Phil Lindley

Sole traders. Micro businesses with one or two employees. Freelancers. Plumbers. Electricians. Hairdressers. Mechanics. Accountants. Gardeners. Whatever it is, whoever they are. These are the workers that keep the economy going. Not the big global corporates. Politicians, and those devising the rules, simply do not understand how these people live. Nobody ever even talks about the one or two people operations in Westminster. Saturday morning in the bureaucrat’s world? Friday working from home, so nice easy day to finish off the week. Laptop closed by 15.00. Phone off for the weekend, not a care in the world. Life is sweet. Holiday coming up, mortgage comfortable, pension growing nicely. The sole trader? Getting invoices and paperwork sorted at 6am before the children wake up. Chasing up late payments. Weighing up whether to do that last minute emergency call out, or spend time with the kids on a Saturday. Getting the diary sorted for next week. Phone goes and goes all weekend. It is never-ending. It does not stop. It’s two different worlds honestly. The issue is that the latter entirely funds the former, and the former is hellbent on making life as difficult as possible for productive Britain. I want to be really clear about what Restore Britain would do. Two things. Crush parasitic Britain. Unleash productive Britain. First. Scrap IR35. It has created years of confusion, fear and chaos for contractors and small operators. It has pushed countless self-employed people into pointless paperwork and rigid inflexibility. Doesn’t work. It’s a right pain in the arse for millions. Scrap it. Second, we will double the VAT threshold. The current threshold traps thousands of small businesses just as they begin to grow. Many deliberately stop expanding to avoid the enormous administrative burden of VAT and the brutal cost hikes which drive demand away. The evidence of is obvious. Thousands hover just below the threshold, refusing to grow, hire or pay more tax. It is ABSURD. Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold so small businesses can grow without being punished for success. This is absolutely necessary. An important one - we would dramatically simplify the tax system for sole traders and micro-businesses (and everyone else, but that's separate). Instead of forcing small operators through pages of complicated accounting rules designed for large corporations, we will introduce a far simplified tax regime for businesses below a certain size. Less paperwork, fewer forms, clearer rules. More money for them, less for the accountants and parasitic professional class. Sounds like a good deal, doesn’t it? Next. We will end the endless culture of inspections and bureaucratic interference from the bureaucrats. Too many small businesses now live in fear of accidental breaches - whether it’s health and safety nonsense, employment law complexity, ridiculous data laws or constantly changing compliance requirements. The stress is immense. If you are a sole trader or micro-business acting in good faith, the system should support you, not threaten you. Restore Britain will free them from endless regulatory suffocation. The mental health release on that is worth it alone. Means a lot to me, this one. Restore Britain will make it easier for tradespeople to hire apprentices. This is important. One of the biggest problems small businesses face is bringing in the next generation. The current system is too complicated, too expensive and too rigid for small firms. Restore Britain will introduce simple, flexible apprenticeship schemes designed specifically for small businesses and trades. Up next, we will simplify planning and licensing rules. For small builders, tradespeople and contractors - planning restrictions and local bureaucracy can delay work for months and add unnecessary costs. I detest planning departments more than I can describe in language appropriate for a Saturday morning. These jumped-up empire-building little runts running councils across Britain will have their power stripped away from them. We will let people do business, we will let business owners run their businesses without the sneering council worker’s constant box ticking. Not complicated. We will restore respect for the self-employed. Look at how they were treated during lockdown. Like dirt. Entirely abandoned whilst others were paid to do nothing. That must be addressed, and they must be compensated. The excluded must finally be recognised. That wrong must be rectified. Under a Restore Britain Government, their efforts will be appreciated, celebrated and most importantly? Rewarded. This is the key point. Let’s not pretend otherwise. The five golden rules of business. What’s in it for me? We will radically slash tax and raise thresholds. Tax on dividends would be hacked down so that success pays. More work, pays. Effort, pays. If the electrician does that last minute job on a Saturday, it will be worth their time. They will be rewarded, not HMRC. Restore Britain will slash the bureaucracy, simplify the rules, cut the taxes. We will give small businesses the freedom they need to thrive, to support their families and to succeed. Parasitic Britain will end. Sole traders and micro businesses finally have a political party that will fight for them. Restore Britain.

@RupertLowe10 Most of them work in call centres can’t understand a word

One Restore Britain policy has really got them all wound up - removing those foreign nationals who are incapable of speaking English. How many doubts have I had about this one? ZERO. If a Pakistani men is living in Bradford say, and cannot string a sentence together in English, he should go home. How can he possibly contribute to the economy in any meaningful way? How can he even attempt to integrate? He clearly hasn’t, and he clearly won’t. So he can’t work, can’t integrate, can’t contribute. His attitude clearly stinks. What is he doing here, honestly? He will rely on translators for NHS services, paid for by us. He’s almost certainly claiming some form of benefits. Translation there too. Who pays? You guessed it. The British taxpayer. He’s here on a visa, which includes an English language requirement. He has broken the agreement, therefore it’s void and that Pakistani man should go back to Pakistan. He would be asked to leave, and if he refuses, he would be deported. Good. To be honest. Again, the number who go is secondary. The principle must come first. If that means a huge number of people leave because of this policy, that is just the logical consequence. ‘Oh but English people living in Spain can’t speak Spanish’. There is a simple response here - that’s Spain’s problem. I don’t care what happens there, to be brutally honest. ‘Restore Espana’ can make that argument. This is Britain, and we’re talking about what happens in Britain. So if you’re living in England, you speak English. End of story. Restore Britain would remove those foreign nationals who don’t, and save billions in the process through reduced welfare payments, NHS costs, and translation services. It’s a fantastic policy. This is what any self-respecting nation would do. And there is finally a political party with the balls to do it. Restore Britain.

@denniskneelsun @josh1indley @frickleyafc I played Centre half.

@josh1indley I reckon that puts you level with your dad on goals scored for @frickleyafc

2 goals and a win🙌🏼

Dorset police reveal 44% of alleged sex offences in the county are by "asylum seekers" living in taxpayer funded hotels! @AllisonPearson covers the horrific statistics.

Denmark tracked 321 Palestinian men granted asylum in 1992. 63% were convicted of a crime 22% received a prison sentence 55% were on welfare by 2019 They had ~999 children 34% convicted 13% got prison sentences 37% received benefits in 2019 Total cost to taxpayers (1992–2025): ~$246–319 million — or ~$800,000 per man

@Keir_Starmer You talk absolute shite . It’s easy stop the boats. Stop the benefits and they won’t come. Look after British people instead of illegals you idiot

Germany has committed to change their law so we can disrupt the supply of small boats. Working with our international partners gets results for British people. We will smash the people smuggling gangs and secure our borders.

@UKLabour By putting them into houses

Confirmed: Labour will end the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers in this parliament.

As the time of Hajj ends, I want to wish Eid Mubarak to all Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha in the UK and around the world.

🚨 BREAKING : A petition to stop all migrant benefits hits 50k signatures in 24 hours Please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7053…

@UKLabour Doing a great job of that by letting unvetted illegal immigrant’s into the country in masses 🤡

Secure at home. Strong abroad.

One billion in benefits for foreign national households a month. One billion. Up from £461 million in March 2022. There is a simple solution. STOP PAYING IT. Stop paying foreign nationals hundreds of millions of pounds in benefits every month. Just stop doing it. If you’re a foreign national - you come, you contribute, you integrate, you speak the language, you pay your taxes and you work. If you don’t do that? You go home - not a complicated principle. We’re paying indolent foreigners to sit on their backsides and contribute nothing, but take plenty. Why? How is that helping the British people? Here’s a clue - IT’S NOT. Just say no. The answer is no. You can’t have benefits. There will be mass self deportations. There needs to be an almost complete blanket ban on foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit - other than a very small number who have financially contributed for many years. Other than that, no. No benefits. Sorry. We shouldn’t be afraid to say this... Go home. If you can’t contribute, go home.

@UKLabour He might just stop sending money abroad and actually put the British people first

Reminder that Farage described Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget (the one that sent mortgages spiralling) as “the best Conservative budget since 1986”

@Keir_Starmer That is one of the biggest lies yet! You are retarded

Under the Tories net migration reached nearly 1 million – roughly the size of the population of Birmingham. I know you are angry about this, and I promised you I would change it. Today's stats show we have nearly halved net migration in the last year. We're taking back control.

@basilthegreat I’ve just driven through it. I can confirm it’s a shithole

The is Bradford. The UK's city of culture 2025. I wish it was a joke Why on Earth would anyone visit here?

@Keir_Starmer @POTUS I hope Putin takes you out

If Russia is unwilling to come to the negotiating table, Putin must pay the price. Speaking to @POTUS, we are closely aligning our response to Russia's unacceptable position.

@Keir_Starmer I don’t think you quite get this, stop the benefits to all illegals and the ones that are here will go elsewhere where and the ones think about crossing the channel won’t come.

We’re making progress — but I will go further and faster to secure our borders.

@UKLabour Why’s my bills going every month then?

Promise made. Promise kept. We’re taking back control of our energy system, lowering bills, creating jobs and driving investment.

@Keir_Starmer Just stop benefits for illegals. Problem sorted. 🤡

If you're one of the smugglers putting people in small boats across the channel — we’re coming after you.

KEIR STARMER EARNED HIS MILLIONS DEFENDING ILLEGAL MIGRANTS FOR 20+ YEARS AS A LAWYER! HE SPENT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER BLOCKING DEPORTATIONS! NOW, AS PM, HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE HE'S GETTING TOUGH ON ILLEGAL MIGRANTS!

@Keir_Starmer Still no mention of stopping the boats. 🤡

This is my promise to British people: Every area of our immigration system will be tightened up, so we have more control. And migration numbers will fall.