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Rupert I am confident we can do this. I am from there in Makerfield and everyone I speak too is voting Restore Britain. It’s going to shock the nation.

@Gailslinn Fantastic to hear! Good point - now in bio, thanks.

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The mainstream media are starting to get it. Well done to everyone who has, or plans to travel to #Makerfield to flyer and canvass. #Restore @RestoreBritain

@RupertLowe10 If you introduce competition for payment processors, there are British solutions, like @electroneum whose transaction fee is a fraction of 1p.

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.

If every person in Makerfield who told me "my heart is with Restore but I'm probably going to vote Reform to keep Labour out" voted Restore, we would win outright. You have to deny the fear tactics. We're screwed till the general election regardless. Burnham, Starmer. Doesn't matter. Whoever leads labour is an establishment puppet anyway. Vote with conviction. We can win this.

Thanks for the recent follows @RestoreBritain patriots. I’m limited to small bursts of follow backs but I’ll get there. More flyering round Portsmouth today. @RestorePorts

I am a member of the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament and we have just released our findings on Britain’s broken asylum system. It is beyond damning. Some extracts from our report… “…Government departments still do not have a grip on how they will manage asylum as an end-to-end system, or a clear sense of what they are trying to achieve.” “Major policy risks and operational changes have been pursued without a realistic grip on delivery risks, costs or system-wide impacts.” “…no single point of accountability for outcomes or a governance structure for the end-to-end system.” “…absence of a clear strategy, decisions around planning and resource allocation have been reactive and disjointed.” “The Home Office was unable to show… that it has the commercial capabilities needed to manage asylum accommodation effectively.” “…weaknesses in its ability to prevent excess profits accruing for contractors…” “…no evidence that lessons from past mistakes are being used to clearly inform current actions.” “Poor data quality and weak management information continue to prevent effective management…” “…current data sharing limitations make it impossible to directly track individual cases through the entire asylum process.” “The Home Office does not yet have a credible long-term strategy for asylum accommodation…” “… there is little evidence the Home Office fully understands the impact of its approach on local services.” “The government is at considerable risk of repeating past failures.” But don’t worry, the government says it has a plan... It says it has “learned a lot of lessons”. And that it’s going to put 10,000 civil servants into what they call an “Asylum Group”. Funded by us, of course. How about improving data-linking systems? The Ministry of Justice says it simply needs more of our money. And what about ending the use of hotels and transferring to larger, “purpose-driven” sites? “The Home Office’s own analysis suggests that large sites will cost more than hotels, as seen in previously costly attempts such as Wethersfield.” The numbers… £4.9 billion spent on the system each year, including: £2.7 billion on asylum accommodation £700 million on cash support £600 million on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children Nearly £1 billion on casework, appeals, detention, and removal All spent to produce between 50,000 or so refugees each year. And of course, these costs don’t include what is then paid by us, the taxpayer, in Local Authority housing, welfare, childcare assistance, and advice and translation services once once they receive their refugee status and are no longer in the asylum system. Want more? At the time of the NAO report (December 2025), Home Office reported there were roughly 224,000 individuals still waiting in the system, excluding those awaiting an initial asylum decision. Further, since April 2024, MoJ say the number of asylum seekers waiting for an appeal decision alone has trebled, from 27,000 to 70,000, with appeals taking nearly 60 weeks to be heard. Who pays for them while they wait over a year for a decision? Us. And the tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers each year - what happens to them? The Home Office isn’t sure. It says it knows “where some of them are”, but the rest are “elsewhere in the country”, and that it is possible they “remain in the UK without detection”. Don’t fear though, because the Home Office won’t guarantee that it will find them, only that it would “seek to find them”. Whatever the hell that means… And to deal with the backlog of cases and appeals? “Home Office relaxed its recruitment arrangements, resulting in newly recruited staff being ill-suited to making complex decisions on asylum cases, which in turn affected decision quality.” The result? “In a rolling twelve months to May 2025, 42% of sampled decisions had significant or fail errors.” Astounding incompetence. But there’s more good news... The MoJ is recruiting even more over-paid salaried and fee-paid judges, as well as recruiting judges from other chambers to sit in asylum cases. In other words, MoJ’s response is to spend more of our money and remove judges from other work. This is because more asylum seekers “are now representing themselves and that this requires additional support from tribunal staff.” “The system of monitoring failed asylum seekers needs a complete overhaul,” says the report. I have a better idea. My own view? Scrap the entire system altogether, and deport every single illegal migrant living in Britain. And to those of you say that it’s impossible - to any MPs, public servants, or commentators who think I’m cherry-picking information, I implore you to read every word of the PAC report, every word of the NAO report, and to watch every minute of the 2.5 hour PAC meeting from earlier this year… And then tell me that the system is working, and that’s it’s delivering value for money, and that it’s sustainable. It isn’t. And it never will be. It is an intentional, monumental catastrophe designed to cripple the nation economically, socially, and culturally. A Restore Britain government will crush the entire asylum system as its first duty to the British people. Deport them all.

It is right and proper that @RestoreBritain stands in the Makerfield by election. It is a political party and it exists to fight elections. It will not make a blind bit of difference who from the Labour Party leads that party. They are all awful. If Restore can poll well in Makerfield it will overnight become a threat to Reform and the Tories. In that event those parties have a choice. Up their game to see off the threat from Restore or risk being wiped out. That pressure is good for politics and good for the country. @RupertLowe10 has invited me to campaign with him and Rebecca Shepherd in Makerfield on 13 June. I am delighted to accept that invitation. I hope to see lots of Restore and Advance members on that day. Let’s get up to Makerfield and win this for the country!

Lets make #RebeccaShepherd trend on here! Make sure everyone in Makerfield knows who to vote for #RestoreBritain 👍🏼🇬🇧

First Portsmouth @RestoreBritain members meeting coming soon.

At @RestorePorts we have started building our local team and will soon be laying the groundwork for our first members meeting. If you are a local party member you will be contacted in due course with details of our first event.

Fantastic work Southampton team. I’m doing another leaflet drop in Portsmouth this weekend.

@SkyNews Was the family advised to say they didn’t want division or tension? Seems a convenient shield for the establishment to hide behind, especially when peoples outrage is targeted towards systemic failure, and institutionalised positive discrimination. @elonmusk only speaking truth.

BREAKING: Starmer accuses Elon Musk of 'trying to whip up division in the UK' following the murder of Henry Nowak 📺 Sky 501

@benhabib6 @_AdvanceUK Thank you Ben. I have a lot of respect for your decision to put the country first and mitigate potential confusion on the right. I hope Advanced UK members will now consider joining @RestoreBritain

When the country needed a serious principled political party on the “right”, I launched @_AdvanceUK. The situation has since changed. And so we too must change. We are not in politics for the sake of being in politics. It has never been about egos. It has always been about the country. So today, I am pleased to announce a change of direction for Advance. A change which should clarify the political landscape. Country first, party second. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

The BBC has excluded Restore Britain from its Makerfield Question Time special. This is blatant election interference and deliberately designed to suppress the Restore Britain vote. Complain to the BBC through this link - please share. bbc.co.uk/contact/compla…

@RestoreBritain I have submitted a complaint and I urge all @RestoreBritain members to do so.

@TalkTV @NormanBrennan @jkyleofficial Sign and share Petition Mandate whole-life sentence for knife-related murders & stricter penalties It has been reported that knife crime has risen 80% with thousands of offences yearly. We believe sentencing is inconsistent and often lenient. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7552…

Listen to @RupertLowe10 give voice to some of the victims of the rape gangs. The ongoing rape of Britain has been permissioned for decades by a Liberal State culture of silence - and even complicity. @RestoreBritain is our only hope to stop this crime against our people.

@frankwrighter @RestoreBritain_ Absolutely brilliant! I hope you will stand for Restore in Newbury.

I went up to Makerfield to canvass for @RestoreBritain_ - and explained why Restore is the only party which will save the nation: