Matthew Stadlen

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Generous of the government to make the Reform-Restore bun fight free entertainment during a cost of living crisis.

Just to be clear. It’s not anti working class to call out comments that are derogatory towards women. It’s anti working class to consider vile comments a feature of being working class.

@RupertLowe10 “Whole communities”. Rup, it’s a bank holiday. Go and have a gentle stroll in the sunshine.

Right. Just so we’re all clear. Farage and Reform tried to put me in prison because I backed the mass deportation of Pakistani child rapists and their foreign wives/relatives who allowed it to happen. My home was raided by armed police late on a Friday night as a direct result of Reform’s allegations. My guns were seized. They tried to ruin my life. In every way. Farage admitted on national television it was all because I backed mass deportations. He said that was the moment they realised they ‘had to get rid’ of me. Not the bullshit allegations they went to the police with, but the fact I want the Pakistani rapists removed from our country. He admitted it. That all happened. Fair enough. I took it on the chin, and planned out our next step. I founded Restore Britain to give the British people the democratic option to agree with me. Restore Britain will, without apology, deport every last foreign rapist and all foreign accomplices who knew it was happening, yet failed to act. If that means entire communities go, that means entire communities go. I really don’t care. We will rid Britain of that cancer. Now Reform are incandescently angry that we are giving the British people that choice. Deploying increasingly desperate smears against our movement. If people don’t agree, they can vote for someone else who won’t deport. There are plenty of options - Reform, Labour, Tories. Take your pick. Go for it. But if you want those evil scumbags out of our country, along with every foreign coward who enabled it? You now have that genuine option. Restore Britain.

@Bounce_BackLoan “Loses his shit”? You must have been watching something else entirely. Difficult to find a calmer and more articulate politician than @darrenpjones. Calling him a “halfwit” only reflects badly on you - whoever you are - MrBounceBackAnonymous.

Oh this is delicious, resident Cabinet Office Minister and halfwit, Darren Jones loses his shit at Trevor Phillips when asked how the fuck is a £1.64 saving on theme park tickets for a family of 4, costing £200-£250 a good thing.

@tomhfh If you don’t want people on benefits, Tom, you need to pay them properly.

This is what entry level jobs used to do, before politicians raised the minimum wage to unrealistic heights and killed the key route in to work.

@ZiaYusufUK Panicking.

Wonderful people of Makerfield, a new poll from Survation shows Reform is the ONLY party with a shot of stopping open borders Burnham from becoming Prime Minister. We will remove EVERY illegal migrant from your area and deport them from our shores. Please vote accordingly! 🇬🇧

@RobertJenrick @nadhimzahawi People are laughing at Reform, Rob. Making it up as you go along.

People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves. You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job. This will be a huge boost to recruitment. Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧

Robert Jenrick has been a desperate and disastrous appointment by Reform.

@zarahussain999 This is an old - and obviously disgraceful - video. Arsenal strikes me as a multicultural and inclusive football club, rooted in the local, diverse community.

Reform’s gimicky policy to take overtime out of income tax already being shredded by those who actually understand economics.

@RupertLowe10 Bless.

Farage has just gone to the media to attack Restore Britain, again. He says that Elon Musk is supporting a party 'that’s one man with a social media account.' This is where Farage is so very wrong. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of Restore Britain members, backed up millions of Brits who are with us. Those numbers increase every day. Farage can arrogantly insult me over and over, but he has never been more wrong. Restore Britain is a team. This is a movement of millions of British patriots unlike anything that has ever been seen before. This party isn't about me, it never has been. It is about our members, our people, our home. Not me. Them. That is something he will never understand, and ultimately it's why he will lose. The Restore Britain movement will win. We are going to take our country back. We are going to Restore Britain.

It’s as if Reform make up their policies on the backs of envelopes.

@JamesCleverly It’s not a new tax, though, is it? And it’s a Tory idea. gov.uk/guidance/exten…

The Labour government says that food prices are too high and that food retailers should cap their prices. The Labour government is introducing a new £2bn tax increase on food retailers which will push up prices. Go figure!!!! thetimes.com/business/compa…

@OliverCooper @MrMKimber It’s almost as if Reform make up their policies on the backs of envelopes.

While it makes for a good headline, this is a terrible policy for several reasons. 1. It would create a 'cliff edge' at £75,000, which means many people going from earning £75k to £76k would get hit by a tax bill that's bigger than their raise. This will hugely deter people from earning more. 2. It would be exceptionally easy to game to facilitate tax avoidance. Nothing would stop unscrupulous employers and and employees agreeing that the regular pay is very low, but an hour of overtime is paid (say) 100x ordinary wages. All of a sudden, the whole wage is tax-free. 3. It would be unfair between professions where hours are contracted and those it's not. The professional services sector, for example, rarely pays overtime. This would incentivise those professions to move to clock-punching: forcing professions to change their culture to suit government. 4. By targeting hours, it gives a tax break to work that takes longer. But we should be incentivising higher wages through higher productivity, not lower wages on longer hours. 5. Self-employed people and people who work multiple jobs wouldn't benefit from this. For absolutely no reason whatsoever. Just cut taxes generally. Don't dream up schemes that make our tax system even more complicated and even more distortionary just to get a quick headline.

Hello bank holidayers! Three politics episodes of the 20 Questions With podcast (sponsored by @MadeinBritainGB) in quick succession for you to catch up on. David Gauke on the future of the Tory Party Kwasi Kwarteng on the inside view of the mini budget Mike Tapp on taking on Reform UK. Listen here and let me know what you think: open.spotify.com/show/77uOvlZKq…

@RobertJenrick Not sure you’ve really thought this through, Rob.

Under Reform, hard work will be rewarded. No tax on overtime. You keep the extra money you earn. Not Rachel Reeves. Simple.

The populist and far right have a problem. Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe really seem to despise each other.