Brixham fish merchant and owner of Simplyfish Delivery https://nitter.cf/t.co/08Rsx4v7fa
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Robert Simonetti retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
"None of the fundamental issues holding Britain back were addressed."
Andrew Neil reacts to the latest Budget and explains why it falls far short of what the British economy actually needs.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
ANDREW NEIL: Labour has a cheek asking the people to be more resilient in the face of danger when it’s done nothing to improve national resilience (and neither did the Tories)
dailymail.com/debate/article…
Robert Simonetti retweeted
So let’s get this right: the most elite British troops, SAS commandos operating against terrorists, can be placed under criminal investigation for missions undertaken at the behest of their government and for the safety of their country; but actual, known ISIS terrorists can’t be deported from the UK because of their ‘human rights’?
We are literally prosecuting our most elite commandos while protecting known terrorists. It’s terrorists’ rights over British citizens’ rights.
For shame.
EXCLUSIVE: The commanding officer of the SAS was placed under criminal investigation and referred to prosecutors over anti-ISIS mission in Syria.
Unprecedented move concerned police request for classified evidence, but effort to charge him collapsed thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
Robert Simonetti retweeted
The UK government has spent years heaping costs, regulation and tax uncertainty onto British food producers, Farmers, and Small businesses - then turns around and tells the public to stockpile three days of tinned food and bottled water because "unexpected events seem to be becoming more common."
Official figures show a net loss of more than 3,000 agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses in 2025 alone, the highest on record, with thousands more closures in the years before that. Inheritance tax changes on family farms (even after partial U-turns), soaring energy and inspection costs, labour shortages, post-Brexit trade deals that opened the door to cheaper imports, and chaotic subsidy schemes that left most applicants empty-handed have all piled on the pressure.
Local abattoirs have collapsed from roughly 2,500 in the 1970s to around 200 today; surveys of farmers show large numbers warning they may have to stop producing meat locally or exit entirely if the next one closes.
This week the government launched its "Be Ready" campaign, advising households to keep non-perishable food, litres of bottled water per person, cash, torches and radios in case of cyber attacks, extreme weather or other disruptions. That is sensible basic preparedness.
What is absurd is watching the same state systematically weaken the domestic producers who actually grow and process the food that would make the country more resilient in the first place, while imports fill the gap and rural businesses fold.
You cannot talk seriously about national resilience and food security while watching the infrastructure that produces British food shrink year after year. The contradiction is obvious.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Given that our Government is preparing households for what may lie ahead (images from Sweden’s “warbook”), wouldn’t it be a good idea to deliver the funding and reforms that would deter and prevent much of it happening. A war would cost us 50% of GDP. It’s 5% to prevent one.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
The private sector creates the wealth. The government spends it. The Labour government forgot which one comes first. Every public-sector wage, every benefit, every hospital, every local government salary, every government infrastructure project is paid for by people who take a risk, hire someone, make something, sell something and turn a profit. That is not ideology. That is basic economic arithmetic.
Labour came into power talking about growth and partnership with business. But the Labour government simply do not understand the economic engine room of the private sector. They treat the people who generate the money as a cash machine.
Look at what the Labour government actually did:
They put a tax on jobs. Employer National Insurance went from 13.8% to 15%, and the threshold collapsed from £9,100 to £5,000. That is not a levy on “the rich.” That is a levy on hiring a receptionist, a warehouse worker, an apprentice. Employer NICs then jumped 28% in a year and overtook corporation tax as the biggest tax paid by business. Companies paid almost £345 billion in tax in 2025–26 - up by 12.7%. That money comes out of wages that were not raised, jobs that were not created and investment that was postponed.
The Labour government raised the price of success. They choked off growth. Capital gains tax went up. Business Asset Disposal Relief was watered down. Dividend tax went up. Farmers and family businesses were punished with inheritance tax.
Smalll business founders were told, in effect: take the risk and when you finally sell the thing you built, we will treat the exit more like a success punishment payment to the government. That is not “fairness.” That is a government eating the seed corn of an economy.
They layered cost on cost. Higher minimum wages with no offsetting productivity. Heavier employment regulation. Business rates that still punish the high street. Energy costs that leave manufacturers uncompetitive. Then more government briefings about the next raid — more capital gains tax, more wealth taxes, more “the rich must pay.” More uncertainty for businesses. Uncertainty is a tax of its own.
And then the Labour government act surprised when private-sector activity slumps, businesses close, hiring stalls, and the CBI has to warn the government not to hit businesses again. You cannot squeeze the wealth-creating part of the economy and then demand it produces more growth, more jobs and more tax receipts. That is not redistribution. It is a wrecking ball strategy.
You do not create more jobs by making it more expensive to employ anyone. You do not get more houses by driving builders and investors away. You do not produce more food by punishing those who grow the food. You do not get a richer country by treating profit and employee growth as something that should be plundered by the government.
The wealth of a nation is built by people who could have chosen an easier life and did not. Punish that class long enough and you do not get equality. You get stagnation, fewer jobs and an economically illiterate government still hungry for money that is no longer being made because of their failure to support our British businesses.
If Britain wants better public services, it needs a private sector that is expanding, not one that is being financially punished for the privilege of still being here.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Oh FFS come on!… surely they can’t be this jealous! …. 95% of all businesses in the UK are micro businesses.
owners go without wages, holidays, pensions and maternity leave. They remortgage houses, take personal guarantees on loans and spend years worrying.
The ONLY upside they have is that one day they MAY be able to sell their business.
If capital gains tax is raised again, why would they bother?
employees take none of that financial risk yet owners are expected to risk everything, now for nothing!
destroying the private sector looks like this! and its greedy supporters are too stupid to understand what happens when people taking the risks stop bothering. And they will !
Oh come on 🔥
Robert Simonetti retweeted
“The average hospitality business is paying 75% of its profits in tax.”
The hospitality sector already carries the highest tax burden in the UK, and introducing another layer of tax would squeeze profit margins even more and threaten business viability.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Javier Milei claims to admire Margaret Thatcher but forgets this lesson: Britain does not surrender to bullies.
If he wants a stronger Argentina, he should build its economy, not threaten others.
But there’s also a lesson here for our sleepy Labour government. The madness of surrendering the Chagos Islands means other countries are now trying their luck.
If we do not defend our own interests, whether on energy or territory, others will happily exploit that weakness.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
In 1922 the British Empire was larger than at any point in history. It extended to 24 percent of the total landmass of the whole world. At this time, the government had 300-350,000 civil servants. They had no computers, no electric typewriters, no calculators. Calculations that would take seconds today would take minutes or hours. Research that would take seconds today would take days and yet those 300-350,000 were able to do everything necessary to run a quarter of the planet. Today the British government employs 557,000 civil servants with computers and modern technology to run only Britain. I can’t help thinking that maybe we’re employing too many civil servants.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
UK energy policy just got even more bonkers:
The Burnham Government is considering investing billions of pounds in new facilities to import foreign LNG, even though it refuses to issue any new licenses for North Sea gas, which emits 3/4 times less CO2 than imported LNG. Madness.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Figures out today show benefit payments climbed by 7.2pc, or £2bn, to £30bn last month.
The total number of people on Universal Credit rose by 700,000 claimants over the year.
But look what’s happening to the people picking up the bill…….the private sector shrank by 136,000 payrolled employees over the year to July 2026.
This is unsustainable.
#LaboursbankruptBritain
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Worked hard for over 45 years… I need to rant for just a moment. I'm getting old and I’ve worked hard all my life. I have made my reputation, the good and the bad, I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I have worked hard to get where I am in life. I have juggled my job, my family, and made many sacrifices up front to secure a life for my family. It wasn’t always easy and still isn't, but I did it all while maintaining my integrity and my principles. I made mistakes and tried to learn from them. I have friends of every walk of life and if you’re in my circle, it should be understood that I don’t have to remind you of what I’d be willing to do for you.
However....
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. People who have sacrificed nothing and feel entitled to receive everything.
I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it themselves.
I'm really tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which, no one is allowed to debate.
I'm really tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talk like their opinions matter to the common man. I’m tired of any of them even pretending they can relate to the life and bank account that I have.
I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
I’m upset that I’m labeled as a racist because I am proud of my heritage. I never stole any ones land, the government did that..
I'm really tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. Especially the ones that want me to fund it. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm really tired. But, I'm also glad to be in the twilight of my life. Because mostly, I'm not going to have to see the wretched, depressing world these useless idiots are creating. And lastly, because even though I shouted from the rooftops, no one listened or seemed to give a damn. You reap what you sow, and so do your children.
No one is entitled to anything. You have a choice to work, a choice to stay off drugs, a choice to make something of yourself. I have nothing to do with your choice. That's all on you. You are entitled to what you earn.
There is no way these thoughts will be widely publicised, unless each of us sends it on! Surely, the politically correct police censors will try to quiet us.
And I'm fkn tired of a government who have created over 100 new taxes (sugar tax etc) in order to grease their own palms. The lazy bastards in the House of Lords who do fk all but sleep for a fortune. The pricks who believe I should work to fk knows what age, and that my pension is a benefit, even tho I have paid for it all my fkn life 🤬🤬.
“Copy and paste”. I did👍🏻
Thanks!
Robert Simonetti retweeted
I want the Government to be as far away from people's lives as possible.
The state is stuffed with incompetent, malicious and devious jobsworths who have one sole aim in life - protect their own position, salary, pension and lifestyle.
I detest it so very much, and a Restore Britain Government will decimate it all.
A state that does a small list of things, but does them very well.
One that protects our people, our society, our borders and our interests - that enables people to live freely and fairly exactly how they choose, without others encroaching on that.
That's it.
Collect the bins, sort the potholes out, provide a GP appointment, lock up murderers and rapists, build some decent roads/schools, deliver necessary infrastructure, lubricate the economy, control inflation, implement some national resilience, end the third world invasion.
Few other bits and pieces.
Other than that, leave us the hell alone.
Low tax, low interference, low hassle.
In short - we need some basic refereeing, but that's it.
Let people find their own way in life - buy a home, build a family, make some money, maybe grow some vegetables - without being suffocated by this atrociously overbearing state.
That's what Restore Britain will do.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
MEET JONATHAN REYNOLDS. THE MAN NOW IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE BRITISH ECONOMY.
This is the UK's new Business Secretary. He has never run a business. He has never even worked for one. 🤡
He knows absolutely nothing about risk taking, entrepreneurship, or meeting a payroll.
He has never had to hire staff, remortgage his house to provide working capital, or skip his own salary so his employees could have theirs!
In fact, he could not even manage to finish his basic training to become a solicitor. Yet the Westminster elite think he is qualified to dictate how British businesses are run!
How can we expect our economy to grow when the people running it have never spent a single day in the private sector? They are career politicians who have spent their entire lives living off the taxpayer.
RT if you are completely sick of clueless career politicians running our country into the ground! 🇬🇧🔥
Robert Simonetti retweeted
Why did Angela Rayner receive £17K severance for resigning as a Minister in the scandal over failing to pay HMRC £40K in stamp duty and why hasn’t she been forced to give it back now she’s back in the Cabinet 10 months later.
Socialist fiddle their taxes and get rewarded. Sickening.
Robert Simonetti retweeted
1. Transfer the tens of billions earmarked for net zero to defence and supply chain resilience, to create a major industrial/defence sector, thereby creating skilled jobs in UK, rather than China (as net zero does)
2. Radical tough love welfare reform to get 1m people of working age into work, thereby cutting the welfare bill and increasing the tax base. Coupled with massive expansion of German-class STEM skill apprenticeships.
3. Radical reform of planning laws to stop nimbys/greens from thwarting every major infrastructure development. Put judges/courts in their place when it comes to such matters.
4. Put rocket boosters under high-speed rail link between Leeds-Manchester-Liverpool. Brook no opposition/delay.
5. Unleash North Sea oil/gas + slash energy bills by removing all green levies. New breed of gas-fired and smaller nuke generating stations.
Much more to suggest. But this should be good for starters.
