Allison Pearson retweeted
It is awful. Young people have a better life on benefits than they do working. It’s horrible. He’s working so hard to build the career he’s dreamt of for years and all opportunity is fading as businesses can no longer afford services and the cost of living crisis is hitting working people so young adults are getting hit from all sides and burning out. It’s so wrong. Work is supposed to pay.
Allison Pearson 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 🤡
Allison Pearson retweeted
It cannot be emphasised enough how absurd it is to be opening up new refugee routes for individuals who have already left their country of origin and are under the UNHCR mandate elsewhere.
This whole scheme is simply designed to make life easier for the likes of Egypt, Pakistan and India.
New: Labour is inviting "open border activists" to sponsor refugees to move to the UK, critics have declared.
The Home Office insisted voluntary organisations allowed to apply, from today, to sponsor arrivals must be “a UK registered charity” and have a “good reputation”, with the ability to provide accommodation.
Under the new controversial safe and legal route, community groups will be able to sponsor people to move to the UK. This includes charities, universities, faith groups and businesses.
Refugees who have sought protection in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Uganda and Kenya will be eligible to move to the UK once security checks are completed, according to new Home Office guidance. They must also be registered with the UNHCR.
But critics highlighted the huge number of Afghans currently residing in Pakistan, with more than 730,000 registered refugees, as an example of how the scheme could spiral out of control.
@migrationCtrl warns: “The Home Secretary has given a motivated cabal of open border activist groups, masquerading as charities, the right to bring migrants to Britain.”
Allison Pearson retweeted
My son works 3 jobs and said to me the other day - ‘Mum, it shouldn’t be like this, I shouldn’t not be able to afford a day off or a night out.’ 7 days a week, often 2 jobs in a day and he can’t afford to take his girlfriend out for an evening. It’s insanity.
Allison Pearson retweeted
The ShabanaWave begins. Disaster will ensue.
The Home Secretary has given a motivated cabal of open border activist groups, masquerading as charities, the right to bring migrants to Britain.
Allison Pearson retweeted
I wrote a little something about kicking the welfare can down the road. It won't end well.
Labour have a huge majority and could make the difficult decisions. Instead, the Chancellor chose to borrow and tax more
✍️@DamianPudner
Allison Pearson retweeted
Local piemaker explains how Burnham's first Budget will make things much worse:
"I don’t qualify for the business rates relief because I’m multi-site… I’ve got two shops, so I don’t qualify. The minimum wage has increased. I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay staff. I’m saying we can’t afford to pay them…
All my staff have been with us for years. So I’m going to have approximately a £700 a week increase. My suppliers are having an increase too. My supply bills are around £20,000 to £30,000 a week. That’ll go up 10%, so £2,000 to £3,000 a week. So that’s £4,000 a week I’ve got to find…
That’s about 20,000 to 30,000 pies a week. So my costs have gone up. I’ve got no business rates relief. The National Insurance is crippling me. The energy crisis is crippling me. I’m going to have to put my prices up,
Customers are going to get mad. I’m going to get less profit. As a family, as a director, I’ve got to take a 2% cut. So my family, my one-year-old girl. I’m taking a pay cut. The business is taking a pay cut.
How is that breathing room for me? Where’s my breathing space? John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space? You promised me. You promised the UK breathing space. Where is it?"
Allison Pearson retweeted
This Can Not Go On.
Renewables are only viable if they get crippling subsidies.
"The British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion to support electricity generated from renewable sources," says @CMorrisonEsq, warning the cost of numerous direct and indirect annual subsidies could "exceed UK defence spending by 2030."
"However many lies are told, the fact remains that running an electricity grid on intermittent wind and solar is for the surviving birds."
#CostOfNetZero
Allison Pearson retweeted
In this week’s episode of The Amol Rajan Connection: @daisychristo on how we’re messing up Education; the danger of the Stupidogenic Society; what technology does to our minds; long-term vs working memory; and how AI affects what children should learn. Out now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
Allison Pearson retweeted
“John Healey, where is my breathing space?”
~ British Piemaker Paul Bowen
@JohnHealey_MP celebrates President Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 being happy with his budget; what about BRITISH PEOPLE?
@PatrickChristys @HeartlandsTrib @PWestoff @PaulEmbery @AllisonPearson
Allison Pearson retweeted
A serious government filled with business people can do this.
But we have the 6th form socialists…🥺
The media is far too focussed on the narrow lens of the UK but we need to look to the US and copy their policies to grow the economy.
@AllisonPearson
@Nigel_Farage
@reformparty_uk
🚨 BREAKING: US GDP growth just BEAT the experts' expectations at +3.4% in the 3rd quarter, right before the midterms
IT'S HAPPENING! 🇺🇸
President Trump's major investment wins will start to show results and it only gets better from here.
Vote red to keep it going, the socialists will reverse all of it!
Allison Pearson retweeted
A doctor rapes a patient.
The victim reports it.
THE DOCTOR ADMITS IT.
He tells a hospital committee that it was a "one off" and he will not do it again.
THE MANAGEMENT SAYS THAT IS OK.
And allow him to carry on working.
THE POLICE TAKE NO ACTION.
The hospital concerned is the BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL.
The same hospital where a 75 year old patient was raped to death and no one was ever convicted for it.
Are women worth nothing to the NHS?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c172…
Allison Pearson retweeted
Mario is completely right This decent bloke's frustration will be mirrored across the country. More and more businesses being squeezed out by *deliberate policy choices of the government* to make wages more expensive, utilities more expensive, NI more expensive, business rates more expensive. All to gouge more money from value-adders like this man ... to spend on welfare. Free cars for the mildly anxious, free homes for - you know who.
I pray this budget is a national turning point, the "cut through" where enough people realise that while governments can't control what happens in Iraq, they *can* and *do* control the chance of a business being solvent. This isn't to pretend that the previous Tory govts were perfect, but it's *as* absurd to pretend that this one is somehow no different. It is significantly, malevolently worse.
Allison Pearson retweeted
You live in a country where your school age daughter can be stabbed 10 times by a nut job incel, be lucky to live, and the judge will call him a bright boy who shouldn't be in jail and let him off with a 1 year suspended sentence.
A judge told a 14-year-old boy who stabbed a girl 10 times that prison was the “last place” for a “bright lad” like him, The Telegraph can reveal.
🔗:telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Allison Pearson retweeted
Incredibly, a Sudanese woman has won the right to stay in Britain thanks to her marriage to her first cousin.
It is almost beyond parody.
She claimed her ECHR “right to a family life” would be breached if she was forced to leave.
This despite the Home Office suspecting that her “marriage” was fake, as no record of it exists in Sudan.
Her “husband” was an “asylum seeker” who travelled to Britain via Libya.
Sham marriages are a tool of choice for fraudsters breaking into Britain to live here at your expense.
In fact a Home Office whistleblower told the Telegraph 99% of asylum applications were fraudulent.
The Tories and Labour have made our immigration system a laughing stock.
A Reform government will end this madness.
We will ban cousin marriage, end asylum in Britain and deport all illegal migrants.
We will take our country back.
The Church of England needs to start investing in parishes who care for people not stupid, wasteful projects.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
