Chris

@ActualLion @reformparty_uk @reformexposed 'Stop the Votes'

@reformparty_uk beclowning themselves in #Kirklees 🤡. We deserve better than this. @reformexposed

White Suicide bomber kills himself, his ex girlfriend and injures 3 others

@Tory_Brexit69 ?? There's a full story on the BBC with live updates.

Man from India runs down lots of people. Nothing on SKY or BBC? UK city lockdown as car ploughs into crowds with several seriously injured - man arrested express.co.uk/news/uk/218788…

@Anna69680497 Beautiful photo and Im sure you had many beautiful times. Its always happy when an animal and human find each other for that special connection.

Fairy 28.09.2010 - 17.12.2025 Her wings were ready, but my heart was not 🖤💔🌈

@JustRight88889 @MartinMonmouth1 @ThatAlexWoman Interesting. I refer to working age as they by far make up the greatest offences which end up in prison. As your snipet points out there are dabgers in data limitations and interpretations, but neverthess many are surprised at the numbers. Good to talk with you. Thanks

We simply should NOT be letting young men who have a proclivity for snatching up young women and raping them into the heart of our society A shepherd does not welcome a wolf into the flock Chilling moment Afghan asylum seekers drag girl, 15, into bushes before raping her: Pair jailed mol.im/a/15364309 via dailym.ai/android

@MartinMonmouth1 @ThatAlexWoman While that is horrific, in context there are 117 rapes per 100000 in the UK annually. Probably many more in reality. This equates to around 76,000 reported rapes a year or 208 every day on average. One in four girls and one in six boys will experience childhood sexual abuse.

@ThatAlexWoman Another new case of children being raped by an Afghan this very morning.

@LizKershawDJ @Kent_cc That isn't how the form works. The council points out it needs to provide support to protected characteristics, and links to a page setting out all of them as in the law. Lazy of the council to link the two pages together, but lazy of you to intrept it in the way you have.

When booking a visit to local @Kent_cc recycling centre I was asked online to state if I needed help when I got there. "I require assistance on this occasion due to a Protected Characteristic. Please see Protected Characteristics." You can choose from: Age Disability Pregnancy/maternity Sex OK….I get the first 4. They determine your physical ability to handle stuff.    But WTF?!! Faith Race Gender reassignment Sexual orientation Hopefully now we have @reformparty_uk running @Kent_cc and @therealdavidwi1 in charge of Environment this nonsense will stop.

@RupertLowe10 Yeah let's open unregulated cafes with no red tape, serving what they like, where they like, when they like. Where could that go wrong I wonder?

Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it. You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe. Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in. Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell. You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives. But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone. Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk? It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother? Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense. Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations. But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold. That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant. Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on? More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother? Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase. Incompetence reigns. Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground? Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk? It is brutal. Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments. No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government. You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead. We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can. We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more. If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance. I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities. They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not. My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better. Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.

@trussliz Unelected. Just like you. So what gives your view any credence?

I think Lord Hermer is terrible and is undermining Britain at every turn. But he is directly appointed by the Prime Minister and can be hired and fired by him and is therefore democratically accountable. Unlike the Bank of England Governor, the Lord Chief Justice, reams of Permanent Secretaries, the Climate Change Committee and over 400 Quango Chiefs. These are the people weilding undemocratic power and almost no media attention is devoted to them. It's why the British system is broken. Until this is understood and the deep state is dismantled, nothing will change.

@CPhilpOfficial Weird how patriotism doesn't apply to them. No criticism for their leaving their country in the lurch? No wondering how much money they think is enough?

The problem with whacking up taxes on successful people is they just leave Then everyone else has to pay more, in a vicious circle That’s where Labour has got us in just 12 months - see graph below These people take money, tax revenue, expertise & creativity out with them

@neveragainlive1 We shall see.

Bob Vylan has had all his concerts for Europe, and the USA canceled. His career is over.

@LeeAndersonMP_ If it's wondering why a politician is equating a barrier around a building to a barrier around a nation which is 7,723 miles long, yes.

If only our borders were as secure. Makes you wonder doesn't it? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@steelterry @LouSmorrels @hjoneshojo Again not factually correct. There are a number of comments from both on the subject if you care to look. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

@LouSmorrels @hjoneshojo Or the publicity seeking mayor of West Yorkshire Tracey Brabin

So to recap the Imam who led protests against the Batley School teacher was one brother. The Labour leader of Kirklees Council another brother & another brother was recently prosecuted for grooming gang offences that began as long ago as 2004.

@LouSmorrels @hjoneshojo Not actually factually correct. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

@hjoneshojo And not a word about it from Kim Leadbeater!

‘Entagled’ - Apollo Junction oldmanblues.com/2025/06/09/ent… Out on 10th June, the new single from @ApolloJunction Check it out here at Old Man Blues

@RupertLowe10 No thoughts on improving the welfare of animals while they are living?

I have tabled a motion in Parliament on banning non-stun slaughter, particularly halal - also urging the introduction of mandatory, clear labelling of meat products by method of slaughter. In Britain, we treat our animals humanely. If MPs agree, they must sign this motion.

@EllieC_SR So you decided to share a private and individual decision from someone you described as a friend. To make a political point. Why did you do that? Does that behaviour not suggest that the friend was right in their suspicions about you?