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George Thomas retweeted
The current chancellor has NEVER had a job outside of a union or the Labour party.
Let that sink in for a minute.... He is 66 and has never had a proper job!
Anyone surprised that his budget was useless?
George Thomas retweeted
UK govt has given the go ahead to gas production at the Jackdaw field in North Sea.
It is expected to generate £1.5bn tax revenue over a 11-year period.
Will it be collected? Jackdaw is 50% owned by Shell, with a history of aggressive tax practices.
Watch the Minister's reply.
George Thomas retweeted
Clearly paying too much then, they are spanking our money the treasonous scumbag traitor cunts whilst claiming everything, and we workers get fucked for it. Imagine where that money could go, easy house 50 or 60 homeless etc. Pig sick of these parasite rats!!
George Thomas retweeted
Do HMRC treat these as "benefits in kind" and levy individual tax liabilities on the recipients. Be interesting to find out.
George Thomas retweeted
Fondly remember @darrenpjones once said ‘making sure that every pound of taxpayers money is spent well.”
That includes play away days??
George Thomas retweeted
Away days are intended to improve efficiency and productivity through the analysis of objectives and developing strategies to achieve successful completion.
Since, the Civil Service demonstrates none of these, we must conclude that their away days are just expensive jollies.
George Thomas retweeted
Our country is overspent, overborrowed, overtaxed and drowning in an out-of-control welfare system.
There is no such thing as government money – it is taxpayers’ money.
But yesterday's Budget showed Labour are still addicted to spending other peoples’ money, and wasting it:
George Thomas retweeted
I always encourage my daughter to speak up and speak honestly when someone makes a mistake. And the Chancellor’s Budget today was just that.
The Deputy Speaker has now forgiven me for my constructive feedback!
George Thomas retweeted
2) Defra,Northern Ireland Office,Dept of Education,MoJ,The Treasury,CPS; All these Govt Departments have spent over £300,000 on Away Days, in 2026 this needs to stop now.
George Thomas retweeted
1) MP’s Milking Expenses,is bad enough.
Tory MP Charlie Dewhirst reels off the cost of ‘Away Days’.for Govt Departments.Stop having a go at benefit claimants.Sort this lot out now.
1) MP’s Milking Expenses,is bad enough.
Tory MP Charlie Dewhirst reels off the cost of ‘Away Days’.for Govt Departments.Stop having a go at benefit claimants.Sort this lot out now.
George Thomas retweeted
John Healey: “We have to bring the benefits bill down. You don’t do that by crude cuts.”
This is the same Labour that gave Universal Credit an inflation-busting 6.2% rise in April.
Combined with housing benefit, disability payments, child benefit and PIP, thousands can now take home more than the living wage without working.
9.2 million economically inactive. 1.2 million young people not in work, training or education. 300,000 a year joining the queue with mental health issues.
Burnham himself has already said welfare handouts matter more than defence spending.
As the welfare bill, debt and immigration keep rising ever more rapidly, Labour’s priority remains benefits claimants over hardworking taxpayers.
I despise Labour and all their unscrupulous politicians.
George Thomas retweeted
Tucked away on page 118 of the Budget document the Treasury announced a lowering of salary requirements to make it easier for businesses to hire immigrants rather than recruiting and training Brits.
This is totally wrong-headed. Alan Milburn’s interim report into Neets explicitly warns that too many employers have become accustomed to looking overseas for workers.
And Labour’s own immigration white paper, published last year, promised to RAISE salary requirements and ensure that recruiting from abroad never becomes a cheap alternative to paying people properly. In the paper’s foreword, Starmer wrote: ‘We will wean our national economy off its reliance on cheap labour from overseas…That is what our economy needs. It is what people want.’
Clearly Burnham/Healey don’t agree. And apparently the government’s solution to having a million young people doing nothing is to find somebody else to do the jobs.
I go into all the detail in my latest: spectator.com/article/the-bu…
George Thomas retweeted
Funny that Robert Jenrick failed to mention that Poundland was sold off in 2001 to the Gordon Brothers, a finance restructuring and asset stripping specialist based in the USA…
No wonder it’s £30 million in debt
George Thomas retweeted
An interesting story in the Times which highlights the foolishness of giving HMRC the power to take money straight out of people's bank accounts.
Tax lawyer Simon Evans only found out that he apparently owed HM Revenue & Customs money when it was extracted from his bank account.
Last month he got a letter from HMRC to say it had taken £2,300 out of his account because it claimed he had unpaid tax. “There wasn’t a dispute, we’d never heard from HMRC nor had our accountant who has handled our taxes for many years,” Evans said.
“It turns out that HMRC had sent letters to an old address in London that we haven’t lived at in years,” he said. “This is despite the fact that all of our Companies House and tax returns are up to date with our correct address and our accountant’s address."
“If we owed this money we would of course have paid it. We wanted to know if there had been an administrative oversight, but over several calls no one at HMRC could tell us what we owed, or from what period it was owed. Our accountant is still trying to get to the bottom of it."
This is what happens when you give an incompetent public sector bureaucracy the power to take money out of people's bank accounts.
George Thomas retweeted
Labour's playing fantasy budgeting: their forecasts don’t add up, and that matters. The forecasts show that many households' incomes will fall, mortgage costs will rise, and more households will go into debt. These are the true budget headlines.
youtu.be/-p2_Wut74Ys?si=z3nE…
George Thomas retweeted
Budget continues with the freeze on tax personal allowance, £12570 since 2021.
Fiscal drag increased tax on the less well-off.
In 2026-27, a minimum wage earner would pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC.
£1,137 in 2027-28.
Cost of appeasing the rich.
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
George Thomas retweeted
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "In terms of people's lives, the IFS have pointed out that you are presiding at a time when household disposable income is going to be the flattest since the 1950s"
"People are really struggling"
John Healy, "People are really struggling. And until the general election in 2024 (when the Conservatives were voted out), that was the first parliament ever where living standards actually fell, and they're under pressure again now"
"The way we deal with that is more jobs created, businesses making more profit paying higher wages, jobs for youngsters on benefits can get into work"
My view:
People cannot pay their bills with a promise that things may improve eventually.
The government may be right about what the country needs in the long term, but it still has to show people a credible path through the hardship they are facing now. Without that, “growth” risks sounding like another reason to ask households to wait.
And on the same day, Shell reported quarterly adjusted earnings of $10.8 billion — nearly double the year before — as the Iran war drove up energy prices and refining margins. It is also increasing share buybacks to $5 billion.
Why isn’t Labour considering a one-off windfall tax on extraordinary profits like these, to help offset the cost-of-living shock for ordinary households?
Who is asked to carry the cost is a political choice.