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Work, pay and welfare
Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.
Leave my tax allowance alone, Andy. It’s not rocket science.
It’s frankly insulting that they even toy with the idea of fiddling with the tax-free allowance. It feels like they think we’re all stupid, just waiting for them to decide how much of our own money we’re allowed to keep. Carol and I work ha
Why Are We Paying People Not To Work When We Could Just Let Them Get On With It?
What’s the point of all these taxpayer-funded schemes and endless bureaucracy designed to get people into jobs that don't even exist? It's like trying to force a square peg into a round hole with a sledgehammer. We're pouring money down the
Give Small Pubs a Break
I was talking to my regulars the other day and one of them mentioned how his mate's pub in Sutton Coldfield is struggling to stay afloat due to high business rates. It's a shame because that pub has been a staple of the community for years,
VAT cuts are just a quick fix
I was talking to a friend who owns a small cafe in Cambridge the other day and she was telling me about the struggles of keeping her business afloat with all the current economic pressures. She said that while a VAT cut might give her a bit
Bristol Needs a Living Wage Now
I was at the local food bank the other day and saw a woman who works two jobs just to keep a roof over her family's head, and it's still not enough. She's a cleaner at the hospital and a part-time teacher's assistant, and she's barely scrap
Small businesses are getting hammered by rates and rules. It's time to stop the madness and let them grow.
Why does it feel like the government is actively trying to make it harder to run a small business in this country? You pay your taxes, you try to make an honest living, and then you get hit with business rates that make no sense and a mount
The Royal Mail is a universal service. Regulate it like one, not like a parcels startup.
Last week a Royal Mail delivery driver knocked on my door to hand me a parcel addressed to a neighbour two streets over. She had given up. The van was running. The backlog of redirected parcels in the back was, by my rough count, about fort
Stop outsourcing critical public services to Capita, Serco and friends. They keep failing. We keep paying.
A non-exhaustive list of things Capita has been paid large sums of public money to mess up: Army recruitment. The contract was so badly managed that recruitment fell by 30% in the first year. They kept the contract. Teachers pensions. The
Cut the Red Tape Already
What's the point of having a government that claims to support small businesses when they just suffocate us with regulations and bureaucracy. I mean think about it, every time I try to expand my plumbing business I've got to fill out a doze
Scrap the licence fee already
I'm sick of being forced to pay for the BBC just because I own a telly, it's like they think I'm made of money or something. Every year it goes up and up, and for what, so they can spout their lefty nonsense and make programmes that nobody
Restore public sector pay to 2010 real-terms levels over five years. It is overdue.
The IFS calculates that a typical public sector worker earns around 9% less in real terms than they did in 2010. That is sixteen years of effective pay cuts. For nurses, teachers, police officers, civil servants. For the people who stepped
Enough with the "levelling up" nonsense. Let's actually balance the books.
I was down in Dover last week visiting my sister, and you can't help but notice the strain. So many new faces, and frankly, it feels like the local infrastructure is creaking under the pressure. The shops are packed, the buses are full, and
Enough with the endless red tape strangling small business! Time for some common sense.
Why do we make it so incredibly difficult for someone with a good idea and a bit of grit to actually start and run a business? It feels like every other week there's a new form to fill, a new regulation to decipher, a new box to tick that s
scrap business rates for pubs
what's the point of having a system that punishes pubs for having a decent location, I mean my business rates have gone up just because the area's gotten a bit more popular, it's like they want us to fail. I was talking to one of my regul
Devolution needs proper funding and actual local control, otherwise it's just more Whitehall bureaucracy with a different postcode.
We should establish truly independent Regional Economic Development Agencies across the UK, drawing inspiration from successful models in federal European countries. Current devolution efforts often amount to little more than moving central
Give Local Councils Control Over Regional Funds
We should give local councils more control over how regional development funds are spent in their areas. This is needed because too often we see money being allocated from the top down without a real understanding of what's actually needed
Enough of this meddling! Stop blaming foreign wars for a weak pound.
It’s always something, isn’t it? First the pandemic, now some skirmish halfway across the world, and suddenly the economy’s in trouble. What’s really going on is that we’ve got a government that’s choking the life out of small businesses wi
Time to Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
So why are massive corporations getting away with paying basically no tax while I'm out here on the North Sea working my arse off to keep the lights on. It's just not right that they're making billions off our natural resources and our labo
National duvet day when its raining and you just cant be bothered
Sometimes you just cant. You know the feeling. Its grey. Its February. The alarm goes off and your entire soul says no. We propose 12 statutory duvet days per year. No doctors note. No questions. You just text your boss a duvet emoji and
Bring water, rail, and energy into democratic public ownership
Privatisation was sold to us as a way to improve services through competition. Forty years on, we can assess whether that promise was kept. Water companies have accumulated £72 billion in debt while paying out £78 billion in dividends. Trai
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