Vice Chair Colwick Parish Council. All comments are my own
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Alison Nunn retweeted
So Labour wants HMRC to be able to take money directly out of your bank account and will enable energy companies to have access to your tax records in order to try and divert resources to benefits claimants, but has banned officials from checking the savings of those benefits claimants.
Chancellor Healey has scrapped a proposal that would have allowed officials at the Department for Work and Pensions to help root out benefit fraud by seeing the savings of people trying to claim benefits.
This says everything about Labour's priorities and reminds us that benefits claimants are a large part of its voter base.
Alison Nunn retweeted
Beyond contempt! So people who go to work & pay their taxes get their bank accounts snooped on but those that claim off the state don’t. Please make it make sense… every day a fresh hell
Alison Nunn retweeted
"Well we can't see anything!" 🤣
This is how you commentate on a penalty shoot-out in the worst fog imaginable!
Great job @BBCRNS! 👏
This is how you commentate on a foggy penalty shoot-out
Alison Nunn retweeted
Socrates warned us 2400 years ago exactly how civilizations collapse — and the West is checking every single box:
When the stupid scream louder than the wise.
When the lazy get more than the people who actually work.
When the dishonest and corrupt are celebrated while the honest get crushed.
When people with no skin in the game lecture everyone else on morality.
When reputation and feelings matter more than actual character.
When kids are no longer allowed to just be kids.
When the criminals are protected and the victims are ignored.
When pure madness is forced on everyone as the new “normal.”
When politicians stop serving the people and start feeding off them.
This is not a coincidence.
This is the deliberate destruction of Western nations — open borders, soft-on-crime policies, broken schools, and elites who get rich while the rest of us pay the price.
History already showed us how this ends!!
Alison Nunn retweeted
Too late. This is completely insincere. We heard you the first time and we know exactly what you think.
You're only saying this now because of the backlash.
Alison Nunn retweeted
But we can’t afford to pay pensioners what they deserve or house homeless veterans, or lower taxes on hard working families.
⚠️And there it is … almost complete surrender of Britain back into the EU as a subservient rule taker.
Andy Burnham has NO MANDATE to do this.
Under the proposed agreement:
▪️ Britain forced to follow ALL future EU rules on food, farming, pesticides and animal welfare.
▪️ rules would apply even to British businesses that NEVER trade with the EU.
▪️ Brussels would make the rules. Britain would have NO vote on them.
▪️ The European Court of Justice would have ultimate authority over questions of EU law covered by the agreement.
▪️ Britain would align parts of its carbon trading system with the EU, restricting our ability to make independent energy policy. And increasing our prices.
▪️ youth mobility scheme would allow Europeans to live and work here, even though we have nearly 1 million unemployed youths.
▪️ government is reportedly spending up to £450 MILLION a year subsidising cheaper university fees for EU students!
AND WTF??? … British taxpayers also have to PAY towards administering arrangements under which Brussels makes rules we must follow.
He just handed Britain back to the EU on a plate ⚠️
Alison Nunn retweeted
Small business owners aren't working people🤦🤦👇👇👇👇🤦
"I don't think employers are working people, they are companies."
Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
Emma Reynolds MP on The Camilla Tominey Show, GB News, Sunday 1st November 2026.
She said it. On camera.
🤦🤦🤦🤦That's how utterly numb they are and detached from reality .
She's aiming that at small business owners. Because technically they are "employers" — but in reality they ARE working people. Up at 5am, paying the mortgage, trying to keep the shop open, paying excessive tax, high rates, high wages, everything going up.
This is what they really think of working people.
If you run a hair salon, a cafe, a building firm, a pie shop in Chorley, Labour doesn't think you count as a working person.
Employers ARE working people. 🤦😳🤦
Alison Nunn retweeted
This will prove a toxic quote.
Over a million small companies employ 1-9 people. I suspect most of those employers work exceptionally hard.
Emma Reynolds wd be wise to retract asap. Otherwise opposition parties will play the quote on a loop between now & the next election.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
Alison Nunn retweeted
Emma Reynolds, a Labour Treasury Minister, has just said on Camilla Tominey’s show on GB News ‘I don’t think employers are working people, they are companies’
Is she for real?! How gobsmackingly lacking in any real world or business understanding.
My dad - like hundreds of thousands of small business owners - was an employer ….and very much a working person!
Emma Reynolds has just kicked every small business owner in the country and shown Labour’s true colours. This lot are not fit to be in government.
Alison Nunn retweeted
I’m starting to believe that the majority of our MPs stood for Parliament because they are otherwise unemployable.
Alison Nunn retweeted
The Chancellor is pulling a fast one on the self-employed.
Labour spent the Budget pretending to be on their side. Dig into the facts, and the truth becomes clear. Labour plans to make the self-employed pay tax every month, or every quarter.
Instead of paying on what they earn, however, it’ll be based on what the Government expects them to earn. So if they lose work, or a client doesn’t pay, they could end up with the taxman chasing them for money they never
had.
It’ll be like those estimated bills by incompetent utility companies such as Thames Water, which you have to spend hours on the phone trying to resolve when they get it wrong. Except it’s even worse as Labour is expending their power to grab the money directly from your account, without so much as a court order. What could possibly go wrong?
It feels like the tax system is being set up purely for the convenience of the taxman. It would be nice if they just concentrated on answering the phone on time…
Alison Nunn retweeted
WTF? A Prime Minister who has never run a business in his life demands answers because a private business fails? … let me help you, Andy & co.
A retail chain needs to stay in fashion, needs to go with the flow! … But you and successive governments don’t like their “tat” products (mostly sourced off shore to sell them at £1!!! That the whole point right?) anyway…
for free (without a taxpayer funded £MULTIMILLION enquiry I’ll tell you the problems… (you’re welcome)
▪️massively increased regulations and compliance costs.
▪️cheap tat sourced from abroad, with rising shipping and transport costs.
▪️Hit by increased minimum wages and employer National Insurance.
▪️Hit by rising rents and business rates.
▪️Hit by soaring energy bills and net zero costs.
▪️Hit by higher interest rates.
▪️Hit by consumers with less disposable income.
▪️Hit by the soaring cost of borrowing to buy stock months in advance.
▪️Hit by higher insurance premiums.
▪️Hit by shoplifting, organised theft and security costs.
▪️Hit by packaging taxes, recycling regulations and environmental compliance costs.( which you just throw into general taxation, non of it changes the weather)
▪️Hit by higher fuel, warehousing and distribution costs.
▪️Hit by increased employment costs, pensions and statutory obligations.
▪️Hit by competition from overseas online retailers operating with very different overheads.( duty free … for foreign businesses oops)
▪️And hit by the impossibility of passing those costs onto customers, who shop at Poundland precisely because they need cheap stuff! … which isn’t cheap anymore (see above)
Every single time you add something on … so do they!
And the idiot, deluded politicians who have made Britain more and more expensive and difficult to do business in, are demanding to know why businesses are struggling?
You are all moronic. My work here is done 🤡
Alison Nunn retweeted
This is the kind ignorance which has encouraged @JohnHealey_MP to have a go at landlords, it won’t end well.
Alison Nunn retweeted
The hidden tax measure in the Budget is huge for people paying tax under self-assessment - sole traders, partners, landlords, retired investors.
For 6th April 2028-29, you currently pay 50% of your income tax late in the tax year in question (in January 2029), 50% just after the year end (in July 2029) with any make-up payment in January 2030.
Under the new proposals you will pay your tax perhaps monthly or quarterly (TBC) from April 2029 onwards. A rough analysis suggests the impact is to draw about 50% of your tax bill forward, a huge cashflow boost to HMRC and a significant funding issue for the self-employed.
The Treasury recognises this, and expects to raise £1.3bn of additional tax in 29/30 as a result of this change.
The cashflow impact of the accelerated charge will send some businesses to the wall.