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@paulbristow79 thank you for the invite to @UKParliament today to lobby @hmtreasury to remove the 20% vat on children’s school uniform. @conservatives this is a key initiative that needs to be in the spring budget, reducing the cost for parents. @SAschoolwear @branwenjeffreys

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So the minimum wage just went up and the government is very proud of itself. Here is what they are not telling you. Your wage goes up. Your tax goes up. Your National Insurance goes up. HMRC takes its cut before you see a penny of that £1,500. Now your employer is paying more for every single person on their books. They are not absorbing that. Nobody absorbs that. So prices go up. The coffee you buy on the way to work costs more. The lunch you grab costs more. The haircut costs more. All of it costs more because the people serving you are now on higher wages too, and their employers did exactly the same thing. So you got a pay rise, and everything got more expensive at the same time. Almost like it cancelled out. If they actually wanted workers to keep more money they would cut their tax. That's it. That's the whole idea. But that would mean the government collecting less. So instead they raise the minimum wage, taking a cut on the way in and benefit from the price rises on the way out through VAT, and call it a historic day for working people.

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Brilliant news for ordinary working people this week, you are now funding some extra stuff. ▪️Cost of living pay increase of £3300 for MPs ▪️Benefits increase of 6.2% ▪️2 child cap lifted. Labour isn’t on their side, it’s simply using them as cash cows.

Well done @moultonharroxfc on the Win tonight in the final. Result all that matters. Coddy and Harry were superb at the back and some tidy finishes from Smithy. Enjoy the evening and 🍺. Up the harrox 👏⚽️ 🏆

🚨 Small businesses are in crisis. At PMQs, I told Keir Starmer about Rob and Lizzie, who run the Kings Arms Hotel in Melrose. Labour’s Jobs Tax has increased their bills by £280,000. 🤯 How do they expect them to survive? As usual, Starmer gives a tone deaf answer...

Good win for @NethertonUtdFC mens 1sts at @WhittleseyAthFC res winning 5-1. Also good to meet up with Ash and Fletch and some Old friends at a good club. Catch up again soon and all the best for the rest of the season.❤️

All this ridicule of Liz Truss for trashing the economy by taking government borrowing to a staggering 4.8%. Now under incompetent Rachel Reeves government borrowing is 5.6% YET where is the ridicule and howls of anguish? @trussliz @RachelReevesMP must go! #resign

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Just paid £28,336.60 VAT payment to HMRC for the last quarter What an absolute disgrace. The main reason pub businesses are on their knees. Cost of supplies, utilities and labour taxes of course, but 20% VAT is an absolute joke. #taxedout @BottleGlassPub @FromHospitality

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Inheriting a growing economy, Reeves has blamed everything for her poor performance: Covid, Ukraine war, imaginary blackholes, Brexit, Middle East, etc. Truth is she’s raised taxes, inflated energy costs, open the borders and splurged on benefits. The Chancellor needs to own it.

@PDFLUK @PDJALUK @northantscombo @NorthernPremLge @SouthernLeague1

This is gold – Richard Tice took on The Times' criticism of his tax affairs straight away in this morning's press conference, then exposed the real dodgy dealings: Labour's massive £30 million property portfolio with ZERO corporation tax paid in 25 years. Hypocrites caught red-handed! @TiceRichard #ReformUK

Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project: Growth in November 2025: 0.2% Growth in December 2025: 0.1% Growth in January 2026: 0.0%

🚨 🎥 Media outlets won’t let it go viral since it’s not Old Trafford 🤡

Rachel Reeves continues to work her magic: Job vacancies in Britain fall to their lowest level in five years as businesses freeze graduate recruitment amid rising national insurance and other labour costs.  The number of advertised roles dropped to under 700,000 in January, down 16 per cent year on year, the first time since January 2021 that vacancies have slipped below that level, meaning numbers being hired now only marginally above pandemic-era lows.

#bbclaurakk on student debt "This is not a tolerable situation, is it" Phillipson "it is really difficult" "you've made it harder" "no" Phillipson later admits the govt is freezing the thresholds & they don't have any plans to help graduates but its all the Tories fault

@moultonharroxfc @NettlehamFC2 @LincolnshireFA Well done lads. 👏👏

🚨Match Result🚨 MHFC 2-1 @NettlehamFC2 after ET. Very little between the two teams but MHFC progress to the county cup final ⚽️D.Earth ⚽️A.Coddington We luuuuuuuuuuuv the @LincolnshireFA county cup 🏆🏆🏆 #UpTheHarrox🔵

@thorpewoodfc What team @bonney8? 👀👀 surely the @PDFLUK would do something, don’t hold your breath though!

Something smells here 🤥