ANT SMITH

They don't realise the standard. So many academy lads don't realise how tough National League North & South is these days.

14 years ago today, no signs or thoughts to suggest he wasn’t feeling himself Always check in on each other lads 💙🎗️

Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years. So who will monitor the mileage in order to calculate the tax owed during that period? Reeves doesn't know.

You make your bed and you lay in it… I can guarantee you’ll soon want to change it 😞

What Reeves should announce today, but obviously won’t. Everything costs more. Food, rent, mortgages, insurance, childcare, energy, basic goods, services, the weekly shop, a pint. Britain is getting poorer, faster. People feel it, and they’re right. Inflation has eaten us alive. Wages wiped out. Savings eroded. Families poorer. Britain weaker. We are getting ripped off. Why? Because Britain is addicted to the size of its own state. Here’s what Reeves should say. Tax cuts. Lots of tax cuts. - Raise the personal allowance dramatically - let people keep the first £20,000 they earn, minimum. No tax. It will cost, but the savings it will produce from encouraging people back into work will be vast, - Slash Income Tax/National Insurance, especially on middle-earners who’ve been squeezed the hardest. This is uncomplicated, Rachel. REWARD HARD WORK. - Remove the stealth taxes they all pretend don’t exist - fiscal drag and frozen thresholds which quietly rob the British people every year. - Give overseas skilled British workers vast tax benefits to relocate their tax revenue and skills back to Britain. Bring them home. - Cut back VAT, reduce fuel duty, cut alcohol duty, none of this sugar tax bullshit. - Stamp duty, gone for British families. Let’s get the property market moving. - Licence fee, scrapped. On the bonfire. Day one. More cash in the pocket for families. Unleash British business - Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest rate in Europe. Undercut them. Compete. Win. - Push back dividend thresholds and taxes. If people are successful, ENCOURAGE IT. - Abolish Business Rates for small firms. Bring our high streets back. Turkish barber/vape shop fraud crackdown too - let's root out the criminals. - Slash Employers’ National Insurance - the single biggest reason small firms won’t hire more staff. OBVIOUSLY. We need to get that right down. Non-negotiable. - Supercharge deregulation, especially for small businesses. A redtape bonfire visible from space. Let it burn. - End the HR-ification of Britain. Bosses should be able to sack people, and they’ll end up actually hiring more because of that. - Scrap IR35, immediately. Leave people to interface between themselves. - Double the VAT threshold, possibly more. Overnight, vast growth will be unleashed from businesses hovering just under £90k. The figures show it already! - Super-deductions for investment, including capital allowances and R&D incentives. Encourage people to invest and they will! - Get police policing, and restoring some confidence for investment. Make Britain safer, and that will make Britain richer. A brutal restructuring of the welfare state. And I mean brutal. - No benefits for foreign nationals. If you arrive here, you contribute. If you’re here and you don’t? You leave. Billions saved, with one stroke. - Mandatory work requirements for all those able to work. If you want support from taxpayers, you must give something back. A fair time to search for a job, but then you’re put to work. Picking litter or whatever else. - Full disability fraud crackdown using data-matching and HMRC-style enforcement. Weed out the piss-takers. - A cap on total household benefit claims - it should never pay more to stay home than to work. Never. Drive for self-sufficiency. - Domestic energy production on a huge scale, like we’ve never seen before. Drive that cost of energy down. Fracking. North Sea extraction. New nuclear. Gas storage. Cheap dependable energy = lower prices for everything. It’s that simple. - Food security, with domestic output boosted and less reliance on foreign supply chains. - Support British farming. Scrap the family farming tax. Use the public sector’s purchasing power to BUY BRITISH from our farmers. End dependency. Boost farming apprenticeships. - A national infrastructure plan focused on logistics, ports, roads, and freight efficiency. The cheaper it is to produce and transport things, the lower prices fall. Places like Great Yarmouth with our fantastic port will boom. Stop building roads in Guyana, and use that money in Britain. A robust plan to deal with the cancer of inflation. - Immediate ban on money-printing (QE) without explicit Parliamentary approval. No more splurges by the Bank of England and that toad Bailey. - Slash public spending - genuine far-reaching cuts. Nobody is safe. All departments. - Foreign aid. Gone. Entirely. Billions saved overnight. - Freeze all non-essential recruitment across the entire public sector (excluding front-line staff). A workforce pause, until inflation is under control. Then follows strict limits. - A structured debt-repayment schedule, legally binding, to get those vast billion debt-interest payments falling. If you want some awful perspective - we now spend more on debt interest than on defence. No serious country on earth behaves like this. Britain does. It’s like some third world African tinpot dictatorship approach to economic affairs. - We need to cut the debt, not just the deficit. - Public sector pension liability - all off balance sheet. Needs a total overhaul as state employees are radically cut. Stop importing poverty, crime and sex pests. - Shut down all illegal migration with mass deportations, rapid removals, third-country processing, and no exceptions. Billions saved on abolishing asylum and related costs. - Cut legal migration to net-negative, especially low-wage migration that undercuts British workers. - Remove those who are a drain. If they’re claiming benefits, living in social housing, unable to speak English, refusing to contribute? Thanks, but your presence is no longer required. Bye. - Deport foreign sex pests and criminals. Make our towns safe again. Watch how investment flows back into our dying high streets. We must urgently cut back the bankrupt British state. Growth only comes from the following things. A smaller state. Lower taxes. More people working. Fewer people scrounging. Cheaper energy. Stronger borders. Mass deportations. Actual production. That is it. Reeves sadly does not have the balls to do what is necessary. Britain needs an economic revolution.

I get massive exposure from my messages on X. I feel like pretty much all of us are fed up with what’s going on in the country right now. So I’m gonna bullet point some of the things I feel are wrong. I’m also gonna put out a few things I’m trying to do to help!! These are my opinions so let me know what you think in the comments. 1) People are working harder than ever and still falling behind. The cost of every day items is ridiculous. Rent, bills, weekly shop etc. 2) Taxes go up but our services are getting worse. Nothing feels fair anymore. Go to any hospital in the country and see how over worked and underfunded it is. 3) Ordinary families feel ignored while the country drifts. People don’t feel safe letting their kids go and play in the local parks anymore. 4) The dream of owning a home or getting ahead has been taken away. House prices are record high but wages have barely moved. Especially where I live, it is impossible to get on the property ladder for youngsters. 5) When normal people speak up, they get mocked instead of heard. Just look at what the press tried to do to me. All because I say it how it is and love my country. 6) Illegal immigration is out of control. The system is broken and people feel unsafe, unheard and taken for granted while they follow the rules. And it’s all coming out of our tax money. Now you’re probably reading these bullet points thinking. That’s all true Tom; but you’ve got a bit of a platform. Instead of moaning about it, why don’t you try and do something about it. Well here is what I’m doing and trying to do: 1) I’m building real local businesses that create real jobs for real people and create money for the local economy. 2) I’m trying to revive struggling high streets with ideas that I have to generate footfall and help local shops. Been doing lots of talks with local councils. 3) I’ve done many talks around schools, youth clubs across the UK about staying out of trouble. I’ve had my fare share of run ins with the law when I was younger. Even though it was easy money, waking up learning a trade and not looking over your shoulder is better. Trying to encourage youngsters to become entrepreneurs. Not criminals. Don’t make the same mistakes I did. 4) Most councils in the UK are on the brink of going bust, some have already given out a Section 114. I’m trying to work with them help fix and build. Not just moan on X. 5) Speaking openly on my platform about the illegal immigration problem without fear of being cancelled, A lot of people in the public eye are to scared as they are afraid they will lose TV work. But it is a problem. I will speak up. 6) Use my platform to force honesty, accountability and common sense back into public life. 7) Carry on spreading positivity and keep telling people on social media to believe in themselves and not give up. I’ve felt like giving up so many times, but I haven’t and I’ve been lucky enough to have a successful career and I’ve now got a beautiful family. Look, I love this country and I believe in its people. I will back our businesses, our trades, our families, our future. I will fight for the UK. But instead of all the anger and hate a lot of people give each other online and in the media. Why don’t we all start having normal conversations. Just common sense and let’s work together to start doing something about it. I want a better future for my kids like 99% of the population do. So let’s start working together. Any way. I’ve been laying on my bed for the last twenty minutes writing this and I need to leave to go to work. So have a fantastic Wednesday you lovely lot. Go smash it and good luck. I’m interested to read your thoughts. Bosh❤️🇬🇧