@CommunistPompey @leonburton @patmcfaddenmp That's the joy of any first job. Might not be what you feel entitled to, but experience gives you more choice.
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Chris Stephenson
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Chris Stephenson
@StephensonC
Cattle, crops, caravans, soil and sunshine. Nature restoration.
Weardale, Durham Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@leonburton @patmcfaddenmp Kids don’t want to work in hospitality. Shit job with shit wages and shit hours.
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A lot of young unemployed people have never had the chance of work.
We need to help them break out of the no experience no job bind.
Work experience can help do that and that's why we want more young people to have that chance. theguardian.com/society/2026/m…
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@DanNeidle Drop VAT threshold to 15k, then lower VAT rate til your 5bn is covered.
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Reform UK have announced a plan to make overtime tax-exempt.
I'm sceptical this makes sense - more soon.
But an interesting question: if you were the Chancellor, and you were making a £5bn tax cut... what tax would you cut?
What would have the maximum positive impact?
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@bleating_lamb @EdwdPrice Quite happy to farm without if we were competing on a level field.
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If I wanted to destroy the British food industry I’d create a packaging tax for domestic industry at the same time as reducing tariffs on imports…
GIF
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@EdwdPrice @bleating_lamb And drop farm support payments when all your neighbours keep them going.
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Say what you like about de Gaulle - respect for top hat and 3 piece on the beach.
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories
Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly and she became the heart of his life.... When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument. Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal. Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter. To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence. He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition. That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence. Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her. After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life. Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care. © Soul Whisper #drthehistories
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@robertsturt @angusgowthorpe @RachelReevesMP @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer @bbclaurak Wait til you have to pay VAT.
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@RachelReevesMP @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer @bbclaurak Rachel Reeves, I planned carefully for retirement.
A North Norfolk holiday-let barn was meant to provide income, pay tax, employ cleaners, use local trades and support a holiday letting business.
On an example £1,000 booking, after the £180 commission, £150 cleaning and laundry costs, £50 electricity, £40 water and £40 council tax, only £540 remains before maintenance and repairs. After 25% corporation tax, that falls to £405. If the remaining income is then taxed at 40%, the owner is left with just £243 from the original £1,000 booking.
Remember, this is before allowing for any maintenance, repairs, insurance or mortgage costs. And the electrical PAT testing last year was needed. Now that company will receive no further income.
It is becoming impossible for a small Limited company to earn money.
How coffee shops, pubs, guesthouses and other small businesses survive with staff, rent, tax, regulation, insurance and rising costs is beyond me.
Make small enterprise pointless and people stop doing it.
Then government gets no tax.
Cleaners get no work.
Agents get no commission.
Local trades lose jobs.
That is not growth.
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@audlemagronpaul @ntahall There are other ways of maintaining it rather than using a poison.
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You’d never have guessed that Sheffield declared a Nature Emergency in 2021 - 5 years ago!
Tim Birch@TimBirchWild
@SheffCouncil why you spraying Sheffield streets with pesticides? Im HORRIFIED to see GLYPHOSATE sprayed on our streets by a Council worker. Cities across UK and Europe have banned it. It kills wildlife, is a health risk, cats and dogs can get very sick BAN IT NOW! @_OliviaBlake
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@mark_crapper1 Buying little diddy dairy calves for 850 hoping the job will be right in 24 months time... Mad
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@StephensonC They will come short again and then there’s going to be more volatility. Great for everyone. 🤔
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These lads and lasses are rocking and rolling at 98 days on farm, 1.79dlwg. It’s just a shame that they’ll still be absolutely bloody useless when the supermarkets don’t want to sell them. Unfortunately farming doesn’t just switch off and they know it
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@BenRamanauskas Tax your way to growth? Money taken from a tourist business is less money to invest in their product.
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As ever, tourist taxes are good if they're not imposed by central government AND if the LA gets to keep all the revenue NOT gobbled up by a greedy Chancellor.
They should be used to invest in transport infrastructure and reduce taxes on locals.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: 10 Mayors in England are set to introduce a tourist tax on overnight stays this summer [@Telegraph]
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@SamRaincock Nope. Sent mine guaranteed next day 1pm. Arrived Cramlington sorting office 8am. Sat there 24hr then delivered late morning day after. Caused no end of hassle. Still waiting for a refund 3 weeks later. Substantial consequential loss not covered of course. Will drive next time.
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Credit where it is due - in a time where service and expectations are low, Royal Mail Special Delivery is still a shining example of how it can be done. It is a really good, well tracked and very reliable service.
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@mark_crapper1 Only so much you can to play the market and get them away in spec.
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@StephensonC It’s got past that point now. Just cattle coming fit and can’t feed them for the sake of it
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@banks_chef Everyone will be eating kids meals this summer.
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If Rachel Reeves had reached out to Hospitality we could have helped with her Great British Summer project. Instead of 5% VAT on kids meals we would have offered them for free in exchange of VAT being reduced to 10% not the 5% she has offered on kids meals.
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@No1FarmerJake @FarmersWeekly @Esso_GB @Shell @bp_America @UKLabour @10DowningStreet Or HMRC. Tax take is up 70% in the last 10 years.
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@FarmersWeekly Voluntary price cap 🤣🤣 how about they ask the same from @Esso_GB @Shell @bp_America et al @UKLabour @10DowningStreet is an absolute joke
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🗣️ "News of this week discussions between the Treasury and retailers over voluntary price caps on key groceries is another dispiriting insight into the lack of serious attention food policy is given."
READ MORE: ow.ly/Vz4X50Z34Fm
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@SamJRushworth @RachelReevesMP Sam, why are you taxing education at 20% but rollercoasters are taxed at 5%?
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The #MetOffice will issue an AMBER level heat alert later today.
If you're over the age of 40, you'll know this as "a nice sunny day"
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Remember when GPS trackers were a rarity, fitted to a few high end items like bottles of famous grouse Whisky? #CostOfLivingCrisis
Duncan Barkes@DuncanBarkes
@ElliotKeck Sausages in locked Perspex boxes with a GPS tracker where I live in the wilds of Sussex. Britain has fallen.
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@TrooperSnooks @NaomiLWood Been for a cosy chat with supermarkets about price caps, they've obviously had a rethinking and doing summer Tesco bbq aisle style. Looking forward to the Back to School offers come August. 5% on school fees anyone?
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Policies henceforth will be announced in the style of a DFS spring sale.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
Every family should enjoy the summer without having to think about the pressures of the cost of living. That’s what our Great British Summer Savings package is all about.
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Or a nice cup of glyphosate with your bacon sandwich. Also 2A.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
WHO: bacon is Group 2A. Possibly carcinogenic. Citizen: what else is in that group. WHO: hot beverages above 65 degrees. Citizen: tea? WHO: yes. Citizen: so my morning cup of tea and my breakfast bacon are in the same cancer category. WHO: technically yes but the public should focus on the bacon. Citizen: why. WHO: we cannot say. Citizen: who funds you. WHO: we cannot say. Citizen: I'm going to have a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea and you can have a quiet sit down.
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