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@RupertLowe10 wading way thru veterinary act consultation - 1999 change to 1966 act meant didn’t have to be vet to own vet business - cost of consultation must be HUGE! Still answering questions three hours later! This bit sums up nub of it - bigger Gov instead of 1966 sense!

@RupertLowe10 Government overreach in veterinary sector is growing. Have you seen new consultation wants to build on 1999 change to 1966 Act that allowed non-vets to own practices. Now 60% UK vet practices are corporate-owned. What was wrong with vet-led ownership regulating the profession?

Sole traders. Micro businesses with one or two employees. Freelancers. Plumbers. Electricians. Hairdressers. Mechanics. Accountants. Gardeners. Whatever it is, whoever they are. These are the workers that keep the economy going. Not the big global corporates. Politicians, and those devising the rules, simply do not understand how these people live. Nobody ever even talks about the one or two people operations in Westminster. Saturday morning in the bureaucrat’s world? Friday working from home, so nice easy day to finish off the week. Laptop closed by 15.00. Phone off for the weekend, not a care in the world. Life is sweet. Holiday coming up, mortgage comfortable, pension growing nicely. The sole trader? Getting invoices and paperwork sorted at 6am before the children wake up. Chasing up late payments. Weighing up whether to do that last minute emergency call out, or spend time with the kids on a Saturday. Getting the diary sorted for next week. Phone goes and goes all weekend. It is never-ending. It does not stop. It’s two different worlds honestly. The issue is that the latter entirely funds the former, and the former is hellbent on making life as difficult as possible for productive Britain. I want to be really clear about what Restore Britain would do. Two things. Crush parasitic Britain. Unleash productive Britain. First. Scrap IR35. It has created years of confusion, fear and chaos for contractors and small operators. It has pushed countless self-employed people into pointless paperwork and rigid inflexibility. Doesn’t work. It’s a right pain in the arse for millions. Scrap it. Second, we will double the VAT threshold. The current threshold traps thousands of small businesses just as they begin to grow. Many deliberately stop expanding to avoid the enormous administrative burden of VAT and the brutal cost hikes which drive demand away. The evidence of is obvious. Thousands hover just below the threshold, refusing to grow, hire or pay more tax. It is ABSURD. Restore Britain would double the VAT threshold so small businesses can grow without being punished for success. This is absolutely necessary. An important one - we would dramatically simplify the tax system for sole traders and micro-businesses (and everyone else, but that's separate). Instead of forcing small operators through pages of complicated accounting rules designed for large corporations, we will introduce a far simplified tax regime for businesses below a certain size. Less paperwork, fewer forms, clearer rules. More money for them, less for the accountants and parasitic professional class. Sounds like a good deal, doesn’t it? Next. We will end the endless culture of inspections and bureaucratic interference from the bureaucrats. Too many small businesses now live in fear of accidental breaches - whether it’s health and safety nonsense, employment law complexity, ridiculous data laws or constantly changing compliance requirements. The stress is immense. If you are a sole trader or micro-business acting in good faith, the system should support you, not threaten you. Restore Britain will free them from endless regulatory suffocation. The mental health release on that is worth it alone. Means a lot to me, this one. Restore Britain will make it easier for tradespeople to hire apprentices. This is important. One of the biggest problems small businesses face is bringing in the next generation. The current system is too complicated, too expensive and too rigid for small firms. Restore Britain will introduce simple, flexible apprenticeship schemes designed specifically for small businesses and trades. Up next, we will simplify planning and licensing rules. For small builders, tradespeople and contractors - planning restrictions and local bureaucracy can delay work for months and add unnecessary costs. I detest planning departments more than I can describe in language appropriate for a Saturday morning. These jumped-up empire-building little runts running councils across Britain will have their power stripped away from them. We will let people do business, we will let business owners run their businesses without the sneering council worker’s constant box ticking. Not complicated. We will restore respect for the self-employed. Look at how they were treated during lockdown. Like dirt. Entirely abandoned whilst others were paid to do nothing. That must be addressed, and they must be compensated. The excluded must finally be recognised. That wrong must be rectified. Under a Restore Britain Government, their efforts will be appreciated, celebrated and most importantly? Rewarded. This is the key point. Let’s not pretend otherwise. The five golden rules of business. What’s in it for me? We will radically slash tax and raise thresholds. Tax on dividends would be hacked down so that success pays. More work, pays. Effort, pays. If the electrician does that last minute job on a Saturday, it will be worth their time. They will be rewarded, not HMRC. Restore Britain will slash the bureaucracy, simplify the rules, cut the taxes. We will give small businesses the freedom they need to thrive, to support their families and to succeed. Parasitic Britain will end. Sole traders and micro businesses finally have a political party that will fight for them. Restore Britain.

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@Simonofthe77th @StarlingBank @Barclays That doesn’t sound promising!

@forageplus @StarlingBank @Barclays Try Monzo. I deleted my business account with Starling due to their terrible service

@Barclays Message us at any time using ‘Contact us’ in your Barclays app or ‘Help and Support’ in Online Banking. In the app click message us: "Chat is unavailable"

@NibblyPig @Barclays I’ll double check but perhaps tagged them in another reply.

@forageplus @Barclays Are you sure? monzo.com/help/business-… I've never used international so can't be much more help. Hope it works out for you!

@NibblyPig @Barclays They certainly come top in all the satisfaction surveys @monzo I am looking to change my business banking from @barclays - I need a Euro and Sterling account plus international payments. Do you do this?

@forageplus @Barclays Oh and if you tweet monzo they're pretty quick to reply and very helpful.

@StarlingBank I don’t want a credit card I need a business account which doesn’t delete my payees. I could do with speaking with someone about moving my business banking from @Barclays to you. I need both sterling, euro and international payments - can you do this?

@forageplus Hi there, we don't currently offer a credit card, but we can confirm we do prioritise our app in terms of functionality to avoid glitches 👍

@Barclaycard Think I’ll have to switch as I can’t waste more time trying to get you to fix a problem which appears to be long standing these are my possible options with @StarlingBank looking like they will offer everything cheaper. Do you have glitches which wipe out saved payees Starling?

@forageplus Good morning 👋 I hope you're well. I've noticed your message, and I'm just wanting to reach out to you to see if there is anything I can support you with? If so then please drop us a DM to let us know. We'll be more than happy to try our very best to help 🙂 - Leigha

@NibblyPig @Barclays Sadly Monzo don’t support international payments - we do a lot of international transfers - more research needed.

@forageplus @Barclays If you want, here's a referral link, but it's not my motivation for recommending so don't feel you have to use it. I use monzo and monzo business as my main accounts though, switched from santander years ago after realising monzo business was free. join.monzo.com/c/c4bjgry

@Barclaycard Well if today and the last 2 other times is anything to go by resolving it doesn’t look hopeful. When I ask Chat GPT there is a whole host of Barclays history on this issue 🥲 including compensation through the Ombudsman to someone just like me.

@forageplus You can reach them here 👉 0800 282 390 Option 2 for existing complaints - 8am-8pm weekdays. You can also speak to the business team for support with this too, you can reach them here 👉 UK: 0345 605 2345 (8am-8pm weekdays, closed weekends and Bank Holidays) 2/3

@Ftechrecovery @Barclays It’s @barclays who need you 😎 their system glitch seems to be a problem they haven’t fixed since 2017. Barclays if you fix the problem it would mean I won’t have to plan to move my banking.

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@NibblyPig @Barclays I can find reference of problem going back to 2017! Person doing the majority of the payments said oh that happens everytime I set up the payments - has to input data due to @Barclays garbage! Inefficiency is expensive!! Will check out Monzo 🙏

@forageplus @Barclays Leave - switch to monzo business. Legacy banks like Barclays are garbage, they haven't kept up with modern apps at all. Monzo business is free although the paid account is worth it to assist with invoicing and such. I only joined barclays for the free joining reward.

@Barclays ❓❓saved payees on business account? Repeatedly vanished. Taking hours to find the details & put them in again - these are payees who are used regularly including staff. Reported 3 times but getting worse. Costing time and money … Frustrated! #barclays #SmallBusiness

@Artemisfornow Nope in Chester and it’s snow free 🙄

Has anyone got the ‘SNOW BOMB” yet?

@elonmuskTN Definitely - now please can you buy a country so that all the trodden on people living in the UK can escape?????? 🥰

@NoFarmsNoFoods Rapid in N 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - last year this was sheep farm. This year sold 2 non Welsh with 5 horses, 10 alpacas & lots of cash. Last Google pic is this. Run down buildings owned by hard working farmer with no cash - now knocked down & place being beautified for no food production. Disaster!

And this is only likely to get even worse due to inheritance tax on family farms.