🚨 "KEYS CAN OPEN DOORS. THEY CAN ALSO LOCK THEM." That was Ben Swann's warning as we discussed Britain's proposed Digital ID system on America Now. Supporters call it modernisation. Critics call it the foundation of something far more dangerous. What happens when your identity, finances, movement and access to services become connected to a single digital system? Britain may be finding out first. America should pay attention. @BenSwann_ @Truth_InMedia

The establishment attacks on Restore Britain are rapidly increasing, as expected. It is relentless. They are terrified. Owen Jones, Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, the Daily Mail, Nadine Dorries, Michael Gove, endless faceless Labour MPs, the Guardian. The whole team. It will not work. Why? I am not in this for the money, the status, the popularity. I don’t care about any of that. I’ve got enough money. I don’t have to be doing any of this. If I cared what people in posh parts of London thought of me, I would not be doing this. Trust me. But I want to be really clear about my opinion on them. I do not give a shit what they think of me. I really don’t. I am doing this for one reason, and one reason only. To give the British people a democratic route out. It’s the only way. The last way. What we are doing is not going to be easy or straightforward, nobody has said otherwise. But it is necessary. We will not budge, backtrack or fold to establishment pressure. We are going to do what is needed to Restore Britain. If you want to vote for failed Conservatives, that’s your choice. There are now two options on the voting paper for that. Lucky us. But Restore Britain is offering a genuine alternative. Millions and millions of patriotic British men and women are taking it.

This is the sound of a country that has had enough. Listen to this man. Because what he said is true. Every word of it. But it's actually worse than what he said. Blair didn't make a mistake. He didn't get it wrong. He sat in Downing Street and deliberately, secretly planned to change this country forever without asking a single one of you. They hid the document because they knew if you saw it you would never forgive them. His own speechwriter admitted it. The entire purpose was to RUB YOUR NOSES IN IT. To keep Labour in power. That's it. Your home. Your streets. Your communities. Used as a POLITICAL CHESS PIECE. Then Mandelson stood up in front of a room full of suits and bragged about it. We sent out SEARCH PARTIES. With your money. For their votes. Then the Conservatives got in. FOURTEEN YEARS. While you were struggling with your bills your NHS your kids' futures they were spending £8 million a day on hotels. PlayStations. DJ lessons. Yoga classes. Circus skills. Driving lessons. Free gym memberships. All on your taxes while you were told there's no money for your social care your disabled kids your crumbling schools. Richmond Council gives asylum seekers free gym membership. You pay £52 a month for the same access. Let that land. Then Starmer stood on a stage and promised to end it. Crossings up 46 per cent. More people in hotels than the day he walked in. Social care costs up 148 per cent. £15.3 billion projected over the next decade. TRIPLE what was forecast. Blair opened the door and lied about why. The Tories held it open and charged you for the privilege. Starmer ripped it off the hinges and called you FAR RIGHT for noticing. Twenty five years. Three governments. One people who NEVER got a vote on any of it. Unvetted. Dumped in your towns. Handed everything while you were told to WAIT YOUR TURN and when your community breaks under the weight of it? Don't get upset. Don't cause unrest. They called you racist. They called you ignorant. They called you far right. For twenty five years they used your compliance against you. That compliance is gone. They built every single brick of the reckoning coming for them. They took your silence for weakness. It wasn’t weakness. It was patience. And that patience just ran out.

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Starting and running a business in Britain in 2026 - let’s go through it, step by step… You've got a good idea. You've worked hard, saved some money, and decided to take a risk. A big decision. Let's say you want to open a coffee shop - nothing overly extravagant. Surely this is possible, right? Available unit on a local high street, you see a gap in the market. A simple ambition to build something. Create jobs. Generate wealth. Contribute to your local community. Maybe even build a better future for your family. Exactly the sort of person politicians claim they admire. Unfortunately, you've chosen the wrong country to do it in. Britain. 2026. Labour. Bugger. The first thing you discover is that absolutely nothing is straightforward. You register the business. Not impossible, but hardly simple. The foreign vape shop owners manage it, so why not you? Done. In fairness, not the most challenging part of this story... Then comes the bank account - you’d think opening a business account would be a routine matter. Instead, you're treated like a criminal. You want to sell coffee, not arms. The banks are simply out of control in this country. Just like the lawyers, but that’s a different story. Legitimate entrepreneurs should not be waiting weeks while faceless compliance departments shuffle paperwork between themselves and refuse to answer questions - slash it all back and let people just get on with it. Eventually you get through that hurdle and secure the premises. Perfect location. Lots of footfall. Not a total dump. It can work. Then reality arrives. The rent is eye-watering - contracts have clause after clause after clause. How can anybody understand it all? Insurance is through the roof. And before you've served a single coffee, the local authority is already getting its grubby hands on your money. Energy costs are so very painful... Business rates - one of the most destructive taxes in Britain. And for what? What do we get from that money? You are effectively punished for occupying premises and creating economic activity. For PAYING TAX. It is insane. A Restore Britain Government would abolish business rates entirely for small high street businesses. Pubs, cafes, bakeries. All of it. No business rates. Then come the inspections. Oh joy. The paperwork. The bureaucracy. The council gnomes. Nobody objects to basic standards. Of course cafes should be clean and safe. The problem is that too much of the system now exists to justify the existence of regulators rather than help businesses succeed. They are there to prove that their job needs to exist. So rules get put on rules, on top of more rules. It is endless. Many of the people enforcing these rules have never built a business, never employed anybody and never risked their own money. Never done anything. Work half weeks, with 30 days holiday a year. Fridays at home, of course. A profession filled with nit-picking gits. Restore Britain would conduct a full bonfire of unnecessary regulations and introduce a simple principle. Every regulation should have to justify its existence - if it doesn't prevent genuine harm, it goes. It will be glorious. We will tear it all down. But let’s say you get through this. You stumble on. The cafe opens, and goes well. People like it. It grows. The coffee is good. You need help. Another bureaucratic nightmare. PAYE. National Insurance. Pensions. Employment contracts. Holiday entitlement. Workplace policies. Health and safety obligations. The worst of all - HR. You look at it all, and just think what’s the point? Is it worth the risk? That is a disaster for our economy, and a disaster for youngsters looking for work. Restore Britain would slash back employer National Insurance, simplify employment law for small firms and create a framework that protects good employees without treating every employer as a potential criminal. The HR-ification of Britain will end. If I had to pick a 'profession' I hate the most, HR has to be number one. Employers will be able to sack employees for not doing the job properly. It doesn’t matter if they’re black, gay, Muslim or whatever else. This ‘protected characteristic’ nonsense will be stripped away. The only protected characteristic we’re interested in is competence. We will repeal The Equality Act 2010. This is key. This is where so much of the bullshit emanates from. But let’s say you don’t want to bother. Maybe bringing in contracting services could work. Wrong. IR35 - one of the most economically illiterate policies ever introduced by thick idiots in the civil service who have never created a job in their lives. Restore Britain would scrap IR35 entirely - if two consenting adults wish to enter a genuine contracting arrangement, the state should keep its nose out. Who does what, when and for who is between those two individuals. IR35 is the first thing to go. Burn it and bury it. But we do want apprenticeships. This is the way forward, and we would give companies tax breaks for developing and building local skills for young men and women. Crucial. I’ve been running an apprenticeship campaign in Great Yarmouth - looking to link local businesses with colleges. Progress made, but lots more to do. As your business grows, your accountant becomes indispensable. Not because your accounting is particularly complicated or he’s a good bloke, but because the tax system has become absurdly complex. I used to do my own returns. No chance now. Restore Britain would begin simplifying the tax code from top to bottom. Tax should be low, simple and transparent. That’s what Restore Britain stands for. Then comes one of the most notorious barriers in British business. The VAT threshold. You finally start making progress, and your turnover approaches the threshold. Looks good on the face of it, but it’s actually horrific news - cross the line and suddenly everything changes. VAT is applied. What are you supposed to do? Pass the cost on to customers? What are they going to do when the cost of their morning order shoots up? Many firms deliberately limit growth because crossing the threshold creates such a financial shock. That is insanity. Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold. Growth should be rewarded, and we would do exactly that. Somehow, you’re limping on and decide an expansion is needed - maybe a covered outdoor area let’s say. Add more seating. People like to eat outside. Surely this is straightforward? Planning. The worst people on the planet, whose sole aim is to destroy economic ambition, growth and hope. I detest them all so very much. Restore Britain would overhaul the system with a presumption in favour of economic development. If planners cannot make a decision within a fixed timeframe, approval should be automatic. We will not keep businesses waiting for months and months. It is simply unacceptable and unfair. Same for licences to stay open later, host music, even god forbid serve alcohol - the bureaucrat’s nightmare. We wouldn’t want people enjoying themselves, would we? Restore Britain would introduce another presumption backing small business activity unless there is a compelling reason to refuse it. If customers want to enjoy a drink later on with their friends, let’s make it happen - the burden should be on the regulator to justify their restrictions, not on the entrepreneur to justify growth. Again, let’s give them a time frame to object. If they can’t, it goes through. Job done. That is what Restore Britain will deliver. Then there are card payments. Every coffee, sandwich, bottle of water. People just are not using cash. So a small slice disappears off everything, but that turns into thousands. Restore Britain would review payment processing fees and increase competition in the sector. We must reduce the cost of doing business. This is vital. We come to HMRC. I hate these people so much. It’s far quicker for a benefits claimant to get hold of the DWP than it is for small business owners to speak to HMRC. How mad is that? Restore Britain would introduce meaningful accountability when HMRC gets things wrong, or simply doesn’t pick up the phone. Let’s link senior leadership pay to response times. That will get them jumping. When you pay the tax, and sign it all off? The anger I feel when I think about where that money goes is not a positive experience. Funding hotel fry ups for Afghan men who have broken into our country. Restore Britain would indiscriminately deport the illegals, as you know, but this is a post about starting a business… Back to HMRC. They whack me with tax inspection after tax inspection. I wonder why… Awful people. If I ever get a sniff of power, I will tear that place apart limb by limb. Then comes the final insult. The salt in the wound. The knife in the back. You want to pay yourself. You've worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. You've risked everything. You've missed weekends, holidays and family events. You have carried all the risk. The wife or husband is constantly pissed off because the phone doesn’t stop ringing. Now perhaps you'd like some reward. Let’s look at what’s left... Corporation tax takes a slice. Dividend tax takes another. Student loan repayments take more. National Insurance takes more. Income tax takes more. What’s left? By the end of it, government has its sticky fingers in your pocket at every stage. Restore Britain would establish the lowest corporation tax rate in Europe. We would increase dividend allowances. Slash NI. Cut back income tax. Scrap interest on student loans. In short - reward your hard work. Entrepreneurs all over Britain are asking this question... Why not take a comfortable public sector job, collect the salary, enjoy the pension, work from home, avoid the stress and leave somebody else to create the wealth? Why bother? What's the point? If enough ambitious people think that, the economy stops functioning. We become even more reliant on the fat, bloated, squid like state. Politicians in Westminster DO NOT understand what they are doing to businesses in Britain. I listen to them talk about business and my ears bleed - you do not understand just how thick some of these people are. However bad you imagine, double it. You’re half way there. It is time for a different sort of politics, a different type of politician. Restore Britain will make Britain the easiest country in Europe to start, grow and succeed with your own business. To our cafe owner, wondering if all the endless bullshit is worth it? My message is this… Keep going. It will get better. Britain needs you. There is good news - there is finally a political party on your side. Restore Britain.