Jonney Cox retweeted
🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
[@FT]
Jonney Cox retweeted
WTF? A Prime Minister who has never run a business in his life demands answers because a private business fails? … let me help you, Andy & co.
A retail chain needs to stay in fashion, needs to go with the flow! … But you and successive governments don’t like their “tat” products (mostly sourced off shore to sell them at £1!!! That the whole point right?) anyway…
for free (without a taxpayer funded £MULTIMILLION enquiry I’ll tell you the problems… (you’re welcome)
▪️massively increased regulations and compliance costs.
▪️cheap tat sourced from abroad, with rising shipping and transport costs.
▪️Hit by increased minimum wages and employer National Insurance.
▪️Hit by rising rents and business rates.
▪️Hit by soaring energy bills and net zero costs.
▪️Hit by higher interest rates.
▪️Hit by consumers with less disposable income.
▪️Hit by the soaring cost of borrowing to buy stock months in advance.
▪️Hit by higher insurance premiums.
▪️Hit by shoplifting, organised theft and security costs.
▪️Hit by packaging taxes, recycling regulations and environmental compliance costs.( which you just throw into general taxation, non of it changes the weather)
▪️Hit by higher fuel, warehousing and distribution costs.
▪️Hit by increased employment costs, pensions and statutory obligations.
▪️Hit by competition from overseas online retailers operating with very different overheads.( duty free … for foreign businesses oops)
▪️And hit by the impossibility of passing those costs onto customers, who shop at Poundland precisely because they need cheap stuff! … which isn’t cheap anymore (see above)
Every single time you add something on … so do they!
And the idiot, deluded politicians who have made Britain more and more expensive and difficult to do business in, are demanding to know why businesses are struggling?
You are all moronic. My work here is done 🤡
Jonney Cox retweeted
What sort of country gives loads of its people's money to other countries, then pleads poverty to its people and taxes them into oblivion?
This one 🇬🇧
"Free movement had allowed, in my view, the undercutting of wages. Some people debate this, but I saw evidence of it. Where people were brought in by agencies from other European countries and it was used to bring wages down"
Andy Burnham in 2019
Jonney Cox retweeted
Oh dear … here’s Precious Andy explaining in 2016 that the free movement of people has destroyed jobs in the UK…
He’ll say anything for power. But you must know that by now.
It’s just a race to the bottom hey Andy?
Jonney Cox retweeted
I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isn’t for you!
It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
Best
The ordinary people.
Jonney Cox retweeted
🔥Clair Fox on fire again!
There were no tricolours on display!
Saying the things ordinary people should be allowed to say about the French riots!
And totally predictably being heckled by the progressive left because they refuse to accept the truth 🔥
Jonney Cox retweeted
Honestly this is the UK! The powerhouse of historical leaders … and then we have Burnham!
Appearing on er … cheap TV on GOGGLEBOX? Like this makes him ordinary?
We are drowning in debt, at war on two front, the country almost at violent cultural clashes and Burnham decides his big role is to be a celebrity tv star.
I feel a bit sick 🤢
Jonney Cox retweeted
Andrew Neil’s Brexit reality check on BBC Question Time.
In a nutshell:
Rejoiners are ignoring the huge political wind of change sweeping Europe and the UK v Germany/ France/ Italy growth rates make a nonsense of their Mickey Mouse economic arguments too.
#bbcqt
Jonney Cox retweeted
Could the Prime Minister explain what was so particularly deserving about the Avanti train drivers that warranted such a pay increase - or was it done just to avoid the embarrassment of the Cabinet not being able to get back and forth to his Number 10 in the North vanity project - or do we take it that this Prime Minister will cave in to every trade union demand that comes across his desk?
Jonney Cox retweeted
Have we really got to the stage when men who go into bat in a cricket match are not allowed to be called Batsmen any longer? The BBC now refer to them as 'Batters'. A batter is something you make Yorkshire pudding out of, FFS.
Jonney Cox retweeted
Why do we say 'slept like a baby'? Babies wake up every two hours crying.
I want to sleep like my cat. 14 hours, no responsibilities, zero regrets.
Jonney Cox retweeted
Yes, Burnham really is this stupid.
To avoid breaking Labour’s manifesto pledge on income tax, VAT and NI, he thinks he’s found a clever workaround! whack more tax on warehouses.
Except warehouses are part of the supply chain.
So the cost gets passed on through goods, deliveries, storage, fulfilment and distribution.
Meaning this isn’t really a tax on “big business”.
It’s a tax on the public, increasing the cost of living! … he just hopes you won’t notice.
Jonney Cox retweeted
BUSINESS: @Theswanmarbury near Wrenbury scoops "Gold" status from VisitEngland as one of the best pubs in the country thenantwichnews.co.uk/2026/0…
Jonney Cox retweeted
I seem to remember rather a lot of shouting and moaning from Labour about the Tories replacing their leader and demanding a General Election! Saying it left the government with “No mandate” and the “public should have their say.
Here’s a list of all those MPs now strangely silent as Labour attempts to get rid of their own PM.
Er hello???? Cat got your tongues?
Keir Starmer
Angela Rayner
Rachel Reeves
David Lammy
Wes Streeting
Yvette Cooper
Ed Miliband
Pat McFadden
John McDonnell
Richard Burgon
Ian Murray
Mary Foy
Catherine McKinnell
Alex Davies-Jones
Ruth Jones
Catherine West
Fleur Anderson
Lisa Nandy
Bridget Phillipson
Jonathan Ashworth
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Lucy Powell
Shabana Mahmood
Peter Kyle
Steve Reed
Thangam Debbonaire
Louise Haigh
Preet Kaur Gill
Tulip Siddiq
Darren Jones
Chris Bryant
Chi Onwurah
Clive Lewis
Dawn Butler
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Zarah Sultana
Kim Johnson
Mick Whitley
Ian Byrne
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Rachael Maskell
Nadia Whittome
Rosena Allin-Khan
Barry Gardiner
Sarah Owen
Paula Barker
Kim Leadbeater
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