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Robert King 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
This is the 4th seat that has been handed to the left due to Restore splitting the vote in the last few weeks.
Like I said yesterday the UK right are serial losers filled with selfish fools that will condemn us all to the leftist rule for ever.
It’s all so tiresome.
Robert King 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
🚨 THIS MAKES INTERESTING READING.
When these rubber boats set off from France overloaded, the French are breaking maritime law by not intercepting them and returning them to shore. When these illegal migrants boats have sailed almost 3/4 of the way to the UK and now in British waters, the RNLI and Border Force are sent out by the Coastguard on the instructions of HM Government to intercept them . They do this because if the rubber boats are allowed to land on uk soil under their own steam then everyone on board becomes an illegal immigrant and by law MUST be detained and deported asap. However when they are picked up at sea, even if only 200 yards offshore, and in no danger whatsoever, then the RNLI and Border Force have changed the status of the illegal immigrants to “ Disembarked Persons” They are no longer illegal because the RNLI and Border Force brought them into the country, albeit only a few hundred yards. They are then eligible to claim asylum in the uk and receive all the benefits that go with that. This is done deliberately by the UK government as they WANT these illegals here. Which takes us back to the French . They won’t intercept them and bring them back to shore because if they did then the same laws would apply. They would become “ disembarked persons” and be eligible to claim asylum in France . But the French don’t want them there . They want rid of them and can Chuck them on a boat as they are already in France illegally. It’s all a game from Macron and Starmer. Rule bending to suit their agendas. These small boats are NOT AT RISK. by the time they are intercepted . They have already crossed the busiest parts of the shipping lanes. They are picked up to change their status , nothing more. Yet the RNLI are still taking donations to fund their taxi service . Defund the RNLI. There are adequate independent lifeboats around the uk to deal with real maritime emergencies.
This proves both the French and British governments are complicit. They are actively allowing the facilitation of this illegal migration farce!
Without spending cuts, particularly in welfare, there will be no investment in infrastructure. If we have no investment in infrastructure there will be no growth. If we have no growth we are not getting out of this crisis. Cut regulation, cut big state and allow the private sector to grow.
Robert King 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Every time we put petrol into
our cars at a fuel station, the government are fleecing us. And it’s not just the fuel duty and VAT at the petrol pump price.
£70 of petrol at 197.9p a litre buys just 35.37 litres - a partial fill for many cars. Of that £70, £18.73 is fuel duty and £11.67 is VAT. That is £30.40, or 43%, taken by the government before the engine starts.
That £70 itself was already taxed. To have £70 left after 20% income tax and 8% National Insurance, you first earned roughly £97.22. Another £27.22 was taken at source. On this single fill alone, nearly 60% of the money you worked for has already gone to the government.
It does not stop there.
Most drivers also pay Vehicle Excise Duty of around £200 a year simply for the right to use the road. On top of that, the average comprehensive car insurance premium is roughly £650, of which 12% Insurance Premium Tax - about £78 - goes straight to the government. Add those annual charges and the government extraction of our money continues to escalate with endless stealth taxes.
You earn the money. It is taxed. You spend what remains on fuel. It is taxed again. Then you pay again every year just to keep the car legal and insured…which is taxed.
For millions who need a vehicle to reach work, drive children to school or live ordinary lives, this is no longer the cost of petrol or the cost of motoring. It is a stacked system of extortionate tax charges that repeatedly takes from the same earnings. Motorists are not merely paying for fuel. They are being systematically fleeced at every stage by the government.
The cost of living crisis is also a cost of excessive government taxation crisis. So @andyburnham - if you really want to help cash strapped motorists during the cost of living crisis, drastically cut fuel duty and VAT on petrol and diesel rather than just giving advice to use google maps to find the cheapest local fuel station.
