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Michael Carr retweeted
To speak the final words of Gunner Lee Thornton at @PoppyLegion Festival of Rememberance 2026 has to be one of greatest honours of my life. God bless you Lee….for your unbelievable service, bravery and sacrifice. I hope I did you proud mate? ❤️ #RemembranceDay2026
Michael Carr retweeted
This is not a sensible regulatory tweak; it is the panicked, humiliated collapse of state-mandated central planning colliding at full speed with physical and economic reality.
Under the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate, Whitehall bureaucrats constructed an administrative extortion racket. They decreed that car manufacturers must hit ruthless annual electric quotas, stepping up toward 80 percent by 2030, or hand the Treasury a statutory fine of up to £15,000 for every single non-compliant car sold. The British public looked at £50,000 showroom prices, catastrophic battery depreciation, surging insurance costs, and an unreliable public network, and simply refused to buy. Faced with ruinous fines, carmakers were forced into madness: actively choking off the delivery of petrol and diesel cars to British forecourts just to rig their sales percentages. Stellantis, Ford, and Nissan gave Downing Street an ultimatum: dismantle these unworkable targets, or watch UK car plants shut down and thousands of industrial jobs disappear overnight.
Labour did not retreat out of sympathy for ordinary families. They blinked because they were staring into an industrial wipeout engineered entirely in Westminster.
Cutting the target down toward 50 percent does not save the British motorist. It traps millions of drivers in a deliberate no-man’s-land. The legal ban on the sale of new pure petrol and diesel cars remains on the statute books. Because the state spent years terrifying automakers into starving combustion production lines, the pipeline of reliable, affordable engines has been dismantled. The used car market is being bled dry of affordable family vehicles, forcing working households to hold onto aging cars while local authorities punish them through expanding Clean Air Zones, punitive parking permits, and soaring vehicle excise duty.
The entire electrification project was sold on an infrastructural lie. Over 40 percent of households across Britain live in terraced housing or flats with zero private off-street parking. Trailing high-voltage charging cables across public pavements is illegal. The country has barely a third of the public charge points required for mass transition, and the local low-voltage distribution substations buried beneath British streets cannot handle whole neighbourhoods plugging in simultaneously at tea time. The copper in the ground will blow before the physical grid ever supports the spreadsheet fantasies of Whitehall.
The trap is already set. As fuel duty receipts inevitably crater, the Treasury will never write off a £30 billion annual hole in the public finances. The inevitable conclusion to this botched transition is universal satellite surveillance and mandatory pay-per-mile road pricing.
They engineered a vehicle famine, devastated domestic manufacturing, failed to lay the copper for the grid, and now intend to tax your basic right to travel by the yard.
Managed decline is no longer an administrative accident. It is government policy.
#EVtargets #ZEVMandate #WhitehallAudit #CostOfLiving
Michael Carr retweeted
Labour's plan to crush small independent businesses out of existence at the behest of their corporate overlords going nicely to plan.
UK loses another 104,000 businesses as SMEs lead decline thetimes.com/business/entrep…
Michael Carr retweeted
This guy said the quiet part out loud and you can feel his anger and disgust…
I couldn’t agree more..
Michael Carr retweeted
This is very out of touch with the reality of running a small business.
Having started and run a business myself, I can tell you, being an employer doesn't mean you stop being a worker. You either put the hours in, or the business goes under. There's no 9-5, no sick days and no switching off. The business depends on how much work you're willing to put in. If you stop, the business stops.
And it's not just your livelihood at stake. Your employees' jobs depend on it too.
To suggest this isn't work is absurd.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Michael Carr retweeted
When you make it more expensive to employ workers in shops, make it more expensive to heat and light shops, make it more expensive to rent or own shops, one gets fewer shops.
This, it seems, is not obvious to some.
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Michael Carr retweeted
Yeah so just close your business down, sack all your workers, and they can get a new job with all the lovely new viable businesses that are just longing to start up with all those higher costs. Simples.
Yet another reminder: if you can't afford to pay your staff enough to live on you don't have a viable business. #budget26
Michael Carr retweeted
Hello, financial repression.
Michael Carr retweeted
Shocking neglect and abuse of retired Lt Col Stephen Maguire DCM SAS, a natural born leader of men who spent 40 years in service to his country, and his son's long fight for justice. Please share Ben's post widely: "My father, Retired Lt Col Stephen Maguire DCM SAS, is a man who spent nearly 40 years in dedicated service to this country, serving from 1970 until 2009. He is a natural leader, a decorated soldier, to those who served with him. However, he has been completely abandoned and betrayed by the very system he gave everything to.
I am fighting for justice for my father. This struggle is a mirror of my own life; my own journey marked by the negligence of MPs, charities, and veteran services which led me to the absolute rock bottom of homelessness as a veteran myself. I know exactly what it is like to be discarded by the people who promised to provide support.
After years of fighting, we finally have a pathway toward the right care, but the damage is already done. The sheer scale of the failings along the way has crippled a man who likely only suffered from PTSD. What should have been a manageable recovery became a total collapse because of institutional incompetence.
This isn't a failure of one person or one office it is a systemic rot. For too long, the UK government, regardless of which side of the fence they sit on, has played a political game with the lives of our veterans. Whether it is Labour or the Conservatives, the result is the same: service men are treated as assets when they are useful and as liabilities the moment they are broken. We are told our sacrifices are "remembered," but the reality is that once the uniform comes off, the care vanishes.
We sought help for my dad, worried about PTSD and dementia resulting from his service. Through the SAS Association and Veterans’ Aid, he was referred to various healthcare facilities. Instead of professional care, he found negligence from these referrals.
In the last few years alone, he has been through multiple institutions that have failed him. We've dealt with incorrect diagnoses, doctors who tried to push him out of their care because he was "too difficult," and the removal of life-saving medication that led to him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He was sedated and left to decline without specialist care. His PTSD was completely ignored, and his medical history was dismissed. In one instance, he was admitted to the hospital due to low sodium caused by the excessive use of anti-psychotic medication.
The most infuriating part is the silence from the top. MPs have explicitly ignored this situation and failed to act for a Lt Col in 22 SAS. The "Military Covenant" is nothing more than a piece of paper used for photo opportunities while men like my father are left to rot.
The system has failed. The NHS has failed. Veteran charities have failed. From the MOD passing the buck to the medical incompetence of the facilities, my father has been abandoned like thousands of others.
I am posting this because we need accountability. It is not enough to simply "help" now; there must be justice for the way he was treated. My father spent four decades looking after his men and serving at the highest level for the United Kingdom; it is a national disgrace that the government failed to look after him and many like him.
Do not listen to the rhetoric the government continues to push. As this is an example of what happens after 40 years of dedicated service.
Please share this. We need the people in power to answer for this. We need leaders who actually lead, not politicians who just talk."
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Michael Carr retweeted
An increase to £13.20p/h equates to a minimum wage of £27,456, based on a 40 hour week.
Once you factor in employers NI and basic pension contributions, the MINIMUM cost to hire a 21 year old for a company would be £31,461.
This is before you factor in any overarching business costs like office space, laptops, phone, software, training, support staff, vehicles etc.
This is going to be devastating to SME's who cant put together a simple 12 month budget without the goalposts being moved & their margins squeezed.
It'll also be catastrophic to youngsters opportunities because businesses will simply not be able to afford to hire them.
What's also incredible is that anything above £50,270 is seen as 'high earnings' in the UK and is taxed at 40%!
We are governed by financially and economically illiterate morons.
This will not end well.
Michael Carr retweeted
Andy Burnham is the platonic midwit. No wonder he's popular with a portion of the electorate. He's the personification of representative government, in that he represents the British public in all its idiocy, shallowness and unseriousness - but he can emote, so it's fine.
Michael Carr retweeted
Read all of this. It is more important than you think. Wayne Dixon is a councillor in Leeds. He doesn't get involved in foreign policy issues. No standing with Ukraine or Palestine or Israel or wherever. He doesn't even get involved much in national issues. He just focusses, laser like, on doing small things that make the lives of his local constituents better. Cleaning up footpaths covered in wet leaves. Harassing the local authorities until they fix potholes. Cleaning up graffiti. Trimming hedges so they look neat and tidy. Liaising with the police to deal with antisocial behaviour. Ensuing that the local schools have enough places for every local who wants to send their kids there. Getting bus stops put in the right place when roads are re-laid or new roads are built. Making sure that green spaces where kids play football are not flogged off. Ensuring that important community groups and support networks are helped as much as they can be.
It is hyper local politics. It is the work that only somebody with high energy and who knows the local area can do. If we had 20,000 Wayne Dixons, the cumulative transformation in the entire country would be shocking over ten years. Any sports fan knows that marginal gains have huge cumulative effects when achieved consistently over a period of time (see the Chicago Bulls and Team Sky). Same with countries. 150,000 little, easy, cheap things over 10 years and you have almost a new country. This is achievable right now, with no changes in legislation or 'new elite'.
More politics should be about exactly this: putting right the 20 streets closest to where you live and making the lives of people who live there better. Remember: there are black and white pictures of a young Lee Kwan Yew sweeping the streets of Singapore. That's where he started his politics. Of course we need to get the big things right -- and Britain is facing at least three existential problems that only central government can address. Yet simultaneously, we also need this.
Michael Carr retweeted
That's funny because at my last strategy meeting with my accountant, they informed me I must use HMRC-recognised Making Tax Digital compatible software, creating an oligopoly for firms like Xero.
I must now also report my company's income every three months rather than once a year, as well as a final report at year end.
So I now have to pay for a Xero subscription.
And pay my accountant more for the increased submissions.
And fuck about with reconciling every three months, rather than once a year.
For HMRC to end up with the same amount of income from me as before.
Fuck off.
Just fuck off.
Fuck off all the way back to Yorkshire, then fuck off some more.
Michael Carr retweeted
Can we please get rid of the chap on work experience that is supposedly running the country?
Michael Carr retweeted
This should be watched by everyone. Now more than ever as people appear to have lost touch with reality.
Watched this years ago and was excited to see channel 4 are rerunning the whole 26 episode series
Brilliant
#Worldatwwar
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