Stephen Gordon

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

“Imagine getting booked for celebrating… fucking sad, you know what I mean?” 😡 David Moyes hit out after being booked for celebrating Everton’s late equaliser and joked he’d have done a knee slide too if he was more mobile saying he’d do it all again 🏃‍♂️💥

It’s the most wonderful time of the year - the self-assessment deadline. That magical moment when many of Britain’s tax-paying men and women sit down trying to work out how much more of their hard-earned money the obese state is going to steal from them - and it is theft. What’s the damage? A LOT. For a moment, let’s ask ourselves for what… To fund indolent Somalian families who refuse to work, living off benefits? To pay for this endless line of public sector bureaucrats who give nothing, but take so much? To provide laundry services to Eritrean conmen who have broken into our country so they can have their taxpayer-funded tracksuits washed twice a week? To send Pakistan £133 million in foreign aid whilst our own towns crumble away? To allow millions of healthy Brits to laze around all day, enjoying daytime television whilst the rest of us actually contribute? What a crap deal. I am fed up of it. I am fed up of all of it. Who picks up the bill? Business owners, farmers, contractors, sole traders, publicans, plumbers, entrepreneurs, electricians, long-standing family businesses and so many more. People who work and work and work to create real value. I see the effort, it is relentless and nobody in Government gives a toss about them. I really mean that. They don’t. They’re just another source of income to fund all this outrageous waste. Not forgetting the accountant fees we all have to pay to comply with the never-ending conveyor belt of laws and regulations… These men and women are all now looking at their tax bills and thinking what the HELL is the point? Honestly? Why bother? NOTHING WORKS. The roads are a mess, a chaotic NHS is failing and every organ of the state is utterly incompetent. The entire Westminster establishment simply does not understand the brutal reality of what is needed. And it must be brutal. There is ONE route out of this mess. Slash tax - income, corporation, dividends. Cut VAT. Everything. Brutalise the size of the state. Less Government, less regulation, less tax. Get it the hell out of our lives. And PLEASE stop pissing our tax away on all this nonsense. I want Government to do a small list of things, but do them very well. Let these entrepreneurs and grafters do what they do best. Work, build success, generate opportunities and create wealth. Then actually, they’ll end up paying more tax. This is NOT complicated. MPs are CLUELESS. I would honestly rather a flock of pigeons made these decisions, at least then there’s a random chance they might get one or two calls right. The lack of business understanding from these clowns is PAINFUL. Please know that there is at least one MP fighting for you all.

When someone spends £85 on a Premier League shirt, this is where the money goes. 👕 💰