Proud to represent the business travel sector, passionate about travel, family and my beloved Reading FC. I try to treat everyone with respect.
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Drop off charges at UK airports - what’s your thoughts? Airports around the world offer free time to drop off but UK airports increase fees at up to 25%.
#travel #airportparking #airports
0%Drop off fees are ok
7%Drop off fee are too high
93%Drop off fees should stop
15 votes • Final results Clive Wratten retweeted
A good overview of why this hits us all telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
Another tax on the people winning business for Britain. A UK dealmaker's trip: one night in a 4 star London hotel, an Uber to Heathrow business class to New York. Tax bill: £327. Her French rival pays €163 her German rival €79. Time to play fair for business
#ToursitTax
If my stats are correct it took @ReadingFC 11 home games to reach 11 goals scored at home last season, this season it has taken 3. Now that’s a tangible improvement!
Can someone @ReadingFC or @reading_buses explain why Mereoak park & ride is £4 return into central Reading but for football fans it’s £7.50 just to the stadium. A 87.5% premium from a captive market. #Profiteering #Ripoffbritain. -#ReadingFC
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Don't forget to register for TTI's webinar on 25th Feb 16.00-17.00 (GMT), when @Clivewratten , CEO of BTA, will be in conversation with @paulricher .
Paul will take a deep dive into Clive's travel career, culminating with the #BTA .
Reserve your spot; tti.org/events
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@Clivewratten is right in challenging the fees that are being applied for drop-off & collecting passengers at airports. Clearly it is being viewed as a revenue stream that unless it's challenged will continually be hiked!
Business Travel Association vows to challenge London City Airport drop-off charges ✈️⬇️
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This World Cup draw and football in general is dying on its arse . As often said but totally for real tonight - The games gone. Absolutely circus 🤡 #WorldCup2026
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Total rip off.
From 1 January 2026, the Terminal Drop-Off Charge will increase to £7. We will also be introducing a maximum stay of 10 minutes in the drop-off area.
Blue badge holders get a 100% discount and are exempt from the maximum stay limit.
Free drop-off options remain available at Park & Ride car parks.
Learn more: Heathrow.com/DropOff
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UK direct & indirect tax list -
Income tax, Capital gains tax, National insurance Tax, Inheritance tax, Value added Tax, Insurance premium tax, Excise duties tax, Stamp duty tax, Income Tax, Dividend Tax, Capital gains tax, Council tax, Vehicle tax, Corporation tax, Business Rate tax, Fuel duty tax, Alcohol duty tax, Tobacco duty tax, Environmental levies tax, Emissions trading scheme tax, Energy profits levy tax, Apprenticeship levy tax, Air passenger duty tax, Bank surcharge tax, Climate change levy tax, Digital services tax, Electricity generator levy tax, Bank levy tax, Petroleum revenue tax, other taxes.
It is heart breaking to watch the hard working tax payers of this country feel the enormous and seemingly ever increasing financial pressure of day to day living.
Change must be enacted.
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A reminder that UK hospitality guests are the most highly taxed in Europe - paying the highest prices because our businesses are #TaxedOut
It’s time to rise up and fight these scandalous airport drop off fees, show your support by commenting on my LinkedIn post! #airportdropofffees #airportparking linkedin.com/posts/clive-wra…
Thanks to everyone at @ReadingFC & to @RCouhig for giving us the opportunity to see the amazing facility at Bearwood & most importantly to see my club has found its heart & soul again. Thanks everyone. #uptheding
UK Airport Drop-off Fees Petition -Turns out it’s not just me that despises UK airports’ extortionate drop-off fees.
Nothing to do with me, but someone has started a petition to ban these charges: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Can get this to 10,000 signatures.?#airportparking
Clive Wratten retweeted
There is no water shortage in the UK. Just a shortage of water management. They want the public to be responsible for managing water rather than doing the job they are very well paid to do.
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England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.
No new reservoirs built since 1989. Over a trillion litres a year lost to leaks.
Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Labour's Employment Rights bill could take us back to the 1970s
Labour’s employment rights bill – currently going through Parliament – could send the UK economy over the edge.
What we desperately need is to get people back to work to kick-start growth, and shore up what is already a dangerously precarious fiscal situation.
At a time when employment is already falling sharply, these anti-business, 1970s-style measures will lead to even less hiring – thwarting growth and further undermining our fragile public finances.
My latest weekly "Economic Agenda" @Telegraph
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse it does. Truly woeful, 190 minutes of my life I won’t bet back watching this crap over last 2 matches. What happened to exciting football oh yea Spain, Portugal, Belgium & Wales do that & we don’t. #ENGSEN