WSOP Bracelet Winner. DroopysBookem, DemonHunter, TromoraSand, Blacklisted, Besafebelucky, Abigails Hugo, Goldstar Connie 🐕 🐶 🏴
Wynyard, England
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Ben Collins retweeted
I earn £100 grand a year.
I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker.
I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today.
My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson.
That is a disgrace.
We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations.
Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free.
We need something radical.
Less state.
More family.
Less handouts.
More reward for risk.
Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
Ben Collins retweeted
New vlog uploaded to YouTube 📸
Https://youtu.be/7mKDqlE7eEQ…
@Time_Nutrition_
@donnydogs
@BetwayTowcester
@RPGreyhounds
@shelbournepark
@GreyhoundBoard
@romfordracing
Ben Collins retweeted
DUO THROUGH TO THE DONCASTER PUPPY DERBY!
Aero Molly (ex Epic Molly) – an £8,000 Doncaster Sales purchase, sold by @Kennedygreys.
Demon Hunter (ex Theyreallwaiting) – a £5,000 Online Auction purchase, sold by @SeanConway61334.
Best of luck to both in the £10,000 decider!
Ben Collins retweeted
Greyhound racing is worth protecting and we are proud of our people for taking our case to Downing Street.
A huge thank you to the owners, trainers, staff and greyhounds who travelled to No. 10 and No. 10 North to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, signed by over 1,000 people from across greyhound racing. 👏
Those 1,000+ names are trainers, kennel staff, vets, caterers, bookmakers, track workers and more. Together they’re the heart of a sport that has brought communities together for 100 years.
Our ask is simple: fairness.
From April 2027, the tax on online bets is set to rise from 15% to 25%. UK horse racing has been exempted. Greyhound racing hasn’t. This exemption is the right thing to do - but it needs to be applied to us as well.
Greyhound racing supports 7,000 jobs, contributes £160m a year to the economy and gives towns like ours an affordable night out that’s been part of local life for generations. That’s worth protecting. Our sport is worth protecting.
With the Budget just days away, here’s how you can help:
✅ Write to Luke Akehurst, MP for North Durham, and ask them to back the same exemption for greyhound racing as horse racing
✅ Share this post
✅ Come and support us trackside
Let’s show everyone what our sport means to us. 🐾
#BackOurTracks #GreyhoundRacing #Budget2026 #TaxParity
Ben Collins retweeted
Greyhound racing is worth protecting and we are proud of our people for taking our case to Downing Street.
A huge thank you to the owners, trainers, staff and greyhounds who travelled to No. 10 and No. 10 North to deliver a letter to Prime Minister @andyburnham, signed by over 1,000 people from across greyhound racing. 👏
Those 1,000+ names are trainers, kennel staff, vets, caterers, bookmakers, track workers and more. Together they’re the heart of a sport that has brought communities together for 100 years.
Our ask is simple: fairness.
From April 2027, the tax on online bets is set to rise from 15% to 25%. UK horse racing has been exempted. Greyhound racing hasn’t. This exemption is the right thing to do - but it needs to be applied to us as well.
Greyhound racing supports 7,000 jobs, contributes £160m a year to the economy and gives towns like ours an affordable night out that’s been part of local life for generations. That’s worth protecting. Our sport is worth protecting.
With the Budget just days away, here’s how you can help:
✅ Write to Peter Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade constituency, and ask them to back the same exemption for greyhound racing as horse racing
✅ Share this post
✅ Come and support us trackside
Let’s show everyone what our sport means to us. 🐾
#BackOurTracks #GreyhoundRacing #Budget2026 #TaxParity
Ben Collins retweeted
TRAP DRAW FOR THE DONCASTER PUPPY DERBY FINAL🏆
T1-Carrigoon Cece
T2- Demon Hunter
T3-My Twilight Zone
T4- Aero Molly
T5-Cluain Denis
T6-Shado Earth
Ben Collins retweeted
Hmm I could swear there was something else we do in Britain at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month?
Oh never mind, let’s we forget.
Great integration chaps, well done 👍
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Ben Collins retweeted
The RSPCA are asking the public for help with their rehoming crisis, yet continue to use people's donations to campaign against greyhound racing. Supporters deserve to know whether their money is going on rescuing & rehoming or political rallying. The RSPCA must #PublishTheBill
Ben Collins retweeted
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A nice double on the card too night for the kennels!
Droopys Bookem turning handy and taking charge off the last bend to win by 2 lengths in a fast 38.85!
Ballyhimikin Meg finished the night with a battling performance to win by a neck in 29.04!
Ben Collins retweeted
🚨226 children, some as young as 11 years old, are about to be given £500 worth of shopping vouchers by the UK Government in order to undertake a puberty blockers trial, placing them on a pathway to infertility.
This is the medical scandal of our time.
jamesesses.co.uk/p/state-san…
Ben Collins retweeted
Look what happens when you have no idea who you are letting into your country in huge numbers. Illegal mass immigration in to Europe has got to stop. Governments 1st responsibility is to the safety of its people. That has not happened for a long time. Liberal Suicidal empathy is self destruction
Ben Collins retweeted
Esto ha ocurrido en pleno directo de TVE en París
Esto es lo que nos espera señores
Ben Collins retweeted
BREAKING:
Massive riots have now also broken out in Milan, Italy.
An alliance of migrant gangs and Antifa extremists is attacking police officers and setting fires in front of the Milan Cathedral (Duomo)
Ben Collins retweeted
Britain will burn like France unless we deport those who want us dead. We must act before they do.
Ben Collins retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire
It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.
Ben Collins retweeted
🚨BREAKING: POLICE OFFICERS UNDER ATTACK IN PARIS
This is what is coming for all of Europe if we do not take our countries back
Millions must be deported
It's that or civil war
Ben Collins retweeted
I want to thank Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders for taking the time to let me meet some of the dogs yesterday.
My salary donation will feed their greyhounds for several months whilst they wait for a new home. A really impressive charity who look after these charming animals.
If you're looking to adopt a greyhound, I fully recommend getting in touch with their team.
Ben Collins retweeted
Government cannot claim to care about animal welfare and working people while decimating industries that support them. Targeting businesses based on whether or not the PM likes them is elitist and just plain hypocritical.
Me in the Daily Express 👇🏻
express.co.uk/news/uk/225770…
Ben Collins retweeted
@BHAHorseracing and I appear together in today's @TheSun warning the Chancellor he risks thousands of jobs if he increases Machine Gaming Duty. He cannot claim to represent working people while picking and choosing which working people deserve a future.
thesun.co.uk/sport/40690324/…
