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🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
[@FT]
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I have come across this driver a few times. She clearly does not have the peripheral vision required to drive safely.
When I pointed out to her that she had driven past my stop, despite my ringing the bell well before, she was unable to understand what was said.
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Not one of these people has ever had a real job, never invented anything, never exported anything, never run a business, never created any jobs...
A big Budget for economic growth. Decisive moves on energy, devolution and backing business. Proud to have worked with @JohnHealey_MP to deliver it.
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What sort of country gives loads of its people's money to other countries, then pleads poverty to its people and taxes them into oblivion?
This one 🇬🇧
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Handouts from debt. This is third world politics.
Adding to the debt pile so that future generations will be impoverished but Labour might win a few more votes.
🚨 BREAKING: John Healey has announced a £100 cash payment for 20 million households in Council Tax bands A to D
"This will be paid directly into people's bank accounts"
#Budget
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Martin Lewis needs to be fired into the sun. The stupid micro-managing budgets of the past decade plus are totally not up to the gravity of the moment: there has been no meaningful growth since 2008, the welfare state is an unaffordable Ponzi scheme, and we can't build any infrastructure for less than eleventy billion pounds after decades of dither and judicial review.
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Taking home less than half your wage should never, ever be justified.
You should never have to work for the state more than you work for yourself.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Incredibly, a Sudanese woman has won the right to stay in Britain thanks to her marriage to her first cousin.
It is almost beyond parody.
She claimed her ECHR “right to a family life” would be breached if she was forced to leave.
This despite the Home Office suspecting that her “marriage” was fake, as no record of it exists in Sudan.
Her “husband” was an “asylum seeker” who travelled to Britain via Libya.
Sham marriages are a tool of choice for fraudsters breaking into Britain to live here at your expense.
In fact a Home Office whistleblower told the Telegraph 99% of asylum applications were fraudulent.
The Tories and Labour have made our immigration system a laughing stock.
A Reform government will end this madness.
We will ban cousin marriage, end asylum in Britain and deport all illegal migrants.
We will take our country back.
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If you earn £125k+ in Scotland, the government takes 50% of it
If you put the remainder in the bank to earn some interest, the government now takes 49% of that
Happy saving!
NEW. Additional tax on savings interest (outside of your personal savings allowance and cash ISAs) from April 2027
Basic rate taxpayer: 24% on savings interest and property income
Higher rate taxpayer: 44%
Top rate taxpayer: 49%
So the fact the cash ISA is staying at £20,000 per year is even more important. #Budget2026
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Hidden away on page 111 of the Budget - 'The government is providing £150 million capital investment in 2027-28 to fund additional large sites to accommodate asylum seekers'
A treasonous decision.
Every penny of that should be directed towards a programme of mass deportations.
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Don't bother saving outside an ISA. Simply not worth it.
Useless Labour.
NEW. Additional tax on savings interest (outside of your personal savings allowance and cash ISAs) from April 2027
Basic rate taxpayer: 24% on savings interest and property income
Higher rate taxpayer: 44%
Top rate taxpayer: 49%
So the fact the cash ISA is staying at £20,000 per year is even more important. #Budget2026
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The only person I’ve seen wearing a poppy at this awards ceremony. For that alone, you deserve the award. Good luck, H! 👏🌺
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MPs HECKLE me as I suggest cuts to foreign aid.
Why is it so controversial to demand we put the British people first?
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Everyone on PIP needs to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror. If this guy can put a shift in what’s your excuse?
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Harry Kane going from football’s most famous trophyless player to a Ballon d’Or winner might be the greatest example of why changing employers can improve your life.
