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If you can work but WON'T work you should lose your benefits. Simple.
I worked 46 years. Started at 16 in a warehouse. Never claimed a penny. Now I see young lads down the road who haven't worked a DAY sitting around collecting benefits. New trainers. Takeaway every night. Latest phone. If you are fit and h
Another budget, another tax hike rumour. Time to actually cut state spending.
Why is it that every time the Treasury needs to balance the books, the first place they look is into the pockets of hardworking people and successful businesses? We hear endless talk about "difficult decisions" but it always seems to mean f
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
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
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
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
make public transport free for all
we should make all public transport free to use, funded by taxing big corporations and the wealthy, this would not only help the environment by reducing the number of cars on the road but also help low income families who struggle to pay fo
Benefits need 2 b 4 ppl who actually NEED them
imo benefits in this country have got way out of hand. I know ppl who r getting universal credit and working cash in hand on the side. Everyone knows someone doing it tbh. Pensioners who worked their whole lives deserve every penny. Ppl w/
immigration
Seriously, how did we get here where basically anyone can rock up and claim they want to work, without proper vetting or proof they're actually needed? It’s just not efficient. We’re supposed to be a serious country, not a charity or a free
Enough With The Billionaire Tax Cuts, Invest In Actual Future Builders
Honestly, the way they keep talking about stimulating the economy by giving more money to people who already have too much is baffling. It’s like they think the answer to everything is just hoping some of it trickles down. But I see kids ev
Enough of these pub closures, we need to cut business rates NOW!
Saw young lads clearing out The Swan yesterday. Proper sad, that place has been there since I was a kid. It's the same story everywhere, really – the big boys can absorb it, but places like that, and mine, we're getting squeezed to death by
Devolution needs a balance sheet, not just vague promises from the City
My husband was talking to a mate who teaches in Manchester, apparently the local council there is still scrabbling around for funding for basic road repairs. They've got all these grand devolution plans, which sound great on paper, but the
Enough with the meddling, let the doctors do their jobs!
We need to put qualified, experienced nurses and doctors in charge of hospital budgets and decisions, not some bean counters in Whitehall. They’re the ones who know what’s actually needed on the wards, not some politician who’s never seen a
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
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
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
Pay Carers A Living Wage Already
I'm proposing that carers like me should get a proper wage, not the pathetic Carer's Allowance that barely covers the bills. We're not just sitting at home twiddling our thumbs, we're working 24/7 to care for our loved ones and it's about t