air. When wages rise faster than productivity, the money must be found somewhere. Businesses can swallow the cost, raise prices, cut jobs or simply close their doors. And when those price rises spread throughout the economy, inflation eats away at the purchasing power of the very wages that have increased.
It's a closed loop. Businesses must earn the money to pay their workers, and that money ultimately comes from customers. You cannot simply legislate prosperity into existence.
And let me tell you an uncomfortable truth: the real minimum wage is zero.
Sam Carroll retweeted
Because those in favour of it are incapable of realising the effect this has on wage compression, reduced employment and the fact that above inflation minimum wage rises make basic goods and services less affordable to people on the minimum wage.
This rise in minimum wage will cost a business £1,120 a year for the minimum wage employee.
They need to increase their prices £1,120 to stay still.
The employee will take home only £680 more.
This means minimum wage earners take home pay will not keep up with the price of goods and services produced or provided by minimum wage employees.
This is why even though minimum wage has risen significantly above inflation, those on minimum wage have found the cost of living crisis getting worse.
People are screaming at this because it is turkeys voting for christmas.
Businesses have increased costs, customers are less able to afford the goods they sell, they sell less, employ less or suppress wages. What is painted as a "pay rise for the lowest earners", just contributes to a downward spiral.