Ben Filmore

I want to tell the modern day football fan about Robbie Fowler. 🔝

'The hypocrisy is eye watering. She tabled the motion to stop this!' Political Commentator Lee Harris clashes with Sebastian Salek as he defends former Deputy PM Angela Rayner accepting £17k in severance pay, despite having voted against so-called 'golden goodbye' payments.

It’s alright for boys to cry. Talking saves lives and we need to be honest about our mental health. #MentalHealth

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Cunha missed his penalty Mbuemo missed the deciding penalty Sesko didn’t step forward until the 10th penalty United’s transfer window

🙌🏻 Get in @TommyFleetwood1! Long overdue, much deserved, accepted with typical class and grace. Brilliant to see a good lad get what was hard earned 🏌️‍♂️

If Arsenal get Eze ..they simply have to win the league, no excuses whatsoever. It’s a complete side with no weaknesses. Great goalkeeper, solid defence. Good midfield and now great forward line ..also great depth off the bench It’s Arsenal’s to lose

FEDERICO HE’S HERE TO WIN 🕺🏽

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.

@SkySportsGolf Might aswell sit on his lap Faldo

"I don't know if I have the power to do that!" 🤣 Could Keegan Bradley play AND captain Team USA in the Ryder Cup? 🇺🇸🤔

Meanwhile, in heaven

Manchester United were an embarrassment tonight. They were an embarrassment to their fans, to their history and to English football. They were abject, utterly abject.

Comebacks in Champions League semi finals on May 7th aren’t for everyone 🤷

Liverpool FC. Premier League champions.

If you watch anything on social media today, make sure it's this video from West Ham. It raises awareness about suicide bereavement and hits hard. ❤️⚒ Such a powerful short film. 👏

Having this bond with your son is absolutely 100% PRICELESS. The way he launches himself at daddy. 🥹🌎 🩵🩵🩵🩵

The six-year-old singing Kopite that captured our hearts ♥️ Here’s how Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah surprised Isaac at his school and made sure he created unforgettable memories 🥰 #RedTogether

English media looking for something to talk about since Trent Alexander Arnold wasn't on the pitch to blame him #EURo2024

Now we head over to AFTV #TOTMCI

Two seasons apart, the same celebration 💪 From ballboy to netting a brace at the Kop end ❤️