Tony Marks™

@AngryBritishMum @LBC So shouldn’t your issue be with Global, not O’Brien?

James O'Brien begins by explaining that @LBC is a business, & the good thing about government raising corporation tax, is it'll help make companies improve our country LBC is part of Global Radio Group Ltd (Jersey), they're based overseas & pay £0.00 in corporation tax #OBINGO

@Andykaren7893 Jealousy is on my shortlist

Imagine if you ran a branch of Greggs but you got fired for being corrupt. So one day you got everyone to storm Greggs and smash it up, and your only punishment is Greggs asking you back to run a Greggs again. That’s basically America.

@Nigel_Farage @realDonaldTrump You’ve got 💩 on your nose Nige

Arrived at the @realDonaldTrump Rally in Reading, Pennsylvania. 🇺🇸

@martinkeown5 Well played Martin 😂

Nice to see Ruud jumping around for a change 😉. Think I’ll send him my book to congratulate him. It’s released tomorrow, if you’d also like one you can get it here: linktr.ee/martinkeownbook

@UKLabour You should be embarrassed by this.

This is a Budget with cheaper pints. #Budget2024

@pub_that All of this means we have to keep putting prices up, which results in bigger VAT returns for the treasury, right up until the moment we go out of business.

If rumours are true then hospitality biz face an announcement of ⬆️ Employer National Insurance ⬆️ Living Wage + Lowering the age threshold ⬆️Business Rates & possible ⬆️ Beer duty. Without any offset to these costs for small biz it will surely close many and cost jobs.

@funkatopia Lady Cab Driver or DMSR

NAME THAT FAVORITE TRACK! 42 Years Ago Today, Prince releases 1999. 1999 Little Red Corvette Delirious Let’s Pretend We’re Married D.M.S.R. Automatic Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) Free Lady Cab Driver All The Critics Love U In New York International Lover

@Martinf76606790 @CentralBylines It’s always nice to meet a fellow Soul II Soul fan

@CentralBylines get a life

@BellaWallerstei That’s a tough sell

And if anyone fancies being my plus one to a Razorlight concert do let me know…

@ThatEricAlper Enjoying life for the moment rather than filming it so you could show other people you were there.

What do you miss about the 90s?

@Peston Can your colleague Joel ask her if she thinks small business owners aren’t working people please?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just told my colleague Joel that if - as expected - she increases what employers pay to the government in national insurance that would be consistent with the Labour Party's manifesto promise not to "increase national insurance". Rachel Reeves's argument is that the party meant only the national insurance paid directly by employees, not the national insurance that employers are obliged to pay on behalf of their staff.  She implies that we should all have been prepared for a possible rise in employers' NI because the manifesto qualifies its pledge not to increase this tax on income with the caveat that a Labour goverrnment  "would not increase taxes on working people". In other words, Reeves is insisting that we should all have known that increasing employers’ NI could be on its way under a Labour government because - on her definition - employers' NI is not a tax on working people. She seems to believe that a rise in employers' NI would hurt only the owners of the business. Reeves ignores that many employers would attempt to recoup this increased employment cost by limiting pay rises. Alternatively if Reeves' goes her seemingly preferred route of levying NI on the pension contributions made by employers for their employees, employers are bound to respond by freezing those pension contributions, or cutting them where they are above the statutory minimum. Any such response would hurt working people. It would have a clear and harmful impact on their future pensions, their income in retirement.  In economic terms, putting up employers' NI is unambiguously the quacking duck of an attack on working people. It only quacks slightly less loudly in politics if most voters expect all politicians to play fast and loose with the commonsense meaning of manifesto commitments. Reeves and Starmer desperately need the many billions of pounds that would be raised from this NI rise to help fix public services. But if on 30 October they announce it, as I expect, they won't achieve their aim of restoring trust in what ministers say.

@SpursOfficial 😂

It ends in defeat.

New billboard has appeared in Dundee. Anybody ken the story behind it?

@SpursOfficial @SpursStadium 😂

Defeat at @SpursStadium.

@SVG__Collection I was only saying today that this is in my list of greatest songs of all time.

What’s your all-time favorite song intro? I’ll start: The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

@FlavorFlav 😂

Pet Shop Boys better stay inside and lock the doors. You too Snoop Dogg. And Pitbull.

@CDP1882 Who gave them the bottle of bubbly?

Corks fly at HMP Wandsworth as another early-release prisoner comes out of the gates to a welcome party

@FergusCraig And he played in the round so everyone got a great view.

@FergusCraig £31.21 to be precise. And you got a copy of his new album, coincidentally titled 3121.

Just remembered that Prince did 21 nights at the O2 arena and every single ticket was £31.