Business owner, grown up family, fan of the 1980s.

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@RachelReevesMP @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer @bbclaurak Rachel Reeves, I planned carefully for retirement. A North Norfolk holiday-let barn was meant to provide income, pay tax, employ cleaners, use local trades and support a holiday letting business. On an example £1,000 booking, after the £180 commission, £150 cleaning and laundry costs, £50 electricity, £40 water and £40 council tax, only £540 remains before maintenance and repairs. After 25% corporation tax, that falls to £405. If the remaining income is then taxed at 40%, the owner is left with just £243 from the original £1,000 booking. Remember, this is before allowing for any maintenance, repairs, insurance or mortgage costs. And the electrical PAT testing last year was needed. Now that company will receive no further income. It is becoming impossible for a small Limited company to earn money. How coffee shops, pubs, guesthouses and other small businesses survive with staff, rent, tax, regulation, insurance and rising costs is beyond me. Make small enterprise pointless and people stop doing it. Then government gets no tax. Cleaners get no work. Agents get no commission. Local trades lose jobs. That is not growth.
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I didn’t expect so many likes and comments. The overall problem is a mixture of taxes, including council tax, corporation tax, and income tax, alongside the rising cost of running the property. I should also say that bookings are way down this year, probably due to the cost of living. I do appreciate that everyone’s tax situation is different, and the barn could work for some people. But I really would like to know how a small traditional UK business has any chance of earning a profit.
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It's either spite or jealousy.
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CV. Completely ruined a major 126 year old political party in less than 2 years. Became the most hated UK Prime Minister in history. Unilaterally gave away billions of £'s of taxpayers money with no accountability required from the recipients. Wrecked the economy. Failed to control mass immigration, both legal and illegal. Failed to address the problem of muslim rape gangs. Increased welfare payments to a point where benefits now cost more than the entire income tax take. Allowed weekly pro-Palestinian hate marches on our streets. Consistently referred to people with concerns about the proliferation of migrant violence as "Far Right". Promoted one of his friends to high office despite knowing he was a buddy of one of the most prolific paedophiles on the planet. Consistently worked to reverse the result of the biggest democratic vote in British history by stealth. Placed tax dodgers, fraudsters and CV fantasists in Ministerial posts. Invited a known islamist terrorist to No.10 while simultaneously banning foreign commentators from the UK for merely reporting on the border fiasco. Took two weeks to find a Royal Navy ship that actually worked. Introduced legislation that will destroy the private rental market and create hundreds of thousands of homeless families. Promised to build 1.5 million homes in five years despite everyone telling him it would be impossible. Failed to help motorists and hauliers after the rise in the price of fuel caused by the war in Iran. Continues to allow Ed Milliband to wreck the UK's energy industry with his insane Net Zero policies. Raised the minimum wage and employers National Insurance contributions leading to thousands of job losses and businesses folding. Introduced VAT to private school fees leading to many excellent seats of learning closing their doors. Consistently refused to answer questions during the session in the parliamentary week set aside for this specific purpose. Consistently failed to accept responsibility for any wrong doing, preferring to sack others instead. Alienated "working people" while claiming to be on their side. And the lies. The constant lies. Failure. Failure. And more Failure. Time to go.
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Once the countryside is gone, it’s gone forever. We lose our green and pleasant land (and our food security) at our peril.
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I’ve just had the rather unfortunate experience of watching a few minutes of #PMQs. What a total shitshow. An utter farce of bellowing and braying. It’s hardly a surprise that the country is in a complete mess. We have the worst set of politicians at exactly the worst time.
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£200 million allocated to preparing British troops to be deployed in Ukraine. We can’t even defend our own border. It is pathetic. I will use my vote in Parliament to oppose British troops on the ground in Ukraine.
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RT @models_by_Russ: I’m sat in the pub, scrolling X — which I know is basically like drinking lighter fluid and wondering why your throat’s…
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Dear world, Keir Starmer and his cabinet of clowns do not represent us, they are beyond help. We don't agree with anything they're doing, they don't have our consent on many issues but they just do whatever they like They're destroying Britain and our way of life
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20 Dec 2025
Your Update from Moscow. Absolutely no one here wants a War with Europe, the UK or anyone else Meanwhile, no one on the streets of London, Paris or Berlin wants a War with Russia So why is a tiny EU / NATO elite trying to burn the continent? And who's going to die for them?
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The main reason that the UK national debt has mushroomed by over £2 trillion in just 18 years is because of some monumental misspending by successive governments. On wars, bloated public sector management, dodgy corporate contracts (PFI), Covid response, bank bailouts and net zero etc. This is combined with a 50 year dismantling of our industrial and manufacturing base. The tax money that we generate is being grotesquely spaffed away by governments and given to multinational corporations. Yet we continue to pay ever increasing amounts of taxation for horrendous governments to orchestrate and create this enormous mess. It’s a shameful abuse of the social contract. It’s completely unacceptable
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We have the worst politicians at exactly the worst time. Andrew Neil / @afneil eloquently sums up the dire state of politics in the UK: “As I watched PMQs yesterday and looked at both frontbenches something dawned on me I had hitherto only vaguely perceived: we are now a country bereft of a credible or competent governing class on either side of the political divide.   Left, right and centre we lack the people and policies to tackle the gathering troubles of our times. As a result, as a nation we are rudderless and without purpose — adrift in a sea of troubles rather than in command of our destiny. And that will not easily or quickly be put right.” It’s a mess. And it’s a mess caused by our politicians and it’s a mess that our politicians are incapable of resolving.
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In just 8 grim months, Keir Starmer and the Labour government…. ▪️Removed the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners ▪️Hammer farmers with the inheritance tax ▪️Austerity 2.0 ▪️£22bn on carbon capture machines ▪️Capital gains & stamp duty rises ▪️Highest tax burden in generations ▪️Failure to address the £8m a day hotels for migrants crisis ▪️National insurance increases ▪️Betray WASPI women ▪️Break their promise on university tuition fees ▪️”Boots on the ground, planes in the air” in Ukraine ▪️Break their promise on freezing council tax bills ▪️Rack up huge departmental expenses ▪️Energy price rises (despite pledging to cut energy costs) ▪️£11.6bn spaffed away on overseas climate aid ▪️Gives Italy £4m to curb illegal immigration ▪️Give £220m to KPMG to train civil servants. ▪️Commit to giving Ukraine £3bn a year “for as long as it takes”. ▪️Plasters solar panels on prime UK farmland despite local community objections. ▪️Increase the deficit & national debt ▪️Rachel from accounts ▪️Lobbies European countries to back Ukraine firing British made long range missiles into Russia. ▪️Freebies scandal ▪️Generally lecture the British public like they are naughty schoolchildren and completely fail to address the major concerns facing millions of people across the country. None of the above was ever mentioned in the Labour general election manifesto. The British electorate was sold a pup. Instead, we have been on the receiving end of the politics of gross hypocrisy and misery.
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24 Dec 2024
Very wise words

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He nails it. 🎯 “We end up with economically illiterate people in the government. There are not fit for office. This is our money. And I’m sick of being asked to pay more and more for less and less.”
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This case has an elegant notch to extract the micro SD card easily. I like that detail!
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As I expected, no reply.
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